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1. Welcome!: This is Leon and welcome to my mini-course on goal setting. In this course, I'll teach
you how to set smart goals, how to create
systems that get you to your goals and
how to reflect on your system to
optimize it and see if your system is
actually working. So I suggest you go
through it in order. If you don't, you'll probably lose contexts and
you'll be confused. So don't skip through it, just watch it in order. It's only 30 min and it will change the
rest of your life. I guarantee you're going to
learn a lot and have fun.
2. The Problem: If you're anything like me, you know what it is like to set up goals and not reach them. I've set up so many goals. I remember clearly having
the nice little notebook. Like I went, I was into
self-improvement for the first time and I
went to the store. I bought this
beautiful notebook. It was like kinda
like that *******, you know, that dark letter. And those nice pages as like, this is my year, I'm going to kill this ****. And I got to my desk
and I started writing. I was all excited. I
was all motivated. I was all inspired. I set up all these goals
and fast forward one year, I don t think I
reached any of them. It's like there's a good chance if you're watching
this video that you have experienced
that in the past, you set these amazing goals even if they don't even
have to be outrageous. Not like 1 million subscribers
from zeros, right? On YouTube. But like, like maybe
even conservative, I wanna do this many push-ups. I want to do this
many workouts, fine. Just calls any goal, right? What is the problem? Why do we not get these goals? Why do we look back
into the year, look at the goals and
we're like, oh ****, and now I can cross
off this one. This one I didn't make this one. I didn't make this one.
I didn't make that one. I didn't make ****. And then next year you'll do the
same ******* thing. You go back into the
notebook you like, this is really my year. Last year I was I was just a
young in I wasn't grown up. I didn't know as
much as I know now. And what Schweizer
I'm much more grown, much more like an adult now, whatever the **** right? You go back and you write more goals and
you're like, Okay, I think the goals
from last year, I put them for this year, but I optimize them. I make, I make, make
them even grander. Because now you've read
some book that told you it's better to set
super grant goals. And then, you know, you
only reach ten per cent of them than to set these
conservative goals and then not make
them at all, right? Now he said the super grant
goals and fast forward, one year, you'll look
back and you're like, Oh ****, I didn't
really reach my goals. And you're like, you know, when I was young, I was Alice. Now I really get it now I really understand it, right?
Let me do this. You just keep doing
the same thing. You just keep doing
the same thing. It doesn't even
have to be a year. It could be weekly goals, it could be month goals. It's just you don't
reach your goals. I'm gonna give you some
practical steps so you can actually really
accomplish your goal.
3. S.M.A.R.T. Goals: The first thing is you have
to know about smart goals. Smart goals are
specific, measurable, achievable, realistic,
time-based goals. This means your goal is very specific with when
it should be done, how it should be done
and what should be done. There's no ******* leeway, there is no ******* room for your own interpretation
is very, very literal. Those specific means that
is the specific, right? It's just a literal goal. Measurable means that
it's measurable. You can track your progress. If you go to the gym and you
want to bench or 100 pounds, you can track your way
to 100 pounds, right? You can see, okay, this workout, AT this workout, 85909500,
boom, done, right. You can track your progress. Let's say e.g. you said, I want to learn JavaScript. Is this a good goal
or a bad golden? First, think about this.
Is this a good goal? Yes or no? No, it's not. Why not? I want to learn JavaScript
is super broad. I could go right now, type in a website, how to learn JavaScript, read the page. And I've accomplished
my goal in some way. I can, I can ******* code. But I've learned
something, right? I probably learned
something about JavaScript. So now I have learned something
about JavaScript, right? So this is not a good goal. A good goal would be, and I don't know anything
about JavaScript, but let's just say I did. It would be, I want to
learn Java script to the point that I can create
a game like Fortnite. I don't, it's not
about JavaScript. And four, I know 49 doesn't
use JavaScript probably, but what if it did
right to the point, I want to be able to make
a game like Fortnite, and it should be done by
31st of December 2023. This is specific. This is measurable
because I can see okay, it's my game now like Fortnite. And I can say yes or no. It's not like some
randomness is very specific. It should be like Fortnite. I should be able to make
the same game as fortnight. When should it be done? It should be done
right. Time-based. It should be done
31st, December 20, 23. Now, is this a achievable goal or realistic goal? Not really. Why? Because learning by
yourself to code a ******* for Fortnite game in one year from no coding experience is
not really realistic. So this wouldn't
actually be a good goal. But if you were like, if this was a realistic goal, so to say, that is how
you want to define it. So much more realistic would be, I wanna be able to venture 100
pounds by the 31st of May. Specific is 100 pounds, right? It's time-based is by 31st
of May is achievable. Right. So it's not something
super out of the ordinary, like people have
done that before in the span of six months,
three months, whatever. It is, that smart goals, you lay it out and there's
no room for interpretation. If I give you the goal, if I tell you your goal is to bench 100 pounds by 31st of May. Now, it's the same as me. If I tell you, your goal
is to learn JavaScript, and my goal is to
learn JavaScript. It's random. We could both end up somewhere completely
different, right? But if I say we
should be able to bench or 100 pounds
by 31st of May. Now it's the same goal. There's no room for your own. It can be 31st domains. Oh, well, but I
thought you meant, you know, 100 pounds
and 20 pounds. I thought you meant 100 and
that makes no sense, right? It's very, very specific. Now the other thing
too is to make that even better would
be you want to be able to bench or 100 pounds for five reps. Now it's even
more specific. Right? Now you're really zooming
in and I want it to be a full rep like to the to the chest and
backup all the way. Not like a half rep. Right. So that would be
even more specific. The more specific you
can be, the better.
