Stephanie Harrison

And, you know, like one of the things that I've experienced in my work has been

And it doesn't actually matter as much for your motivation how successful you are at working towards it.

The fear of making mistakes being so difficult to reconcile with the need to take risks and to try new things as an entrepreneur.

It's just that you're making some progress.

So that's a really great little hack for motivation.

And the more that I tried to simply show up for that fear of making mistakes and being kind to myself and realizing that no matter how bad it is, I'll figure it out because I've figured everything else out before in the past.

So all of these goals can be divided into two categories.

Extrinsic goals are goals that are imposed upon you by old happy culture.

So they say, if you want to be happy, you need to make X amount of money.

That then made it so much easier than to take these bold steps or do things that really scared me.

You need to get this promotion.

You need to become famous.

You need to do A, B, and C, and then you will be happy.

And so...

It's sometimes like you described, it's a little bit paradoxical.

And so the easy way to pick up on those is if you're saying to yourself, I'll be happy when, that's usually a sign that it's an extrinsic goal.

You really want to focus on those strengths in order to help you burnish your weaknesses in those ways.

Intrinsic goals, on the other hand, they come from within you.

They're probably a little quieter.

They're much more authentic.