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1. 001 Introduction 1: Welcome to a goal
setting for success. In this course, you're
going to learn how to set goals that align with your values and help you to achieve whatever you
want to achieve. Your goals will be different to mine and different
to everyone else's. But one thing is certain, if you know what you want,
if you write it down, if you put it up on your wall
and you look at it daily, you're more likely to be
successful in this course. I'll teach you how to do that. I'll teach you how to align
your goals with your values. And how to set them in
a way that makes them achievable, uplifting,
and motivating. My name is Zacho Phillips, and I'm an online mental health advocate, author and coach. I help thousands of
people move from a place of surviving to
passionately thriving, and I hope to do
the same with you. I use goal setting as a way to personally move
towards the things that I want and what I use with my clients to help them
getting what they want. I know you'll get a lot from this course. Let's get into it.
2. 002 Why Set Goals: Why should we even set
goals in the first place? What's the actual point?
Well, a good goal helps steer you in
the right path. An analogy I like to look at is your ultimate goal is
like a distant mountain. Yeah, that's your ultimate goal. That's where you're headed. If you look and you
see in the distance this mountain and you start
walking towards that, you're going to eventually get to your goal, the mountain, each little goal, the goal
thing that we're going to talk about gets you one step closer. Okay? But why even set them? Why not just head towards that mountain and
just hope well, it allows you to keep on track. There's been a lot of
studies and a lot of research to show that
people who set goals, people who think about them, write them down and look
at them and review them, are far more likely to
be successful and to achieve those goals,
because that makes sense. You're aiming at a defined
target just by going, I am going to attempt this, I'm going to try this, I'm going to hunt
down this goal. I'm going to try and make it in some way steering
yourself down a path. Because then every single
time you make a decision, you can compare
it to your goals. Let's take weight loss
if your goal is to lose weight and
you're faced between a sugar field food or a non sugar field food and you're thinking of
your goals every day. It's in your mind you're going to lean towards the non
sugar field food, right? It helps to keep you on a
path that you've chosen. Now we're going to
talk about choosing the right goals
and if your goals suit your values and
all of that stuff. But for the basic premise, why you should set goals, it helps keep you motivated. It helps keep you on a path, it helps keep you moving
in a specific direction. We're going to talk
about how to make goals work for you as
and word them properly. Because let's take the
weight loss example. If I said to you my goal is to lose weight, what does
that actually mean? How much weight? What would be a successful loss of weight? Because I could
weigh myself now, literally go to the toilet and have succeeded
in losing weight. Right? We're going to talk
about effective goal setting. We're going to talk
about the best way to align your goals with your values so that you can stay motivated and
all of that stuff. But the reason you clicked on this video is obviously
because you have a goal that you want to
achieve or you have a desire to have a goal that
you want to achieve, right? And it can be
anything. This could be interpersonal, for example, romantic, it could
be sport based, it could be financial, it
could be mental health based. It could be a goal to
get a morning routine, a whole range of
different things, skill development, finishing a school based studies,
whatever it is. Setting goals will help you working out the
best way to set goals. And aligning those goals
with your values will help you to be successful.
Let's get into it.
3. What Do You Actually Want: Before we get into how
to set those goals, let's make sure that you're aiming for something
that you actually want. We're going to talk about the difference
between your values, your beliefs, and your wants. I would love to have a new car. Just as an example, I could
set myself a goal by 2022. I'm going to have a Porsche whatever, just making up stuff. But the problem is, is I don't
really value cars, cars. To me, it would be nice, I wouldn't say no, but
they're not a core value. My core values are different. For me to set a goal
for a car wouldn't actually be in
line with what I'm actually wanting from life is
very easy to get caught and set goals that are trivial or not quite in line
with what you want. Now sometimes you will have
to set goals that aren't in line with what you
want based on a deeper, longer, more important need. If you've got a work that
you're enjoying doing, but there's little things
in there that you are not that happy with or align. You might set goals set
for that, but in general, in general life terms, your goal be in line
with your core values. The next exercise that I'm
going to suggest that you do, I will put a link
in the description, in the class project
description. It will be to a core values and what you're going
to do is it will present 400 different
values, right? I've done this, it's a
lot, don't get me wrong. And you'll circle
the values that you relate to and
you'll cut it down. You might be left with 30. Then you do that again
and cut it down, and you get five values, and you'll rank
them in an order, and this is what
you actually value. Now your values will
be different to mine. Some people value leadership. Some people value family. Some people value time. Some people value status. Some people value
material possessions. It doesn't matter. The point is, is working at what you value. Because once you
know what you value, you can start setting
goals and aiming towards things that align
with your values. Let's go with me with
the car example. I value my time right now. If I was to spend thousands
of dollars on a car, that thousands of dollars is not available to me to
do other stuff. One, thousands of dollars
can be traded for more time because
you work for money. Money can be traded for time because that's how
money works, right? If I was to put that money into the car to get that
goal, that sounds great. Having a porch would be great. I actually wouldn't be happy. Before you go setting
a random goal, you really need to work out
what your core values are. What do you actually
value in life? I strongly encourage you,
check out those values. Work out the top five in
order of what you like. Okay, I'm going to put
a chapter to my book, How to Get You **** Together that breaks this process down. You'll be able to
see, you'll click on Free chapter and you'll
be able to see how to do this process of going through all of the values
circling the ones you relate to cutting them
all out and being left with a core set of values. Check the links out for those. I strongly encourage you to do it because before
you set a goal, it's vital that it's in
line with your world view, with what you actually value. It would be very
easy for me to go, okay, I want to get this,
I want to get that. And my goal would be
spread out far too widely. Because of that, I would be
pulled in many directions, and none of those
directions would really be towards
what I'm after.
