# Mini Episode | Are Your Systems Aligned with Your Goals?

- Show: [Being an Engineer](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer)
- Published: 2023-02-24
- Length: 9m
- Episode: 8
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2023-02-24-mini-episode-are-your-systems-aligned-with-your-goals
- Listen: https://teampipeline.us/systems-and-goals/

## Summary

Aaron Moncur, founder of Pipeline Design & Engineering, explains that achieving goals requires aligned systems rather than just willpower. He shares how creating calendar reminders for business reviews solved his neglect of key metrics, and how a similar system helped him earn his jiu-jitsu blue belt after years of failure. Moncur defines a system as a set of practices yielding predictable outcomes and encourages listeners to evaluate their own systems by testing them and iterating.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2023-02-24-mini-episode-are-your-systems-aligned-with-your-goals#t=0) Introduction: Being an Engineer Circle of Excellence

## Topics

- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Pipeline Design & Engineering (company)
- Team pipeline.us (other)
- Benjamin Hardy (other)

## Related episodes from other shows

- [Episode 290: What’s important is that you made something.](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2021-01-08-episode-290-whats-important-is-that-you-made-something) (Making It)
- [377: GOATS, small and giant](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/making-it/2022-11-11-377-goats-small-and-giant) (Making It)
- [34: Goals and Plans for 2018](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/thoroughly-considered/2018-01-24-34-goals-and-plans-for-2018) (Thoroughly Considered)
- [158 - 3 Years Straight of Drug/Device Podcasting, Guarding the Process, and the Future of the Show](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/lets-combinate/2024-10-16-158-3-years-straight-of-drug-device-podcasting-guarding-the-process-and-the-futu) (Let's Combinate)
- [Foundation First: Products, Systems, Process & People w/ Bill Kaewert](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-07-25-foundation-first-products-systems-process-people-w-bill-kaewert) (The Manufacturing Executive)

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