Edgy Goals

If you often find yourself rebelling against your own goals, your goals aren’t rebellious and edgy enough for you.You’re trying to set goals like everyone else, but you’re not like everyone else, so stop trying to fit in. Start setting goals that you’re not allowed to set. Turn your rebelliousness into motivational fuel by setting goals that are edgy and rebellious to begin with. Otherwise you may find your goals way too boring and unmotivating, and you’ll eventually quit.Do you give yourself enough latitude to explore rebellious or edgy goals?Even though some of the stuff I did when I was younger was a bit crazy, I often found edgy goals easier to achieve because they were so much fun.Here are some simple rebellious goals I achieved during the early 1990s:Steal every bottle of White-Out from the UC Berkeley student store in one day (many dozens of bottles).Steal a $40 ping pong paddle from a locked cabinet of a sporting goods store.Go out for a day of shoplifting with a friend till we filled the back of his pickup truck with stolen appliances. (We ended up filling much of the cab too, even having large boxes on our laps as we drove back.)Find a way to consistently steal items with sensors on them.Learn to count cards at BlackJack and play in the casinos in Vegas, including getting all of my meals comped.I kept running into a conflict whereby someone would punish my edgy fun and try to set me straight, including four arrests. What gives?Eventuall...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs