Use this goal activator. In this episode, I'm going to address the question that
many people, parents, grandparents have asked me even business owners how do I
set realistic and achievable goals. I use one form and you're going to see how
powerful this is to set goals that are realistic achievable and in a timeframe
that they can achieve them. And it goes from 55% up to over 90% chance
you will achieve your goals.
Hi, I'm Doug Andrew. If this is the first time you viewed one of my YouTube
episodes, welcome. If you've watched several of them, welcome back. You may
need to understand where I'm coming from as I explain some of these thinking
tools. Because I've helped people individuals, families institutions
businesses achieve their goals for 4 and a half decades. And so, many times,
people ask me questions like, "Well, how do you set goals? How do you make sure they
come to fruition?" So, I have lots of different ways but I simplified the best
way to achieve goals on one 8½ x 11 form. So, I'm going to share
it with you right now. Because I have a whole suite of tools. 20 of my favorite
ones that I put in my toolbox. Some of them I put on a tool belt so to speak.
And I want to empower you on how to do this. You could do this on a blank sheet
of paper. Or you're welcome to use my form if you stay with me to the end of
this. I'll give you the opportunity to download some of these tools absolutely
free. So, this is what I call the legacy masters toolbox. And in this tool box, one
of my favorite ones is the goal activator. It's very, very simple. But as
you sit down and write a goal that you want to have, I've often taught my
children. We have 6 children, 17 grandchildren. My wife and I sherry, we've
been married 47 years. And many times we'll gather together and write down the
goals that we have for our future, the next month, the next 3 months, the
next year. And so, this particular form helps us to get super clear on how we're
going to set goals. Now, you probably heard of SMART goals. On another episode, I
talked about the acronym SMART. See a SMART goal is one that is Specific,
that's the S and SMART. Specific. And M is measurable. You got to be able to measure
your progress as you're going along. The A stands for it's got to be Attainable,
okay? You got to make sure that you can attain that goal it's not out of reach.
And then the R is it's got to be relevant. I mean, I see people writing
down goals that aren't even relevant to what they want to achieve in their life.
So, Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant. What's the T for? In a
specific time frame, you've got to put down the time, the deadline that you will
achieve that goal. So, that's a SMART goal. And once you have that down, then it's
very simple as you fill out this form. So, I'm going to go through this step by step
and use an actual example of maybe a goal that you might want to set that
many couples coming to my various educational events in our legacy masters.
And a mastermind group have actually used this form in order to set a
specific goal. So, we have the form where we write down of course your name and
date at the top. But you write down the goal and your articulated very top. So, as
you do that, it says, you've got your goals in place but that's just half the
battle, right? Use this tool to get into motion and bring those goals to fruition.
Ready, set, goal. Now, your write down the goal, okay? And you put over here the
ideal date for that goal to be accomplished. So, as you get it written
down here, you go through 6 boxes. The first box. What inspired you
to achieve this goal? Why do you want to do this? What inspired you to do that? You
get very clear and you begin to fill out these boxes here. So, let's say the goal
is to have our family bank. Now, if you don't know what a family bank is, if you
watch some of my other episodes, you're going to want one. Because everybody wants
one once they learn what it is. In a nutshell, a family bank is not a
chartered bank like down the street. This is a conceptual Bank. A repository where
throughout your lifetime, you gather together all of your assets. Not just
financial. You can put your money, your real estate and everything in that
family bank. But more important than the C-A-S-H is the K-A-S-H.
That's an acronym that stands for Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills and Habits.
That spells the acronym Kash. So, we deposit in our family bank the knowledge
that we have obtained from good and bad experiences. The attitudes that we've
developed. The skills that we've developed. And the the actual habits that
have helped us to become successful. And so, we deposit all of that besides the
financial assets. And then we allow our children our posterity, with
responsibility and accountability to withdraw out of the family bank. Not just
money. If they want to borrow or be given a a matching fund for college or
whatever, they have to have skin in the game. That's one of the rules in our
family bank. But more important than having access to money, it's having
access to the knowledge, attitude, skills and habits so they don't make the same
mistakes that we've made. And then they deposit their experiences and good and
bad and what they've learned into the family bank. And our family bank record
is huge. And we can go in and withdraw wisdom and knowledge and look at those
experiences forever and help one another. So, this is what I mean by a family bank.
So, let's say the goal is to have a family bank established and our trust
(these are people that usually have a trust) change to equal opportunity
instead of equal distribution. Most trusts are
when your die, it's divided up equally and dumped in their laps. Equal distribution.
