Goal Setting Masterclass - Unstoppable Work Achievement in 2025

1. Welcome To The Goal Setting For Work Masterclass!: Aren't you tired of setting goals only to watch them slip through your fingers? Frustrated with unfulfilled dreams and missed opportunities, you're not alone. In fact, 92% of people never achieved the goals that they set. But you, my friend, are about to break that cycle. Hi, my name's Summer Hobart, and I've designed this comprehensive goal-setting for work mastery program to help you join the inner circle of goal crushing champions. It's time to unlock your full potential and transform your work and your life. So why is this program the best option for you are unique and proven approach combines cutting-edge strategies with practical tools to help you set and achieve meaningful goals fast, you'll learn to ignite your potential by aligning work with life goals together for ultimate achievement, even if you've stumbled before and failed, will help you uncover the game-changing domino that makes all other goals obsolete, turning your mountainous aspirations into a thrilling daily climb supercharge your motivation with advanced progress tracking techniques and become a master of resilience, overcoming obstacles and turning setbacks into growth opportunities and begin your journey to unleashing your full potential. 2. What Is a Goal?: In order for us to begin setting goals, we need to understand what exactly a goal is. A common misconception most people have is between desires and goals. So desire is something that's vague. It's disordered, it's fantastical to dream or a want or feeling that you have that comes and goes, where a goal is an objective, that is detailed, measurable, time-bound. And specifically, what makes an objective a goal versus a desire is that it is specific, it is measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. Essentially, a goal must follow the smart framework in order for it to be a goal and not a desire or something else. Now we have a whole section on smart goals that we'll cover later. They'll purpose of this is just to understand the difference between the desires that you have and goals. Another way of thinking about it is that your goals are gonna be the vehicle that help you to achieve your desires in life. So your desires are gonna help you develop goals, and those goals are going to help you to achieve those desires. It all makes sense here in a moment, but ultimately it just a simple framework of mine to have in laying the framework as we get into more and more concepts. So this is just a simple frame of mind to have as we move into more and more concepts and build on this. So I hope you're excited. That being said, let's go and get to the next video. 3. Determining What You TRULY Want: With Iike guy in mind, we now have a better understanding of our work and how to find more fulfillment in our work and therefore our lives. And with this concept in mind, we know that our relationships influence our work or health influences our work and our wealth influences our work. And at the same time, of course, our work influences our relationships. It influences our health, both mental, emotional, physical, as well as our wealth. So with this in mind, when we're setting goals for work, we have to keep in mind our ultimate goals in life because again, both are not separate. They're completely joined together working as an extremely important part of life. So because relationships, health, and wealth are three of the biggest amount, the biggest categories within your life that work directly influences. We'd get crystal clear on exactly what we desire and want out of these three areas in our life to then create our work goals that help us to get closer to that ultimate desired life. So to be more specific, what I'd encourage you to do right now after this video is in the relationship category, take out a piece of paper. This could be on a Google Doc, write down relationships and get as detailed and specific about the type of relationships that you want to have in your life because your work should be helping support your ultimate relationships versus taking away from it. The same is true of every category. So e.g. here's some prompts to help you. What kind of romantic and intimate relationships do you want to have? How much time per week do you want to be spending with friends and family? What do you want to be doing, right? And how often, what kind of spiritual practices do you want to partake in and how often as well do you wanna go to weekly Sunday school or also Sunday school on Sunday or whatever that looks like. You want to have pets. How many how much time do you spend per week? What kind of people do you want to be working with and how long do you want to be working with them? How do you want to be giving back to your community and those people that are around you that may not necessarily be your friends or family. Now, what a lot of people do at this step is to get really scared. They're like who? Like, I already know the answer to a lot of these. I almost feel that as I go through this list and we just start with relationships, we still have health and wealth to go through. It. It gets really scary because we have very high expectations like, Oh, well, ideally here's exactly what I want in my relationships and my health and my wealth. Here's exactly what I want and I know that my life is not living up to those desires that I have. So it gets really scary. And then we think, oh, it's on attainable. But that's the whole point here. We are painting and extremely specific and clear picture of what we want in life. Very, very measurable. And then we're creating goals that are gonna help us get to where we are right now, as you saw in that image before, we look at this big mountain and it's almost overwhelming. It's huge, it's so far away. That's the light that we ultimately want to live. So our work goals and our life goals as well, because both are intertwined, is going to be the vehicle that gets us from where we are now into that life that we want to ultimately help us get closer and closer to Iike guy and ultimately a more fulfilled, joyful life. So don't be intimidated by this. Be as honest as possible. That's the key here, is just be honest about all of these. These are just some prompts. We have relationships with our friends or family members, with animals, with God, with all of that. Kind of think about that in detail and write down your relationships and we'll do the same thing as well for health. So how do you want to feel waking up in the morning and going to bed? How often do we want to be exercising and what exactly do we want to be doing for food? How much do we want to be cooking at home versus eating out? What kind of leisure activities or hobbies do we have? How often do we want to be doing this activity? How many hours per week are there any skills you want to learn? Maybe guitar or another language or whatever that might be. What kind of vacations Do you want, if any? Where do you want to go? How long do you want to spend? Your clothing and personal style? What do you want that to look like? And some of these you may already be achieving, right? And doing really great in that and that's amazing. And some of these may seem insignificant, but each of these is extremely important. Again, we cannot improve and achieve what we don't measure. So even if it sounds silly, write it down, get as detailed as possible in some of these areas are gonna be way more important to you than others because each person is different. The key here is to be specific and you can see exactly how this plays in to setting your goals. I promised we're going to get to some of the meat soon. But this is the first important step. And then lastly, we have wealth. What kind of house you want to live in, how big your rooms, how many features? I'd also encourage you to ask why to each of these questions. Why do we want to have that size? Why that many rooms? Why those features? Work environment? Do you want to be working outside or inside? If you are working inside, you want more of an open area. Do you want your own office? Would you like to be working from home, from Airbnb is around the world like I'm doing right now. What is best for you? How many hours do you realistically want to be working per week? And this is a super important point that I just want to call out. I'm good friends with a man named Neil Huffman who was on Shark Tank. And he's most known for creating a toy called munch on a bench. As he puts it, It's like alpha on a shelf, but for the Jewish community. So basically it's the stuffed doll that tells the story of Hanukkah to Jewish kids. Really great idea and he's made millions of dollars doing it. He told me he's like Sumner, I'm working 10 h a week and I'm miserable. I want to be working more. So again, like we said with Iike guy, a lot of times we separate our work from our life where they're completely joined in. Work should be fulfilling us and supporting us, not sucking and taking away. So before we even get into setting work goals, we need to kinda keep that in mind. Otherwise where it's kinda digging holes are running and sprinting, but we don't even know if we're sprinting in the right direction. So when it comes to working hours per week, many people think 0's, I want to work 0 h per week. That is not the case. If you're really enjoying, you're good at what you do. You love, what you do. You are getting paid. Well, it's good for the Earth. You will want to do it many, many hours a week for everyone is little bit different. For some people that might be 40 h for some people that might be ten. But to the best of your ability right now, even though you don't know, because it's a future goal or future desire that we can turn into a goal. Here, write that down. How many years do you want to be working or maybe that you have to be working. Are you aware of retirement? When do you want to be retired? In the sense that you don't have to work, to have to earn a living anymore. What kind of vehicle do you want? How much? Again, asking the question for y. So I know this might be a little bit tense. We got right into it, but it's extremely important to do and you're going to see why in the next video. So go ahead right now. Before we get to the next video in each category, write it down. I prefer to do so physically and we'll talk a little bit more about the power of physical writing in a later lecture. But go ahead and do this exercise now. And then I'll see you in the next video. 