4. Turning Inner Drives Into Goals: The three approaches to
goal setting that I like. The first one is the
distant mountain analogy. This is to imagine
a distant mountain. Like a mountain in the
distance, far away. And you can see it towering
over the landscape. That's your long
term ultimate goal. That's what you value. Okay? This could be
a stupidly distant, far away goal, but you
see it in the distance. That's like for those people
that have this core desire. Now, you don't
necessarily even need to state it for people
that feel this way. This is this core belief, this distant mountain,
this thing that you just are driven to achieve. Now what you do is with this distant mountain
that you've got, it can be anything you go. Okay? I'm going to make
every step that I make will be towards that
distant mountain. Everything that
I'm going for will be aiming me to get there. This could be, if you're
into martial arts, getting your black belt, it could be winning a championship. It could be getting
a certain job or making a certain art or
writing book, whatever it is. This is your long
term ultimate goal and you just know
this in your core. Some people won't have
that and that's okay. I'm going to talk about
different approaches later. But let's say you've got
this long term goal, then each time you look
at making a decision, you will this bring me closer
to that long term goal, further away will make me
walk closer to the mountain. When you're setting intermediate goals with the
following methods. In the next few videos
you'll go okay, is this going to
bring me close to that long term mountain?
Does that make sense? If you've got this
long term overall goal and you're slowly
moving towards it, that will be key, key to long term success and
long term happiness. But how can we set those goals? What if you don't have this overarching long term
goal that you can see? The next two videos,
we're going to cover smart goals and then dumb goals. And they're obviously
analogies and all that stuff, but you'll find a
lot of value from.
5. SMART goals: Smart Goals. This is an acronym. Specific, measurable, attainable,
relevant, and timely. Let's go back to the
example of weight loss. If you were just to say,
I want to lose weight, like I said, you could
literally just go to the toilet and you
would be success. You could literally just eat some food and you would fail. A better way to state goals
is to use the Smart approach. Specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, timely. You have to put all
of these things in to make a goal smart. Let's use the weight example. By the end of the year,
I'm going to have lost 5 kilograms of fat specific, it's measurable,
it's relevant to your overall goals and
it, it's time based. I'm saying by the end of the
year I'm saying how much. I'm going to say
specifically fat loss, how can I measure this? Well, I can measure this
through body scans and through just general scales, right? It's very specific. It's attainable. If
that was to say, I'm going to lose 50 kilos by the end of the year.
That's unattainable. If you put all of those
factors together, it makes your goals
very succinct, very clear, and it's actionable. By the end of the
year, I'm going to lose five kilos of fat. Smart goals are very good for these ongoing
small based things. By the end of the day,
I'm going to have accomplish these
five tasks, right? Small term goal setting, very good in businesses, very good for the left
brain thinkers. I set smart goals all the time. But there's a problem
with the smart goal. The problem for
the smart goal is, is that they're not very
inherently motivating. They tell you what
you want to do and when you want to do it by. But they don't
really uplift you. That's where the
dumb goals come in. The next video will be on that.
6. 006 DUMB Goals: The counterpoint for smart
goals is dumb goals. This sounds for dream big. Uplifting method friendly
and behavior triggered. Let's look at what
that actually means. Let's dream big.
