- Good morning, good life, friends.
If you're like me,
you have a hard time telling people
what you really truly want in life.
Oh, I've made that mistake before.
It's always the same thing,
"That's so unrealistic."
Or they just look at you like you're crazy.
Exactly.
So what if your dreams are unrealistic?
Who wants to live a totally mundane, realistic life?
Preach, sister.
But I think I'll be keeping it to myself from now on.
No, don't do that.
It's time to make your dreams a reality,
and that means doing your part to make them happen.
I got inspired on this subject recently
when I saw that the author of "The 4-Hour Workweek"
and overall brilliant life hacker, Tim Ferriss,
posted a challenge on his YouTube community tab.
In it, he explains a process that he still uses
to this day to reignite life.
With an exciting brainstorm exercise to help you dig
for those unrealistically incredible life dreams.
So let's do it together.
Let's get unrealistic, shall we?
What do you want for yourself?
Tim specifically asked in this exercise
to think about a six month and a 12 month timeline.
For the sake of the writing exercise,
we're just gonna focus on six months.
So what do you want for yourself in the next six months?
Tim suggests creating a list
of five things in each of these categories.
What do you wanna have,
what do you wanna be, and what do you wanna do?
So what are the things that you wanna have?
What's five things you wanna have in the next six months?
Who do you want to be six months from now?
What's different about your life and who you're emulating?
And what are you doing,
what are you doing on a day-to-day basis
that would make you happier in six months?
Let's start writing this out.
Here is a basic template for how I interpreted
what Tim is asking for.
So we've got five spots to write what we wanna have,
what we wanna be, and what we want to do.
And we're going to look at our goals as six months from now.
That's gonna be this first column here,
that's all we're focusing on right now.
I think it's really important
that you get into the right head space if you're going
to come up with things that actually mean
something to you in this column.
So one thing that you can do
is think about what you don't want.
And we don't wanna simmer on that for too long,
but usually what you really, really don't want
is a great indication of what you do.
You wanna run away from the wall
that you do not want your back against.
So what does that wall look like?
What is your worst case scenario?
What are you afraid of?
Pick the opposite.
Pick something in the right direction,
and write it down as your six month goal.
A couple of questions that Tim brought up as options
for you to think about if you get stumped here is,
what do you do on a day-to-day basis
if you have a hundred million dollars in the bank,
or what would make you the most excited
to wake up every day?
This is the headspace that you should
really be in if what you're gonna write here is meaningful,
and therefore what we do going forward
might actually happen.
So I'm just gonna write some random stuff here,
just to get the wheels turning for you,
'cause I know how much you like ideas.
So what do we wanna have in six months?
Well, I don't have a hundred million dollars in the bank,
I don't know about you.
But I think it'd be a pretty cool goal
if we all had $10,000 laying around.
So let's just say $10,000 saved in six months,
that would be wonderful.
Let's get a new car, book a vacation.
And if I'm gonna go on vacation,
I'd really like to have six pack abs, right, sure.
But if I'm thinking about what's really personal
to me right now, and I don't know if you know this,
but I would really love
to have 1 million YouTube subscribers.
That would be incredible.
But let's say six months from now, let's shoot for 500,000.
Great, now, who do I want to be in six months?
What's some ideas that I have here?
Well, I would love to be, maybe in the long run,
fluent in Italian, but in six months,
conversational Italian.
I've been doing a lot of research on living longer,
potentially new video coming on that at some point,
if you're interested.
And so, I'm thinking about maybe pescatarian.
I wanna be pescatarian and give up meat.
Who doesn't wanna be debt-free?
Let's be, in six months, debt-free.
And for those of you who are looking
for that special someone,
maybe you wanna be in a healthy relationship.
And what do we all want?
We wanna be more organized, let's throw that in there too.
Now, like I said, you might wanna use what's here,
what's resonating your heart,
of the person that you want to be,
you might want to use this list
to tee up what you are going to be doing.
Actually, it might be a lot easier
for you to fill in these spots if you look at your be lines
and you say,
"Okay, well if I want to be conversational in Italian,
what do I want to be able to do?"
