Journey Home to Self by Deepshikha Sairam

Journey Home to Self by Deepshikha Sairam

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If the word "goal-setting" makes you 🤮

Try this instead (no Patriarchy detected here)

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Deepshikha Sairam
Jan 15, 2025
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I stopped setting goals a few years ago. At that time, it was an act of defiance against Patriarchal standards of success. I was sick and tired of setting outlandish goals, such as “getting 5000 new followers on Instagram” or “a 6-figure launch.”

The problem with such goals was not the goals themselves but how attached I was to them, how they made me fee…

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