4. The Big Domino: By now, we have a very detailed description of what we want our lives to look like, which our work goals are ultimately going to support and not take away from. Now when we actually go to start setting our work goals, how do we go about that? How do we choose a goal to set and then start achieving? In order to do this, we need to keep in mind the big domino concept. Again, another life-changing concept that was developed by Tim Ferriss, who is a multi, multi-millionaire. He's the creator of the four-hour workweek, the four-hour shaft for outer body, an angel investor and a very, very interesting guy by the way, I'd really encourage you to look more into him and a goal-setting machine and something that he said that it's totally changed my life since I've implemented it, is what is the single thing, the big domino, that makes every other goal easier or completely obsolete. So that's the kind of mindset that you want to have when you're selecting a work goal to achieve because there's an infinite number of goals that you can create and start setting and achieving. But what's the best one? The best one is that single thing, that big domino that's going to knock down all of the other goals or make them easier. Okay, what does that look like? And to give you a specific example of a big domino in our own life. So my wife and I decided that for our big domino, generating $10,000 per month in semi passive income, working on very specific projects. So in our specific case, that was YouTube content, online course creation at the digital downloads and affiliate income. So that kinda combined generating $10,000 a month, working 15 h per week or less for each of us. Ultimately, it was going to knock down and achieve all of the other smaller goals or desires that we wrote down and had for health, wealth, and relationships. Why? Well, number one is by working fewer hours per week. So we enjoy the work that we're doing during that time. So we're getting fulfillment from that. We are passionate, We enjoy it. It's ultimately having an impact, or at least we believe so, and ultimately achieving ISI guy and really fulfilling AS number two, it's able to fund the lifestyle that we want. How much we want to be traveling, where we wanna be living, how many kids that we want to have and all of that. Because we can still work more hours and generate more income and all that. But it achieved those goals. We can have as many pets as we want, right? Because we have less time to spend with friends, with family members, et cetera, right? So we have the time side with our relationship side with their health. That's more opportunity for me if I'm only working 15 h a week or that I only have to work 15 h. I can spend the other hours going to the gym, working out, researching more on my physical and mental health. So for us, we determined that this big Domino was going to help us in health, wealth, and relationships and ultimately make nearly everything easier or completely obsolete. So that's just a specific example. And the idea here is, well, it's not perfect. And this is going to start off as a desire and we're going to turn it into a goal. You just heard me mentioned somewhat of a smart goal except it was missing the timeframe, but we'll go over smart goals and turning this big domino is big desire that you have into an actual achievable goal, or taking the big domino, breaking it out into step-by-step sequences, and then achieving the first step of that goal, achieving it, moving to the next step and so on, and ultimately achieving the big domino. So this is one example, but it gives you a completely separate example. I have a good friend of mine who built an eight figure private label products business. His big Domino was not income related, his big Domino was mental health-related. And specifically to make this measurable, his goal was to get to the point to where every day he would rank on a scale 1-10, his overall mood and emotions right in the morning when he woke up in the middle of the day and at night before he went to sleep. Right. So kind of tracking his mood and his emotions and mental state throughout the day. And he wanted his goal is to get to the point to where on average, every week his average score was eight or higher every single week consistently. Because for him he realized, okay, if I can work on my mental health and just achieve that specifically with where I currently am with my current work or my current relationships than making a lot more money doesn't matter nearly as much to me. The type of job status that I have doesn't matter as much to me. And all of these other things. It was really interesting approach. I have a different approach and that's the point is it's gonna be different for everybody. But maybe your big domino has to deal with your mental health first or your physical health. And then all these other smaller Domino's, these other details that you wrote in the previous section on your health, wealth and relationships makes them easier or even completely obsolete. Okay, so just a couple of ways of thinking about it. There is no right answer. There's no like this is the answer. It's gonna be completely dependent on you, but hopefully those examples provide some clarity. And now, with a clear description you have on your life, go ahead and write down a big goal again, this is gonna be a desire right now. We're going to turn it into a gold later. But what is the ultimate thing that if you achieve this, then all the other things in your life will become easier. So go ahead, take a moment, write that down, and once it's finished, we'll go ahead and get to the next video. 5. SMART Goals vs. Poor Goals: At this point, we now have our big domino written down somewhere. It doesn't need to be perfect, might be really vague and general, but we're going to turn this big domino into a goal. And remember, in order for a desire to become a goal and for us to create a goal, it needs to be smart. And again, that means that a goal is specific. It's measurable. So we can actually measure it in terms of time achievement. It's actually attainable, of course, because we can't achieve it, then what's the point? It's not a goal, it's a dream, or it's an ideal. Needs to be relevant. So relevant to your life and to your work, needs to be time-bound. There needs to be a deadline for it. Otherwise, it's not a goal. It's just a dream. Someday. I'll live here when someday I'll achieve this. Well when. So it follows all of these. Now, instead of just saying, Here's what a smart goal is, the best way that I've found too. Describe it at least for me to understand, is through examples. So I'll give you some examples of a smart goal versus a poor goal, right? Are really just a desire or nothing really at all. So here's an example using some more typical work-related examples. So maybe even mini goals that lead up to your big goal. So here we go. Increase the number of completed projects by 50% within the next six months by implementing a new project management system and providing training to the team. Okay? So you can see that extremely specific. We can measure it completed projects by 50% time-bound within the next six months. We'll assume that it's relevant here because we don't know and it meets the entire smart framework. Here's an example of a poor goal. Finished more projects quickly and efficiently, right? I want to become more efficient. I want to become more productive. That's a poor goal, that's a dream, that's an ideal, it's not a smart goal. Move to another example. Improve team communication collaboration by implementing a weekly team meeting and adopting a new communication tool, resulting in a 20% reduction in misunderstandings and delays within three months. So very, very specific. It's measurable 20% reduction in misunderstandings time-bound within the next three months, we'll assume that it's relevant and that we can actually achieve it. Poor goal, make the team work better together and be more productive. Again, make people more productive, increase sales. That's a poor goal. I'll move on to one last example. And you can kind of use these and then use this as a template to kinda build for yourself, right? So you can just write this down, you'll kinda copy this down and then insert your own goal here into the smart goal to make a poor goal into a smart goal. Lastly, we have secure a promotion to a managerial position within the next 12 months by completing a leadership training course, taking on additional responsibilities and demonstrating strong performance in this current role. Within the next 12 months, I'm going to complete this measurable leadership training course. I can achieve it. It is relevant to me and it is time-bound. So that is a smart goal. A poor goal, get promoted, soon, become a boss. Pretty general. I think you get the picture by this point of a smart goal versus a poor goal. In my view, it's not just a smart goal. It is the only goal. If it does not follow the smart framework that we've just gone through, then am I view it as either an objective and ideal or an opinion? It's not a goal. So now at this point, you're going to take your big domino that you've written down and turn it into a smart goal. Now the one caveat that I want to mention with this is a lot of times when we're developing our, our big lofty goals that it might be so massive that actually we need to break it down into smaller goals, right? And it really depends on your situation and how big that goal is. But you can literally think about it in a physical sense. The bigger a goal, the more broken out that big goal needs to be in order to achieve. So it's ultimately up to you. Of course, if you have questions, let me know in the Q&A section and I'm more than happy to help and give you some insights and help you through this. But take your big domino and create a smart goal if you're having a lot of trouble, if it's a too big to grasp and you're having difficulty with it, then consider breaking it out, like okay, so first I need to achieve this. Then when I get this e.g. this promotional role, then I can start working this many hours, which then enables me to start my own business, which then enables me to whatever that might be. I'm totally making it up, but it might need to be in sequences. So kind of break down into a slightly smaller pieces and then make that your big domino because that'll be your big domino, your one kind of Northstar you'll be aiming for. And once you achieve that, then you'll know you already have it written down that you already have the next goal after that. Okay? So again, hopefully that makes sense. Of course, if you have questions, let me know in the Q&A section, but I think things will become even more clear in the next video so that further ado, let's go ahead and get to it. 6. How to Properly Set "Stretch" Goals: Remember back to our smart goal framework. So in order for a goal to be smart, focus on the key element there of attainability. So when suddenly a goal, it needs to fall under two parameters. So it's the left. We have a goal that's easy, right? You're telling yourself, oh, that's easy. I'll be able to do that. No problem. On the other end, we have you saying, Oh my goodness, this feels impossible, this is impossible. I can't do it. These are two extremes and our goal needs to fall in the middle. Yes, it's very simple, somewhat obvious concept, but is extremely important. Especially because what I find is most people who are setting goals are much more on the lower end of all. I can do that for sure. If you're telling yourself your goal is easy, it's no problem. I got this. It's way too easy for you. You just stretch yourself a little bit and that's the whole point of this, is your goal should absolutely stretch you a bit. You shouldn't be thinking, getting a little bit of nerves, a little bit of heaviness, not too much. When you think about your goal of like, okay, this is going to stretch me a little bit. This is going to force me to be dedicated. This is going to force something out of me that I haven't really done before. That's where you want to be. That's the best zone to be in, because that's where growth happens. Otherwise, if you always do what you're capable of doing, you will literally never grow. It's mathematically impossible. So I encourage you to stretch yourself a little bit, but don't go over the top. You're like, okay, this year is my year, today is my day. I'm going to just go for it and go for something that's really unattainable. You start, get defeated early and then ultimately give up. So there's kinda two extremes of even if you achieve your goal that's super easy. That's better than not achieving any goals. So I will say that however, the issue that most of us have is that we're aiming too high in missing is that we're aiming too low and we're hitting our target. If we aim too high and get a little bit below our goal, that is significantly better and we're much further ahead than if we aim too low and reach that low goal because we could have always achieve more. And guess what time that you spent achieving that small goal that was super easy. You could have been spending that time achieving a much more lofty goal. And ultimately, you're never getting that time back. So it's extremely, extremely important because time is our most valuable resource. If you lose it, you're never getting it back. So because of that, you want to kind of orient your goal somewhere in the middle here, where the middle is, is ultimately up to you, but it's another kind of frame of mind to have when setting your goal and creating your goals. So hope you found this valuable. If you have questions let me know in the Q&A section or that being said, let's go ahead and get to the next lesson. 