Most people want to do equal opportunity. So, this is a goal for many of our
attendees. And this is rules of governance on how they're going to help
their posterity with a college education, the purchase of a first home,
humanitarian trips, business endeavor. And introduced this at a family retreat at
the end of the summer. Now, the first time somebody filled this out, they were
looking forward to the summer of the year 2020. So, let's say that's the goal.
This is an actual goal somebody made. So, if they have to have this ready by
August of the year 2020. So, down here, what inspired you to achieve this goal?
Well, reading my book Entitlement Abolition is what they wrote down.
Reading this book and belonging to my legacy Master's mastermind group is what
inspired them. Knowing that I have the resources to learn and implement this
goal with both audio and video technology and a master class. So, that's
why they were inspired. What's number 2? What positive motivation will keep you
focused on this goal? So, when you set a goal, what positive motivation is going to
keep you focused? They wrote down by attending the quarterly, legacy
mastermind workshop. Because I hold a quarterly workshop for these mastermind
groups. And learning how to use these types of tools, abundant living tools
will keep us on track to methodically learn and implement these ideas
correctly. So, they wanted to stay connected. Number 3, what are the
ideal results that will be achieved when this goal is reached? They wrote down to
get our families buy-in. Make sure everybody's on the same page and not
have any empty chairs. They don't want any of their kids excluded. And have
everyone on board with the lingo and the terminology of what a family bank is. And
to be responsible and accountable and so forth. Equal opportunity living with skin
in the game so everybody understands what that means. This is what they needed
to do to have the ideal results. Is this making sense? Let's go over to the other
side of the page. You know, when this couple showed me this form filled out, it
thrilled me. Because they got it. They understood how to use this
tool to really get clear on how they were going to achieve this goal. So over
here on number 4, "How do you plan to accomplish the goal most effectively?"
Well, they wrote down by using the Entitlement Abolition book as a study
guide both hardcopy and the audio. Because I have this an audio version. And
have a download conference call once a quarter with our children. So, they began
to do this. I had a widow who did this with her 6 children. She came in and
got 6 copies of the book. And she has a monthly conference call. This one did it
quarterly. Meet at Thanksgiving and holidays to frame and solidify the dates
for the family retreat with the purpose in August of the year 2020, okay? Number
5, it says here who are the abundant minded support people that will cheer
you on word to complete this goal, okay? They wrote down, "We can use videos and
resources of Doug Andrew" on my website and my YouTube channel. And it says here,
"Susie and John..." These are their children. "...already are on board and are excited.
David and Lara are somewhat skeptical." Does this sound familiar? Yeah,
sometimes kids are skeptical. "What are you up to mom and dad?" But open to
listening what we're trying to accomplish using activities. For example,
I've had many people say, "Where we're going to have a family retreat with a
purpose?" "What? I just want to go sit under a palm tree. I just want to go relax. I
don't want to go learn." Well... And when they go and do this, they're only really
gathering for 90 minutes a day because then it's tax deductible if they all
have their own entities. I teach that in another episode. But see every time when
you get resistance and you don't get the family's buy-in, I said "Trust us. You will
love this." And you gamify it. You make it fun. I have all kinds of agendas
on how to have family vacations with a purpose. Invariably, the kids come back
"That was the best vacation we ever had. When's the next one?" But it takes a
little while to get everybody on board and they know that. Okay. So, the last.
Number 6 is "What is the first action you are going to take in order to imp
your plan?" What did they write down? Deliver a copy of Entitlement Abolition
to everyone and set up a monthly family conference call on the first Sunday of
each month at 9:00 P-M. So, at 9:00 P-M, mountain time, they had children and in
the Pacific time zone in one of the eastern time zone. And discuss what a
family bank is and why we want to establish one for us and have a family
retreat with a purpose. This one 8½ x 11
sheet of paper, they filled out in less than 30 minutes. And that husband and
wife... And in the other case this sweet widow that had 6 children were so
excited. And she delivered these 6 copies of the book. And the family is all
on board. Some of them aren't quite sure yet but they're all saying, "Okay, we're in.
We're in. And we're going to come on this thing. And we will be on the family
conference call every month, mom." Can you think of anything better to get your
goals crystallized written down and realize
why it is important and the action steps to move forward and be accountable. This
is incredible. How simple is this? I want to empower you to be able to use these
types of forms. If this intrigued you and you would like
a copy of my forms, you're welcome to do that. Go to EAbooktools.com.
EA stands for Entitlement Abolition. You'll be able to get a free copy of
this book if you'd like sent to you for 5.95 shipping and handling. I
explain the tools in here. But if you just want to download the tools, these
are 20 of my favorite ones. And you get five of them absolutely free if
you'd like. And if you want to, you can pay a nominal fee and have access to all
of them. So, feel free to go in. This is about you and I would love to send you a
free copy of the book Entitlement Abolition.