Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.
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I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.
When you set a goal for yourself, you do what you need to.
I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.
I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.
With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.