7. How To Use AI for Goal Setting: I hope you're excited because in this tutorial, I'm gonna show you how to use artificial intelligence to determine and set the best goals humanly possible. You could do this all for free. So right here on my screen, I have chat GBT. If you're not already familiar, chat CBT is one of the number one, if not the most popular AI or artificial intelligence tools. And one of the big functions of this tool is basically you can input a lot of text data. The tool is going to automatically analyze the text and then give you recommendations based on your inputs, which I'll show you how this works. It's actually extremely simple, easy to use. Just as easy as Google just works a little bit differently. So currently charging 100% free, and I hope they maintain this. You can get a link to chat and beauty in the description section below, in the resources section, you can find that and create your own free account. And here's what we're gonna do. Really simple and really, really powerful. So first, once you create a chance you'd be T-account. Go ahead and somewhere online. This can be on your notes or in Google Docs, or wherever it might be, is just pour your heart out, right out where you currently are in your life, when it comes to your health, your wealth, and your relationships, write it in as much detail as possible, which by this point, you've likely already have done. Next is okay, this is, this is where we are. Here, is, here's where I am, here's all of the information. And then right here is where I want to be. And then right where you want to be in health, wealth, and relationship in those areas. So where you are now in those categories and then where you wanna be and be as descriptive as possible. That's the key here. So it's a little bit of work, just writing, but it's just writing down. It doesn't need to be perfectly organized, doesn't even need to be chromatically correct at all. The AI tool is going to automatically analyze this and I'm gonna show you how this works. I've gone ahead and already wrote down just to kind of a basic example, like here's what we love, Here's what we hate, here's what we want to be doing. Again, it doesn't need to be in chronological format. Just kinda pull yourself out and the AI is going to be able to pick up on all of this. And basically what we're gonna do, let's just copy this over. So Command a to select Command C to copy. Go to chat GBT. Here in send a message, click on Command V to paste. So basically, I have all the information here about where we are, where we wanna be. And then I said, based on everything I've described, is there any additional information you'd like to ask me to get a clear picture. Number two, what big goal should we set that will help take us from the left we have now it's the light that we desire. Number three, any additional interesting insights that you'd like to share with us, you think we'd find valuable. You can ask more questions, you can add more. The key here is be as detailed as possible. The more data, the more detail you give chat GBT about your life, the better it's going to be able to help you. Now watch this. I'm just gonna hit Enter. As you can see, look how fast this tool is running. And basically, shattered beauty is sort of like a PhD student, is the best way I can describe it. And you're basically collaborating with this person, with this expert. You could do this for free. Like, Hey, I need some help. Please help me to do this. And there's a lot of other functionality that chat TBT does as well. As you can see. How do you know if you've given the AI tool enough information? It'll tell you, Hey, some additional information. You know, what's your current financial situation? What do you have any specific skills and interests we haven't mentioned which you utilize, generate income. Are you open to invest in different assets, right? Like to diversify your income streams to really good questions that maybe I didn't think about. And then I can add more detail and then rerun the response. But I'm leaving some information out because I'm giving you my personal information, but I want to give everything away because some of it's a little bit private. So here's the additional information that we should maybe include to get even better results. But look at what we do here. So number two, we asked Chad CBT for the big goal. So big goal, a possible big goal that can help you transition from the life you desire is creating a comprehensive plan to increase your passive income streams while reducing your active involvement and your business. This plan should include increasing your efficiency and automation of your current business. This may involve outsourcing certain tasks using technology to automate process and focus on high-value activities if you can interact with this tool. So I can follow up and say like, you know, what, what what specific tech null Gs would you would you recommend? I use to outsource tasks? I don't like. And it can literally give me a list. So maybe that's like part of my big goal or what my next goal is. I need to learn this technology so that I can implement it, so that I can achieve my bigger goal if that makes sense, maybe that's one of my milestones, is learning and using this tool. So some different task platforms. So anyway, I'm reading this and I'm interacting like a conversation. So I'm reading, I'm like, oh, how could this help? So they already given me a couple of platforms where I can outsource tasks. Really cool. For virtual assistance. I haven't even heard of these juice that's really interesting. And for automation tools are giving me those with the links that I can actually click, which is really powerful. This is really cool. Actually, I'm learning right now. So again, this is all real. So this is going to be helpful to me. Anyway, That's going to keep generating. We can kinda skip that for now. So big goal, okay, so a, it should, it should be about automating and outsourcing. B should be about diversifying my income streams into real estate, property, and other assets that align with our goals. Very interesting. See is we need to have an exit strategy for our private label business to maximize our selling price. Very good point and have a clear plan for personal development including learning Portuguese, improving your fitness. That's a little bit vague. It's not really as helpful, but some other interesting insights consider collaborating with other content creators are entrepreneurs. This can help you learn from their experience, grow your social media presence, establish healthy work-life balance by setting boundaries and allocating specific time for relaxation and personal growth. So that's something that maybe I need to do right now because maybe I'm not doing as good of a job. Look into hiring a virtual assistant or small team to handle some of the tasks we dislike. Since you enjoyed teaching others, develop more courses and coaching services in this area. Remember, achieving your desired lifestyle, make you. So some of it maybe not that helpful, maybe some things that I already knew. But there's a lot of interesting insights that come from this. And remember, I didn't include a ton of details. There's still a lot of details up here that I was missing. That should include if I want even better results, which I'm gonna be doing after this video. But already, you can kinda see with it for free within seconds. Really great. It's like, it's like you have these thoughts in your head. You're like, I'm trying to get all my thoughts that I have all these feelings in my heart. I have all these thoughts in my head. Everything's kinda swimming around. This is just a great place. Instead of just writing things down, you're writing this down and you can do this in private. You don't have to talk somebody else. They're gonna give you their own personal opinion. This is going to give you a very rationalized, very comprehensive opinion. And it parses data to where it takes all these individual words and the way that you wrote it and all of these things and puts it together in a way that a human brain can't. It's very, very cool. So the more detail you give it, the more insightful it's gonna be. And this is super helpful when I'm determining goals to set what I should be setting. And I can even ask like okay, like of these sub-goals a through what was it? They gave me where it was. If we go back up to scrolling, is what I'm doing here. So a, B, C, D, a through D, which should I focus on first, why? This is a conversation, right? So there's anything that you have questions about they feel is missing, that you want to get more clarity to just do it and it's back-and-forth. So based on the sub-goals a through D, I recommend starting with increasing the efficiency and automation of your current business. Focusing on this goal will help reduce the time and effort to manage the existing income streams. And you'll create more sustainable and passive income. This will give you more time and energy to pursue other goals, right? So, yeah, so it's reordering in order from most important to maybe not as important or what I should do first. Because if I automate my business, it's going to help make all of these other goals easier or obsolete, right? Kinda like that big domino. And you can also describe the big domino to charging party. They're going to understand it and they're going to implement that. So again, like I said, you could go down so many rabbit holes with this tool. It's an amazing, amazing tool. I spent so much time here and I can't rave about it enough. But yeah, it's continuing to kind of generate so really powerful against called chat GPT. This is kinda how to use it. And just to recap, Number one, write down your current life, health, wealth, and relationships, and then where you want to be in as much detail as possible. Go to chat GPT, enter that in and then ask charge should be t43 things. You can ask for more. Any other information that I should be giving you to make it clear, picture. Number two, what big goal should I be setting that's going to help me go from my current life to the better life. And then three additional insights. As the one last, final insight or something really, really cool you can use with this tool is I had a friend who uploaded three years worth of his journal entries. He kept a digital journal, took all that data uploaded into chat GPT. I said, Hey, act like you're a psychologist and give me insights that can help improve my life. Extremely detailed and interesting insights like e.g. when you come to obstacles, you usually try to find a quick fix that's gonna be temporary. Instead of working harder to find a long-term solution. And he's like, oh my gosh, I actually do that. I never realized that. That was just an interesting insight that he gained from that. But there's endless, really, really powerful. Just hope I opened the door a little bit to you and showed you a very specific way on how to use this tool, which is extremely powerful. So I hope you found this video valuable. You have any questions let me know in the Q&A section of that being said, let's go ahead and get to the next lesson. 8. Breaking Down Your Big Goal: You may be looking at the goal that you've set and realizing, okay, this is a little bit intimidating. I know that I can achieve this, but it's a lot. How do I ultimately get from where I am to achieving this lofty goal that I have. So it sounds cliche, but this is so very true and it's an extremely important quote. The journey of 1,000 mi begins with a single-step. Think about that. That's mathematically correct. You can't go with 1,000 mi without taking a single step. You can take them motorized vehicle, but that's aside from the point. Small pieces. That's the point here. What we're going to do is break down our large, big domino or big goal into small bite-sized pieces. Because when this, Let's say this giant platter of food just massive could fill out entire house. Or how am I going to eat all this food? You take one bite a day or a few bites a day. Well, that's manageable for the next year. It's like, Oh, I could do that. It's breaking it down into manageable bite-size pieces. How do we do that? Very simple. Most people don't talk about this, but like I said, it's all mathematics. So number one is take your goal and to the best of your ability, breakdown that goal into the chronological steps that are needed to achieve it. So like what are all the things that need to be executed on or happen in order to achieve your big goal. Step one, step two, and so on, again to the best of your ability. So write down all the steps in as much detail as possible. And you can even break down each step into subsets, but just break down that goal into step one, step two, step three, and so on. It'll take some time, you'll start writing down and then you'll realize, oh wait, I need to add this step in, right? So it's a little bit of a brainstorming process, but ultimately, you should get to a literal list of steps that you need to achieve in order to ultimately achieve that end goal. Now what do we do? So we know the steps for our goal. Remember, is a smart goal, so it's time-bound. We know the deadline for our goal. So what we're gonna do is divide the total steps by the number of weeks that we have to achieve our goal, and that's gonna give us our weekly goals. Now you can also break this down even further into daily goals, right? But let's say that I have 52, 52 things that I need to do in order to achieve my goal. I want to achieve it this year. So there's 52 weeks in a year. I have 52 steps that I can do accomplish that. I know each week I have one specific step, one specific action item that I need to do each week and keep doing it consistently every week. And within 52 weeks, all those steps will be completed and all have achieved our ultimate goal. So obviously, when you actually put this into practice, it won't be as clean and simple as this, but this is the mindset you want to take and ultimately actually go through this process, actually do it because it's really going to bring clarity. And you're gonna do this to the best of your ability. And like I said, you'll know what you need to do on a weekly basis. From there each week. You can kind of break that down either at the beginning of the week, right? Or what I like to do is like on Saturday or Sunday, I then plan out, alright, I know what I need to do this week. Here's all the things. I'm going to break it out into those specific days. I know exactly every day. Here's what I need to do to achieve this goal. Okay, So that's the way to mathematically go about this and take that journey of 1,000 mi into single steps. So go ahead, get out a sheet of paper. Do this, and I'll see you in the next video. 9. Halfway Announcement!: Congratulations. If you're watching this, you've officially made it to the halfway point of the course. And truly this is an honor because a very small percentage of students actually make it this far. So hats off to you. I hope you are excited about the content you've consumed thus far. We have a lot more to come and just want to ask here that you've made to the halfway point and had enough time to get a feel for the material. If you wouldn't mind taking a few moments to leave your honest feedback here, that'd be extremely beneficial to us to know what we're doing well, what we can improve upon and ultimately help other students. So like I said, hope you've been finding this valuable. There's any way that I can help let me know I really appreciate your support and are excited for you. So with that being said, let's go and get to the next video. 10. 4 Proven Ways to SKYROCKET Your Chances of Success: Let me ask you a question. How badly do you want to achieve your big, audacious goal? Well, in this section we're going to talk about how to mathematically increase your chances of achieving your goal, achieving it faster, better, and more efficiently. And this is actually my favorite section, super powerful, just some little hacks that you can implement and see immediate results. So number one, very interesting study by Google, analyzing their own workforce found that on average, their employees who set goals fell 30% below the goal targets. They said, increasing customer satisfaction by certain percentage, generating certain amount of growing sales by certain amount, growing a team by certain number, getting a certain number of users on the platform, whatever that might be. On average, the workforce was 30% below the ultimate goal that they set. So you've already set your goal and you've done it. And that's why I've only introduced this topic later. So didn't mess with your goal-setting process to this point b. Now you have your goal. You've been very honest with yourself. Well, the reality is, we tend to overestimate even when we think we're maybe underestimating a little bit. Whenever we think we're being realistic, we're usually below or above with the actual average dataset is. With this data point, think about your goal and set it 30% above. So let's say I had a goal of want to grow monthly revenue to $100,000, then maybe I would set that goal somewhere around $130,000, knowing that there's a good chance I'm going to fall below that goal. So I'm going to set my goal a little bit higher. So whatever your goal is, that measurable aspect. Remember the M in smart goals set it around 30% higher than what you currently have. And by the way, I found this is absolutely true in my own life. It's not always going to be exactly this case, but it's a good overall principle to have that we tend to over or underestimate reality as human beings. And it's unavoidable, but this kinda helps us to combat that a little bit. Next, amazing statistic, you are 42% more likely to achieve your goal if you write it down on physical paper. So I know I'm big with using all different kinds of tools and digital products. I still love to use my notebook because it is so powerful, especially for brainstorming and definitely for goal-setting. So I encourage you like right now, pause the video, get out a notebook somewhere, even a post-it note. Write down that goal, That's smart goal is specific, measurable, attainable. All of that onto a piece of paper. And that alone is going to help you increase your chance of achieving that goal, which is amazing, super-fast, very, very high ROI from your endeavors. And to take it a step further, take that piece of paper and put it somewhere that you look at often, this can be on your refrigerator, your bathroom mirror, your office desk or cubicle or your office wherever it might be. An even better yet put it in multiple locations. Because the more that you look at this written goal, the more likely, even more so you've already achieved it. So a couple of hacks, pack number three, you are 65% more likely to achieve your goal if you share it with at least one family member or friend, somebody that you're close to, somebody that you really admire, that you like. Share this with at least one person. What I recommend doing. And this is a little bit scary, right? It's like, Oh, but what if I fail? And that's the whole point. When you have others looking at you, hey, I'm going to achieve X, Y, and Z. By this date, you literally have a target. Everyone can look at the target with you. So number one, on one end, it kinda gives you a little bit more of this fear motivation a little bit and maybe this kind of negative stimuli, but it's not negative, right? To empower you to achieve your goal. But the aspect I really loved that a lot of people don't think about is when you set your goal and you tell people, let's say you make a post on social media, you talk about with friends and family, say, Hey, I just want to let you know I have this goal, then I'm setting for work. It's really, really important to me because it's going to influence my life. I'm just telling you because a number one, that's going to help me, but if there's any way that you can kind of help me achieve this goal, I'd really appreciate it. You don't have to tell people directly. This can just tell them, Hey, here's my goal. I want to make it public just so I have this accountability to help me achieve it better. And there's that kind of motivating factor behind where you have all these eyes on you, watching you. But at the same time that people don't take into account is there's gonna be people supporting you. People are going to be watching, but they're also going to be supporting. How can I help? You know, you're going to inspire and motivate others when they see you achieving your goal. By the way, even if you fall a little bit short of your goal or something happens. And there's obstacles which we'll talk about in a later lecture. There's still gonna be on board with you and help you, not just on this goal, but your future goals. It's really, really powerful, important, this is probably my biggest tip. Most people don't do it because it sounds awkward. Who does that? That's weird. Maybe just for New Year's, right, and no other time whenever you're setting a goal, share it with people around you that care about you. That's the key posts on social media. You'll talk about it with friends and family. And ultimately, it's going to help you. And it's going to make the process more fulfilling and enjoyable as well. So it's really, really powerful. Now this final hack is something that I do and there's a lot more science coming out that backs this. This is not the law of affirmation or visualization or anything like that, that kind of like spiritual aspect. This is very, very much priming your subconscious. So what I encourage you to do is to either be written texts, but I like to do is I already have my goals written down on a Post-It note. It's on my my bathroom. It's in the office area that I'm working with changes because we're traveling and so on, right. Refrigerator, but also on my smartphone. Then I changed the background to an image that reflects my big goal, my main goal that I'm trying to achieve at the moment. So in this case, this is actually a literal, actually, to be totally transparent. Download this from Google. This is someone else's Amazon sales results. So for our company, we wanted to grow sales on the Amazon channel to $110,000 per month by x, y and z date through x, y and z tactics. But because of that, we wanted to grow or Amazon revenue. Knowing that I need to kind of visualize above in order to achieve that goal, what I did is I went online and liberties downloaded these phenomenal