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Your goals are mile markers along your path. Therefore, it is essential that they align with what you truly want in life. No “shoulds.” Goals with a meaningful why behind them energize us. Whether your goal is building an app, becoming a surgeon, learning to dance, or earning all your income from your freelance passion—it’s creativity at work. In small, daily actions, you’re creating outcomes for yourself and, by extension, creating your life. So you must be clear about what you want those outcomes to be. Entire books have been written about goal setting, but to get you started, here are a few key principles. Write your goals down and refer to them regularly. Every day. Keep your goals few in number—three or four at most—so that you can focus on them. Assign each goal an appropriate window of time. The clearer the goal, the more likely you are to achieve it. So instead of “Learn to dance,” try “Dance the Macarena at my wedding.” Or, if you want to up the stakes, try “Land a spot on So You Think You Can Dance by next year.” To quote a fortune cookie I once ate, “If you don’t know where you want to go, how will you ever get there?” Habits Habits are nothing more than behaviors that have become automatic through repetition and reward. The strength of a habit has nothing to do with your inherent worth as a human being or any sort of natural talent. Habits get stronger when they’re reinforced—it’s that simple. The important part to remember is that you must approach all habits in a healthy way, from a place of self-care and love, not self-negation or masochism. Any habit can become unhealthy when the effort is coming from a place of “have to” or “should.” With small but consistent effort, anyone can build a new habit. Then the behavior simply happens when it’s supposed to, without much conscious thought. You find yourself automatically writing in your journal first thing each morning, reaching for water instead of soda, and so on. Creativity itself is a habit. It’s a behavior like any other, and it can be strengthened, even made automatic. If your creative work were an effortless, joyful experience of perfect flow every day, I don’t think you’d be reading this book right now. Either you’d be off creating something magical, or you’d be out there enjoying the rest of your life—radiating that special glow of creative fulfillment. But you’re not. And that’s okay. We’re all in this together.
Creative Calling
Chase Jarvis
The index was selling at 15 percent, or 30 points, over the futures. The potential profit in an arbitrage was 15 percent in a few days. But with prices collapsing, upticks were scarce. What to do?
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
Amid the booming silence I kept my eyes on the road and mulled over Bowerman’s eccentric personality, which carried over to everything he did. He always went against the grain. Always. For example, he was the first college coach in America to emphasize rest, to place as much value on recovery as on work. But when he worked you, brother, he worked you. Bowerman’s strategy for running the mile was simple. Set a fast pace for the first two laps, run the third as hard as you can, then triple your speed on the fourth. There was a Zen-like quality to this strategy, because it was impossible. And yet it worked. Bowerman coached more sub-four-minute milers than anybody, ever. I wasn’t one of them, however, and this day
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