Good morning and welcome
to your morning cereal.
All right, good morning
everyone and welcome to Monday.
The day we all know where
the coffee need is strong,
but I hope you are up and
ready to hit this week head on.
I also hope you had a great weekend
and perhaps some of you are
on spring break this week.
If so, I hope this finds you somewhere
where you can get some no
doubt well-deserved R&R.
Well, making our day even better,
especially if you check out their reels,
today also happens to
be National Panda Day,
celebrating the fluffy black
and white ambassadors of calm
who spend most of their
lives eating bamboo and napping
and by watching most of their reels,
really most of their
days falling out of things.
All right, well, the answer
to Friday's trivia question,
France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, and the Netherlands,
those are five of the 12 countries
where the Euro replaced
the local currency in 2002.
All right, well, now it is
time for the essential vitamins
in your morning cereal today's quote.
And it is from former Jayhawk
Baller and birthday boy today
turning just 32, Joelle Embiid,
who once said simply, "Trust the
process," end quote.
Now your morning deco,
actually longer than the code,
have faith in your journey,
believing that consistent effort
will eventually lead to your success.
All right, well, let's go
ahead and hear from the experts.
Now it is time to pour in some atomic
habits by James Clear.
And today's section is forget about goals
focused on systems instead.
So James Clear, he
makes a bold claim here
that goals, they are overrated, okay?
Now that might surprise a lot of you
because society
constantly pushes goal setting,
fitness goals, career
goals, financial goals.
But Clear argues that
while goals are useful
for setting direction,
they're actually not what
drives success ultimately.
Instead, success comes
from building systems.
Clear writes this, quote,
"You do not rise to
the level of your goals,
you fall to the level of
your systems," end quote.
Now, goals are about results.
Systems are about the daily processes
that create those results.
So for example, many people
set a goal to run a marathon,
but the real driver of
success isn't the goal,
it's the training routine
that gets someone running
every single day, right?
Clear highlights
problem number one here, okay?
Winners and losers have the same goals.
Every Olympic athlete wants to win gold.
Every startup
business, they want to succeed.
Every student wants to get good grades,
but these goals alone,
they don't separate the
winners from the losers.
The difference is the system behind those
similar goals, okay?
All right, problem number two is this,
it's something that
many people experience.
Achieving a goal only
creates a temporary change.
So for example, someone may die intensely
to lose weight for an event, right?
But once that goal is achieved,
the system that created the
problem in the first place,
well, that returns
and so does the weight.
So, Clear explains that
focusing only on goals
is like treating symptoms
instead of the causes, okay?
The real transformation happens
when the underlying system changes.
He writes, quote, "Goals are
good for setting directions,
but systems are best for making
progress," end quote.
Now, the beauty of systems
is that they turn success
into something
repeatable and sustainable.
So instead of relying
on bursts of motivation,
systems create automatic responses
or automatic progress
through habits, right?
A writer who writes one
page per day has a system.
A business owner who reviews priorities
every morning has a system.
A person who prepares gym
clothes the night before,
well, they have a system, okay?
And over time, these
small structured behaviors,
they create potentially
extraordinary results, all right?
Here it is, your Monday takeaway.
Don't obsess over the finish line.
Build a system that
moves you forward every day.
All right, friends,
Monday is officially underway.
Trust the process, build the system,
and let the results follow.
All right, now the prize from
the bottom of the cereal box,
the morning cereal
trivia question of the day.
Here it is, what is the abbreviation
for deoxyribonucleic acid?
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listening to Morning Cereal.
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for the answer to the trivia question
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