Amazon sales results. And I change this and it currently is at this moment by smartphone background. And the purpose of this sounds a little bit silly, but this is definitely true by the way, I have found. Once you do this over time, you will notice that you start to change. Basically when you surround yourself with your goal. And this is even in digital ways, you're more likely to achieving that goal because you're telling your subconscious we've already achieved it or hey, this is what we need to be working toward. And just by not even looking at it, but kinda glancing at it, right subliminally all the time every day you constantly stimulate yourself anytime you open your smartphone to visualize your goal, it's there All rounds you've written down as well. Your friends might be talking about, or at least you've talked with them one time or all of these things are happening in unison. You're surrounding yourself with your goal. Your goal is being achieved right now, right? You can literally visualize it and you're feeling it happening. And that's all working on your mind to help you. And basically what happens is, well, the theory is you're priming your subconscious and your subconscious kind of secretly subliminally finds ways. It orients herself with relationships or with your energy moves at night and in the morning to ultimately sort of in a good way, manipulate yourself and your environment into setting yourself into a better position to achieve that goal if that makes sense. I hope I didn't just make it too confusing. But that's kinda the whole point of this and you could do it if you want. It's completely up to you. But I'm telling you if you do all of these things, you will 100% dramatically increase the likelihood of achieving your goal. You will achieve it faster and more enjoyable. That's why this is my favorite section. Very, very simple to do. So few people do it. So please, right now, pause this video, go with your goal and change your background image. Go write it down, put it on your fridge, put it on your bathroom. Go tell somebody right now about it. And I promise you this is going to help you increase your chances of success. Now, just because it's my opinion, because it's back in data and science. So I hope you found this valuable superpower you'd like hacking life. It's really, really powerful. And I'm very excited to see the results that you get from this. Let me know also how this works out for you in the Q&A section as well. So with that being said, I hope you're excited. Let's go ahead and get to the next lesson. 11. Goal Setting App: Some students were asking about a goal setting and tracking app. So obviously I don't have one that I've created myself, but there are a lot of great free apps out there. And one of my favorites, specifically for goal-setting for work is this one you see on the screen, which is called Goals wizard by Brian Tracy. And go ahead and click to open. So like I said, this is currently a free app and I anticipate that it will remain this way. You have to pay to upgrade for other features, but there's no really reason to do that unless you really want to. So I'll show you how this works and this applies to a lot of other goal-setting apps as well. So first thing we're gonna do is click on the goals icon at the bottom of the screen. Next, what you'll do is in the plus sign at the top right. Click on that. And you're going to choose a goal category. The most popular for this specific app is work in Korea. But you see the other ones here. So go ahead and you can select, so say working career. You enter your goal to have some recommendations down here, below as well. I've already gone through and actually created a goal. So you're not to sit through me typing a lot of texts to save some time. So I'll show you what it looks like when you create. So already, I've already created goal that you see right here on the screen. When we're do is click on the three dots here and click on Edit goal. Okay? So first things first you're going to name your goal, which I have here. Again, you want to use the smart framework. You could summarize it and then in the note section here, have a more detailed version. But I just go ahead and write the entire thing right here, right, using the smart framework that we covered. Also, what's really cool is you can change the image. You can upload a picture like you see here, which I've already done. You have your starting date. So when did you start this goal and then also your target date. When do you ultimately want to complete this goal? So in this case, we're setting January 1, 2023 to July 1, 2023. That is our goal. If there are numbers involved with this, e.g. if this is revenue-related, and I can actually show you if you click on units, right? Obviously, if you wanted to lose weight, run a certain number of miles, if you wanted to, maybe grow a certain number of feet or inches, whatever that might be, hours or minutes learning new topic, et cetera, and different currency as well. You can go ahead and select those units. In this case, this is financial related, so we have our numerical target and what our starting value is. Next, you select a category, which you can kinda see here. And then you can choose a color. I'm very visual. I like to have colors, especially if I have multiple goals happening. Or I just like to choose a color that really reminds me of that goal and, and kinda see that. So we go ahead and select orange, which represents our Amazon. And then you can dig deeper. I do recommend that you do this. So answer these questions. So why is it important or significant? What would you gain by achieving it? What's the price you are willing to pay to achieve it? What are the risks? What are the possible obstacles? Why haven't you achieved this goal already? What's stopping you? And what can you do differently? Now, really, really great questions to ask for any goal that you're setting that kinda helps you be as best prepared as possible and maybe think about things that you weren't planning on before. So very simple to set up your big domino, your big overarching goal. Once all that's filled in, which doesn't take too long, we're going to hit done. The next thing we wanna do is go ahead and just click on that title right there. So I'm just clicking on the title. And instead of editing now this leads us, as you can see, we have the goal, but underneath you see all these white bars that have flags to the left of them. These are milestones. So remember how we are going to have our big goal. We're going to break them down into milestones and then we're gonna break those down into activities. So it's at the top level, like literally on the screen. We have our big goal right here at the top. Then moving down we have milestones and you can see underneath the milestones like here for complete product launch prep, we have activities. These are kind of our day-to-day activity. So it can be your annual goals, milestones or monthly, and then you have your weekly or daily activities depending on how big the goal and how soon you want to accomplish. But those three elements, they're breaking down further. So we already have the goal set. So as you can see, I've already set several milestones. Basically, what are the steps that need to happen starting from day one until the last day. What needs to happen to ultimately achieve our end goal? All the way down through to the best of our ability. I've already created some here, but in order to create new milestones, all you do is at the very bottom you see here, click on Add milestones. Enter the name. So this could be like develop product. Who develop product. Title for five. Products. Are developed title for five products, make it a little bit shorter. You can have more details here in the note. If there's a certain target value, a number associated with this, you can enter that in here, right? Select the proper measurement. That's like in dollars. And then really important where I usually do with the title and then the date. By what date does this need to be completed by? We didn't have dates for our milestones to make sure that we're staying on track. You go ahead and you can select that. I'm just going to select we'll do April 16th, we'll hit Done. And that's automatically added in sequential order. So we're going to go up and see if we can find that. Look at that April 16th right here, developed by product titles. That's our milestones. So we know by April 16th we need to have five. Product title is developed. Now what I can do this really cool is I can add an activity. So just to show you again, I click on those three little dots there on the right-hand side. Click on Add Activity. And then we're going to add an activity underneath this milestone. So basically, these milestones need to happen for our big goal to happen. Then these activities need to happen for a milestones that happen for our big goal to happen. So we're just kinda getting more and more granular down to the daily. So these should be really more daily activities, or it can also be weekly if you have a really big goal over a long period of time. So this could be, you know, create one Amazon product title. I don't need any notes. It's pretty specific. Dates. This is going to be recurring. We're going to select daily. So it's gonna be daily. And then it's going to be once per day because we only need to make one basically title, remember lead five product titles. So I'm basically going to allocate, look at my schedule. I'm like, Okay, I can realistically do one product Tidal per day during these days. And we can set a start and end date. So we're gonna kinda work backwards. And I believe our goal was for the 16th, so we're gonna go, that's 12345. If we want to kind of be overachievers we do april be the 11th. Hit done. Hold on a second. At a routine just to show you how to edit. So now we have our title. We have our start date on April 11th. We have our end date which needs to be on the 15th. There we go. You can add specific tags that you like to make. Basically finding these activities is easier, but I don't really find it as important. You can add an image. Again, I don't really use it. I use it for the bigger goals are bigger milestones, but not for the activities priority. So certain tasks obviously will be more important that it's like, okay, this one may be, can be moved a little bit, not that you should, but if it needs to be where others are like, no, this is extremely high priority. This cannot be moved. We need to make sure that this gets done. So you can select your priority there. You can also select colors. I like to do that because all select basically as I go through, I'm very visual. At the start I have like red and orange. And as our activities progress and we get toward the last activity is toward our goal. They get darker in color toward these blue and purple colors here. And that's just for me. Being visual is how I use it because I like to see as it's getting darker and as the color's getting cooler, I'm getting closer and closer to my goal. I can visually see that and feel that a little bit, but it likes that totally up to you. And then these down here, these adding reminders and sinking with your Apple and Google Calendar. For now, this is part of their paid version. So you could go ahead and just recreate this in your own Google calendars and things like that. Or you can kind of think the app and upgrade for it. But for me, I just like using the app and I'll show you how to use this. Instead of using Google Calendar, you can just check into the app once a day. It's really, really simple. I don't really see the huge need to pay to do that unless you really want to hear everything looks good overall, we know that we need one Amazon product title. We're gonna do it once per day from Tuesday until Saturday, and we're gonna get everything done. Go ahead and hit Done at the top right. And there we have our activity right here underneath our milestone. So this is a recurring activities and kinda see that indicated by this sort of recycled sign on the left-hand side, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. If we scroll down e.g. for this milestone complete product launch prep. Basically this is daily, right? So on May 9th, I need to conduct Google and Amazon keyword research. On May 10th, I need to create the copy for or Google ads. This is one day. So either and I'll show you a couple of ways of doing this. I'll show you my preferred way. The second way that I don't prefer, as you can go in here, right into your goal, scroll through and make sure that you're completing each milestone activity and you can go ahead and actually mark off each milestone. So e.g. reach out to suppliers. If that's done, I'm going to hit this flag. There we go. A congratulatory message which I really love. And then, yeah, kinda either disappears, it gets grayed out down here. Now let's say I haven't completed this or I accidentally clicked it. I'm just going to unclick and it's gonna send it back up there as you can see. So that's in terms of milestones. The same can be done with activities underneath the milestones. So e.g. I've also completed Google and Amazon keyword research. Maybe I even got it done ahead of time. So go ahead and select that. Go ahead and select that. There we go. Then it's going to ask because there's only two activities under the milestone. Hey, is this milestone complete? I want to say Yes, it's done. Boom, I get to congratulate message. And it kinda grades it out here because obviously this is now complete, right? So it's a great way to reward. It's another little dopamine spike, a little bit of a reward going through this process, but I'll show you how to do it in the calendar. So let me just uncheck these. So they appear. There we go. You just uncheck them to bring them back. So we're gonna go to the back bar. Now, what I recommend doing is on the far left click on today. So click on today. And as we will see as we go through, right. So e.g. starting here on the 17th, So 15th, there's something that we have to do 16th or something we have to do. But here on Monday on the 17th, I need to create one Amazon product title. So basically, what I recommend doing is once a day, just open the app, go to the Today tab here that I just clicked on again and just check for your day. Let's say today is the 17th. I'm going to check in and it's gonna show me, Okay, here's what I need to do today to accomplish my goal. Once I get that complete, I'm gonna go ahead and check stout. And if we go back to our goals tab there at the bottom, click on our goal, we will see that if we scroll all the way down, should be great. I would actually where to go? Right here. Okay. So that should be good to go. Now in terms of some of the other features, if we click here on the activities and the bottom center of the screen, we can see all of our activities that we've created again that lead up into our milestones. And that's just kinda shows all the little activities that we need to do moving forward. Either that have already happened or that need to happen in the future. So we just want to see activities only. This is where you would go. Also. Next, the activities, we have a journal section. We can actually keep specific notes or just kinda keep your journal or diary of your thoughts. Whatever might be going on, different notes, whatever it might be like, it's literally infinite. But really what I use more is the goals obviously to set up the goals, the milestones and activities. So that's number one. Then number two is just the daily to make sure I'm staying up-to-date everyday. But yeah, feel free to use these other features if you find them valuable as well. But I really just kinda use the first two and it makes it very, very simple, visual, clean, clear, you know exactly what needs to be done when it needs to be done, and ultimately what you get by achieving it. So I hope you found this video valuable. If you have any questions or any comments, please let me know. In the Q&A section of that being said, let's go and get to the next video. 12. THIS Is How You Avoid Burnout!: So we know what we need to do on a daily and weekly basis in order to ultimately achieve our goals. But how do we stay on track without getting burnt out, without getting discouraged? How do we do this? Well, what we're gonna do is based in neurology and we're going to reward herself. And we're only going to reward ourselves once we've actually achieved those micro goals, those daily, weekly, and monthly milestones that we've set and we've broken down in the earlier chapters. Basically what we're doing is we're training our brain to reward. Just like when a dog does a trick, we give it food very similar to what we do with our own brains. That when we achieve something, even if it's small, that we reward ourselves. And the key here is the reward should be proportionate to the input and effort. So e.g. here's some examples of daily rewards, right? So if you're accomplishing your goals on a daily basis, right? You set daily goals. And everyday that you achieve what you set out to do, go ahead and give yourself a reward. And when you're taking that reward, the best is to say this out loud, but if you're in a public place, you can keep it to yourself. But say, I am, I am receiving this because of X, Y, and Z because of what I did today, because of the tasks that I, that I overcame. So e.g. enjoying some kind of treat, taking a longer break than usual, taking a small celebration with somebody, maybe with your, with your spouse, with your kids. A specific relaxing activity that you can maybe do at home if you take a hot shower that you don't normally do. Again, this is the key is it should be unique to when you're accomplishing your goals and it's good to mix them up as well. Some self-care time, taking a nap, maybe a small purchase, right? You get like a nicer coffee or whatever it might be, right? And this is completely dependent. We just wanna give you some real-world examples of what you can do to reward yourself. Now I'm not telling you this again, because number one, when you reward yourself on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis, what's going to happen is obviously you're going to enjoy the process more because you know, a reward is coming and you're experiencing it and this is great. But even more importantly than that, or just as important is you're training your mind. Your mind is going to become a goal-setting machine because it knows subconsciously when it puts an effort, it's gonna get reward for that effort. And it's going to turn this machine that keeps going and going like a snowball. Okay? So daily rewards, these are some examples to reward yourself on a daily basis. Weekly rewards, little bit of an upgrade. Maybe you have specific weekly goals that you have. So at the end of every week, you've only if you've achieved those goals, then you eat a very special meal. You go out to eat, take a little day trip to a local orchard or hiking or whatever that looks like. Whatever you're into on the lake. Little tampering session, maybe a little massage or little spa day. Take a new book or a course that you really enjoy. I recommend Udemy courses by Sumner Hobart. I've heard they're really great. Take up a new hobby. You want to learn another language, a piano, whatever that looks like for me, taking up a new book or hobby that would actually be extra work for me. For others. That's very enjoyable activity. So it's ultimately up to you. What do you find really rewarding? Some examples for monthly rewards for when you achieve those monthly milestones, which are really getting into the big section here. Get a weekend getaway, attended special class or workshop, invest in fitness, maybe it's new equipment at your home. You get to a better gym or a gym for the first time. A new experience you've never done before, self-care day, you sign up for Hulu, whatever that might be, some bigger monthly rewards. And then finally, again, just some examples of when you achieve your big goal, which you are going to achieve. By the way, I'm telling you this, you are going to achieve that goal that you've just written down. You're going to achieve it. And when you do, here's some ways to reward yourself, aside from just the pleasure that you're going to feel when you achieve that goal. Take a dream vacation. They've always been wanting to take, take some kind of large, meaningful purchase or a luxury experience. Take a break. That's a great way to reward yourself. And that's an amazing, It's very, very underrated, but take some time off. Contribute to a charity that you're passionate about. Go to an event, create an event to celebrate or even better yet, if you have a good friend or family member that puts an event together for you. Again, just some examples that I've, that I've thrown together here. And these are all by the way, things that I've done. Also with that being said, remember back to when I mentioned to change the screen of your smartphone or even your laptop background. You can also change it to kind of shift right from an image that represents your goal, but also what you're going to receive when you achieve your goal that's just as powerful. So we can kind of auto rotate or like every week you change it out. Rates where you're constantly looking at both the goal that you're going to achieve, as well as the reward for that. And by doing this consistently, I mean, this is so powerful. It's like you're putting just so much fuel on the fire that is just going to ignite and explode in a very good way. So the key here is make sure, number one, that when you are achieving your kinda small milestones daily, weekly, monthly and annual, that you're rewarding yourself appropriately and only doing so when you deserve it. And while you're doing it, tell yourself, I am enjoying this treat. I'm enjoying this massage. I'm joking this time on the beach or with my kids or whatever it might be because of what I've accomplished. And then also get excited about the even bigger things that you're going to happen when you achieve your bigger goals. So yeah, there's gonna hope you enjoy your time more. And it's going to increase the likelihood and the speed of achieving your goals as well based in neuroscience. So hope you found this valuable, hope it's gotten even more excited. And with that being said, let's go and get to the next video. 13. 