Rather than saying I want to lose five kilos, you could turn that
around and dream big, saying I want to be so
exceptionally healthy that people will fall over
in shock at my beauty. When I walk into the
room I will glow. Do you see how stating it that way is just
uplifting and positive? It's not that I'm going
to lose five kilos, I'm going to be stunning. It's a different
twist in the mind, and some people prefer to
word their goals like this. The idea is to dream
stupidly big. It's not. I'm going to learn how to play this one song by the end of the year, as
in the smart approach. And there's nothing wrong
with that smart approach. This is just a
different approach. Rather than saying, I'm
going to play that one song, I'm going to be playing on stage in front of thousands of people rocking out
with my guitar, people singing along
to my music to see that's dreaming
stupidly big. It's dreaming amazing. It's setting that
distant mountain. Some people love this approach. I find it quite uplifting. We're dreaming. It's uplifting. Now it's method friendly. It gives you a method and it gives you a behavior triggered. Let's say you're
trying to lose weight. The method of losing weight will be a couple of things
you need to obviously increase your exercise and
change your dietary habits. That's the basic way
to lose weight, right? You've got a couple of methods, there's method friendly here, but the real key
for the dumb goal is that it's behavior triggered. When I do this,
this will happen, for example, with
the weight loss, with wanting to glow, with wanting to be so stunning
that people will fall over in awe of how
good you look, right. The behavior triggered
is every time there's an option
to take stairs or an elevator, I'll
take the stairs. Every time I order out food, I'll choose the healthiest food. Do you see how your behaviors trigger a positive response? Yeah, different example. Every morning when I wake up, I will meditate first thing. Every time I walk
through a doorway, I'll fix my posture. Behavior triggered. Every time I talk to someone
I will assume positivity. All of these are different
behavior triggers based on specific goals
that you may have. Every time I get paid, I will transfer 20% into
my trading account. I like dumb goals because
they're uplifting, they're dreaming stupidly big. And they link up your behaviors
to the goal themselves. You're not actually
having to think about it if every time
you do something, something good happens in terms of heading
towards your goal, heading towards that
distant mountain top, You're going to be successful
just by default, Okay? I use a combination of
the distant mountain, the smart goals and
the dumb goals, but I find that dreaming
big is always far more uplifting and far
more positive for my mental state than the
limiting nature of smart goals. That being said, smart
goals do help you to get stuff done on a
day to day basis. That's why I suggest using a combination of both and finding what works best for you. Because ultimately, it doesn't
matter what works for me. It matters what works
for you in terms of goal setting and how do you know what works
for Goal setting, actually accomplishing
those tasks, getting towards those goals, or even more esoterically living a happy and
successful life.
7. Enjoy The Process: Let's talk about staying on
the path of goal setting. You actually need to
enjoy the process. I'll keep going down
the exercise or the weight loss example
If you're there, if you don't like
running, for example, and you're going, I'm going
to run to lose weight. Because that's how you think,
losing weight happens. You're going to fail.
There's very few people that can do something
that they don't like. Day in, day out forever until
they reach their goals. Because most goals, remember, take a long time
to achieve, right? If they didn't take a
long time to achieve, you just do it. You can go through the
process of setting goals. It would just be
like, oh do it goals, take a long term approach. White loss if you
want to be successful with 0.2 of a kilo to 0.5
of a kilo a week max. Because if you lose
it too quickly, you'll just put it back on. It's a slow long term process. If you don't like the process, if you find it challenging, if the exercise you're doing or the diet you're having
isn't working for you, it's most likely going to
fail unless you've got such an extreme force of
will that you can push through of you will,
Most of us don't. You need to actually
enjoy the process when we're talking about
like behavior triggered or how we're actually going to achieve these goals
is really worth considering The how if
you want to lose weight, you could go for a run, you
could go for a bike ride, you could dance, you
could do martial arts, you could play soccer, you could climb, you could
swim, you could walk, right, All of these
different sort of exercises. I love some of them
and I hate the others. I'm going to choose the path
that best suits my mind. I want to enjoy the process. Same thing with
getting rich. For me. I, in the past tried
