Big goals have a strange side effect: they make capable people behave like they’ve had too much coffee and not enough sleep.

You look at the size of the mountain, and suddenly you’re:

• Planning twelve steps ahead
• Worrying about failure
• Comparing yourself to people already at the summit
• Reorganizing tools instead of using them

It feels productive. It’s not.

As the saying goes:

“You can’t cross a canyon in two jumps.”

Big goals don’t fail because they’re too big.
They fail because focus gets diluted.

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