4 Common Obstacles & How To Overcome Each: As we embark on our goal-setting journey and we're climbing up that mountain, we are going to overcome obstacles. That is just a part of life. It's inevitable. And not only is it okay, it's great. And we're going to explain why and learn why here in a moment. But there are gonna be obstacles that come your way. Number one, you need to be aware of the specific obstacles. And then number two, know exactly what to do when you're faced with these obstacles, of course, right? So the most common obstacles to your goal-setting journey that we haven't covered yet. Or the following. Number one, procrastination, putting things off to the last minute and either doing so to where you don't even achieve your goal or the result is not nearly as great and quality as you would have wanted it to be if you just started through from the beginning. Number two is fear, either internal fear that you can't do it, you don't have the ability or there's an external factor that's going to come in and cause you to mess up your goals and keep you away from it. Number three are distractions, shiny object syndrome. Constantly doing more than we should or worrying about things that we shouldn't be worrying about. A number for extremely powerful comparison. We set our goal and we feel that this goal for us is huge, it's massive, yet somebody else, it seems like their goals are 100 times bigger and they're just killing it everything. And they just seem to be knocking down goals left and right. All of these are obstacles that you will likely face. And for some of us, the likelihood is, one of these that I've just listed is really resonating with you. Okay? So problem procrastination. What do we do when we're not motivated or we're waiting to the last minute. Oh, and by the way, a real problem with procrastination comes from the dopamine spike that you get to delaying, right? So when you kinda delay and putting off, you actually build up his anticipation and actually build up dopamine in order to get it done. So it's actually sort of this high. It's a drug that you're drugging yourself when you procrastinate. So what do we do in order to fight procrastination? Okay. Aside from taking any medical drugs, but I definitely I'm not recommending you. I'm not a Dr. but the solution constantly envisioned what your life will be like when your goal is met, when the deadline versus what it won't be like, right? So when you meet the deadline, what is your life going to be like if you miss it? What is your life going to be like? And constantly envisioning that. So if you're a person for me, procrastination isn't as big of an issue. For some good friends of mine. This is a big problem that they have bigger and I have, you know, we all have different deficiencies and surpluses in different areas. For me, procrastination isn't as big of an issue for me as comparison or for others, it's the opposite, right? So in this case, this might be beneficial to you if this is something you've dealt with in your work and your life, is to have both have a picture, an actual physical image of this is what your life will be like when or if your goals met on its deadline and if not, here's what it'll look like and it's not pretty. Always look at that'd be like, Okay, that'll give you the motivation because when you kinda take that time off or, oh, I know what my daily tasks are. I know what my weekly tasks are, but I'm not gonna do it. Then it's going to create this, this urgency and knew they were like, You know what, I'm not really enjoying my time of not doing the work that I know I need to be doing. So I'm just gonna go ahead and get it done. And again, that's where the rewards also come into play because you're kinda counteracting the dopamine that comes from crest nation. You're getting dopamine from not procrastinating, if that makes sense. So anyway, that's number one. Number two, fear of failure, whether internally or externally. So if you're really struggling, you're like I've just I've tried so many things in my life and I've just failed at them. If that's kinda describes you. Obviously embrace everything we've talked about so far, but view failure as a learning opportunity. So focus on the progress that you're making instead of perfection. This also goes into comparison as well. And the fear of failure will make a lot more sense here at the end of this lecture, I have a very specific kind of data point or a specific quote. That thing is really going to put things in perspective and really help you if you feel fear with failing. But basically, failure is going to happen, obstacles are gonna happen. Embrace it. Just know that when that happens you're closer to your goal than you were before that the obstacles came. Okay. So focused on the progress that you're making versus what your progress you're not making, if that makes sense. Like I said, it'll make sense here in a moment. Problem number three, distraction, okay? So if you're easily distracted, and at this day and age, we're all way more distracted than we should be. All of us. It's a huge, huge problem. Just because everyone is always distracted, doesn't mean that that should be the norm and that you should comply with the norm. So obviously, some of these are gonna be easier to do than others, but you're trying to limit your workspace. I personally, I use noise canceling headphones. I do not work with my phone in the room. My phone is in another room or it's at least out of arm's reach. I can't I have to physically get up and go grab my phone because otherwise because why am I do? When I start getting bored, I'm gonna go in social media. I'm gonna go watch TikTok or whatever it might be and start getting a dopamine hit or whatever it is that you do for pleasure. Get a message and respond to that message when you shouldn't be. So keep the phone away. That's a huge, huge, huge tip. There are different apps that you can use as well that kind of block Facebook and block certain sites during designated hours. So you have certain hours where it's like a 1 h a week, 1 h a day or 30 min a day or whatever it might be, you allocate time toward your goal. You can have apps actually block certain sites where you can't access those sites during that designated time, which is really powerful. Yeah. Limiting your phone noise, canceling headphones and all the noises going on around you trying to set up a designated workspace, whether you're working from home. Obviously, if you're in an office, like I was for quite some time, it can be a little bit difficult. Hey, boss, can I have my own office? No. Right. There's things you can do in measures that you can take talk to your colleagues around you and just kinda mentioned, hey, like I realized like how easily distracted I am and I need you to help me with this. Like please like when I'm working during these hours, like just don't like if you have a message for me, send it to me in slack, send it to me an email or respond to during my times that respond. But I just can't be easily distracted with all these calls. Are all these people kinda coming by? Again, whatever that looks like for you. Another tip that I do, I only respond to messages once per day. I've one designated time and for others that I know they have two dozen, eight times. Of course. Depends on your position. You may say summer, I literally cannot do that. Like I'm not allowed to do that. That's not within our work requirements. But if you can have that ability and it'll be more likely that you can then you think that you can't. There's always more that you can do anything you can do. You can always work with people, your employers, with your colleagues, with yourself, and attempt to have a specific designated time or times that you respond to messages. This constant your account you're working and then responding to messages and you're checking social media, you feel that throughout the entire day you were doing a lot of things but nothing was really getting done. That's the reason why. Because when you're focused on something, be fully focused in it. So when you're working, There's Play, when you're playing, when you're relaxing, when you're enjoying time, when you're with your kids or your family, there with them 100% when you have Utah, you're with you 100% when you're working on something, you're on that work 100%. When you're responding to messages, you're there 100% your mind is not distracted with so many different things, but you have to alter your physical environment to make that happen. If that makes sense, it's going to dramatically help. E.g. is a great tip from a nutritionist. If you want to eat, if you want to lose weight, right? In general, you know, eat less food. That's a pretty good general rule. And there's the type of food that you're eating in quantity and all that. But in general, eat less food if you want to lose weight. What's a tip to help me eat less food? Smaller plates, changing the physical side of the plate. You're going to feel less of the plate up. Well, you're going to have a smaller area to fill, so therefore less food. Same thing when it comes to distractions, right? Physically, try to limit your distractions and there will be less. That means phone in a different location, you know, literal physical headphones that are blocking out that actual noise and all of that. So hopefully that helps because I know we're so distracted. That's why I would kinda went in so much detail on this and hope you find that valuable. Now we move on to number four. This is also a huge problem with all of us and always has been both social media, it's been even worse. And that is comparison. Comparison is the thief of joy. Quote from Teddy Roosevelt, one of my favorite quotes. We know that when we're constantly comparing our journey to other people's journey, it may appear like someone is so much further ahead in their business, in life, whatever it might be, that it's not even worth trying and I'm just gonna give up because I can never live up to them. So I'm going to give up. So number one, a lot of content that people post on social media are the conversations they have. There could be people seriously in debt and they would seem it's the exact opposite if they're wealthy and all of this or that, they're happy and they love their job and they're actually miserable in it. There's a lot of two-phase things going on. A lot of people lying to themselves and to others. And instead of lugging that effect you, whether they're telling the truth or lying. These other people, these hypothetical people that are always around us all the time, celebrities, people we know is to limit ourselves from them. Okay? So number one, like I said, social media is this amplifier, especially with Instagram. I've noticed that a lot of it's kinda fake life and fake work is going out. Or LinkedIn can be part of that as well. And the workspace, depending on who you follow, but really limit your social media. I've done that. It's a great tool. But literally having designated times like okay, I'm only gonna look at social media these times in a day and for this long. And there's apps as well where it's like, Oh, I'm on social media this time it times out, it cuts you out. You cannot watch anymore YouTube videos, instagram Reels, whatever it might be for the rest of the time, it's over. Okay, So really, actually write down limits for social media and stick to them. I promise you, I can almost guarantee you your mood within one week is going to be dramatically improved. And it's going to help you achieve your goals faster and better than ever before. So that's like a huge, huge thing and kinda mentioned it before. But really work on limiting social media literacy is instead of going social media, go outside, go to a window whenever you could do. But just really limits social media and then also kinda keep a list and think, are the people that are around me, are they actually supporting me or they kinda waiting for me to fail? I had this feeling early on, especially in my entrepreneurship journey, transitioning from that kinda like nine to five in entrepreneurship. And I noticed that there were certain people around me that were just like You all my posts that I was posting on social. Always asking me How am I doing, how my businesses. And there's other people around me who would never ask about my business or mentioned when I talked about, oh, hey, you know, we had this goal and this obstacle came and blah, blah, blah, and there's a little hiccup or whatever happened. They kinda focus on that. Oh, hey, I heard that happened. Oh, that's so sad. I'm so sorry to hear. Like always negative like, Oh, I only listen to the negative things that you say. And basically, you'll