4. The Solution: Now the next thing you
wanna do is you want to set up a system having the goal itself is just the first step, is just a tiny part
of the process. It's kinda like just
going to the gym. Now you still have to
do the workout, right? I went to the gym but now
I have to do the workout. So that is the system. They have a really cool quote. I don't know who said
it, but it is you don't rise to the
level of your goals, you fall to the level
of your systems. And this is 100 *******
percent true, right? What happened when
we think back to our example of laying out your grant New Year's goals and then not achieving
them a year later. It was because you had no system set up to
achieve that goal. So the only thing you had
in mind was the goal, but you didn't really have the steps in order to get
to that goal in mind.
5. How To Set Up Systems: How do you set up a system? A system is really just
if you think about it, a, a combination of habits, it's just a bundle of habits. For my YouTube channel, I built a very specific system. The system is as
follow, a Saturday, I record all my
videos on Sunday, I edit my own video. I produced two videos
a week on Sunday, I edit my own video. Then I spent an hour on creating seven community posts that I schedule every day of the week. So I don't have to go every day and make
a community polls. I make the I put them ahead. Then I take the TikToks, right? I take the TikToks that my TikTok guy makes and
I download them and I put them on the shorts
and I schedule those two for so that they released
one short every day. Right. That is my system. Then on Sunday, I make
the thumbnails for my two videos and I already upload the video I edited
with the thumbnail, right? Then I wait for my other editor to
finish the other video, and then I upload that
one with the thumbnail. Then I do after I
upload the video, I do the descriptions and the
title and all that stuff. And then basically it's
yeah, that's pretty much it. Then it's done. Then I did everything, so to say, now the other thing, the other system is when
I finished a video, I take off the sound, I think of the background music. I just leave the voice
and the sound effects. And if you know the visuals, I send it to the TikTok guy. That TikTok guy now has its own system where
he takes the video, he puts captions, and
then he divides them, he cuts them up, and then
he post them on TikTok. That part I outsourced. I could do all of that myself, but it takes some time. And I rather not put that
time in that right eye, rather use that time to record,
edit, blah, blah, blah. So that is my system. Now, this is very specific. I know this is happening,
that is happening. This should be done then
this should be done, then this is on Sunday,
this is on Wednesday. This is on it's very specific. So the system is set up in a way that there's
no room for error, is really, really specific.
6. System Example 1: So let's say I want
to bench 200 pounds by 31st of December next year. I think that's achievable. I think that's
pretty achievable. It should be for one rep, let's say for one written,
I have to make a system. What is the system container? Well, the system is everything that helps me achieve that goal. So I have to figure
out how many times am I going to train my chest
with what exercises, what reps, what sets, how am I going to eat, right? That has to do with
it. Yeah, that's basically pretty much
training and eating. That's both the training,
eating and resting. That's pretty much all when
it comes to building muscle. And then you have to the
details would be the form. How do you do the bench? Press the exact form with your
arms and blah, blah, blah. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna
train test twice a week. In my full body workout. I want to do at least
three exercises for my chest per workout. So that will be a
normal bench press. I will do an incline
dumbbell press, and I will do chess
flies. Right. Now I'm going to say
every exercise I want, I want at least four
sets of bench press. I want a three sets of
inclined dumbbell presses, and I want two
sets of chest fly. Then I'm going to say, how am I going to progressive overload? And I'm going to
make one video about progressive overload because I found a really
simple and easy way to take care of
progressive overload. I'm gonna do my exercises for ten to 12 reps. On the
higher side of rep ranges. If I can do ten on my first set, I have to drop the
weight by five pounds. If I can do 12th, I can add five pounds. If I do 11, I'll stay
the same, right? I started bench pressing, let's say I do 12th
on the first set. Now I can add
two-and-a-half now, and I do a higher weight
right now I can do 11. I stayed the same. The next set, I only had ten. Now I have to drop the
weight by five pounds. Then the last set, right? I believe four sets. I do
minus, minus five pounds. I do this with every set I do
for every exercise, right? So I always know when I hit 12, I can go up a weight
scale, right? That way. I can really track it. Now. I'm going to track it
every time I do one set, I track it in my abs strong
app that I got from Hamza, where you can put in your
reps or sets and you can track every workout really
nice. I really like it. And I'm going to take
the bench press. I'm going to take 3 min
rest every set, right? That's another specific. Now I'm going to carry this
out for a couple of weeks. That's my first system, That's my first draft. So let's see.
7. How to find out if you have a Working System: After a few weeks, I will see my progress
and I can say, okay, let's say I start with 100 pounds and I want
to reach 200, right? If in January, if my progress
is only 400, 205, right? I only gained five pounds in
weight that I can now push. I can clearly see
this is likely not going to work because what
there's 12 months in a year. If my rate of progression
is five pounds a month from 105 times 12 is 60, I'm gonna be able to lift 160 pounds when it
comes to December. So I'm not going
to reach my goal. So then I got to
re-evaluate and see, okay, something in my system
isn't working, right? How do I get faster progression? Maybe I'm not eating enough. Maybe I'm doing too many reps. Maybe I'm doing the same
exercises all the time and my chest isn't It's not
feeling like I want to grow. Maybe I should add
some other exercises. Maybe I'm not doing
correct form. Maybe I'm not doing enough sets. Maybe I need to do three
chess workouts per week. This is not about
the details and it's not above the
chest workout itself. This is just an example. I'm just trying to explain
you the concept of creating a system
to reach your goal. Now, at the end of the month when I have
established like okay, So the problem is probably here that I'm not
pushing myself, let's say class, keep it simple. I'm not putting
myself whenever I feel some pain, I stopped. I stopped. Right. I'm not really going
towards that last rep. I'm just kinda cutting it short. Then I know the next month I
have to make sure to set up a system that it
takes care of that. So a system or to take
care of that problem could be whenever I feel pain, I have to do three more reps. I have to because normally when I start
feeling pain, I stop. Now I say every time I
feel pain I have to do at least three more reps
if I can make three, Let's say I do too
and my muscle really can't do it anymore than
I have succeeded. Why? Because now I pushed
past the pain. The goal is to push past
the paint goes not to do three reps after
paying the goals. Actually push past
the pain, right. So but the three reps, I'm just setting that
as a requirement to make that psychological
switch to say, this is what you have
to do when again, system, it's the system.
8. How To Handle Problems in your System: Let's say you have a problem and you're a *******
you said like, I want to upload one
TikTok every day for 365 days, you miss a day. And you say, Okay, my goal is now not able to be
written anymore, but I still want to do the
other 364 just in any number. I have to set up a system to make sure this doesn't happen. I have to set up a
fail-safe that in the event that I lose my ******* video project or I lose all videos or my
whole computer crashes, I can still upload something. How am I going to do that? I make sure every week
I have two backups. Could be on your phone, could be on a different phone, could be on a PC, could
be on a USB stick, could be on an SD card. It doesn't matter if you have some kind of feels safe, right? And this is four,
and this is again, this is not specific
to the example. This can be for anything, right? If I miss a chest
workout in the month, I have to set up a
fail-safe for okay. Let's say something happens and I'm not able
to go to the gym. How am I still going to
make that progression to not keep me from achieving
the 200 pounds bench press. And this is systems. You have to really carefully
think about systems. And the way you do that is
basically you just think of, okay, this is my goal. What do I need to
get to that goal? I need to grow a
bigger chest muscle. What do I need to do to
grow a bigger chest muscle? I need to exercise and I need to eat well, what exercises? What do I need to eat? I need to eat this much protein. I need to do these
kind of exercises. Okay, Nice. How are you going to make
sure you eat all that? I'm going to make. I'm going to use the app and I'm going to ******* track all the food I eat and I'm gonna make sure
I hit my calorie goal. How do you make sure
that you use the app? Stupid things, stupid things
that you don't think of. But how, how are you
going to make sure you could easily just
sit there and be like, oh ****, I forgot to
track my food Yesterday. I make sure I set up an alarm on my phone that goes
off every ******* evening at 07:00 and it hits me with that you track your caloric intake and every time I know
there's no ****, I did and I have to
go back and fill it in right then and
there. Right. Right. As my alarm goes off, what if I can't what if I'm in some kind
of ******* meeting? I'm at the cinema and watching movie and my
alarm goes off there. I have to set up another alarm that goes off after I finished watching the movie or
after I finished watching the presentation or
whatever I'm doing, right? That is a system. You have a system. This is saying this is
what you need to do them. And you have a system that says, if in the occasion that it feels in the occasion
that you can, what do you do then? That is a system.
9. How Long Does It All Take?: Now a system is
not something you develop in one ******* go. Most of the time,
you can develop, let's say, 70% of
your system at once. You just sit down, you take all your 23 goals and you go and you build
them out and you make a checklist of all the
things you need to do to make sure to do all the
things you need to do. And then the next time,
after you do it for awhile, you go back and you
reflect and you're like, Is this a good system? Well, this is not
working because every time I do this, something
happens, right? The gym is closed at that time, so I can go to the
gym at that time. So I need to find another
way to still get to the gym, but I don't really have
other times that I can go. So you have to you have to maneuver your way
and you have to find solutions for the
little problems and the bigger problems that
pop up along the way. And that's how you
develop your system.
10. Transform Systems into Succesful Businesses: But most people become rich
because of their systems. They just built a system
that works really well. If you think about
it, a business is pretty much the same thing. You provide a surface
and that's a system. That's a system you
create it and you just use it for
someone else, right? Tasty drink. People
want a tasty drink, people don't want to
drink water all the time. So we're going to
create a really nice physically
drink, Coca-Cola. And then you build a system
to get Coca-Cola to people. How do you do that? You set up a factory. You need to hit the ingredients, you need to make the
Coca-Cola itself, which is a whole
process in itself. You need to ship the Coca-Cola. You need to make deals
with businesses and stores to distribute,
distribute the Coca-Cola. You need to market
Coca-Cola so people actually know that
it is available. Then there's a whole
bunch of things and that is what you
call a whole system. The whole system of Coca-Cola
is very big and very grant, if you look at it
from this angle, is simple in a way, right? It's just a chain of processes and it's just
a chain of habits that different people
do that makes sure that the Coca-Cola comes to you. And that's how you
want to think about pretty much everything. Where is the business? ******* personal goal, right? Like bench pressing 200 pounds a service, *******
YouTube channel. It's all just you and habits, you and your habits. The CEO of Coca-Cola has certain habits that make
him the CEO, right? And it's just your
habits that make everything that you
get in your life.
11. Succes Comes Down To Habits: The results in your life
or just because of habit, It's literally really crazy when you really start to see
that and you really start to link like everything is super calculated in a weird way. It's like, how can I say? It's like I would like
my other video where I explained like, it's a recipe, it's not really like they make you believe it is.
It's not random. It's not like, oh, I'll just try really hard and hopefully someday That's
really not what it is. It's really just you do this
then, then you do this, then you do this,
then you do this, then you do this, then you
do this, then you do this. And if you do enough
of that and you do more of it than anybody else, you'll be the best guy, right? If you, let's say tennis, right? You have to do this practice, this practice, this practice. You have to start this
early of an age, right? You have to start
at four years old. You have to do these practices. And then if you do more of these practices
than anybody else, there's a big chance
that you're going to be the best tennis player
in the world, right? So that's basically how you really *******
start to ******* demolish your goals
and really start to see that it is that mathematical
and there's no luck. There's, yes, there is chance involved in life hits
you from different ways with ups and downs and there's ******* random **** going on. But the habits that you have to practice every
day are still the same. Like, I'm never going to be a famous YouTuber if I
don't upload videos, if you want to make
it as simple as possible in order to
be a famous YouTuber, the biggest thing
you need to do, the single most important
Vi, thing, upload videos. Because if that one falls away, you can do everything, you can create the best video. But if you don't
upload it, right? Same with bench pressing. I can do the most
amazing workout, but if I don't eat
enough, right? So sometimes it's a
one plus one, right? So strength training
plus eating food, right? I'm making videos plus
uploading videos like it's not. If you know, make a video, there's nothing to upload, but nowadays it's pretty
easy to make a video. You just have to press record
and press Stop Recording. Now you have a video
you could upload that you can choose to not
do, you could choose to, but what you do will eventually determine
where you're going to end up.
