Goals Masterclass: How to Set and Achieve Any Goal

1. Introduction: From the moment I started setting goals correctly, my entire life changed. And it's not because I'm some great special, unique person. I'm perfectly normal. However, even the average normal individual, if they have the skills and the Craig strategies, they can accomplish incredible things. And this video is all about that. I'm going to teach you everything that I've learned about those skills, those strategies, how to apply them. Very simple step-by-step guide. I will walk with you the whole process of helping you set these goals in a way that will allow you to accomplish them and achieve incredible things in your life. This class is great for anyone who maybe you know what you want and you want to find the best way to accomplish that. Or it's incredibly influential for those of you who maybe have not defined what you want to accomplish yet and you don't know where to start. You want to go somewhere, but you don't know how to even begin. Maybe you don't even know what your interests are. Don't worry, this entire class is going to cover all of that. It's going to walk you through the whole process. I'll be right there giving examples. We're gonna go through multiple examples of setting goals for myself and the whole process. So you will see step-by-step exactly how to do this the whole way through. 2. Layout and Project: I want to address how we're going to approach this, what structure we're going to take this in. That way you get the most out of this class possible. If you need to skip two different parts, you can. I will say though, I've structured this in a way that will, you will get the most benefit by doing the exercises in the order that they're listed. A few of the things that you will need. There will be some brainstorming sessions. So that depends on how fast you do that or how much, you know, maybe you already know what you want to accomplish, maybe don't. So that could vary, but be prepared to take some time to think and process about what you want to accomplish, things like that. So set aside some time for that with no distractions. That's gonna be the first thing that's very, very important. The second thing is have a pen and a notebook, or a paper or something to write on. Tactile is gonna be really important. So the kinesthetic feeling of the paper and the pen, I'll discuss this later, but it is really, really powerful in lodging that inside of your mind and helping you to facilitate ideas and creativity in solving that. So it's really important that you actually physically write these things down. So I have a pen or pencil and some paper to write on. I prefer a notebook just that way because you're going to be referring back to this. So it's good to have it all in one place if you can. The last thing you need is an open-mind. The exercises in this, when you first hear them, you could just be like, why would I why would I do that? But just trust me on this this this process has helped thousands upon thousands of people. Even if you don't understand the exercises, try to approach it with an open-mind, at least try it. It's not like you're going to waste a whole lot of time. Worst-case scenario, you're going to waste a little bit of your time. Best-case scenario, you're going to accomplish things in your life that you never dreamed of. Way those two options, figure out how much you want to invest and we'll go from there. I used to have goals and I would, I would do them very incorrectly. And that's why I didn't achieve anything. In this class, we're going to discuss the key things that prevent people from accomplishing their goals and also then practical strategies and methods of what to do, how to accomplish your goals. And a little bit later on after some of the strategies, we're going to discuss how to, how to LOD these goals in your subconscious mind so that it is constantly working on your goal and pushing you in that direction, even without you realizing it, even while you're sleeping. And when I first heard this, I was skeptical is like how does that work? Don't worry. I'll explain all of that. It'll make complete sense to you. And it's a really, really powerful strategy that a lot of people miss. And for myself, I would say that was a huge part of achieving my goals. And then we're also going to discuss values and belief systems. Because a lot of people, they miss this in the setting up of their goals and values and beliefs need to tie in with your goals. If they don't, your goals will fail before you even get started. So this is a very important part that I'm gonna cover right at the beginning. And I want to make sure that you clearly understand that. And then we're going to have a project for this class that I'll discuss a little bit later. But it's going to be basically taking everything that we learned from today, putting it into a system or putting it into like writing it out here on my goals, here are the things I want to accomplish in the next year or whatever timeline you decide. And then we're going to take that and we're gonna post it in the comments. Or I'll create another location for it. There'll be instructions for that down in the project section. And we're all here to learn from each other. We're all here to offer advice and to help each other along our way of accomplishing what we want to accomplish. We're here to support each other. So don't be nervous about putting stuff down. They're asking for feedback saying, Hey, what can I do differently? What should I change? Does this look feasible? All those things? There will be more instructions on that in the project section of this class. 3. Join the Top 3%: Join the top 3%, what they don't teach you at Harvard. To give you a little bit of the power of goals. I want to share a study with you about this just to get you motivated to follow through on this. So Harvard School of Business, they did a 10-year study where they took the graduates from the MBA study program and Harvard ask them this question. Have you clearly written and described your goals that you want to accomplish and a plan of how to accomplish them. It turns out that only 3% of the graduates had clear written goals and a plan to accomplish them. 13% also had goals, but they were not written, they were not clearly defined, and 84% had no specific goals whatsoever. When they graduated, ten years later, they approached the class again and interviewed the students to figure out where they were. The 13% of them that had goals but they were not written are clearly defined. We're on average earning about twice as much as the other people in the class who didn't have any goals. And the craziest part about this study is the 3% that had their goals clearly written, clearly defined, and a plan of action were on average, earning ten times as much as everybody else in the class. And so the challenge of this is let's be in that top three per cent. Let's achieve these incredible things that we can achieve if we set our minds to it. But the question has to be asked and I think it's worth noting is, why don't people do this? Why don't people set goals if it has this powerful of a result? So let's look at some of these reasons, and maybe some of these are yours, maybe without even realizing it. The first reason that a lot of people don't set goals is they don't realize how important it is. A lot of people have never heard this study. They've never heard all this stuff. They've, they're familiar with goals like New Year's resolutions that kinda don't really work out. So they don't really know how important it is. Therefore, they have no reason to do it. The second reason is that people don't know how there's a very specific strategy and methodology to setting and achieving goals. It's very, very simple, but if you don't have it, you're not gonna be very successful. They think that goals consist of make more money by the end of the year or be happy with family, or increase my ability to play piano. Those are not real goals, as you'll see later on. They don't know how to properly create them. And the last two reasons are that they have a fear of failure and they have a fear of rejection. And these are very valid because the fear of failure is a legitimate fear. If you don't pursue them, you'll never have to worry about failing. And while that does sound kind of illogical, it is accurate and a lot of people fear failure because they've been beaten down in the past. So if that's you step up one more time and at least try it again. Try this method and see if it works for you. And the fear of rejection is also very, very valid because as you achieve these things in life and as you move forward, you will begin moving beyond your group status of the people that are probably now in your life, we tend to congregate with the people that were in the same general status with and when you begin to move above that, people usually don't appreciate that because they feel like they're losing you. And that is something to realize. So like for myself, becoming a full-time YouTuber is sending me on a totally different trajectory than the rest of my family. And for a long time my family had to wrestle with that because it's like they didn't like the idea that they might be losing me. And I needed to I needed to recognize that before I started and say, how am I going to deal with this when it happens? So that's a valid fear and these will cause serious problems for you if you don't define them. So if any of those trigger a nerve, work on it and come to a conclusion because it's really, really important. And there are two things that you need to lock onto before we begin. We're, we're almost there. The first one is that you have unlimited potential, okay? Really grasp that. Really truly understand that because you are the biggest limiting force in your life. Second thing is take responsibility for what you do in your life. Don't pass the blame. Don't justify things. Don't set anything up. If you take responsibility, you are in control. And that's what the majority of this is about, is taking control of your life and going the direction that you want to be going. Now where someone else is telling you to go, not where your family wants you to go and not where your friends think you should go, where you are going, okay, clearly define that because you'll never be happy following someone else's vision. So with that in mind, let's go ahead and jump in to values and beliefs and clearly lay these things out because these are so, so important. And that's why most people's goals fail. 4. Why Your Goals Don't get "Lift Off": Okay, I know what you're thinking. You're probably like just teach me how to make goals already. But if I don't teach you this your goals or have a higher likelihood of failing. This is why most people's goals never get off the runway. They just go for a little bit there, they lose the momentum and then just crash and burn. So let's understand this, right? Your goals must be aligned with your values and your beliefs. Your values determine a lot of your beliefs that you have about yourself and about your world and about your reality. Your value is by definition, are what is the most important thing to you? Life, what is the most important? And your beliefs are things in life that you are certain about. Your goals must be congruent with your values and vice versa. It's, it's kinda like a tree. So your beliefs and your values are the roots and your goals and all of the results of that stem out of it. And so aligning those is really, really important. So if you, if you determine your beliefs and your values first, you can organize your life out of that. And any attempt that you have to live outside of this is going to cause a ton of negative emotions. So anytime you are living in a way that does not align with your beliefs and your values, especially your values, you will experience a lot of unhappiness. You will not succeed at things that you care about. And you will experience just a lot of, a lot of negative emotions, a lot of stress. And I'm sure you've been there, you've experienced this, but that is oftentimes a misalignment of your values. I'm sure you're familiar with the term limiting beliefs, which we will discuss in the next video of how to remove those because that will stop you from achieving your goals. So I would be completely remiss if I taught you how to do goals, but did not teach you these other things that will stop you. They