135. The Effort Trick (That Gets You Everything You Want)

135. The Effort Trick (That Gets You Everything You Want)

July 16, 2026 · 27 min · Episode 135

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In this episode, Katie Azevedo discusses the pitfalls of outcome-based goals and introduces the concept of the effort trick to achieve desired outcomes.

Send me a message!🤓 Don’t get me wrong – goals are awesome to have. They can inspire hope and dreams and cool visions we have for our futures. But focusing on the outcome we want (aka our goal) never gets us the outcome we want. I know, the irony. In this week’s episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why outcome-based goals are designed to make us fail, and the mistake I see students and professionals make when they set these kinds of goals. Then I share the secret effo...

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