You Have to Concentrate Your Efforts Directly On The Goal

Each goal has its own needle. General exhaustion doesn't imply you've moved any particular needle. If you want to make progress on a goal, you have to direct effort specifically at that goal.

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If you want to move the needle on a goal, you have to concentrate your efforts directly on that goal.

You can exhaust yourself doing other things, fulfilling other responsibilities and/or moving the needle on other goals – but at the end of the day, each goal has its own needle, and the general feeling of exhaustion doesn’t imply you’ve successfully moved any needle in particular.

This can be a hard truth, especially for people who have taxing responsibilities that are separate from their aspirational goals.

But the only way to achieve those aspirational goals is to somehow find it in oneself to directly move the needle on them. There is no other way.

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