And so, one suggestion that Tim makes in his,
when he says talking about being fluent in Chinese,
is that I wanna have a five minute conversation
with a coworker who speaks fluent Chinese.
Somebody who can give a real time feedback
and actually see if you can have a conversation with.
So being conversational, you might write here,
"I want to have five minute conversations."
So if this is your goal,
then maybe you might use that as inspiration here and say,
"Have five minute conversations daily with somebody fluent."
So that's something that you could be doing.
So if you can't come up with anything on your do list,
definitely leverage the be list to figure
out what does someone like this do on a regular basis.
But I came up with a bunch of random dos instead.
Something I'd like to do in six months
is maybe shop for some new furniture.
Maybe you wanna be more active, play a recreational sport,
go on weekend adventures.
If we're gonna be more organized,
we definitely need to wake up earlier.
And some of us are starting a business
or running a business.
But if you haven't started it yet,
then maybe that's something that helps
you with your financial freedom or your debt freedom,
whatever.
Starting a business
is something you wanna be doing in six months.
So this is a random list, yours is gonna look different.
Yours will probably have more common threads
within it than mine does.
I wanted to just have a really robust list to look at here.
But now the next step is, if this is what I want,
if I'm starting to figure out what I want,
we need to know what to do next.
It's really cool to see a wishlist,
but what good is that for me today?
Am I serious about it or not?
So we have three more columns here,
and these are the columns that Tim suggested in his post.
Based on the things that you want, all 15,
based on your list,
what are you gonna do right now
to make the difference toward these goals?
We're gonna come up with something that goes with each dream
that you can do right now.
We're also gonna come
up with what you're gonna do by tomorrow.
And he specifically says it's due at 11:00 a.m.
And then the final is the next day, also due at 11:00 a.m.
What are we gonna do now?
What are we going to do tomorrow?
And what are we gonna do the day after that?
Three steps that he says should take less than five minutes
each in order to help you reach your dreams.
I'm gonna go through this quickly, 'cause I have some ideas.
Handwriting's probably gonna be crazy,
but just hang with me here to get the wheels turning.
What can we do right now to save $10,000,
research fast ways to save.
I could do that right now.
Tomorrow I'm going to choose
the best high interest savings account,
and hopefully open it at the exact same time.
And then the day after that,
I'm gonna move $10 to that account.
I got three days to come up with $10
and where I'm gonna put it,
and get some pointers on how I can do this more quickly.
If I need a new car,
I'm probably feeling pretty stressed about the one I have.
Right now I just wanna cut out a photo of a car
that makes me happy.
The next day I'm gonna decide on my budget,
and the following day I'm gonna pick my top three options,
and just have them as a list.
Alright, if I want my vacation booked
in the next six months, I need to decide where.
Based on what you decide on the following day,
research the average cost.
And the following day we're gonna turn on deal alerts
so we can start watching
for what those costs really look like.
We want six pack abs,
so right now we're throwing out all ultra processed food.
Anything in the house, toss it.
The next day we're gonna make a new rule for health.
So decide, are you gonna cut something out starting tomorrow
at 11:00 a.m?
You never see it again, you're on your way to six pack abs.
If you're me, you gotta cut out bagels, they are a vice.
And the following day we're gonna make a healthy,
easy recipe.
Start getting acquainted with how we need to be eating.
Now, if we want 500,000 subscribers,
we need to plan the next video.
The following day we're gonna schedule filming,
and the next day we're gonna determine our monthly sub goal.
So how many do we need to hit every month
for the next six months in order to get to our goal?
Now, if we wanna be conversationally fluent,
let's Google and memorize a favorite phrase.
So what's a common phrase that you tend to say all the time?
Know it in the language
that you're hoping to learn long term.
We're gonna do the same thing the next day
for a common comment.
So something that you tend to comment regularly.
And the next day, same thing,
Google and memorize a common question.
If there's a specific diet that you would like to emulate
in your life.
Pescatarian is what I wrote here,
maybe there's something else that you're thinking of.
But for pescatarian,
we would say right now I am quitting one meat.
Picking one, and quitting it right now.
