We have always learned that the best way to achieve what we want in life is by setting goals.  But do we succeed in all our goals?  No.  Actually your end results have very little to do with the goals you set and nearly everything to do with the systems you follow.If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your systems, would you still succeed? For example, if you were a cricket coach and you ignored your goal to win a championship and focused only on what your team does at practice each day, would you still get results?  Yes, you would.  The goal in any sport is to finish with the best score, but it would be ridiculous to spend the whole game staring at the scoreboard.  The only way to actually win is to get better each day.  If you play well, the score takes care of itself.  The same is true for other areas of life.  If you want better results, focus on designing your systems.So are goals completely useless? Of course not.  Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.  Winners and losers have the same goals, then why winner wins and the loser loses.  The only thing that differentiates the winners from the losers is that they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome.Let’s see another real life example.  Imagine you have a messy room and you set a goal to clean it.  If you summon the energy to tidy up, then you will have a clean room.  But if you maintain the same sloppy habits that led to a messy room in the first place, your room will again end up in the same situation.  The reason is you never changed the system behind it.The issue is that we try to change our results, but the results are not the problem.  What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results.  When you solve problems at the results level, you only solve them temporarily.  In order to improve, you need to solve problems at the systems level.  Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.So focus on the systems instead of the goals.@AnkitIttanThis article is inspired from the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.