21. Plan out where you want to be in five years, and get there in two
Goal setting is good and all, but it can slow your progress and severely limit your potential if you rely on it too much. So, instead of following through with your five-year plan, try to still plan it out and yet find a way to get there in half the time.
Tim Ferriss once revealed in an interview with Success Magazine that he doesn’t even have five or ten-year goals. Instead, he has what he calls as “experiments”, which are projects that last for 6-12 weeks. If a project does extremely well, he pushes through with it. If it doesn’t, then he backs out. He says that his approach is what allows him to go much farther than he could’ve ever hoped for.