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For years, we've been told that goal setting is fundamental to success and fulfillment. 

Recently, however, there's been a lot of chatter about the negative aspects of goal setting. For most people, the whole topic of goals are bad is either a complete shock or at least completely confusing, so let's get into it.

On this episode of the Stop Hating Monday's podcast, we're discussing the negative aspects of goals and a better way to move things forward. 

Most of us live in a culture that is obsessed with more. For example, here in the US, the self storage industry is a $40 billion dollar business. That’s $40 billion dollars people spend every year to store stuff they don’t have space for or don’t need but are unwilling to get rid off.

And that’s just the physical stuff.

Just as common are the people who are unwilling to let go of old mindsets, beliefs, and habits that no longer serve them – and there is no option to offload those to a temperature controlled storage unit down the street.

On this episode of the Stop Hating Mondays Podcast, we’re talking about how important space is to personal development.

Our long-term listeners know that we talk a lot about how you have many roles, but there is only one you and that positive growth in one of your roles can have a positive impact on all of your roles. But in this episode of the Stop Hating Mondays Podcast, we're flipping the script and talking about how challenging it can be to try to make progress in one role while there are aspects of your life that are uncared for.

In the last episode of the Stop Hating Mondays Podcast, we touched on something that struck a chord with several listeners – the idea that not everyone intuitively understands why self-knowledge is important.

We get it.

This is one of those topics that is often covered as if everyone just naturally gets why it matters. And the truth is, that's just not the case. So on this episode of the Stop Hating Mondays Podcast, we're continuing to talk about some of the more practical aspects of self-knowledge.

In the spirit of the New Year, we're making this season of the Stop Hating Monday's podcast an extension of the last season's focus on personal development. And we're kicking it off with a conversation about values: what they are, why they matter, and how knowing your values can be even more transformational than knowing your strengths.

Have you ever felt like you might be a lot more successful if you were less caring? Maybe if you were more Gordon Gecko and less Mr. Rogers, you’d earn more? You’d get that promotion? You’d demand more respect from your higher ups?

Maybe you would. But you’d also be a sociopath.

From Wall Street to Succession, we’re inundated with messages that tell us being less humanistic – less caring – is the secret to success. And many corporate profit models would seem to support that. But it’s not entirely true. On this episode of the Stop Hating Mondays Podcast, we’re tackling a big question: does being compassionate and humanistic make you less successful.

In the Stop Hating Mondays book that sparked this podcast, we talk about the hope / disappointment cycle. Olivia starts a new position only to find soon after that she’s unfulfilled and needs a change. So she starts something new and once again finds that she’s in the wrong role.

This hope / disappointment cycle is extremely common, and there is only one effective way to break it.

On this episode of the Stop Hating Mondays Podcast, we’re talking about the importance and power of personal development.