Tomorrow I'm gonna look up a new way to replace that meat.
So some recipe that I really like,
replace the meat I'm quitting with something else.
And the next day I'm gonna make that recipe.
If I wanna be debt free right now,
I am going to cut my credit cards, bye.
The next day I'm gonna pay an extra $10 to my debt.
And the following day, I'm gonna call
to negotiate my interest rate.
If I wanna be in a healthy relationship,
something I'm gonna do right now is list my deal breakers.
More importantly,
the next day I'm gonna list all the reasons I love myself.
And the following day,
I'm going to ask a friend if they know anyone.
On our path to becoming more organized right now.
Write three burning questions that bother you.
We don't sit in our questions
long enough to actually realize that they are the path
to figuring out how we reach our goals.
So if you're trying to figure out why you're disorganized,
then write down some of the questions
that bug you about why you think you're disorganized.
The next day we're gonna research answers
to those questions,
and hopefully you're keeping this all in a note
somewhere so you can study up on your organization.
And the following day, we're gonna keep it easy,
just clean one common area.
So, what I mean by common area
is it might be common with other people,
or it might be common that you're there a lot,
and there's some area that you are constantly in that drives
you crazy 'cause it's very disorganized and dirty,
so we're gonna clean that.
Moving on to the do section,
and maybe you have less here because there's a lot of stuff
in be that looked like the do section,
and that's fine because the goal is not to have 50 million
things lit written down on this list,
the goal is to have a bunch of things written on this list
so you can start to see yourself in it,
and gravitate toward it,
and figure out what's most important
to you so that you can do it.
The key is to do something,
so you're writing out a lot of options for you.
There should be something you can do immediately
and in the near future.
But for my fun do list,
here's what we're gonna do right now.
I'm going to pin on Pinterest five vibey furniture photos.
The next day I'm gonna choose my ideal color scheme,
and then I'm going to make a wishlist of pieces
the following day.
For playing a recreational sport,
we're going to ask friends what they play.
The next day, we're gonna watch a doc
on a sport we think we're interested in.
And the following day, research local leagues.
What can we do right now for weekend adventures?
Let's research cool locations one hour's drive away.
Something close and easy.
The next day we're gonna block our first weekend.
So set your calendar for a weekend
you're gonna go on adventure
so that you actually hold yourself accountable to plan it.
And the next day we will choose the location.
What are we gonna do right now if we wanna wake up earlier?
Well, right now we need
to figure out what time to go to bed.
So define tonight's bedtime.
Tomorrow, wake up 15 minutes
earlier than you did this morning.
And the day after, wake up 20 minutes earlier.
If you wanna start a business in six months,
then right now you can text an entrepreneur friend
and ask for their initial advice.
The next day, make a list of five business ideas.
And the following day, after you've thought about it a bit,
circle your favorite.
Just to reiterate, set your timer,
all of these things should take five minutes or less.
And as you review this list,
especially if you decide to do one, or two,
or three of these things,
your top three selections right now,
and then you wake up tomorrow
and you're not interested in it anymore,
try to figure that out.
Maybe you don't wanna do step,
maybe you came up with a step two
for tomorrow that doesn't make sense.
Come up with something different.
But regardless, the reason you have this list
is for you to think outside of the box,
to think unrealistically, to think big in your life,
and realize that there are five minute steps
you can take right now to potentially find
out if it is something that is right for you,
and if it is something that you are capable of.
And all we need is real, tangible proof
sometimes that we can take these baby steps,
and all the baby steps add up over time into something real.
If you look at all the baby steps
in front of you and you go, "Yeah, I can do all of these."
Now it becomes, what is the most meaningful
things to me so that I will actually follow through?
(swoosh effect)
New mantra: I am an unrealistic goal achiever
There, my new mantra is in the digital version
of the Good Morning Good Life Planner.
So I'm start making my big plans
toward my unrealistic goals.
If you wanna learn more about Tim Ferriss's process,
I will link to his community tab post down below.
That's all for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I appreciate it as always.
Remember, subscribe for good vibes, kiss the ones you love,
and go after the life you want.
Cheers.