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This often ignored idea will multiply your passion to succeed

Alex Mathers
5 min readJan 17, 2025

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Of all the lofty goals people set for themselves year after year, how many of them do you think they reach?

50%?
30%
20%…
…5%?

I would guess that whatever the number, it’s very very low.

I’ll be honest. My own tally for the goals I’ve committed to that I’ve actually realized over my life time is probably less than 10%.

Every year, throughout the year, I spend hours and hours in coffee shops around the world getting excited about goals. I drink coffee, I feel a surge of enthusiasm, I feel I can achieve anything, and I scribble down my goals and dreams.

I love to plan with a pen and paper. I love to motivate myself thinking about what I want to achieve.

Very often, the goals that I’d written in my notebooks at the start of the year have been wiped from my memory by the end of the year.

I don’t even remember what I wanted a few months before.

I’m motivated by planning and dreaming, even if many of those dreams end up pushed…

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Alex Mathers
Alex Mathers

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