Ambitious Goals and Immediate Goals: Change Yourself Before Trying to Change the World

Ambitious goals and immediate goals A common situation in entrepreneurship today is that founders set excessively grand goals—starting a business for the country or even for humanity. Every founder talks about how they will change the world. The intention behind such goals is good. But if they remain slogans and do not match your capabilities, environment, and resources, their distant horizon prevents you from connecting the entrepreneurial goal with who you are today. In reality, people often struggle to change their surroundings or other people. They cannot even change their parents, children, bosses, subordinates, or partners… The person you can change most is yourself, yet many people cannot even change their own daily habits. Should you have ambitious ideals? Yes. There is nothing wrong with the ideals themselves. But in putting them into practice, you must connect yourself with them. Rather than proclaiming every day that you will change the world, start by changing yourself. --- Robin: “Ambitious goals and ideals must connect with your own situation. Rather than changing the world or other people, start by changing yourself. Break a distant goal into smaller goals at each stage that can be acted on, tested, and achieved. It is time to set annual goals again.”