Break these 4 habits to achieve your goals

1. Trying to get your best

First you need to decide what you want the most. That is, focus on some things and give up others.

Life is like a huge buffet with so many alternatives that you can never taste everything. Therefore, choosing a goal means giving up some of the things that you want in order to get what you want more.

Some fail already at this stage, without even having time to start. Fearing to reject a good option in favor of a better one, they try to achieve many goals at the same time. And in the end they achieve little or nothing at all.

Don't let variety paralyze you.

Dalio himself began his path in the world of finance very early: at the age of 12 he bought his first shares, at 20 he graduated from Harvard Business School, and at 26 he opened the company Bridgewater Associates in his apartment. It is now one of the largest hedge funds in the world.

2. Confuse goals with desires

The correct goal is something you really need to achieve. Desires are what can prevent you from doing this. For example, your goal may be to be in good physical shape, and your desire is to eat tasty but unhealthy food.

Don't get me wrong, if you want to be a bummer who doesn't get off the couch, please. Your goals are your choice. But if you don't want to, you better not open a new bag of chips.

Ray Dalio

But when it comes to a career, desires and goals can be synchronized, which is not possible with chips and a healthy lifestyle. For example, you want to work more with people, and not sit at the table. And in doing so, strive to change something in your local community. Then, on which you can do both.

Decide what you want out of life by reconciling goals with desires. Then life will be full.

3. Look for the wrong reward

Motivation should not only be financial. Don't confuse the external trappings of success with success itself. Yes, it is important to strive for achievement. But those who are fixated on expensive shoes or a cool car are rarely happy. They just don't know what they really want.

Many successful entrepreneurs also say that they were motivated by self-fulfillment, not money. Among them are Tim Cook, Richard Branson and Warren Buffett.

4. Do not give freedom to dreams

Don't limit yourself and your dreams. There are, of course, exceptions. For example, it is impossible to become a center forward on a basketball team if you are short. Or run a mile and a half in four minutes when you're 70. But apart from that, it never happens too much.

What you think is achievable is determined by what you know at the moment. Remember, great expectations create great opportunities. By limiting your goals to only what you already know how, you set the bar down.