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Why Do Smart People Make Bad Decisions About Their Goals?

Why Do Smart People Make Bad Decisions About Their Goals?

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Being smart doesn’t make you immune to bad decisions. It can make them easier to justify.

Highly capable people are excellent at making judgment calls. They can explain why something should wait, why another priority should come first, why they can squeeze one more commitment into the calendar, or why the current approach is still worth trying.

The problem is that a decision can make perfect sense by itself while making the overall goal harder to accomplish.

This episode explores what happens when important goals are managed through individual decisions instead of seeing how those decisions affect the entire path to accomplishment.

Because when deadlines, dependencies, available time, competing commitments, and changing circumstances all interact, even excellent judgment benefits from visibility.


If you’re working toward an important goal, put it into Goal Accomplishment Made Easy™ and see the decisions, dependencies, timeline, and capacity behind it. Visit app.goalaccomplishment.com.

You don’t need to become less independent. You need better information about what your decisions actually do.

Give your next big goal somewhere to be managed. Start at app.goalaccomplishment.com.

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