Open Thread: How much strategic thinking have you done recently?

Emile

I'm tired of people never, ever, ever, EVER stopping 2 hours to 1) Think of what their goals are 2)Checking if their current path leads to desired goals 3)Correcting course and 4)Creating a system to verify, in the future, whether goals are being achieved. I'm really tired of that. Really.

... so we may want to remind and encourage each other to do so, and exchange tips!

Have you thought about your life goals recently?
Do you know what your long-term and medium-term goals are?
If you're facing big problems or annoyances, have you thought of ways of solving them?
Do you have a system you use regularly that pushes you in the right direction?

diegocaleiro wrote:

I'm tired of people never, ever, ever, EVER stopping 2 hours to 1) Think of what their goals are 2)Checking if their current path leads to desired goals 3)Correcting course and 4)Creating a system to verify, in the future, whether goals are being achieved. I'm really tired of that. Really.

... so we may want to remind and encourage each other to do so, and exchange tips!

Have you thought about your life goals recently?
Do you know what your long-term and medium-term goals are?
If you're facing big problems or annoyances, have you thought of ways of solving them?
Do you have a system you use regularly that pushes you in the right direction?

So now my new goal is to figure out how to actually get excited about something again without interfering with the ongoing achievement of my previous goals. So far I haven't made much progress. Any thoughts?

I would point out to people that it is utterly futile to simply suggest new goals. If OP doesn't feel already the desire to pursue them, then the desire will not appear out of nowhere simply because you uttered a few words, even if they are well-chosen reasonable words. ("Reason is, & ought only to be the slave of the passions, & can never pretend to any other office than to serve & obey them.")

What OP needs is mechanisms for generating the desire to pursue some good goal.

Off the top of my head, both travel and psychedelics seem to have nontrivial rates of inducing new goals/dreams.

What OP needs is mechanisms for generating the desire to pursue some good goal. Off the top of my head, both travel and psychedelics seem to have nontrivial rates of inducing new goals/dreams.

That's all true, but I think that the problem for the OP is generating goals/dreams that fit inside the constraints of his life. Once you have your own family and kids the range of (non-drastic) things that you can do narrows considerably. Things like going off to live on a Polynesian island for a while, or, say, deciding to become a starving artist and create ART in capital letters -- all these become... problematic.

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