notice that there's some people around you that are looking for you to fail. And that's the reality that a lot of people don't talk about, but we know that that's true, don't we? Some of them are family that we can't really get rid of nor that we want to, we wish they would change. But what you want to make sure that you do is kind of think about this. Are you surrounding yourself with people that are helping you to achieve your goal or hurting you because it's one or the other. There's no in-between or the people around you supporting you and your goals, or are they taking away and hurting you? And sometimes people will, like I said, if you're going back to the weight example because it's so common. Let's say you're trying to lose weight, but you're wonderful, mother, every time you come over is giving you all of this unhealthy brownies and cookies and cake. And you tell her, Hey, like, I need to really cut on this. You're a great cook. I love all this stuff, but it's not helping me with my goals and they keep doing it. You need to find out, have a conversation with them about and really get deep about it. But try to find ways of surrounding yourself with people who are helping you achieve your goal and less time with people who are dragging you down like an anchor. So really, really important things. And I've listed these kind of four obstacles because there are four of the most common that I've experienced. I see so many people experiencing when it comes to goal-setting of any kinds of goals. So now that you're aware of them and I have specific solutions, this is going to help you find them and overcome them. And with all this being said, with all these obstacles, I'm going to change the way that you view obstacles in the next few seconds. Okay, Riley's David melter is. So there's this phenomenal quote by David melter that I absolutely love. And that is this. How would you act if you were 24 failures away from $1 billion and change out $1 billion for anything. Change that out for whatever your goal is. If you're this far away from spending quality time with X number of hours of quality time with your kids, of being able to travel the world, whatever it might be. How would you act if you're just 24 failures away from that big goal that you've written down, Right? How quickly would you fail? How often would you fail? How would you feel when you fail or when you encounter those obstacles, when you had your daily goals and you didn't achieve for one of those days or you had a weekly goal and it kinda went sour. How do you treat that? The reality is, like I said before, obstacles are going to happen, okay, now you're aware of them, you know what to do when they happen. Embrace them. Don't seek after them, like don't try to necessarily fail, but just know it's going to happen. And all that means is when obstacles are coming your way, It's just like you're climbing a mountain, right? Some rocks are going to slip. You just know the fact that some rocks are slipping, you're getting closer, right? If you weren't climbing at all, no rocks would be slipping. The fact that rocks are slipping, the fact that obstacles are coming in your way shows you're getting closer and closer to your goal. That makes sense. So it's really, really powerful. And this is not like just a hike you up to get you motivated. This is, this is like, it's like mathematically true. It's really powerful. I can't really describe it exactly, but you get the picture. And it goes into this law called the law of averages. It's this unspoken law that governs our universe. And I believe in it, I believe that this is real. I've seen it in my own life, in countless of other individuals lives. And that is the reality is. So like I mentioned before earlier in the course, it's better to set a high goal and miss and get close to it, but you still missed it. And instead of logo and hit that little goal. If you are working harder than the average individual or that your average self used to work, right? You're working hard and you're putting more effort. You're putting more thought into your goals, into achieving them and all of that. So every day it might be a little bit, you have a really good day and other days, a really bad day and so on. But ultimately you're putting more effort and energy towards whatever goal it is. You're going to achieve that goal on it because those averages are going to play out, right? So it's the same thing of anything, right? If you can think about happiness, on average, you're going to have high days and you can have days where you're happy, you're going to have days where you're sad. But if you take the average, if you every day at the end of the day, say Hey, On a scale of one to ten, how happy was AI today? How joyful was I today? And on average it's a five, sometimes six or seven, or even at ten some days. But a lot of these are ones and twos and threes. And on average, you score of four out of ten. Yikes like below, below a five out of ten. On average, your four out of ten in terms of happiness. So you're on the SAT or side of things. That's the average. Okay, so think about the same thing with goal setting. You may not have a great day every single day or every single week. But as long as you're going above what you'd normally do, above the average, what you normally are in normally be, you will achieve great things and you will grow, you will improve, period. Because it's math, right? And you can quantify it kinda like I did here with the mood thing because that's a good example. By the way, if you want us are doing that, I would highly encourage you to do that. It's aside as a side note from goal-setting, but really, really powerful. So that's the key, right? Obstacles are going to come. When they come, you know what they are, how to deal with them and, you know, hey, and obstacles here, that means I'm closer to my goal. Get excited like yes, like yes, this happened. That means I'm getting closer to my goal. That means that yeah, because I had this low date, I'm going to have a high day, right? Because I had this obstacle. I'm going to have a great day tomorrow or next week or whatever it might be. Keep that in mind. It's super powerful having this mindset. And really it's like 80% mindset, 20% execution. It's extremely powerful. It seems like it's a hundreds and execution, but it's not. It's really, really within your mind and your spirit when it comes to goal setting and achieving veer. Very powerful. So I hope this makes sense. I know it was a lot that we covered here in this lecture. If you have questions about anything, of course, let me know in the Q&A section, but hope it's kept you motivated. You should be you're going to crush it. Like I said, maybe not every day, but in the long term, you absolutely will. In the fact that you're here in this course, you've made it to this point in the course. You absolutely will, and I'm super excited for you. So with all this being said, Take a second, decompress, and once you're ready, we'll go ahead and get to the next video. 14. How Do You Get Better At Goal Setting & Achieving?: Another word of encouragement for you. If you feel that you're not good at creating goals, setting them, achieving them. Is that goal-setting, like anything else is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get, and the less you do it, the weaker you are. Some people might naturally be good at setting and achieving goals more than others. And maybe more ambitious, more mathematic, more whatever it might be. It's irrelevant. All that matters is to set goals, achieved them, and keep the process going. Like we mentioned before, you're setting goals that are not super easy for you and also not impossible for you to do, right? They might seem really easy to somebody else, but it's irrelevant. We're not comparing ourselves to others. We're looking at our own progress. So as long as you're setting goals that are within that range, between your easy and impossible. Those are right within your range and you keep doing that over and over the limit that you're gonna be able to stretch yourself and bigger and bigger goals are gonna become. And you can think of it like snowballs rolling down a mountain, right? It starts really tiny. You think, like you put this little tiny snowball together and you start rolling it. You're like this is nothing. This isn't even worth my time. I should just give up. What's crazy is with time, you might have to roll it a few times, keep rolling, keep rolling and roll it down the hill. But on its own, this momentum will grow and it will have almost like a life of its own, right. That's when you kind of get into the flow state. And the same thing is true with goal-setting. The more goals that you set and achieve, you build up your confidence, you build up your ability, you learn like Okay, now when I set my next goal, I know that I always overestimate the amount of time it's going to take. So I'm going to adjust that. And you're going to improve over and over again. And ultimately you're going to get to the point to where other people are going to look at you like, Oh my goodness, they're so good. They must have just born that way, right? And that's the case. In a lot of cases is that people that are in the positions they are, some people they get lucky or whatever. It's definitely true. Many of them in different areas of life. It was from a lot of consistent hard work is where they got to that point. And the same is true with goal-setting, right? And don't compare yourself to others. Focus on your own progress and just keep this in mind. It's not gonna be the same like yours. Always going to be good or bad at something. You're going to get better and better the more that you do it. It's just that simple and it's not my opinion. That's a fact of nature. So keep that in mind. Use that as encouragement and have the right mindset when you go in to begin setting and conquering your goals like I know you will. And with that being said, let's go out and get to the next video. 15. Final Step!: Congratulations seriously. If you're watching this video, it means you've made it through the entire program, which only a very small percentage of students do. So you're literally in the top 1%. So hats off to you and guess what? You've already accomplished your first goal. So congratulations to you, hope you found this content valuable. And if you haven't already, there are two important things that you need to do. Never allowed is take action, right? Start writing off where your current life is, the current life that you desire and create a goal that bridges that gap that ultimately helps you achieve the life that you desire. Break that goal down into specific milestones and break it even further into weekly and daily activities. Write everything down, use the different tools and resources that we have here in the program to help you do that. If you're coming into any obstacles, anything that you need help with or would like a second opinion on, feel free to let me know. And the second item, if you haven't already, we would really appreciate your honest review. That'd be extremely beneficial to us as instructors to help me know what we're doing well, what we can improve upon, and also help other students to help them achieve their goals. So regardless, really appreciate your support of choosing me as your guide and instructor along this exciting journey. Hope you've been finding the content valuable and have to say extremely excited for you because you've already shown such great promise. You've already crushed Your first goal and know that you're gonna crush many, many more. So thanks again. If there's any way that I can help let me know and looking forward to your success.