will absolutely crash and burn your plane. So the next video, I'll show you how to figure out what your values are and your beliefs, and how to set new ones and change them. 5. Values and Beliefs: Values and beliefs, key ingredients for successful goals. Let's look at values and let's figure out how to decide what your values are. And this is very, very important. That's kinda like a filter for your life. So the easiest way to do that is to watch your behavior, especially your behavior under pressure, both your experiences and things that have happened in the past. And also now look back over those times and try to define why you made those decisions to do certain things. What was most important to you in those situations. So what we wanna do right now is we want to grab our notebook and we want to write down the things that are most important to us in life. If you're not sure at all where to start with values and moving in that direction, I will post a link down in the project description or just the normal description of this where there's a, I forget how many words it is, but a huge long list of character traits and disciplines and just anything you can imagine of what is normally most important to people. These are things like love, respect, accountability, discipline, that whole, there's a whole, entire list of it. And the purpose of it is so that you have a place to start so you can read over it. And you say you read down the list. Okay, That's important to me. Tag that. That's important to me and just tag what's most important to you. Then take that list, put it off to the side, read over that. What's most what are the top ten from this? Okay, I take that ten. What are the top five from this? It's just that gets the process moving, it gets the whole thing going. So if you're stuck and you can't figure out if the question of what is important to me is too vague, then that's a great place to start. And if that doesn't help you and you just still don't know where to start. Like I said, past experiences. And seeing how you react to things is often a good, a good place to start as well. So for myself, for some of the things that I wrote down is autonomy, growth, contribution, giving back to other people. Relationships, significance, love, intimacy, relationships, respect, fulfillment. These are the things that are most important to me in life. I just made a whole big list of them, right out at least 15 or 20 of these. And you can copy them from the list down below if you want, then what you wanna do is you want to take them and compare them and put them in. And this will align with your decisions and the things that are important to you in life. When I did this, a lot of my actions suddenly made a lot of sense. So very, very important. Let's go ahead and define that. And if you don't go ahead and do this exercise, it will be a little bit harder to do the other exercises that I have. And this is probably the most time-consuming one that I have. So it takes some time, knock this out and it will save you a lot of time as we go further and deeper into the course, what you believe with conviction will become your reality. And so it's incredibly important that we define our beliefs First, let's define our negative beliefs. These are the things that are restricting us. They're holding us back. Again. Grab your notebook and just write down the first ones that come to your mind. These may be things like you're not good enough or I won't be loved unless I do this or I won't. I can't find acceptance in my family unless I'm this and this and this define a few of them. And then what we wanna do with that is we want to ask ourselves, what if these beliefs were not true? How would I act differently each day? What this is doing is it's just challenging these beliefs because a lot of times negative beliefs are subjective. We make them bigger than they are. So let's challenge them a little bit, see where they're at and tried to begin the process of working around them and working through them. Once you define that, let's go ahead and move on to the next step, which is acquire new beliefs. Because beliefs are not inherently stuck. The way that they are, they can change, they can be broken. You can create new ones. So take your notebook again and write down this question. If you could choose any set of beliefs at all, any of them, which beliefs would be the most helpful to you? And my favorite thing to tell people in this arena it, when I'm talking to them about this, is, remember that no one is smarter or better than you. They are simply better or smarter in different areas at different times. Some of the most powerful beliefs. So you can have it by yourself, is that you have the capacity to learn, to grow, to change, to acquire new skills and new things, to push through what is difficult to be disciplined. There's so many beliefs you can inquire. So take a little bit of time and define some of the things that you do believe about yourself and things that you want to believe about yourself. Because if you inherently have the belief that you will never be successful, then this process is going to be very challenging and you're not going to get what you want out of it. And then look over this list and ask yourself, if these beliefs that I want to have are absolutely true. How would I live life differently? What would my life look like? And just take a minute to see yourself with those beliefs. How would that change the way you talk to people, the way you interact with yourself, with your family, the things you achieve, the risks you take. How would it change your life for the better? So now that we've clearly defined our values and our beliefs systems, we're going to move on to the exciting part of this whole process where we actually begin to build our goals. So that's in the next video. And if you have not done the values and belief systems things, please don't move on until you accomplish that and finish it. Re-watch that section if you want. But it's going to be really, really important for you to get the most out of this class. If you do that. 6. The 7 Keys to Successful Goal Setting: We're going to talk about the seven keys to successful goal-setting and accomplishment. And if you find someone who is not achieving his or her goals, it is because of a deficiency in one or several of these areas. And oftentimes they're not doing this consciously, they simply have not learned. And so that's what this video is about. Let's, let's learn how to do this properly. The first key to successful setting of goals is that they must be clear, detailed, specific, and written down something that Tim Ferriss says that I really like is life will punish the Vega wish and reward the specific ask. And I think that's very, very true if you have vague goals, vague somewhere out there someday, maybe kind of thing. It's not going to be effective. A goal cannot be vague or general, like make more money or be happy or something like that. The goal has to be specific, concrete and tangible. Something that you can clearly see in your mind, something you can clearly visualize and see what you're trying to accomplish. The second key is that goals must be measurable and objective. So for example, if someone else was going to evaluate and analyze your goal, it needs to make sense to them. Something like, like I said earlier, make lots of money. That's not a goal, that's a fantasy that everybody has. It needs to be clearly laid out. On the other hand, if you have a very clear deadlines and specific times and specific amounts of money that you want to make. That is a goal that is something that is clearly measurable and objective. The third key is that goals must be time bound with schedules, deadlines, and sub deadlines. I've heard people say this and I really like it that there are no unrealistic goals, only Unrealistic timelines. We often overestimate what we can do in a short amount of time and underestimate what we can do in a decade, in many, many years. The other thing with that is like if you have a clear timeline and schedule, then it keeps you on track and it forces you to know where you're at in that and what needs to be done. It gives you actionable things every single day. And if you don't accomplish your goal by the end of that deadline, then you make another deadline and another, and another if necessary, it's not a set in stone, It's not a failure. If you don't make about a deadline, that is simply a best guess as when you will accomplish it as something that you are shooting for that you're trying to accomplish. And if you miss it, you simply set another one. It's not like you failed and you're done. The fourth key that goals have to have is they must be challenging. They need to stretch you a little bit. If they're too easy, It's not going to give you the sense of accomplishment and achievement as you pursue it. Yeah, they need to stretch you but not snap you. So a general rule of thumb is like, it should have like a 40 or 50% chance of success. It could go either way and you're in the middle. And it's like depending on how hard you push on it, you will accomplish it. So this makes the process of striving towards your goals slightly stressful. But it gives you the motivation to keep pushing and toe stretch yourself and to grow and learn and do what needs to be done to accomplish it. The fifth key is that goals must be congruent with your values and in harmony with your beliefs. And this goes back to what we talked about earlier. But if you, if they're not in harmony, you, your goals will never get off the runway. They just won't. Or if they do and you accomplish them, you're going to get to the end of it and say like this all there is, like, like it's not going to bring satisfaction. The worst possible thing you could do is to charge after this goal and achieve it and accomplish it, and then realize that after succeeding, it's not what you wanted. That is the worst thing that is worse than failing and falling on your face from the very get-go. The sixth key is that your goals need to be balanced. So you need to find the amount that you can invest in that while still maintaining a fulfilled and happy life. If you swing the skills too far in one direction, you're going to end up throwing a lot of the rest of your life out of kilter. So it needs to be balanced with everything else that's also happening in your life. And that kinda comes back to the challenge. Part of it is like it has to be enough to keep pushing you forward, but not enough to completely break you. A lot of life entails balance and juggling of multiple different things. And so if your goals are out of balance with the rest of your life and your capacity, then it's going to cause for very stressful and very difficult time and accomplishing them. The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose. And this is one goal that if you accomplish, will do more to improve your life than any other goal, is the goal at the top. It is the one that you need to strive for the most because it will bring about the most change in the most growth, the most challenged, whatever it is you're trying to achieve, it will bring about the most level of improvement in your life. These are the parameters for your goal. And a lot of times people get confused by this list because they're not sure where it fits in the process. So the best way to do this is it's kinda like a checklist before takeoff. So you take your goal, as you'll see in the next portion of this class. You take your goal then and you plug it into this and you say, okay, let's go down the list. Does it fit within all of these categories? For me, it's kind of a period where I challenge and I test my goal a little bit to see like, is this actually going to work or is this in Jeopardy with any of the things that are going to harm or cause me to fail because of it's clearly going against one of these things. Chances are it's gonna be very difficult to accomplish it. 7. 12 Steps to Setting and Accomplishing any Goal : 12 steps to setting and achieving any goal you set. Goals can be boiled down into a methodology, a recipe that you follow to achieve the same results over and over and over. Here are the 12 steps needed to get the results that you desire. And then what we're gonna do at the end of all this and I'll discuss this later, is we're actually going to go through the whole list and plug-in a goal, multiple goals to show you exactly my process of defining this and have going through this whole process. And May 12 sound like a lot. It's actually not, it's just broken down into very small increments. So if the seven keys to successful goal was the checklist, think of this kinda like a formula or like I said, a recipe. So you can plug in a desire, something that you want, and work through this process and come out at the bottom with a achievable, actionable, step-by-step goal process of how to do that. Or if you have no idea what you want to accomplish. Same thing. You can approach this system and go through the steps. And it will walk you through how to find what you want to accomplish or how to define your desires. So we're gonna go through each step and define what they are. And then I'm gonna come back through, like I said, and give you two or three examples of what it looks like to plug a goal into this and to boil it down through this process to get to the point where you can actually begin achieving it. Number one, have a desire. What do you really want? This needs to be a, a personal burning desire For your goal to accomplish your goal. And this comes back to the fact that it can't be someone else's goal and the part of it being personal is really important. It has to be something that you want. You can never want goals that someone else wants for you and you'll never be happy accomplishing something that's someone else's imposing on your life, where would that someone else thinks that you should do it, it, it has to be your own. And the question that you asked with this is what do I really want in life? Like what? Like it'll take a while and it's going to change. But like, what do you really actively went? What gets you fired up? What gives you enthusiastic and excited and passionate? And begin there if you have no idea, you want, begin there. What are you curious about? What, what is the passion that gets you going? Look in your past and find that. And the question to ask with this is if you could accomplish any one goal in the entire world. And you knew that you had a 100-percent guarantee of success for this one goal, what one goal would that be? The intensity of your desire is going to determine a lot of how hard you push to get this, what energy you put into it. So like the question of what do you really want and how bad do you want it? That needs to be a recurring question in this first step. And you'll see when we come back and give examples of how to apply that, how to use that with this one. Remember, don't limit yourself. Um, it's really, really important that you don't create limitations on what you think you can accomplish. The second step is believed that your goal is achievable. Belief is the avenue that enables us to accomplish a lot of our things in life. And if we do not believe that we have the capacity or the capability of accomplishing something or learning how to accomplish something. It will limit us in very significant ways. And so getting to the place where you, you either look at something you've accomplished in your past that you never thought you'd accomplish or coming to a place where you break it down enough, the breakdown, your goal or your desire to say, Oh, like, I can absolutely accomplished this, that is really, really important. And so digging down deep and getting to the place where you truly believe that you can accomplish this or that you can learn the capability of accomplishing this is absolutely foundational to accomplishing your goal. And the cool thing about this is as you, as we go through this process and as you learn how to set clear goals and you work on them step-by-step, day-by-day, it will intensify this belief NOT gets stronger. So even if you don't feel it right at first, it will build and it will come, it will happen. And so that's the beautiful thing about this, is it will start off really gradual. Like at first it's probably not going to feel like much, but as you continue to go, you will get a deep incredible drive and belief that you will accomplish that. It's, it, it will become a win, not an F, which is so cool. And it's also regulates setting goals that are believable and achievable. It keeps you from setting completely outlandish goals. Like that is also something to keep it. Is it realistic? Like create big goals, right? Dreamlike, like come up with these incredible things and don't limit yourself. But at the same time, try not to be unrealistic, right? We need to set goals that are reachable. And once you accomplish that, you can move on to the next one. If you're stuck in complete poverty and your goal is to go from poverty to financial independence in a year. That goal could have the potential to be self-defeating and could actually drive you deeper into not being able to do it because it is so far outside of your capability. Has it ever been done? Yeah, yeah, it has. But those are incredibly rare scenarios. And so we wanted to create the best possible chance for success for ourselves. So that's step number two. It has to be believable and you have to believe that you can achieve it. The third step is write your goals down. And this is the one that I was the most skeptical about, I guess. But just over and over and over, I've seen that some of the most successful people in the world have clear written definable goals that they review very regularly, oftentimes daily. And you just can't escape it, you cannot get around it. And there's a reason why they do that. I think Brian Tracy says that a goal that is not written is no goal at all. It's merely a wish and I absolutely agree with him. And I didn't, until I started actually doing this, I started following the examples of these very successful people. I was like, Whoa, okay, I see why they do this and we'll go into this much, much deeper later on. But to be most effective, you need to write your goal, literally write it out, not type it, write it out every single day. Day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year. And what this does is this will actually manually change and strengthen that belief that we were talking about earlier. And it will lodge itself. There's a relationship between the tactile of writing and your subconscious mind. And that's where your beliefs and your emotions and your motivation and your drive and all that stuff comes from directly tapping into that. We can supercharge our ability to achieve this and to find opportunities and to see things that we wouldn't have seen otherwise because of this simple exercise of writing our goal out, because it lodges itself deep into our mind. It's very, very powerful. And another thing to continually ask ourselves in this is, how will I measure my success when I get there? And that way, you know, when you've accomplished your goal is very important. Like I said, we'll discuss this more in depth after the steps, after I show you how to use these. Because this is one of the most important aspects of setting goals and of super charging your goals. Being in that top 3% that earn ten times as much as everybody else. There's a reason why they did that. And so we're going to dive into that, break it all apart and figure out why and learn how to do it. Step number four is define your starting point. And this is very, very important, just like we need to have measurable goals. We needed to find where we went to end up, where we want to accomplish and what we wanted to accomplish. We need it in the exact same way. Define where we are at. Because oftentimes I've seen people where they are growing and changing, but because they did not define where they're coming from, they could not see that growth. Couldn't see because they didn't clearly define where they began. And this helps us keep a gauge on our growth. And that's really encouraging to look back on and see. But it also helps you be realistic about where you're at. So like oftentimes, we over-exaggerate our problems. And this can be a really good way of clearly defining, okay, where am I actually, where am I actually add right now, and where am I going? And that goes back to the seven keys of a successful goal. So yeah, that's step number four, define a starting point. The fifth step to accomplishing your goal is determined why you want it. Because if you can build enough reasons why you will create, you will manually create desire. And so the reason or the why of a goal is often the fuel for the furnace of accomplishment. And the more reasons that you have to accomplish your goal, the more drive and the more intensity that's going to be there. So if you have a goal and you only have one or two reasons of why you want to accomplish it. That's not going to be nearly as intense as if you have a goal and you have 40 things of why you went to accomplish it. While you must accomplish why you need to accomplish why it is important to you. And it's actually really fun to like when I started doing this, I just wrote everything that came into my mind and I ended up with 50 things. But a lot of it was, it started to actually really make a lot of sense. It helped me see why. And so defining that why gave me a lot more passion and drive to not give up in the hard times, I guess is what I'm trying to say. So define that why. It's very important. Step number six is set a deadline. And as I discussed a little bit earlier, this is like your best guess of when you went to achieve it. And this is also how you make the goal challenging. Because a goal that doesn't have a deadline and an end result will just, it'll just go on for infinity. The Parkinson's Law, right? Where a task will expand. Fill the allotted time given it. And so we want to stop that. We don't want that to happen. So by setting a deadline, it gives us a end result of what we're shooting for. So think about it like a target. It's something you're aiming for. And if you miss, you re-calibrate and you keep shooting for it, right? If you're aiming for a target and you miss, you don't quit. And oh, well I missed, therefore I'm a failure. No, you reposition, you recalibrate. Alright, Why did I miss what happened here? I missed my deadline. What's going on? Is there a reason and refocus and redefine the steps you need to take from now on. Hit the goal the next time. And if you miss it again, you recalibrate and you keep shooting. You keep shooting. You keep shooting. Always, you never, ever, ever stopped. And if you have a large goal, then you need to break it down into sub deadlines. So you may break down a five-year goal into monthly and weekly steps. And so for myself, it breaks down very clearly of certain number of projects that I accomplish in a week, in a month, and a year that will push me in the direction of achieving my goal. So again, this is probably feels like a lot of steps and things like that. It's like do I really have to go through all of this? And yeah, it can be a lot at first. I would encourage you though, to stick with it because once we get through this, you'll see the incredible capability that these steps carry because once you define what these mean and figure out how to use them, the process is very simple. You just plug a goal in or you plug a desire in and just do it, lays it all out, what you need to accomplish. And I'll show you how to do that. But first we have to get through all 12 of these step number seven, identify obstacles that are in your way. This is simply you asking you a lot of questions about what's going to prevent me from doing this? Who is going to try to stop me? What is my single greatest obstacle? And attacking that op school with 100% focus until it gets taken care of. And oftentimes these obstacles are internal. So there's an 8020 rule here that says 80% of the obstacles are usually internal and 20% of them are external. And that's usually very accurate. We oftentimes are the sole contributor internally to our, to our failure. Define those biggest obstacles and work on eliminating them. So ask yourself what is within me that is holding me back? Step number eight is define the additional knowledge and skills that you will need to accomplish your goal. And a good rule of thumb is that a new goal should always be combined with a learning objective. And so by approaching this and saying, you know, what is the single greatest skill that I could learn to take me closer to what I want to accomplish. So just asking yourself questions of that. What do I need to learn? Where do I go to learn that? That's a huge part of this whole process. And something that I like is I heard someone say this one time and I really like it. They said if you are always only one skill set away from doubling or tripling your income. And that's blind to money and finances and all that. But I think it applies in the area of goals and improving our life and achieving things in growing. We're oftentimes so much closer to this than we ever could have realized. And oftentimes it's only one skill or one conversation or one interaction. There's just so many of these, so that's number eight, define the additional things that you will have to learn to take me in that direction. Step number nine is determined. People who's helped you will need. And that's very similar to step number eight, except for it takes it a little bit farther. So say you do need to learn a skill instead of going and trying to manually learn that on your own, find someone who's already learned it, who's already a master at it. And ask them to teach you because you will save yourself so much time good directly to the source. Step number ten is make a plan, bring it all together. A plan is a organized list of tasks that you need to accomplish that will take you in the direction of your goal. This is the part where we break everything down and we list out exactly how we're going to accomplish this. Because a lot of people don't realize this. But when it comes to solving things that look impossible, or when it comes to doing things that seem impossible or huge goals, it all breaks down to a to-do list. Literally, everything breaks down into things that you need to accomplish. Micro steps that take you to doing, to finishing, to accomplishing the big thing, whatever that thing is. This is the whole process of breaking it all down and creating the sub deadlines, stretching it out, figuring out how what are actionable steps day-by-day that I can do? What is something that can do tomorrow to take me in that direction. The biggest thing with this is it needs to be ordered in level of importance. We oftentimes gets stuck just in the small stuff, just being busy. When in reality we need to step back and say, All right, what is the most important thing that needs to happen right now? And focusing in on that and taking care of those things. First, step Number 11 is visualize your goal continually. And the goal here is to do this every day. And we're gonna talk more about this when we talk about super charging, this whole process to just launch you in the direction of accomplishing your goals. But it's really important that you place yourself in your mind's eye and see your life the way you want it to be. And when you see your life as if you've already accomplished these things, what would change in your life? What would it be better? How would your life be different? How would you, how would you be different? All of these things visualize yourself in that, because in doing that, it allows your mind to get a sampling, a taste of that. And that right there, we'll create a lot of motivation that will pull you in that direction. See there's two kinds of motivation. There's the kind of motivation where you push yourself and that kind of motivation will run out. You will lose that motivation eventually when your willpower has gone. This kind of motivation where you have something out in front of you and it's pulling you in that direction that is an incredibly powerful force. And so by visualizing this and getting that taste, it allows us to tap into that motivation and into that Dr. Ferri and very important, step number 12 is never give up. This comes back to backing Everything you do with a persistence and determination that you will not give up deciding before you even begin that you're going to accomplish this. Because then when you are faced with a problem or you want to give up, or like it's really, really hard or you're working through something awful. You've already resolved that you are going to push through it before any of that even happens, deciding that you're going to pursue and achieve this. And nothing's going to stop you. You may recalibrate, you may change your focus, you may adjust as you go, but you're going to achieve it. 8. Goal Setting Walkthrough - Example 1: Now we get to the exciting part. This is where we're going to define and write down our goals. So don't skip this part, it's pretty important. So the first thing we're gonna do, grab your notebook, grab your pen or something. So I'm going to write on and write down ten things that you want to accomplish if you can think of more than ten things even better, but ten things is a minimum. Start with that and just get that down on paper. Just write goals at the top and just write ten things that you want to accomplish. A very important aspect of this is write your goals in the present tense as though it was the year past and you were looking back and you had accomplish these things, you'd write X number of pounds. Or if you want to earn a certain amount of money, you write, I earn this much money by this year. Present tense is really, really important because that connects better with your mind and with your subconscious that's going to drive you forward to accomplish these goals. So take that list and we want to review and analyze and ask ourselves this question. What one thing on this list, if I accomplish, will improve my life more than any of the other ones. And we want to define that because that is our major definite purpose. It is the most important goal and it is the one that we need to single in on right from the beginning. It's another way to find this. We want to take this major definite purpose, our most important goal, the thing that will improve our life the most, and we wanted to plug it in to this 12-step process. I will walk you through that whole process with some hypothetical examples. And we will go through step-by-step exactly how I would approach this if I were doing it for myself. And then if we have time, I will show you how I have done this, um, since I started setting goals and doing all these things that I'm telling you to do, which is dramatically, dramatically changed my life. Let's say that your major definite purpose is that you will double your income in the next 12 months. So what we wanna do is before we go through the step-by-step process, we want to take this this goal that is written, I doubled my income by the end of 2023, year date, whatever you want to put in there. And we wanted to plug that in to the seven keys of a successful goal. Alright, Is it clear doubling my income? In reality, what I really should do is take this one step farther and say, what is my current income? Let's say it's 50 thousand a year. So maybe I'll increase that to I doubled my income from 5,000,000,000 million, whatever yours is. And I doubled my income from this to this by the end of the year, so just double it. So like getting specifically what your income is is really important. So clear, specific, detailed yes. Is written down? Yes. Measurable and objective? Yes. Very measurable objective? Yes. Also objective, time-bound. Does it have schedules? Does it have a deadline or can it be broken down into sub deadlines by the end of such and such a year, whatever that is for you a year from now? Yes. It fits within that. Your goal must be challenging. Yep. Is it in congruency with my values and my beliefs? So if the way that we double our income is by doing things that are unethical or by illegal means, then that does not align with our values. Or maybe we cut our family time in half to do this. And if that doesn't align with your values, then we need to re-approach something. We need to reassess it and rework it if possible, for different people, this is going to differ. But for me, yes, it absolutely would be. That would be I would not have to do anything that would violate my values to accomplish this. And doing this alone would not violate any of those beliefs or values. My goal must be balanced. Now this is more in how you approach the pursuit of your goal. So I have the ability to balance this with. There are other things that matter in my lecture. So yes, it is balanced and it is the last one. It is my major definite purpose for the sake of this example, let's start with number one. The desire, have a desire. What do you really want? And this is actually pretty important. So we want to make sure and read this in the present tense as if we're looking back on this. So we're going to write, I doubled my income by the end of 2023. Now obviously that's a year-and-a-half. But for sake of example, we're going to use that. And now we need to define how badly we want this. What are we willing to go through in order to get that? And these are just questions we want to ask ourselves is like, okay, what would I be willing to do to do this? This is kind of a dreaming period of visualizing what we want and how much we're willing to go through to get it. So we want to practice idealization where we don't create limits on ourselves. And in an ideal world, what would this look like? What would we have? So step one is very simple. It tends to go pretty quick. Step number two, we're going to take this, I want to double my income by the end of whatever a year is for you. So we need to now approach this and look at it and say, Okay, Is that achievable? Is it realistic? I believe that we can do far beyond what we think is realistic. I'll just apply this to my to my own life. Am I capable of doubling my income in a year? Absolutely. I believe that most people are capable of doing that. So define whether or not you believe you are capable of doing that. And if you don't feel capable Currently, Do you believe that you can learn how to do that? And so if you do not believe that, then maybe you need to work on some of those limiting beliefs and approach those and figure out what's going on with that. So we want to look at this realistically. We also want to be really careful not to make it too small. And that is a problem that I run into with myself and with other people sometimes is we tend to be over realistic. It's okay to dream big. Like I said, if you miss your deadline, then make another one and read and learn from that and continue to work. And a part of this whole process is getting to the place where we do believe that we're capable of doing that. So hopefully we've gotten to the place where we believe that we're capable. We have the skills, talents, abilities to do this or to learn how to do this in the next year. Step number three of this process is right my goal down, so I've already written it here, but I'm also going to take it a step farther and I'm going to write it down at least once every two days, no less than that, I'm not going to miss two days in a row, preferably right at every single day. But if I miss one or two days, it's not gonna be the end of the world. We will talk a little bit more about that later. The importance of that and how to there's a few more details with that that I need to tell you guys about. But number three is right my go down. So I'm gonna do this every morning. First thing I do when I wake up. In fact, I would probably if I was doing this again, I would probably put this in my bathroom inside of my sink so that I couldn't turn it on until I saw it and wrote it down and then go about my brushing my teeth, all that fun stuff. So that's probably what I would do if this was my case. So step number four is determine your starting point. So this is defined, write out exactly where you are at. How much money am I making right now? A year. Okay. What is my hourly income? What what job do I have? What position do I have in my job? What chances for promotion are there? Do I have any side hustles? Do I have any creative ventures that I could work on that I could monetize anything like that. Where am I at right now? If I had another side hustle, like I sell paintings or whatever we like. Okay. I currently sell two paintings. However, in this nighttime and I make this much a year from that. I do this over here and I make that much like where am I at all of that. Step number five is determined why you want it. So sit down, write down how your life will improve and change and be better for accomplishing this. So for this one, it's say, okay, if I if I found a way to double my income in a year, that would allow me to travel more, that would allow me to give to people more, and that would allow me to experience a higher quality of life. That would allow me to buy camera equipment. There's a lot that this would do and so just defining all of that, fueling that fire forward. And step number six is defined a deadline. So I've already done this in the statement that I've gotten because I am so familiar with this process, I already do a lot of these things without thinking about it. So that was one of the things I did is I just buy the end of a year from now or 2023 or six months, whatever it is for you. Put that in like literally in the statement. So the deadline is a year from now. So I would probably want to take that and break it down into month by month. Income tends to have a snowball effect like kinda ramps. And so we want to find ways to do that and look at what it's going to take month by month. What changes do I need to do to get me there? What is what are my increments? Month by month? Step number seven is identify the obstacles in my way. First obstacle by far is going to be time management. How I manage my time, how I trade my time for money. That is the hands down, the biggest obstacle. Because if you trade your time for money, you will hit a plateau or cap because there is not infinite amount of time. So what do we need to do is I would need to build a way so that my money is making me money. Okay? So investments, an online product, something that is scalable, time is not scalable. So like, I would probably come up with a OUD, probably begin an Amazon business, drop shipping, eBay business, something that would it require very minimal amount of my time, but I would be selling a product that would be shipped, everything would be taken care of by someone else. So I would find a way or investments or something that would allow my money to be making me money. So that would be the biggest obstacle for me currently because I'm very strapped on time for you. The obstacle might be that you don't believe that you could do that, that would come back to your beliefs and you'd have to identify that and work on that. What's an area that I thought I couldn't do before that I did. I've done in the past. What can I do it again? Yeah, absolutely. I just have to find the correct strategy and the way to do that. So writing, I'm writing down a lot of this stuff. So writing down obstacle, time to money ratio. Find a way to solve this by finding a way to trade money for money so that my time can be scaled, it can grow. Step number eight, identify additional knowledge or skills that I would need to take me in this direction. This one is also something that would be would change a lot based on each person's past experience and all of that. So for me, I don't know just a whole lot about doubling my income. However, I do know a bit. And so a part of that process would probably be reading a lot of books. It would be watching seminars, taking courses. You can learn a lot on the Internet. And so I would find someone who has done what I am wanting to do. And I would follow them and figure out exactly how they did it and follow their process. Because if they know how to do it than I can learn from it and I can do it, I can replicate them. Tim Ferriss is a fantastic example of that. The four-hour workweek, fantastic example of that, and just learning the systems that are needed to do that. I would determine exactly what the knowledges that I would need. Okay, So do I need to know knowledge about how Amazon works? Write it down. Do I need to know knowledge about how to set up an LLC? I've never done that. I don't know how to do it, write it down. That's something I need to solve for. Additional knowledge and skills that I need. Do I not know how to use a laptop very well? Well, that's probably going to affect how well I can sell something on Amazon. Learn that skill. Don't justify your inefficiencies. Simply work on them. And so again, this could go under like obstacles. So set those things, find what it is, identify the things you need to learn. And then this also applies to step number nine, which is identify the people whose help you need. So you can ask people to mentor you. For me, I have very successful brothers and my dad are very, very financially successful. And so I can turn to them and say, hey, what have you learned? What can you teach me? My dad is very good at accounting and budgeting and all of that stuff. So I can sit down with them, say, Hey, teach me how to budget, teach me how to do this. Teach me how to do that. What do I need to know about starting a business? What do I need to know about this or that? My brother did shipping online for a number of years ago. And so I can sit down with them, say, hey, what were problems that you had that could be avoided? What can you teach me? Write it all down, get everything down, because this right here is what turns into your checklist. These are the things that you are then going to come back to you. And you're going to say, what is my number one obstacle? That is priority number one. I'm gonna do that and that you work on that and it's a checklist the whole way down. And so that's what this thing defines for us, define those people. So my dad, my brothers, I could probably find people online that would have courses. I know Tony Robbins has a very successful financial course on investing and all that fun stuff. Let's see. Tim Ferriss is very vague. Successful. I have a friend who's in real estate. I would probably call him and ask him how he did it. Who mentored him? What courses did he take? Write them down, take those courses. Step number ten is make a plan. And so now we take all of this, we put it into a plan and this is mostly going to start from around five and down, probably between 510 or so. And so it's basically taking those things, the obstacles, a deadline, breaking that deadline down into sub deadlines. And within those deadlines, filling it with the things of the obstacles that people need to contact. So I would take, alright, what is month number one? What am I going to have done accomplished by the end of this month? I'm going to talk to my friend Samuel, whose into real estate, who is a very successful real estate investor within each way younger than me. Well, what did he do? I'm going to define that and I'm gonna have three clear step-by-step actions of what I learned from him. I'm going to boil it all down to three things. What's the next thing? What is the biggest obstacle? Biggest obstacle. I'm going to have that solved by the end of the first month. I'm going to have it solved that I find a way to trade my money for money, or I find a way to trade a onetime, a time commitment so that it recurrently makes money on the Internet. This is exactly what I'm doing with this video right here. It is a onetime time investment of mine. Once I do it, it is done. It sits on the internet forever and ever and ever. And it sits, you're making me money. I have one investment in that and that is my time. So that would be another way to solve that problem. And so I would just make a list. What do I need to solve? A write all of that out. This is what I will have solved by the end of the month and then break that down. What about week number three? What about week number one? What about tomorrow? And so breaking all of this down, putting it all together into a plan, to an action, into something that is achievable into a checklist. So I've put in my skills that I need to acquire all like the people I need to contact tomorrow, who am I going to email tomorrow? Stuff like that, like breaking it all down into a plan. And I don't know about you, but this is where it just gets so exciting to me because it's all about taking this thing that was suddenly this dream out here in the clouds somewhere. And within just like an hour, it is suddenly I have. Actionable things that I can accomplish. I can email my friend tomorrow, I can email them today. I could call this person, I could do this. I could read that book in the next week, is suddenly gives you things that are instantly taking you in that direction. What was previously a dream and a wish is now shoe leather and you are putting it into practice and it is so much fun. Step number 11 is visualize my goal continually. So what I would do is every morning when I write my goal, I would take five-minutes, three minutes, as much time as I can. Probably not more than ten minutes to start off with. The longer the better, but you also have to you have to work around schedule and stuff like that. So for me I couldn't dedicate more than that. You might be able to get 30 minutes. It's up to you. So for me I would sit down and I would just try to relax. And I would sit there and I would think, okay, I'm gonna put myself in my shoes in a year from now when I have twice as much in my bank account than I do right now. And or per year, whatever that is. How would I what would my life be like? What do I have a new car? Would I be looking into buying a house? Maybe, what trips, what have I done? Maybe I'll be in Spain in a year from now. Like, that's pretty cool. Like what, what, how did that happen? You know, this, this is kinda nice. This is cool. Like I'm going to visualize that. I'm going to put myself in my shoes. I'm going to experience what that would be like in an ideal world. That's going to pull me forward, it's going to cause me to move in that direction. And step number 12 is never give up. And so that is something that I would have done at the very beginning before I even begun probably, which is ironic that it's at the end. But I'm never, ever, ever going to give up on this goal. And that basically says, I resolve, I will find a way to do this thing. Even if it takes me two years or five years or ten years, Like I'm gonna do whatever it takes. I'm going to accomplish this goal. If it doesn't take me here, I'm going to reassess and I'm going to re-approach and I'm going to keep doing it. I'm gonna change my approach until I get the results that I desire. It's resolving what am I gonna do with obstacles when they come? Maybe I sit down with my dad and I say, Hey, this is my goal. What can you teach me about that? And he says, You can't do that. I tried doing that and it doesn't work. You're not gonna be able to do it. What am I gonna do with that? Okay, That's my dad. Like, that would be incredibly hurtful and he wouldn't do that obviously, but what would I do with that? Right. And so that would be where I would have resolved. What am I gonna do with rejection? What am I gonna do with it? So for me I would sit down and say, Alright, What am I gonna do if dad would do that to me? Because I can have two results from that. One would be, oh, wow, Great. Okay. Well this sucks. It's probably not gonna be able to do it because I'd add is really, really good with money. How did he not be able to do that? Or I can sit down and say, man, he had to give up on his dream of doing that. I'm never gonna give up on my dream. I'm gonna do this and I'm going to show him that I can do it. Not to prove them wrong, but to prove to him that he is still capable of doing it if you want it to. I'm going to use that to motivate me forward. I'm going to hear what he said and I'm gonna learn from it. But it's going to drive me. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna dig in even deeper and grip harder. So like defining all of that, I would define that out very clearly. What is this going to do for me? So we just defined what the step-by-step process looks like if I want to double my income. So let's take this another, another angle. 9. Goal Setting Walkthrough - Example 2: Let's say that I want to create a, well, okay, what does it like? 93% of all people graduating high school and now say they want to be online influencers. It's interesting, but let's say that that's my goal. Let's say that's my dream. I wanted to become fully self-sustaining on YouTube. I want to, I want you to be my job is we approach this the exact same way. We take the seven keys and we write this out. Let's say that this is our transparent with purpose. So we're gonna, we're gonna plug it into that and we're going to say, alright, how do I write in a way that makes sense with these seven things that I make enough money to do such and such from YouTube. So the first thing I would do is define how much money do I need to make from YouTube as a YouTuber, whatever, to be able to function and operate without another job, what would that be? Alright. 