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New Years Resolutions are so Last Decade

No More False Promises

Goals leave you feeling like a loser until you achieve the goal. Then, once you achieve the goal, you feel like a winner for a few minutes and go back to feeling like a loser again because there's no more goals in sight.

I'm abbreviating and synthesizing this passage from a few authors/entrepreneurs like Sahil Bloom (whose recent post clued me into the following concept), Scott Adams, and Naval Ravikant.

What is a New Years Resolution if not a new goal to feel bad about?

I know, that's a pretty sour thing to say about trying to start the new year out on the right foot, right?

But, allow me to propose a different way forward: build your system of creating success and the goal will achieve itself over time.

As long as you're working on your system, you feel energized and positive. No loser feelings. No sense of inadequacy. Just chopping wood and moving forward every day.

Shohei Ohtani Mapped His Path to Pro Ball

MLB phenom pitcher Shohei Ohtani decided on a path to baseball stardom when he was just a teenager. To pull off this god-like feat, he adopted a framework called the Harada Method, named so after former track coach Takashi Harada who developed it to help struggling high school athletes find their way to success.

In brief, the Harada Method gives you a literal map of 64 action items that roll up into one aggressive outcome. You could call it a goal, but you'd be missing the beautiful detail in the supporting process.

Ohtani picked things as mundane as "pick up trash" and "be positive" to boost his "karma" and maintain an uplifting outlook while other areas home in on the hard work of the game like "sharpness of slider" and "lead with lower body."

No single piece of this map is a guarantee of success, nor can one tackle it all at the same time. It requires consistent reflection and adaptation. Some acts are sequential while others are ongoing in parallel.

Over time, the system locks in, you forget about the "resolution" and while you're working on the daily stuff, chopping wood, carrying water, you find that your outcome is closer than you could imagine.

It might even be right in front of you.

To future worlds, Matt Ventre