Setting the right goals

People are right to say that we should set goals to accomplish what we want, and that we should prioritize the steps we need to take to reach those goals.

What seems to be lost in the discussion is setting the right goals and the right priorities to begin with.

Because, of course, the steps we need to take to accomplish one goal might be drastically dissimilar from the steps we need to take to accomplish another goal.

Setting the wrong goal might cause us to do more work (in the long term) than it would if we set out to accomplish a better (more ambitious) goal.

And the opportunity cost of all that time wasted? That could be time well-spent pursuing even bigger goals.