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How to Use the Two-Week Rule to Become Remarkably Successful (and Optimize Your Bucket List)
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How to Use the Two-Week Rule to Become Remarkably Successful (and Optimize Your Bucket List)

Two weeks is all it takes to find out what a goal means to you. And what you're willing to do to achieve it.

Jeff Haden
Inc., 2022
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How often have you set yourself a lofty goal only to abandon it after a lukewarm approach or weak commitment makes success seem overwhelming and unattainable? Achieving a big goal is hard, and emotional fatigue can get the better of you. Jeff Haden, author of The Motivation Myth, offers a simple life hack to increase your chances of success: Commit to your goal for just a fortnight. After two weeks of dedicated work, you’ll start to see the fruits of your labor emerge, and you can then decide whether your goal is worth pursuing.

Take-Aways

  • Setting goals is easy, but achieving goals is arduous.
  • A slow start toward a big goal can sabotage your success.
  • To increase your chances of achieving your desired goal, work tirelessly toward it for an initial two-week period.

About the Author

Jeff Haden is a contributing editor to Inc. and author of The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win.

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