How to increase your productivity? Leave a goal and focus on the system
Productivity Motivation / / December 19, 2019
In recent years, business coaches and authors of books on psychology, talking about productivity, with one voice declare the paramount importance of the purposes. However, there are other opinions on this subject, such that the operating system is more important than the goal. If you concentrate on it, you can avoid disappointment, get pleasure from the process and improve results.
Each of us has something that we would like to achieve: a great figure, a successful business, writing a good book, a cup for the championship and so on.
For most people, the way to his dream starts with the concrete, the final goal: "I want to write a bestseller," "I want to create their own business." However, this approach often ends with anything - people do not come close to its goal, disappointed in yourself and throw attempt. There is one way to help avoid this - Back to the concentration on the goals for the system, that is, on the process of achieving it.
What is the difference between the target and the system? For example, if you are a coach, your goal is to win the championship, and the system - what you are doing every day in training. Or if you're a writer, your goal - to write a book, and the system - a schedule of what needs to be done in a week.
So, if in spite of all the textbooks on the productivity you ignore the target and focus on the system, whether it would lead to the result? Certainly.
James Klia, a blogger, a weightlifter and a photographer, who published the book "Change your habits," says that the concentration on system helps to achieve better results than focusing on the target.
Talking about writing books and articles, James says he never set the goal to write a book for some time. Instead, he focused on how to write an article every Monday and Thursday. 11 months of such a system led him to write many articles, with the result that on its website high attendance, he developed new friendships and connections.
According to James, there are at least three reasons for deciding to abandon the focus on goals, and that's the reason.
1. Objectives taken your happiness in the NOW
Very often people see in their purpose and the meaning of happiness. They think it will be better when they reach it, but this is nonsense.
If you do not consider yourself worthy now, the goal is not to change your attitude.
Learn to feel happy on the way to happiness, and to find pleasure in the process. Of course, the goal will bring you joy, but judge for yourself: months (or years) joyless training, and then «Miission complete», a bit of joy and emptiness.
If you focus on the process and you will get a buzz from him, the achievement is simply pleasant finalochkoy happy period.
In addition, "to write a book for the year" or "create a business before the new year" sounds scary, even for someone who puts such purpose. Switching attention to the daily process and scheduling, you are not worried about the dreaded big order and calm to their income.
2. Objectives hinder progress in the long term
It seems as it should, that the goals should help to develop in the long term, but in practice often turns out quite the opposite.
Reaching the big goal, one stops in its development: the status in your pocket, you can not move anymore. If a person does not see the pleasure in the pursuit, and the only thing that makes it work - this is the goal, after he had success with a high probability, fold the handle.
When you are passionate about the process itself, stopping in is not development. Why stop there, if you still like it?
Another plus is the concentration on the system if you have not reached the target at the appointed time, you feel like a failure. If the base of your mentality system, no problems with the further progress will not, and the effect of "what the hell!" Does not threaten you.
3. Goals create an illusion of control over the future
Sadly, we can not predict the future.
Nevertheless, every time you set a goal, you're trying to do it. We predict it may come quickly progress, although in many circumstances of life that may hinder or even completely eliminate the achievement of the goal, that about any of question no confidence can.
Yes, there is a programming of events, and each can achieve everything he wants, but there is a lot of different nuances: the lack of self-confidence, lack of effort to perform, and indulgences doubts.
In order to cope with the obstacles that arise on the way, you can not use the confidence and motivation, and control over your system to an end. Motivation without actual results may fail at the most inopportune moment and lead to depression and apathy, and control of organized system will work, not allowing to fall and surrender.
Break your distant goal by a few points that need to be done, and notes how to move different parts of the system. So you'll see the overall efficiency and every single part, and you can make adjustments in time: pay attention to reduced performance, and tighten them. This acts as feedback: you can see what goes wrong, and you can see exactly what it takes to get things done.
Instead of predicting the future, you live in the present and do everything to fulfill their desires.
Goals - for the future of the system - for the present
Correct goal can push you on the accomplishments, inspire and motivate, but in a very short time. The system also immerses you in the achievement of the process, provides regular training necessary and important things that ultimately leads you to your goal.