#growth (This note is a [[Work in Public]].) Seriously, stop making goals. The only purpose of a goal is to inform the creation of a process. So many people tell you to make a list of goals and look at them every day, and evaluate to see whether or not you're staying on task. But there's _always_ something you could be doing better. And that's stressful. You don't need to be perfect, and always feeling inadequate despite your accomplishments is one of the after-affects of having goals. You need to have a ton of self-confidence in order to avoid this pitfall. Instead of creating goals, create processes. Your processes can be informed by your goals, but after the processes are defined, throw away your goals and follow your process. Every once in a while you'll need to reevaluate your process, but you'll know if it's wrong because you'll feel it in your gut. Create your process in terms of a [[Atomic Habits|habit]]. *"After I put my dinner dishes in the dishwasher, I will grab my pain supplies and paint something."* And then follow your process. If you paint every day, you're going to become a better painter and you're going to finish that painting you've been wanting to, regardless of whether or not you have a goal to do these things. You learn, grow, and accomplish based on the actions you take and the experiences you go through, not based on whether or not you have a goal defined before hand. So just skip that step, and skip the stress associated with it. Enjoy the journey, and enjoy your processes. This is one of the secrets to living in the moment. <!-- TODO: I'd like to write an example of defining a process here sometime. --> <!--*Follow your passion.* Some people love this advice, some people hate it. There are tons of examples of people making a job out of their passion only to end up disliking it because now it feels like work. But really I think people dislike it because someone else is telling them how to do their passion, and that they have to do it. They lose control over the process, and when you lose control over something you love to do, it just sucks. And it stops being fun. But I digress. What I really want to say here is that following your passion is about finding and following the _processes_ that you love.--> This idea is largely [[Stealing|stolen]] from [[Atomic Habits|Atomic Habits]].