There are certain results that are easier to reach when you burn the goal sheet and create a process instead.
What do I mean?
Depending on your personality, some of the big far-off goals will cripple you in their enormity.
Like writing a book, for example. Even breaking it into smaller goals still smacks of herculean effort.
But what if instead of an enormous goal you were patient enough to commit to a process? What if in due course the thing your process produced could, accumulatively, get you to your goal?
Like, for example, committing to write a 200-500 word article every week. If you committed to that writing process eventually you would have enough words and content to publish a book.
Now, some will say process is just another word for goal. But it’s not. A process has orderly fixed events and systematic procedures put on repeat with no end date. Whether that sounds like paradise or hell to you, it’s still not a goal.
And that’s how you can tell if you have a process or just a mini goal. If you plan on ending your process when it’s produced a certain amount of result then it’s not a process. It’s a goal.
You can’t stick a flag in a process and move on. It’s for the methodical. The consistent.
Is a process better than a goal?
No.
It’s just a different tool for producing results.
Have goals eluded you?
Then build a system of processes and enjoy a steady stream of results.
– Zac Smith, VC
