“It’s a good question whether you can be more productive in the long run by getting something for yourself instead of doing something else,” says Pauline. “What’s really important is to give yourself a real goal.” I agree, and I want to share with you how I think that is possible.
For me, the answer is that we can do things that feel more “self-directed” for a while, but we will ultimately be “self-controlled” only when we have achieved all the goals we set ourselves. The reason is that these goals are not intrinsically satisfying, but they give us a sense of completion that is satisfying.
I agree – I don’t believe we can give ourselves a real goal, and I don’t believe it’s possible to achieve them without some external authority like a boss or a mentor. In fact, I think the feeling of satisfaction we get from our own goals is a big part of why we become people we are. The feeling of achievement is actually a much greater motivator than the sense of satisfaction we get from our goals.
I can certainly agree with this. Many people find the feeling of achievement too much to bear in themselves. I think that it is possible to achieve any goal, however small, with the help of an external external authority. The feeling of satisfaction we get from our own goals is actually a much greater motivator than the sense of satisfaction we get from our goals.
It’s easy to get caught up in the feelings of achievement. “It’s finally done!”, “Yay, it’s a success!” and “Wow, I’m so happy!”. Those are great feelings, but they don’t take us to the destination of satisfaction. What we need is another external authority.
Its called a goal, and it is a great motivator, but we would need to have another external authority. This is where the external authority comes in. In the movies we see a big, fat guy, and he just says, “Go, go!” and the guy goes. We need to have someone with the same authority to show us what we are creating.
This is really the biggest step that we are going to take in the future.
As we see in the above examples, external authorities provide a great motivator. But what they rarely do is provide an external authority for us to follow. We need to build our own external authority. This is the biggest step we are going to take in the future, and it is the step that will benefit us the most.
This is also the biggest step we will take that will benefit us the most. Now that we are able to build a foundation for the future, we can then build on that foundation. We are now able to build a foundation for the future. This is the step we will take that will ultimately benefit us the most.
We need to build our own personal authority, so we can be the leader of our own life. This is what will ultimately benefit us most.This is also the step we will take that will benefit us the most. Now that we are able to build a foundation for the future, we can then build on that foundation. We are now able to build a foundation for the future. This is the step we will take that will ultimately benefit us the most.