Post written by Leo Babauta.

It was only a couple years ago that I was completely focused on goals … and I accomplished a lot by setting and working on goals.

I ran several marathons, lost a lot of weight, got out of debt, started a fairly successful blog … the list of goals I achieved is long. These days, for more than a year now, I’ve pretty much given up on goals, though I’m still learning how that works.

The question most people have is: how do you achieve anything without goals? And the short answer is: the same way as you always did — get excited about something and do it!

how we really achieve

Goals take credit for our accomplishments, like a bad boss does in the company’s annual report. » Continue your journey »