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6 min read Goals

I'll be happy when…

Four words that ruin lives… and yet we don't even notice 😩

I'll be happy when…
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Here's something I bet you do.

And I'll tell you what – I'm confident this is a bet I'd win, because it's humanOS 101.

We all do it. All the time.

And why is nobody talking about it?

Because we've taken it for granted – me too!

This one's so obvious (and so damned pernicious) that I'm guilty of not talking about it enough.

But it came up in a coaching conversation today, so let's do just that.

The natural tendency

We're future-looking creatures. We have goals. This is no bad thing.

I'm not here to vilify goals. I can prove it to you, look:

Looking forward
It’s easy to vilify future-thinking, but it’s not *bad* per se… you can use it to your advantage! 🔮

I love me a goal. Especially when there's food at the end of it 😋

But if we don't remain aware that a goal: