#1077 - Chris Bailey - Why Some Goals Feel Effortless (and others hurt)
3/28/20261 hr 9 min
Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, speaker, and author. How do you make goals actually stick? We all want better for ourselves, but most goals fade. So how do you set goals that excite you—and actually follow through? Expect to learn why some goals feel effortless and others feel like a chore, how the role of intentions plays into goal setting and how to stack them, what the practical differences are between default intentions and deliberate intentions, why SMART goals are overrated, what the big triggers of procrastination and aversion are and how to overcome them, how you can make your goals feel deeper and intention stickier and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to 20% off the leading longevity and cellular health supplement at https://timeline.com/modernwisdom Get 10% discount on all Gymshark products at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM10) Get 15% off your first order of my favourite Non-Alcoholic Brew at https://athleticbrewing.com/modernwisdom Get the brand new Whoop 5.0 and your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp
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First 90 secondsChris Williamson· Host0:00
Given all of the work that you've done, why is it that some goals feel effortless and others- Yeah ... feel like a chore?
Chris Bailey· Guest0:07
Yeah. It's such an interesting question, and that, that was what I wanted to figure out with this book. Because I, I find with my own life, I'm, I'm productive on a daily basis, I'm focused on a daily-- As you would hope, gi-given I study this stuff for a living, [chuckles] you know, looking at the research for this stuff for a living. But there were still goals that kind of fell by the wayside for me. You know, there-- exercise equipment that was in the basement that I hadn't really followed through with. You know, things that didn't really fire me up inside that I found that I wasn't really accomplishing. And so that, that was what set me on this journey to write this book, is seeing that we all have [clears throat] a sort of graveyard of forgotten goals. Every single person on the planet [chuckles] does. And so what is it that actually separates the goals that we're able to achieve and follow through with, um, from the ones that we're not? And y-you, you... when you dig into the research on this topic, so I, I dug into the academic literature on this topic. I actually spoke with a lot of Buddhist monks who, you know, know more about intentionality than almost any demographic, I would argue. Even, uh, the scientists that study intentionality and goal attainment, all i-in an effort to, to untangle that web of essentially goal attainment, right? Why is it that we attain some goals, and others, they feel meaningless,