Episode 11: About goals and getting stuff done

We're often told that it's important to have goals - but is it? Do we need goals? Do we have to make ourselves do things? Mer and I explore this and more in our fun conversation.

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Episode Notes:

  • Do we HAVE to make goals?

  • All the meaning we make up about goals

  • Noticing if we use goals as a tool or a weapon

  • Being moved to do something versus doing it to get somewhere

  • Somewhere past childhood we decided doing stuff is serious work

  • What if goals are just a way to play with getting stuff done?

  • Creating as if our life depended on it, but knowing it actually doesn’t

  • Who is the “me” that’s making up goals?

  • Seeing the difference between what we make up and what we’re made of

  • What if we don’t have to be so in charge of moving ourselves? What if life does that for us?