trading, online trading. However, it drove
me insane because I kept looking at the numbers going up and down and
worrying about my money. That approach for getting
rich didn't work for me, for me, if I'm wanting
to get rich as a goal. And remember, we
would be obviously more specific defining that or dreaming way bigger
than just getting rich. But if that's the goal,
personally trading is not for me. I would have to go
down a different path. But I know people that love that, that want to be seeing it. That looking into
all of that stuff, you need to actually
enjoy the process. When you enjoy the process, you'll be far more successful no matter how good your goal is. If you don't enjoy the process
of getting to that goal, it's going to be way harder. I would also suggest
that going for achievements over things now, don't get me wrong, set your
goal or whatever you like. If you want that Porsche,
by all means go for it. But in my experience, both personally and talking
to my coaching clients, I found that when people
get the physical thing, the possession, the car, the new tech, the new pot, whatever it is, they
feel good about it for a little bit and then their mental state
slips back down. Getting things, it doesn't
lead to happiness. Let's take a car example. I've got a crap car and
I've got a good car. Both of them serve
the same function as in if they're
safe and reliable. They get me from here to
here with no drama, right? They get me from here to here. I have to follow the speed
limits, all that stuff. Now, I would love the great car. But functionally they
serve the same purpose. Because of that
similar functionality, getting better quality things or more stuff doesn't lead
to more happiness. The same for holidays. You could spend 5,000
or 50,000 Now 50,000 holiday would be far
more enjoyable and fun, but really you're taking
your own mental state there. Once you get to a certain point, you'll have better quality food, you'll have better
quality alcohol, you'll stay on a
better quality beach. But it's still you. And you still have to
be able to relax and you still have to be
able to enjoy yourself. What I'm getting at is going for physical things,
over achievements, or over the process itself isn't as long term viable for happiness
and mental health. Not to say you shouldn't
set those goals. And what you want to do,
you can set the goal. I want to win this gold medal. I want to earn enough
money to buy this car. I want to live in
this specific house, whatever. It doesn't matter. I just think if you go back to the values activity that
we did at the start, you'll find that most
people don't value stuff. It'll feel like you value stuff because you'll
see your friend with a better care and a different
friend with a better house. You'll see someone else with
awesome looking clothes. Whatever you go, I
want all of those. Yeah, you do, but
what do you want? At your core, there's
something back here. That's the thing you
should be aiming for. Once you figure that
out, set your gold, and if those other
material possessions come along the way, go for it. But like I said, if you just
have been obsessed with a certain car for your
whole life, go for it. That's okay too.
Just know yourself.
8. Staying Motivated: How do you stay motivated and
heading towards your goals? I'm going to do a whole course. The next course I'm
going to release after this course will be
on staying motivated. Stay tuned, follow me,
get ready for that one. But in general, if
you're setting a goal, it's because you
want to achieve it. You're going to have a
internal drive to get there. Now, some goals will be not
as internally motivated. The work goals,
the requirements, the things that you do out of obligation that
you still need a goal set and you still need
to achieve. I get that. There's a few ways
that we're going to talk about staying motivated. One of them is to become
socially accountable. Okay. Just say your goal to the world. Smart, goal, dumb,
whatever goal, however youcide to write it
and say it to the world, say, hey, this is my goal, I'm going to achieve
this thing by this time. Why you do this is once again, studies have shown that
if you say to the world, if you hold yourself
socially accountable, if you tell people, hey,
I'm going for this, they're going to check
up on even do it, they might even say it to you. But even just the
thought of everyone knowing that you've got this
goal that you're going for, that might be enough to
keep pushing you through. That's actually
the class project. If you click and have a
look at the class project, you're going to set
a goal and state it, either smart or dumb,
whatever your goal is. State the goal to the class, to everyone as a bit
of social proof. To get you motivated, let's say your goal is to lose
weight and you're like, I'm not going to eat sugar and you're out to dinner with people who know you set that goal. Are you going to
order that dessert? Probably less likely, yeah. That's what I did to quit sugar. One of the things I'm like, hey, I'm not eating sugar anymore. Set it to the world.
