A whole industry exists to help you accomplish your goals. Thousands of books, websites, and seminars offer you strategies and tactics to define smart goals and knock them out of the park. Yet days and years go by and you keep kicking the can down the road.
What is often overlooked by these resources is that there is some fundamental disconnect between our long-term goals and our short-term desires:
I want to lose weight.
I want to eat this box of Girl Scout cookies.
I want to be a high performer at my job.
I don't feel like doing this task right now.
I want to learn to program.
I'm too tired to do this code tutorial.
I want to work for myself someday.
I'd rather relax and browse the internet than identify business opportunities.
I want to take up backcountry skiing.
My legs are tired, I'll just ride the lifts today.