12. Class Project: Welcome to the class project. In this class project, you're going to set
your first smart goal. Now for the smart girl. Now for this smart goal, I want you to pick an easy, achievable goal, such as, I want to go to the gym
two times this week. That's a very measurable, achievable, realistic,
Time-based goal. It shouldn't be very
results oriented. Don't pick something that
is very results oriented. Like I want to lose ten
pounds or I want to make this amount of money because
the time is too short. I want you to finish this
class project within a week. I want you to set a smart goal
that's achieved with bot. That I want you to
set a smart goal that is achievable
within this week. Now when you have set the goal, something like, I want to
publish my first YouTube video. I want to publish my first
YouTube video by Sunday, or I wanna go to
the gym two times. B, I want to go to the gym
two times before Sunday. I want you to go deeper. I want you to get more specific. When are you going to do it? Where are you going to do it
and what are you gonna do? For the gym example, I would say, When am I
gonna go to the gym? I'm gonna go
Wednesday and Friday. How long do I want to
go to the gym for? I'm going to go for 30 min. I want to work out for
30 min on Wednesday, I want to work out
for 30 min on Friday. Now, what am I going to workout? I'm going to workout cardio. I'm not gonna do 15
min of cardio and then I'm gonna do 15 min
of weightlifting. And that's for both workouts. Now, what weightlifting
am I gonna do? What cardio am I gonna do? I'm gonna go on a treadmill for 15 min and I'm going to
do 10 min of walking and then five-minutes of running at a speed of 9 mi an hour. And then I'm going to go do some bicep curls and I'm going
to do some bench pressing. Now on a Friday, I'm going to do some leg pressing for
the weightlifting. And I'm going to do some apps. And I'm also going to
do the same, you know, 10 min of treadmill, 10 min of walking, and five-minutes of running. Now where am I going to go to? I'm gonna go to
destroy him right in the area. Super specific. You want to get so
specific that there's no thinking involved when you
finally go to do the thing. Because what happens
is when people set those goals and then
they go to the gym. Now they're at the gym
and they're like, okay, what now is like,
they have no plan. So you want to get very specific within your plan as to
what you're gonna do. Where are you going to do,
how long you're gonna do it? When you're gonna
do it, everything should be covered so
that when you show up, there's no more thinking
to do is just execution. And that is a
well-thought out plan. A well-thought out
plan means that when you finally start to
execute the plan, there is no more thinking, there's no more feeling, there's no more decision-making. The decisions were
all made beforehand. Now it's just you doing
the habits, doing the, doing the actions, doing
the physical performance. For the first YouTube video,
you're going to publish it. Let's say you want to publish your first YouTube video is
gonna be the same thing. How long is the video gotta be? What is the topic going
to be of the video? How are you going to
write the script? Are you going to work?
What kind of camera, what kind of footage do
you want for the video? Are you gonna go
outside and film it? Are you going to
just stay inside? Are you going to make
a video like me or you just talk to the camera,
all these things, you want to plan them out so
that when you go to do them, there's no more
thinking involved. All right, so when you get that, so when you said that for a smart goal that is
attainable within a week, upload it to me, email it to me, and I will give
you some feedback. If you're if you're sure
about it and you're like, No, I get it, I understand it. I don't need the feedback. Fine. Go execute it. And then let me know
what your results were, what you're and then let me know what
your experience was. If you need some if you
need some feedback, feel free to email me. And I will provide you
with some feedback and we can get we can get you started
on your first smart goal. Much luck.
13. Conclusion: This is really the most
in-depth, really ******* crazy. Like I would say, this video is really
all you need for everything you ever want
to achieve in life, right? Okay. Not detailed,
specific nuanced knowledge like specific
to your niche maybe, but it is generally
how any business, how you reach any goal, how you do anything in life. It's really that. So if you can take the knowledge
in this video and really apply to everything
you do per year. As I always say, stick with
it through up and down, and let's live in peace.
14. Important - What's Next!?: So right now you should
be ready to set up your goals and set up systems in order to get to your goals. But now comes the
most important part which is executing your system. This is what people
call the hard work. Here is where 80
per cent of people, even with a well-thought-out
plan, still fail. Procrastination, adversity, complacency and loss of motivation are your
biggest enemies here. But what if there was a
way to make your journey not bearable, but
actually enjoyable, scientific research
shows that the key to success is tied to your
personal identity, the way you see yourself or
who you believe you are. By aligning with a new identity, you can naturally
stop self-sabotage, attract your positive habits that you need to
accomplish your goals. Lucky for you, I've created a
step-by-step program called the blueprint to help you
succeed in all areas of life. So go ahead to my
YouTube videos and in the description you will
find a link to my website where you can find a
free identity worksheet where you can start
working on your identity. In there you'll find a secret
link to the Blueprint. So go there right now and
take the first step towards your new identity and start
achieving your goals today.
Léon Flows, Helping young men achieve greatness
