This is optimal. Living daily episode, twelve sixty nine, a journey without a goal and creates structure when your father, re both by LEO about of Zen habits, Don that enemy, very personal, narrator Justin Moloch, reading to you from some of the best blogs on the planet with their permission, The two powers today coming from LEO observe habits. So, let's get right to it is our optimizing your life, a journey without a goal. By LEO about of Zan habits done that nearly every activity? We do has a purpose, a goal in mind. We drive to get to work, to the store to a class or party, we walk for fitness or to get to a specific destination. We work to achieve something to reach certain numbers. We work out to get healthier to get body, nicer body? Would what would happen if we the goal? What would

the journey without a goal be like imagine, setting out for a walk with no particular purpose as you may go in one direction because there's a nice explosion of flowers over there, but then explorer different direction. When you see someone playing music and go in another direction because you curious about: what's there no destination in mind, nothing to achieve just curiosity, fun and not knowing what would it be like to work without a goal? He might write something for fund because you want to get it out of you without knowing what the effect of the writing would be figure out the work as you go without knowing what the finished product will look like. What would it be like to live life without a fixed plan with knowing where it will be living in five years or what you'll be doing or what you want to achieve. I don't know the answers, but I do know that I've been freer as I've learned to let go of goals, fixed plans and fixed destinations how to flow, I have long been a planner and a goal setter bribing learning

different way over. The last few years is a radical shift in thinking and doing to a free flowing mode of being. How does it work? Well to be honest, there's no one way, but it goes a little something like this. You wake up excited about being alive. You wonder what do I feel like doing today, nor constrained to anything of this point, but the question is important. So you get started doing something your excited about having fun doing it is, I think, you're doing, a destination goal only some yes, but it's not fixed. There's no set plan destination, doesn't matter as much as the process the journey you start, but you might shift as you go depending on the flow of ideas. I'm working with others who might have ideas. You didn't foresee on things I've along the way you couldn't have predicted these things when you got started so you have to adapt. No plan can anticipate. All of this no goal will be adequate to the task

He might even completely shift if something new comes up with a new opportunity presents itself. You let go of your idea. Of what today was going to be because these ideas of what should be our lightly held, they mean nothing really, and the important thing is the flow you learn to be flexible. Instead of sat, he learned to be good at change and uncertainty instead of fearing it as things arise, you adapt alike over your plans and goals. You move with the flow of water with that aging landscape, you're free to do this, because you don't care where you end up. You just want to be present. In your journey, be compassionate with each step. Have fun each moment along the way the destination becomes irrelevant. No the nation or goal matters if they are all good. Each step along the way then becomes the destination and his exactly where you should be and have another post from we'll buffer,

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used our waking early, but then have a late night or two and the whole house of cards comes crashing down. We start with great intentions, but the harder venture. Causes the flounder around, then. We repeat that we're over again until we feel hopeless to change anything or were again until we feel hopeless to change anything or start inertia deep sense of inadequacy. What can we do to change things? It's not you! It's your method! If your current method of change isn't working starting with good intentions than floundering. You have to try a new method. Unfortunately, there isn't just one perfect method, but there is one thing you can do to vastly improve your method. Add some kind of structure. How structure improves our method? What do I mean by structure.

Anything that keeps you sticking to the course better. Anything that holds you to your intentions. The possibilities are endless, but here are some common examples. One Cree rules, no sugar, don't go two days without a work out: an electronics after nine p M meditate first thing upon waking to get accountability, I like having a group of people who I report to every day, a simple way to do. That is he's an app like run keeper or some kind of diet tracking at risk. Friends on the apple will see your log another way, agree a Google spreadsheet and use it to track how you did with a goal each day or just email people each week who We told you accountable. Three set reminders How are you remember to do what you said you did. This is a huge obstacle, forgetting instead, forgetting set reminders on your phone on your computer. We'll notes all around four: do it with others, find a workout partner

the collaborator on a project group class doing a project for going through change with others is all Who is an amazing idea? Five get a coach. I am a big You ve been coaching for many reasons, but one of the symbols reasons is that if you are someone you're, paying and reporting to, it will simply be much more likely to fall through a coach kids. He patterns are getting in your way that you can't see number six create a challenge or game. I've done challenges with my family or friends like push up challenge, drawing challenge, reading challenge and also made up games with. Points and rewards agreed structure it makes it fine Two amazing ways to create change in your life. You can see the idea. What can you do to as structure to your change or goal you just listen to the post titled? journey without a goal and Crete structure when you're floundering

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