20 thousand a year, 30 thousand year, 12 thousand a year. I don't know. A 100 thousand year, whatever that is. I would define that for me. I would probably write out something like, I am self-sustaining on YouTube. And then I would define what self-sustaining means. I would probably write something like, I am self-sustaining, 300 to $500 a week on YouTube by the end of 2025. And I will be halfway to that goal, a $100 a week by the end of 2023. Because of that snowball effect, you have to shoot lower on the halfway part. In part because the line is gonna go like that. So I would either plug that in to the seven keys or I would look at the seven keys and write it through that lens. Is it clear? Is it specific? Is a detail of the Desert written down? So is it clear, self-sustaining? It's a little foggy maybe, so I would probably define that a little bit more or just remove it. So I'd probably say I earn 300 to $500 a week on YouTube through AdSense and through brand sponsorships. By the end of 2025. And I'm halfway there, $100 by the end of 2023. So I will probably clarify it even more. And then I would probably clarify even more because that's not the next one is it must be measurable. So for the first year, I'm gonna make a big fat 0. That's not measurable. I have to find another metric or standard rule of thumb, depending on what arena you're in, is 15 thousand views a month will get you five to $10 a day to start. So define what, how many views a month you would need. I would probably break it down a little bit more, say, to something like I got 15 thousand views a month by the end of such and such a time, such and such a date. And what that does is that allows me to gauge and measure this goal very accurately. Now, is it bound to a deadline and schedule? Yes. You can see that by the end of 2025 and halfway there by the end of 2023, I can break that down into yearly. Monthly, weekly? Yes. Is it challenging? Yes, it would be very challenging because it's going to require me to learn a lot of new skills and a lot of new things that I've never done before. I don't know you did work? Actually, I do because I'm a full-time YouTuber, pretty much. Goals must be congruent with your values and in harmony with each other. So would that be congruent for me? Yes, it would be balanced. Would I be able to balance that with the rest of my life? Yes. I would be able to. If the answer was no, I could not balance that, then I would have to maybe stretch out that timeline a little bit more or shrink it. Maybe that's too far out. Maybe 2025, that's a little far. That's 2.5 years. That's a little far. I think I can do it in a year. So we're going to shoot for 20 we're going to shoot for a year and six months is the halfway mark. Maybe that's what you decide for whatever goal it is. Is this a major definite purpose? Is this? Will this bring about the most positive change for my life? For me? Absolutely, it will. So we have that desire, right? So we would write down, what do I really, really want that? We've already answered that, right? So we want to, we want to dream and imagine and speculate and look at without limitations, where could we be British going to define that? And we're going to write out our desire for this. Then we're going to write out, do we believe that we can accomplish this right out that question. Do I believe that I can accomplish this goal if the answer is no? Do you believe that you have the capability to learn what you need to learn in order to do this. For me, I would have a hard time doing it in a year. I think I think I would for me if I had if it wasn't a year, I would probably say no. What I have the capability of learning it. Yes, but I would have to unbalance a lot of things in my life. So therefore, stretch out that timeline a little bit more. So I'm gonna stretch it out back to where we were end of 2025, fully sustaining itself, staying on YouTube halfway there by end of 2023. I believe that that is achievable. I believe that I can do that. And I'm willing to do whatever it takes to learn what I need to learn in order to do that. And I'm willing to make sacrifices for that. So I believe that that goal is achievable, right? My goal down. Same thing. I'm going to agree to do this every single day along with the visualization which is covered in a later step determined my starting point. This is actually really, really easy with this process because. I can look at my YouTube channel now and I can say, all right, how many views a month do I get now? But let's say I'm at a thousand views a month. So write that down, catalogue and create as much of a starting point as you can. How many views a month do you get, a week, a day? How often do you upload? How many videos have you uploaded? What gear do you have? Where are you shooting? What are you using to edit? What equipment are you editing with? Do you have any other video projects or gigs that you make money from? Define all of this out, then I would determine why I want to do this. What is the driving force behind this? Is it so that people respect me more? Is this so that I have significance so that I wouldn't be popular. So what I want to be famous so that I want to be able to work from anywhere in the world. Why? Answer as many why questions as you can? So I would write out just a whole ton of this, set a deadline. I've already done that in the statement, the end of 2075, halfway there, I get to reevaluate at the end of 2023. Say, How am I doing on this? Do I need to change my approach? Number seven is identify the obstacles in my way. Biggest obstacle in my way right now, if I were to try to do that, probably the biggest obstacle for that would be well, it depends. So it could be that maybe I don't own my own equipment. So let's look into rentals. You can rent a very high-quality camera for a $100 a week. Could I condense my videos and record like ten videos in that week to make it worth my while. I would have to think about that. Alright, what is, maybe I don't know how to use Adobe Premiere and editing software. Alright, that's an obstacle. So I would write out as many obstacles as I could and then I would define the one that is the biggest obstacle. What does it all bottleneck to? So for example, the biggest obstacle maybe, I don't know how the YouTube algorithm works. That is something I can learn along the way if that is a problem versus I don't know how to edit the editing one is going to be most important. I'm going to have to deal with that first because I can't even publish a video until I learned that YouTube algorithm. I will learn that as they go. This is more urgent. It is the bottleneck because everything flows through that. Or I'm gonna have to look at hiring an editor. So list out those problems. What's the most important one was the bottleneck. Address it. Number eight, determine the additional knowledge and skills that I will need. We've kind of already talked about this. What would I need? Do I know how to use a camera? No. Alright, I'm gonna have to learn how to edit video. What is white balance? What, what frame rate do I shoot at? Oh, I've been shooting at 60 frames per second this whole time. That's not good. I need to correct that. Alright. Learn all of those things, define all of those things. How often should I upload? Where can I find someone to coach me through this? Who has done this before me? Has someone with less intelligence than me done this and been successful. Okay, well, then I could probably do it too. So defining all of that out, what do I need to learn? And then what is the, again, what is the most important one for me to learn? Tackle that first and then again. When we plan all this out, this is our to-do lists, pretty much. Number nine, determine the people who's helped you will need. My brother makes you two videos so I could talk to him. There are tons and tons of YouTubers who talk about this. There are tons of courses on Skillshare, which I will probably get a much more detailed description from. There are places that I could buy a course that would be really in-depth, like almost a guaranteed success rate of a successful channel within two years. There are lots of people that could help me. So I would write out a list. Who is going to help me with this? Who could help me with this? What is the best option for my time and my money to do this? Does, is this something I want to spend all my time learning on my own, or do I want to pay someone to save myself two or three months of struggling, save that time and pour that back into the channel. These are all questions you have to address, but they have to start by getting them out. You have to get them out on paper. You have to identify them before you can manage them. If you don't manage it, you cannot measure it. And so all of this has to be just like thrown onto the page. And it's going to look awful at first. That's kinda the point is you have to get it out because then you can work with it number ten and make a plan, bring it all together. This is where we combine everything that we have on our paper, everything that we've written, and we say, how do I break this down? What is there again, you decide where, where am I at, where am I going? Why? What kind of deadlines do I need? When do I need to reevaluate? When do I need to? Maybe I need to revise my goal or my my statement. What is the biggest obstacle? How will I address that? Break that down into subcategories. What needs to happen today, tomorrow, next week, next month? What do I need to talk to? Who can I e-mail tomorrow? Who what about next week? Um, what courses am I going to take? This is where the rubber hits the road. You define all of this stuff. You break all this down into actionable items. And this is a very important thing because we want to be very specific. We do not want to be vague. We wouldn't be as clear and as specific and as detailed as possible. Because if you don't know what your immediate next step is, you've done something wrong. So if tomorrow you wake up and you do not know what your next step is, you've done something wrong. It is very important because this whole process is about taking the unknown, the dream, and making it a reality and helping you see that it's possible in step number ten is. Incredibly important. Spend a day on that. If you have to spend a week, if you have to get that right because you don't want to make the wrong plan and re-evaluate that plan repeatedly. And evaluate where you're at, where you're going, where you're inefficiencies are in, eliminate them and multiply your strengths. So I can't emphasize that enough. I, when I started making my own goals, I did not do a very good job of that. I did not make a very clear plan, and now I have a very clear plan. I know what I'm doing tomorrow. I know what I'm doing this week, this month, this year, I have it all categorized and broken down. And I know I've, I've overcome the biggest obstacles. I'm moving on to the next ones. Who am I talking to? What am I doing? What courses are meant taking? What is the process? What is it? You have to get it all out. And so once you get it all out, break it down into actionable steps through this process, make a plan and sub-categorize that plan. If you'd just do a whole entire year, it's going to look overwhelming, so break it down. And again, this is the funniest part in my opinion, this is where it comes to life. It's so enjoyable. Step number 11, same thing as before. I would visualize what my life would be like if I was a full-time YouTuber. Again, maybe I'm over like in Thailand, chillax thing on a private beach and I'm sitting there working on my laptop editing a video. That kind of sounds like the life to a lot of people. What would that be like? Maybe that's completely outlandish. But if that's what your goal is when you become self-sustaining on YouTube, then imagine that what would it be like? Or maybe it would be the fact that you could sub out most of your work and you would only have to work 1015 hours a week. Do you spend the rest of the time with your family? You get to play with your kids, you get to teach them things. You get to take them on trips. You get to do all this stuff. Like, what would your life look like? And what would it feel like to walk a day in those shoes? How good would that be? What challenges would it bring to you like? So yeah, visualize that, see that in your mind's eye. And so seven, number 12. Again, what am I gonna do when the inevitable problem hits the, the wave of doubt, the discouragement, when I post my 100th the video, and