Atomic Habits for Executive Job Search II
Thu, Sep 10
|Teams
Goals give us something to pursue. Identity shapes what we continue doing, especially when progress is slow, the timeline changes or the original goal is reached.
Time & Location
Sep 10, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Teams
About the Event
We are taught to begin with a goal.
Land the job. Lose the weight. Write the book. Reach the milestone.
Goals can provide direction, but they do not create the habits required to reach them. They can also leave us with a narrow definition of success: we either reach the target or feel as though we have fallen short.
What happens when the deadline passes? When we miss a day? When the opportunity we were pursuing falls through? When we accomplish the goal and immediately move the goalposts again?
In Atomic Habits, James Clear encourages us to focus on the systems we follow and the identity those repeated actions help us build.
For someone navigating a job search, that means asking a deeper question: