Goals

“It might seem like I was handcuffing myself by setting such specific goals, but it was the opposite. I found it liberating knowing exactly where I wanted to end up freed me totally to improvise how to get there.”

“So before I do anything, and this is probably a huge mistake that most people make, is they don't pick a goal Or a timeline.”

“There's just a set of documents that are like really, really viable that every sort of like, I guess, level of the organization should have throughout its life cycle. And then, you know, I think how sort of involved it is or how, like, long term it is really d…”

“That goals are graded as pass fail. They cause this myopia. Progress along the way doesn't matter. And so that also will stop us from quitting because it gives us a target where if we don't get to the finish line, we failed.”

“And we're finding that the notion of the goals is going to get richer and it's going to change as we proceed, as we go along. And you want to capture that. You don't want to lock in to our original ideas because almost certainly our original ideas are going to…”

“Yeah, I do not set goals. I don't set resolutions but I do kind of focus on themes. So I will every kind of year review, review what happened or what I took from that and then try and apply that into my life going forward.”