it gets three views, what am I going to do? What is my approach clearly laying out? I would probably I would probably think of the worst possible case scenario. And I would write out what the worst-case scenario is. If this does not work. First of all, what can I what would I do about that? Is it permanent? Just define that. Define what the worst thing that can happen. And so as you can see, there, there's, this process is very structured and it's nice because you can just put, you can just plug stuff in. Now maybe you're thinking, Okay, well this is great if you know what you want to accomplish. I don't know what I want to accomplish. And so in that case, what I would do is I would start out with, number one, have a desire. Write down 20 things that you are interested in or that you are curious about. These are things that you would want to investigate if you have a spare weekend. And just write out the things that you are intrigued by the you want to learn more about. The two examples I gave were very clear accomplishment in money business, easier, easy to manage. So it can be a little bit challenging if you're trying to break down a skill set or a knowledge-based goal, because knowledge is invisible, it's very hard to track. And so for that, you might have said deadlines of maybe, um, maybe I gave a speech at this point during the process, or you have to get creative with how you break these things down sometimes. So take those curiosities, write out 2530 things that you're curious about, and then find the places that they overlap. And so for me, a lot of those places overlapped around my interests of of exercise, diet and like breathing techniques. So those three things overlap. So I'm going to spend some time looking into those things, researching them, allowing my mind to play in that arena until I find something that I want to latch onto and pursue and I can create a goal about it. Or another way of doing this is right out ten things that you want to see solved in the world. These are things that keep you up at night, things that anger you, things that you want to see themselves. These are massive things probably, or maybe there are small things. Maybe they're things that are just in your life that only you know about start there. And a goal, a goal for next week can be plugged into this. A goal for ten years down the road can be plugged into this. There's so many options, so don't limit yourself. 10. Activate Your Subconscious Mind: Hopefully your brain doesn't feel too full. But this is probably the most important aspect aside from the steps that you can do. So this is now, now that you have your major definite purpose. This is the thing that will bring the most improvement to your life. We need to take that and we need to figure out a way to accelerate that to incredible amounts. So that's exactly what we're gonna do in this next section called activate your subconscious mind. And these are some incredible tools to take it to the next level. And this may take a little bit of effort and time when your part even daily. But, um, this might be one of the yeah, like I said, it's probably one of the more important aspects of this whole process, so don't neglect it. So a lot of this comes from the remarkable ability that your mind has to move in the direction that it is focusing on. It is a fascinating ability of our brain that when we lock onto a target, we move in that direction. Our mind will do things. It will alert us to things to take us in that direction. And this has only recently been understood in a way that makes sense and I'll explain it to you. It's called the reticular activating Cortex. This is the side of your brain that is responsible for tuning out the majority of your world. And it's good you do that because you don't hear the blood policy in your left ear right now, or you don't see what color something is behind you because your brain Tunes it out because it would be information overload. Now we can activate this in very specific ways so that our brain does not tune out the things that would take us closer to our goals. And I'll discuss how to do that. But first, let me describe a little bit more what this is. So you may have experienced this where you, let's say you purchase a product or let's say you purchase a vehicle. So for me, I bought a Mustang and not too long ago. Now, every time I drive through town, if I see that model of Mustang anywhere, I immediately like boom, I like to see it. And I never noticed Mustangs before, but as soon as I bought one, my brain said, Hey, That's important. We're going to notice wherever we see Mustangs now, we can manually tell our brain, Hey, I'm trying to double my income. So if there's anything that pops up that might help me in that arena, don't zone it out. And that's exactly what we're gonna do. And this is an incredible power that our brain has been a lot of people miss when it comes to setting goals. So let's discuss how to do this. It's fascinating. There's two ways that we can do this, and we've already discussed one and that's visualization. The second way we've also discussed, but we're going to discuss it in a little different manner here. And that is writing your goals. So there is a direct connection between the tactile of writing, physical movement and the subconscious. It tags it as important. That is why we write our goals every day. Because every day it's saying this is important to me. And so it's lodging that deep inside of our brain and saying, This is important. Anything that applies to this, let me know at first you won't notice it probably, but over time, there would just be things that happen where you notice something, you see a video or you hear someone say something, you're like, I got to talk to that person like they might be able to help me do this and this and this. And you never would have noticed it if you hadn't had your brain tuned to that, to keep an eye out for that. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna write, we're going to write our goal, our main definitive, definite purpose every single day, because that is what the main job of this does. It tunes our brain to look for that, to be alert for that. And it does it subconsciously, which is really awesome because that means that your brain will literally be working on things to take you closer to your goal without you ever knowing it. Maybe while you're sleeping, while you're driving, whatever it will be doing it without even realizing it. So if your goal is that you want to double your income, you're sitting there, you're right, that every day for a week, you'll notice that stuff will just start popping into your head. That'd be like, Oh, I could try this. This will pop in. Oh, what if I did this over here? Oh, I forgot about this guy, but I remember long time ago he said that if I ever needed investments for rentals, that I should let him know that sort of stuff has literally happened to me and to other people that I know. And so by writing articles every day, it is defining this and clearly laying it out in the exact same way that you see the Mustangs in town that you never saw before. You will see the world differently. You will see and hear and feel opportunity that before you were oblivious to. And there's two ways that we can do this. The one way it takes a little bit more time and effort. And the other way is just a quick practice. I'll share both of them with you. The first way is to write down ten goals every single day. And the purpose of this is it will, it will allow you to like it's a filtering process. The first day you do this, it'll take a little bit of reflection. You'll have to think about it. Like, what do I want to accomplish ten, That's a lot, right? And so then the next day it'll be a little easier. In the next year it'll be a little easier and you'll notice that day to maybe this one goal is not quite as important as this other one or o like that goal. And I was kinda just a whim. I don't actually want to do that anymore, so you don't even write it down. There will be a filtering process that happens. And the goal is to do this for one month. Because at the end of that one month, chances are you will have filtered out the things that aren't as important to you. And you will have ten goals that you write almost word for word every single day because these are the goals. You filled it out every other whim, every other interest. That's it. Like that is where you're going for. That is the one process. And then you would choose the one that impacts your life the most. And that's your main goal. You attack that goal when he finished that, when you go to the next one and so on or if you don't want to go to that trouble, which okay, Let me just say something here really quickly. A part of writing your goals every day is a test to see how much you are willing to go through to actually get what you want and to actually get the accomplishment. Obtain these goals. If you cannot, take ten minutes a day to write down your goals, to take you closer to that arena. How bad do you actually want your goals? So I'll just leave that with you. I'll let you define that. How, how much do you want to dedicate to this? How important is it to you? Actually, the second part of this process is to just write your main goal every day. First thing you do in the morning. And if you want to, last thing you do in the evening. And this is really impactful. So I would recommend doing this no matter what, even if you don't understand it, even if it doesn't make any sense to you. Trust me on this, just try it. And you will see the results of this. You will become aware of things they never thought of, and you'll become aware to solutions for your problems, that you haven't even been actively working on the problems, but your subconscious has been, it's been working on it, chewing on the problem to another process. And every now and then it just spits out a solution to you and you're just like, wow, that's pretty cool. And so those light bulb moments will begin happening more and more and more. So, write your goals. Very, very important aspect of this whole process, one of the most important. Now when you write your goals, this is an aspect that I maybe should have covered earlier. But I'm going to cover it here because when you write your goals, there is a specific way that you need to write it so that it applies best to your subconscious mind. And this is called the three P formula. That means that when you, when you write your goal, it needs to be positive. Personal present. So positive in the sense that it's not like I quit smoking. It is IMA non-smoker, personal in that I am is the first word that starts with followed by an action of some kind, present, present tense. We've already discussed this. It's not, I will, I am, or I am accomplishing something like that. It is present tense. If it is really important that you do that because your subconscious does not have a very good grasp on time. That's why when you dream it feels so. Anyway. So that's why it's really, really important that it's present tense, that it's positive and that it is personalized to you. So for example, you would not say, my goal is to earn $50 thousand a year. Instead, you would say, I earn $50 thousand a year or a 100 thousand or 500 thousand whatever. So again, trust the process of this, it might not feel like it's working, but I can promise you it does because there's literally has worked for millions of people. And if you want to take this to the next level completely, then after you're done writing your goal, write down three ways that you can immediately take action to take you closer to that. That might be something like I plan every day in advance. I step up to every challenge I face immediately, and I concentrate single-mindedly on the most important task until it's done, something like that. The next step of activating your reticular cortex and again, creating that motivation and that drive comes from the art of visualization. The reason why this works is that your subconscious cannot tell the difference between reality and what is imagined vividly. That's why dreams feel so real. And so by doing this, we are literally training our brain to think in a certain way. We're training it to see the world in a new way, to respond to problems in a new way of visualizing that every day is setting a new course for our life. It's setting that focus and what we focus on, we will move towards