No More Quick Fixes
Stop Setting Yourself Goals
Stop Setting Yourself Goals
“You don’t rise to the level of your goals.
You fall to the level of your systems.”
– James Clear
Most of you don’t have a motivation problem.
You don’t have a goal-setting problem.
You don’t even have a getting-results problem.
You have a system problem.
You’re trying to feel your way through the week.
No plan.
No prep.
Just blind optimism and the vague sense that you’ll “be good” this time.
And then you act surprised when the week kicks you in the teeth and genitals.
A system isn’t motivation.
It’s the boring stuff that keeps you from face-planting daily:
Leaving your gym bag by the door so it becomes a trip hazard
Not entering the supermarket hungry
Recycling the same 2–3 meals you actually enjoy during the week
If you keep deciding in the moment, the moment will always win.
Then there’s standards—the line you don’t drop below, even when it’s all going to poop.
I’ve talked about finding your laughables…
Habits so simple, so achievable, that even on your worst day, you can still do them.
They’re the standards you fall back on when everything else feels like it’s falling apart.
They help you believe you can raise your standards without worrying about what the world deems “good enough”.
There isn’t a long queue of people waiting to pat you on the back.
So you’d best get used to touching yourself…
You’re brutal to yourself when you don’t get it perfect.
But half the time, you never gave yourself a chance.
Your goal might be to lose fat.
But your system is:
Walk every day (not 10,000 steps)
Eat breakfast (not a wanky bar)
Add a tin of pulses to your dinner
Resist the urge to slam the fu*k-it button because you had an extra biscuit
Most people do follow a system.
It’s just not a very good one.
Demonising carbs.
Counting food in points and syns.
Eating pre-packed meals of dust and farts.
Sure, it resembles a structure.
But is it one you still want to follow in a 2 weeks?
A month?
A year?
When you’re 80?
Quick fixes don’t require a system.
Results that last do.
Can you stomach the results of your latest quick fix for the long term?
Your Task For Today
Look at your week.
Where are you still winging it?
Where do you keep hoping things will magically get better?
Fix one of those.
Lower the bar.
Just don’t forget to set one.
On the next one, why starting every Monday again is a waste of time.
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