Social proof helps. That's one way, another
way with your goal, that you write with
this goal that you're going to do for
the class project. Big bold writing. Put it on your wall and look at it daily. Just look at it and read
and say, my goal is, and read that goal because
you're looking at it daily. Humans like to be consistent. We want to be
consistent creatures. As in I want to state something and I
want to do that something. If you're saying to
yourself, this is who I am, this is what I'm going
for, This is me. There's your goal, okay, In terms of sticking
to your goals. There's a couple of tips there. If you find that you're
not sticking to your goal. If you find that
you're struggling, you might want to step back, have a look at the value statement that
we did earlier and go, is this goal in the direction
that I want to go to now? You might go okay,
well I have to do this for work, take a step back. Is that job what you
truly want to be doing? Should you make some change? I have to do this
for some obligation. Do you need to do
that obligation or do you just feel
trapped by your past? Right? Step back from it a bit. Because if you're not inherently motivated to achieve your goals, there might be
something a little bit deeper going on there
that you need to investigate. Now, with all that in mind, I have a goal to lose weight. I get up in the morning,
I go to exercise. Some days I'm not motivated. And I'm going to put these
resources in the show notes. But there's a awesome
spoken word music clip by Joco Willing called
Psychological Warfare. He talks about going through
the motions for a workout. Sometimes you don't feel
it and you've just got to pick up the weights and just
go through the motions. This is about instilling discipline and just
getting it done. I know that's akin to me just saying you're not
motivated, just do it. But effectively, yes, If you have to act without that inspiration because
you know long term, you've got the goal over here. You're writing that
book, sit down at the laptop and write. Put the time on for an hour
or whatever you're deciding. And just do it. Go to your gym
and pick up those weights, go for a walk. Just do it. You may not like it today, but you'll get back
into it tomorrow and you'll be so
grateful that you did. Another good approach to achieving your goals and staying motivated is to
track your progress. Get a calendar, a wall
calendar that has every day, every day you move a step
closer to your goal. Do the activity, for
example, do the exercise. Stick to your diet, not
smoke. Do some writing. Whatever it is, you
put a little tick on your wall or across or
you're like stamp it. Acknowledge that you've
done the thing today. That way you can look
back and go, okay, I did this track track. If it's weight loss you
could write down the food you're eating or
if it's exercise, you could write down
the exercises that you did or the study that
you did or whatever it is, track your progress, carry
a little note, pat around, or do it in your
phone and every day, multiple times per day
you're going to be looking at this is going to be
constantly reminding you. Yeah, little tips could be sitting alarms in your phone to just pop
up and remind you, hey, are you heading
towards your goals? Hey, what are you eating? Hey, have you exercised today? Hey, have you written today? Right. Just to remind
yourself every day, make it go off at a
certain random times. Right? That is a possibility. There are many different ways
that we can look at this. Like I said, check the
next skill share course I'm going to put out
for staying motivated.
9. Single Versus Multiple Goals: When people start setting goals, there's a real risk that they become single pointed as in, this is my goal and then everything in their world
goes towards that goal. This works for some people. Don't get me wrong. Some people have such
strong convictions, such strong goals, that they're just heading in that one path. That's okay. But
if that's not you, based on remember
what you value, be aware that there's a
little bit of a trap here. If you set one goal,
there's a risk that you'll gear
every single aspect of your life towards that goal. Well, I want to get super fit, so I'm not going to go out because it could be exercising, maybe don't go out as much. Maybe when you're out,
don't drink so much. But if you never go out, if you never see your friends, what life are you living now for a world class elite performer, that might be the
path they take. They might have to sacrifice
some social obligations, some hobbies, all of that sort of stuff
to get their goal. But if you're a bit more casual, you don't want to
risk losing all of that other stuff that
you actually value. And like, it's okay to
set multiple goals. It's okay to change your goals, but it's also okay
to be super focused. But it's really about working out what works for
you specifically. Okay, I have a few goals
that I'm working towards, but they're across
different areas of my life. The way that I worked
out those goals was to work out what
I want from life. And I realized that I
don't want just one thing. I want multiple
connected things. I'm going down that path now. Have I ever changed goals?
Can you change goals? 100% yes. Don't think that if you set a goal you need to
stick to it forever. That's actually very
silly because like, let's say a goal
might take ten years. Ten years ago I was 20. Imagine sticking or listening to ten years ago, you, right? Imagine going okay. I'm going to follow
the advice that me ten years ago said you might, but also you might change. Ten years ago, I wasn't married, I didn't have a kid,
I wasn't working in. I was still studying. Right? I had a completely
different mental state. I was a different person. For me to stick to
that person's goals would be a bit ridiculous. How do I know when to
stick to the goals because of a motivation drop? Or how do you know if you should stick to your goal or if
you should change it? Because let's say
like the exercise, things like, oh, do
I care about this? I'm tired, I don't want
to exercise, right? Well, I go back to the
values. What do I value? Do I still value
fitness and cardio, and health, and all
of that stuff or not? If I still value it
and my goal is still valid because of what I value,
yes, I'll push through. But if my values have changed, then my goal should
probably change. I train martial arts training. Martial arts is something
that I really do value. It brings me a lot of
physical physical fitness, social connections, emotional happiness. It
does a whole bunch for me. I was training and doing
karate at my brown belt. I stopped. I never went
and got my black belt. I could've I was in
line to do the grading. I was right there.
