Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals

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Goal Setting: A
Philosophical Guide
to Setting and
Achieving Goals
“How long are you going to wait before you
demand the best for yourself?” — Epictetus
What do the goals we set, whether personal or
professional, require? If we hope to accomplish our
goals, we need the discipline to hold ourselves
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accountable. We need the self-control to stay
focused only on the things within our control. And
we need the endurance to persist through
dif culty.
As it happens, Stoicism is a philosophy based on
self-discipline, self-control, and endurance.
The Stoic Chrysippus, for instance, trained as a
long-distance runner. Every day, as Diogenes
Laertes recounts in 
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
,
he would set a goal, try to beat it, then when he
did, he would set a new, faster goal. Because that’s
what runners do, what athletes do, and what
Stoics do: they try to get better everyday, they set
a goal and they don’t stop until they accomplish
that goal.
We created this guide to help you do exactly that.
It is here to help you set and achieve your goals. It
is rooted in the time-tested wisdom of the Stoics.
This is a long post. It should be saved and revisited.
It can be read straight through or if you prefer, feel
free to click the links below to navigate to a
speci c section:
I. 
What is Goal Setting?
II. 
The Importance of Goal Setting
[1] 
Goals Give You Clarity and Focus
[2] 
Goals Help You Assess The Good and Bad
[3] 
Goals Help You Beat Procrastination