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A nice perspective that's lifted a thousand pounds off my chest recently:
Adapting to a system-oriented life, rather than a goal-oriented life.
Short thread:
Adapting to a system-oriented life, rather than a goal-oriented life.
Short thread:
A system is a way of doing things regardless of getting to the destination. It's ongoing, it's habitual, it eventually becomes second nature.
While having goals is admirable. It sucks the life out of you, because you don't allow yourself to breathe until you reach the outcome.
While having goals is admirable. It sucks the life out of you, because you don't allow yourself to breathe until you reach the outcome.
For people who struggle with depression, anxiety and financial woes, this is the number one thing that bullies their well-being. If we're adhering to a system instead of a set outcome we wouldn't feel like we're lazy or not doing enough.
If I want my space to always be clean, I don't focus on the goal, I focus on my system, which is: putting things away as soon as it is of no use. This makes me less worried about my goal and just my process. But the end result is still-- CLEAN ROOM.
If you want to lose weight, shift the perspective to "this is the system of health" when you drink water, when you go for a walk, you become one with the system, the outcome doesn't matter anymore, yet you get there anyway.
You look at the details and enjoy it, it becomes a part of you, the goal is still there, but it feels more like a friend that you know is eventually coming over and not a bounty hunter making you feel like you're running out of time.
Basically this is just lay mans term of saying get lost in the process and not the destination. I just like over-explaining shit. lol