keeping your visualizations positive obviously is really, really important aspect of this, because everybody visualize this on a daily basis. We all do this, but we do it unconsciously. Lot of times unsuccessful people tend to visualize very negative things of what's going to go wrong and all this stuff where it's very successful people. They, they're looking at what is going right. What can I do better? How can I, how can I improve their visualizing that continuously? They always have something in front of them that they're moving towards that's pulling them. In. This visualization is programming your, your mind to respond in certain ways. And again, this will create a lot of drive and motivation for you. And it will also help prepare you and move you in that direction. It's a really, really powerful exercise. So you may be wondering, okay, how often should I be doing this? So preferably every day, I would recommend doing it when you write your goal. Which then the next logical question is how long? For that, I would say start out with 30 seconds to a minute. And then if you can, the longer the better, so just go with whatever feels best to you. But it's really important that you place yourself in your visualization close to reality is you can't visualize it in as much detail as you can, as vividly as you can. Hearing what you heard, activate all of your senses. It's really, really important that you do that. And so the more like reality that it feels, the faster and better and more in that direction your brain is going to respond. It's going to continue to push you in that way. When I read this, I was like, yeah, that's some hocus pocus stuff and things. But it's actually not like this is, this is a basic function of our brain. And it's a way of manipulating it and using it to achieve what we want. So like, for example, a very, very successful people will do this on a regular basis. Very successful sports players, this is what they do to train. They run through their routes. Figure skating is where this first began with visualization, and it dramatically improved their performance and their skills. They were able to learn skills in incredible amounts of time simply by running through their routes visually, this stuff works and it's been working for a very, very long time. So at least try it before you discount it. And for me, the process of writing and visualizing my goal, it changed my belief system about this. So like I mentioned earlier, how you might not fully believe that you can do it. Like you think you have the capability, but you're not quite fully convinced. And so getting to that point, riding my goals and visualizing was a huge part of that process because it's slowly began to shift from a if to a win. And it didn't take long. It only took a couple of weeks to a month where I was like, This is what I'm going to do. I like, It's as though I've already accomplished it. I just have to go through the process now, like it is. It is there in my future. No two ways about it. I just have to simply go through the steps to get there. Like it was so sure in my mind, there was no doubt. And there still is no doubt that confidence is really, really powerful. So with all that in mind, let's move to the next video where we talk about what does a daily routine look like? 11. The Plan: Daily Routine: What does a daily routine look like? I'll give you a brief rundown of what mine looks like. And you may interpret that however you wish and change it and mold it, whatever works best for you. So for me, I write my goal every single morning. It's usually not the first thing I do. It's usually within about ten minutes of me waking up ten to 15 minutes. But it's pretty close to the first thing I do every morning. I'll let you decide if you want to do the exercise of the ten goals every day for a month? I did a form of that. I didn't do it for quite that long. But I know what my major definite purpose is and I've locked onto that and that is the single greatest thing that would improve my life. I'm honed in on that. So that's the direction I'm going. So that is what I write every day. And after that, I tried to spend a minute to three minutes visualizing what my life would be like if this was happening. I tried to visualize all that out as though I was already there. Looking back to now in another aspect of visualization that I've started to do every evening before I go to bed is I have started this process. This this will take a lot of working up for you to be able to do it took me a long time. But I've started to visually walk through an entire day minute by minute of what my life would be like if I was living. That way, it translates real-time. So if I sit and visualize 30 minutes of that, I move 30 minutes in my day. So it's incredibly taxing and very difficult. But the results are insane. I've only been doing it a few days and my behavior is already changing the way I talk to people, it's already changing the way I respond. The way I motivated it is changing is incredible. I'm, yeah, I'm excited to see how this works and how far it takes me. But again, that is taking me a long time we get up to, but I would really encourage you to try it when you visualize. Don't just visualize random scenarios. Put yourself through an activity that you would have or through an hour, like tried to make it real time if you can. The last thing is spend a little bit of time, a few minutes each day, deciding on what will take you closer to your goal and write that out, refer to part number ten, step number ten of the goal list where you make a plan, refer to that plan, create a step-by-step process. Every single day, you should have a list of what you want to accomplish, what needs to be accomplished to keep you on track. And then that should line up with your week, with your month and with your year. Very, very important. So have that list, step into that and work towards achieving that in your day. 12. Learning to Dream Big: Now this isn't gonna be very short portion of this whole process, but I do just, I feel like I need to throw it in here. This one is about dreaming big and this doesn't fit terribly well into this whole process. I really feel like it's important because we often overestimate what we can do in a year and we underestimate what we can do in ten years. And so this whole process is about helping you dream. Usually the things that happen in our life first started as a thought whereas an imagination, all of it, it actually. So learning how to dream big, learning how to look out ten years in your life and say, This is where I want to be. It's not that you're going to accomplish that necessarily. It's about learning to look in advance, learning to imagine, and learning to look for possibilities. And so you'll quickly realize that you hardly have the capacity right now to dream big enough for ten years. And it is really, really good for you. Write out 510 years in the future and imagine no limitations. Absolutely none. And again, this is not about we're not going to break this down necessarily an actionable steps. This is simply about creating a framework, a foundation. Where would you want to be, what would you want to be doing in a perfect world with no limitations if you knew that you could not fail, where would you want to be? And just dream it up. Imagine and try to see the value of that. Because we, we often completely underestimate what we can do by doing this. It, it's allowing us to open up the realm of possibility, like okay, So we view our world in a box, right? We see our reality a certain way based on assumptions that we have, that we don't even know that we have. And what this does is it takes this box of our reality, of our world, of what we think is possible, of our abilities. And it stretches it out. It makes it bigger, gives us more room of possibility. And suddenly you start realizing that our framework of life is really narrow. And so this whole exercise is simply about stretch out that possibility and stretch out your life of possibility. Yeah, create the mindset of being able to visualize and imagine something massive. So again, the whole thing, the whole exercise is just about stretching out your fabric of reality and expand what you think is possible even if you don't achieve it, it does something for your mind. I can't explain it until you actually do it, but it just, it does something to just dream of what your ideal world would be like in ten years. It's called blue-sky thinking, where you look up at a blue sky, endless possibilities and just think like, Okay, what would happen to you if you actually created that in the future? What would your life be like, like any imagine every aspect of your life. Where would you be living physically? Where would your mental capacity be? Mental space, mental disciplines. How would your body be? Would you be fit? Would you be strong? Would you have broken certain habits at that point? Would you've broken addictions at that point? Where, where would you be at? And just dialogue and just imagine that world and try to step into it in as much detail as you can. What would your perfect family life be like, you know, all this stuff? And then if you really feel adventurous, reverse engineer it. Ask yourself this question. What is stopping me from achieving my tenure goals in the next six months? Now the goal is not to actually do it in six months, although that might actually be possible, depending what it is. But if you just take time to write out answers for that question, 95% of it is probably going to be useless, but the 5% of it that is useful will most likely be pure gold. And it will most likely dramatically move you in the right direction. So that is an exercise I would highly recommend for you to do. It has helped me significantly in my life. Unsuccessful people tend to wonder like if something can be done or not. Successful people. They don't ask if it can be done. They ask how it can be done. And there's a huge difference in mindset that, that is, that's what we want to cultivate. 13. The Project: Now for the project portion of this, if you care to share, we would love to see what you came up with with your either your ten goals that you came up with that you wrote out every single day or your main definite purpose. The biggest thing that will bring improvement to your life. Just maybe take a picture of your writings or maybe a screenshot or whatever and just post it in the comments. Or I might put a link down in the project descriptions as well where you can upload it and we can review it and comment on it and things like that. So it's up to you what you want to post down there. But I would recommend posting either your main definite purpose and how you plan to accomplish it. Or post the ten, the ten goals that you want to accomplish in the next 12 months. And we're all here to help each other out. We're all here to give advice and to encourage each other onwards. So, yeah, no one's gonna be criticizing each other. And we're all here too, help each other accomplish these things and move in that direction to continuously keep moving. So don't be shy. We'd love to see it. And this will also create a permanent record that you can come back and refer to in a year or three years or ten years. Yeah, as you go about achieving these goals, feel free to post updates and say, hey, here's where I'm at or Hey, this thing doesn't really work for me or hey, like this, I thought it wouldn't work, but it absolutely did work. Thank you so much for sticking with me this whole way through this process. If you watch this all in one sitting, I feel your pain because I recorded this all in one setting. So yeah. I respect that a lot. And I just want to offer a encouragement to you because it is challenging and it is tiring to move in this direction to pursue something like this in life. But it is incredibly rewarding. And I want to encourage you in that. I want to say pursue that. And keep that mindset as you get older and as you move through life and as you do accomplish these things, move on to the next thing, keep, keep growing. Happiness in life comes from continually growing. If you learn something from this, please consider sending if someone else send them your Skillshare referral link so that you get a free month. I mean, why not? And yeah, I just, I really want to encourage you in accomplishing these things. Because it is, it's incredibly invaluable and it's very enriching for our lives.