The world is full of fake goals. Fake goals are those that are artificially induced, goals that are not your own, but you somehow end up believing they are or should be yours. You get stuck in goalishness.
There are the goals some influencers try to convince you to have so that you buy their solutions for chasing those goals.
There are the goals that emerge from the aura of some packaged and staged lifestyle presented as a permanent vacation, minimal amounts of work, and alluring six and seven figure takes.
There are the goals imposed by companies during the forced theater of annual performance discussions.
There are the goals subtly woven into a culture (at any scale of culture) that seem like they are supposed to be yours.
There are the goals that exist because, well, you “have to” have goals, because, if not, you’re some kind of sub-something-or-other.
The risk of all those fake goalish goals is they create constant interference that disrupts the signal of goals that are your own. How can you hear that one chord when you can’t even hear a song for all the noise and shouting?
Unless you have the luxury of getting away from the noise entirely, your only hope is to develop deep discernment. If you can’t stop the noise, you can still stop and listen. Strengthen your filters. Sharpen your senses for finding signal in all the goalishness.