I could have got the black belt. I chose not to. Why? Because getting
the black belt no longer sat with my values. I found other martial arts
that I want to train to that I valued far more
because they were far more useful to my work life, to my social life, and just
was far more enjoyable to me. I changed my goal, my goal is to get the black
belt. I was almost there. But then what I wanted
from life changed, I changed my goals. Now the overall distant mountain
for me in this sense is to keep training martial arts for physical, social,
mental health. Does that mean I have
to get the black belt in this martial art? Or does it mean that
I can change and experiment and try and
just keep training? That's the path I chose because that was more
in line with my values. It is okay to change, it is okay to have
multiple different values. Once again, work at what you value and then set your goals and change
your goals accordingly.
10. Class Project: Okay, so I just want to remind
you of the class project, you're going to set a smart
or a dumb goal and post it in the class project section. I'm going to have a comment. I'm going to look at
it. So I'm going to be watching your goals, okay? So you've got social
proof of me looking and all the other people that
are going to be taking this class watching your goals. Social proof helps
keep you motivated. And also by doing that goal, by putting it out there,
choose smart goal, choose dumb goal, or do both. And I will help to make sure you're following the smart
or dumb goal approach. More specifically,
give it a shot. Post it up there, and it
will help get you going. Remember that one of the
best ways to achieve goals to be successful is to
set down and write goals. Write the goals. I'll help make sure that they're on point. You get that social proof, and once they're
perfect, print it off. Write it on your wall.
And look at it daily.
11. Resources & review: Okay, so I've got some
further resources for you. I mentioned a couple
of them already. Jocko Willink
Psychological Warfare. This is great for motivation
and great for goal setting. It's a spoken word click that you'll find
on itunes and Spotify. Check it out and
listen. It is amazing. It will help get you going and push you through
those times where you can't find that in a drive, but you need that discipline. It's highly good for
establishing discipline. The second resource will be Mark Manson's The Subtle
Art of Not Giving a ****. This book is very good at just eliminating all
the noise and helping you to focus specifically on what you are wanting.
Give it a listen. I'll put the links down below so you can grab yourself a copy. I'm also going to put up
two chapters of my book, How to Get **** Together. The first one is
on goal setting. The goal setting chapter
dives deep into this topic. It will lay out how to do the smart goals, the dumb goals, and all of that stuff,
so you can really read through and go in depth
into goal setting. The second chapter
will be the values. One, it'll be on
living by your values. And that will help you with
the activity at the start of this course where
we talked about finding your values and
being able to live by them. I strongly encourage you to
check out those two chapters. Read them for free, and it's just part of the things that
I'm doing for you guys. Okay, thanks for checking out
the course guys up there, you'll see a thing that
says review this class. Please, please, please do so. It helps me to know that
you guys are liking, it helps me to
improve and helps to let me know what sort
of classes are after. Do a quick review and let me
know in that review some of the stuff that you'd be wanting
me to make a course of. Like I said, the next
course is going to be on getting motivated
and staying motivated. So stay tuned. Follow
me to check that out. If you could, I'd love
you to review and follow. Remember, with goal setting, it's important to
set a goal that is in line with your values. If it's not in line
with your values, you may be heading down
a path that doesn't lead to long term happiness
and success. In terms of setting goals, you're going to set either
smart goals or dumb goals. Smart, very specific,
measurable, attainable, relevant,
and timely. It helps you to be as focused
on a particular point, gives you a time base you're
going to achieve it by, and gives you the amount
you're going to achieve. Very good for smaller tasks, very good for those
left brain thinkers. The dumb goals,
you're dreaming big. It's uplifting, okay? There's a method to it and you're going to use
behavior triggers. Every time I do this, I will act in a certain way and that will get me towards my goal. Remember I talked about setting that long term goal or having that long term goal of
the distant mountain. Then every time you
make a decision for that long term goal,
you'll go, okay. Is this getting me close to the mountain or further
from the mountain? We talked about needing
to enjoy the process. You need to actually
enjoy what you're doing. Because if you're
wanting to do something and you're not enjoying
how you're doing it, you're less likely
to be successful. We talked about the
trap of becoming too single pointed,
With that focused, Do you want to be going for one goal or do you have
because of your values? Multiple goals. Okay,
find that balance. Like I said, if you like this
class, please review it. Please follow me for more and thanks for
listening and watching.
Zachary Phillips, Counselor | Coach | Author | Meditation Instructor
