Value-driven goals (secular)

Advice from Mark Waldman: 
If you want to achieve more, pick goals that are tied to your deepest inner values. Otherwise the goals won't resonate with your brain, and your brain won't release enough dopamine to motivate you. Try this exercise:

1. Ask yourself, three times: "What is my deepest innermost value?" "This activates the Salience Network that makes your life more meaningful."
 
2. Select a specific goal that meets that value. Are you are aligning the motivational part of your brain with your conscious decision-making skills (the Executive Network)?
 
3. Now "meditate" on your goal. Relax and watch your thoughts and feelings about that goal. "You are integrating your Executive Network with your Salience Network."
 
4. Ask yourself for some insights about how to achieve that goal. Write down the ideas. You are tapping into what neuroscientists now call the Default Mode Network that uses imagination and creativity to solve problems when you are in a daydream-like state.
 
5. Savor the insights (this "stimulates the salience network, one that creates an ideal balance between the other networks in your brain").
 
6. Then share and brainstorm with a friend about the insights and your goals. If you maintain  a mindful, value-oriented state of creative imagination, other people will be inspired to help you achieve more success.