accomplish your dreams by better defining and visualising them.
But in Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Workweek this advice is turned on its head somewhat.
While Tim doesn't necessarily have a problem with goal setting per-say, he also
recommends doing essentially the opposite by 'fear setting'. And he claims it can do
a great deal more than goal setting when it comes to realising your aims and getting
more from life...
What is Fear Setting?
The general idea behind fear
setting is that you're defining
the fears that are holding you
back so that you can face them.
In most cases Tim postulates
that after doing this you'll find
that your fears are actually
relatively unfounded and thus
will move forward and past them. Normally our fears are of 'irreversible' negative
outcomes, but actually these are rarer than you might think...
So what you do is to write down the absolute worst possible outcomes for doing
whatever it is you want to do, and then write down all the ways you'd cope with the
situation or possibly reverse it.
An Example: Changing Career
Let's take changing career as an example.
This is something that a lot of people
want to do, but feel held back by fear of
the potential repercussions. By defining those
fears though, you can minimise their potency.