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1. Scared Of Setting Goals?

2. Most people know that goals are
important.

3. Yet at the same time, most people
don't have goals.

4. One of the reasons is that most people
are terrified of failure.

5. AND people like an unknown,
potentially bright future.

6. Being an entrepreneur is often
thought to be a skill only a few lucky
people have.

7. But the real truth is that EVERYBODY is
an entrepreneur.

8. It's really just a matter of degree.

9. What does an entrepreneur do? They
look at what they have.

10. They imagine what they can do with
that.

11. Then they try to make something
better out of what they have.

12. If they are in business, they take raw
skills, raw equipment, raw ideas, and
turn them into products and services.

13. If they produce something people
want, they get more money out of the
system than they get in.

14. On the one hand, it makes perfect
sense. But on the other hand, it's like
magic.

15. Consider one experiment an
economist did.

16. He had a large class of college kids.

17. In each chair, he placed an object. A
random object worth a couple dollars.

18. He had everybody look at this random
object, and measure their current
state of "happiness," on a scale of one
to ten.

19. Then he calculated the "total
happiness" by multiplying each
person's score, times the number of
people.

20. Then he let people trade.

21. Their "stuff" for other people's "stuff."

22. They had fun trading, and most people
ended up with something better than
what they started with.

23. Why?

24. Because everybody's "junk" is
somebody else's "treasure."

25. And after the experiment, he did the
same thing.

26. Measured their individual "happiness"
and the "total happiness."

27. And guess what?

28. As you'd expect, the total happiness
INCREASED. By a lot.

29. Nothing new was introduced into the
room.

30. Same people.

31. Same amount of stuff.

32. More happiness.

33. The reason we "like" having "vague"
goals is that it allows us to imagine
some awesome future way out there.

34. Once we set a goal (we imagine) we
think we're stuck.

35. Especially if we fail.

36. The problem is that if we only have a
vague set of goals, it's hard to get
motivated.

37. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking
that it will happen "to" us, instead of
"because of" us.

38. Luckily, there are three simple cures
for this.

39. One is to make your goal super big.

40. Concrete, and well defined, but super
big.

41. Two is to add on the simple statement,
"or better" at the end. That won't lock
you in to anything.

42. Three is to allow yourself to redefine
your goal as you get more information.

43. This way, you get the best of both
worlds.

44. You get to dream big, AND you get to
be motivated by something big, so
you'll be motivated to take action.

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