365 Days With Self-Discipline: 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success

—Maxwell Maltz

 

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If you’ve been wandering aimlessly, asking yourself what’s the point

of life and feeling like you have no purpose, it’s possibly because you don’t

have any important long-term goals to achieve.

Whenever I found myself in such a situation, it was always during a

transitory period between finishing work on one important goal and looking

for a new challenge.

When you reach an important long-term goal, by all means celebrate it,

but don’t give yourself more than a couple of weeks to set a new challenge.

Failing to identify a new exciting target and living your life without any big

goals eventually leads to depression.

I’m talking from my personal experience: if I don’t have a guiding star

in the form of a significant long-term goal, I lose motivation for everything,

including my passions .

For  this  reason,  I  always  have  secondary  goals.  Whenever  I

accomplish  my  primary  goal  and  don’t  immediately  come  up  with  a  new

primary  goal,  I  promote  one  of  the  secondary  goals  to  become  my  new

objective.

I strongly suggest creating a “waiting list” of goals to achieve, so that

when you find yourself without a goal, you’ll be able to quickly refocus on

a new challenge.

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