in 2020 i completed every goal that i wrote down at the beginning of the year and guys
it was 2020 so the fact that i completed every goal that i wrote down is amazing
and i want to share it with you guys today in five easy steps
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okay so let's go ahead and get started and get to the real reason why you guys are here today
which is goal setting and it is gonna be from my perspective which is an enneagram type nine and
you guys would have seen in the title um that this is a confessions of an enneagram type nine video
but i do believe all of these steps that i'm gonna share with you might actually help you even if you
aren't a type nine it's just these five as a type nine really really really helped me accomplish
all my goals that i wrote down last year truth be told as an enneagram type 9 i have kind of always
felt like goals are kind of unattainable that i can't reach them or that i sit down at the
beginning of the year and i write them down and i get really excited for them but my follow through
really does stink it really does but this last year i decided no more my follow through is
gonna be good i'm gonna actually follow through i will say that i'm great at vision casting i'm
great at making a plan once i sit down and do it because that's the hardest part for me as a nine
is actually sitting down and doing it so what i used to do and i've done this for so many years
is at the beginning of the year i get myself let's see do i have something right here i don't know
here's a journal brand new spanking new journal um oh journal journal i don't know if you can
see it you probably can't but um you know brand new pages right and i get myself a brand new pin
and i get so excited to write down my goals and i open up the page and this is from november 2018.
day one that's what it says it says i am starting a new journal i want to start this journal with
dreams and goals and what's happening in my life and so i literally write down all my goals and
this is super embarrassing i wasn't even planning on sharing this with you the next hopefully
oh okay this is in november all right so i actually started early in this one i wrote
down goals and then the next entry is in december and i write down all these personal goals and
time to dream and different thing things like that i wrote down faith goals personal goals
business goals family goals january 7th i wrote again then you flip to august and then i'm done
yeah so that year i wasn't really good at writing in my journal but i started off strong how many
of you guys can relate to what i'm saying you start off strong at the beginning of the year but
then as it goes you forget like i probably even forgot i bought this if i'm being honest with you
and didn't write very much in it it just doesn't work out for me to do it this way and i'm so glad
i've realized it now but i'm even more excited to share with you guys a way that did work for me
this year okay so let's go ahead and get started into step one what is step one
in achieving your goals i believe it is to write them down and so where i had the first step down
and i've done this for many many many years i have another journal right here that i probably did the
same darn thing in um i have lots of journals guys because i love buying journals it's oh and
then there's another one underneath there it's fine it's fine okay moving along the key here
is to write it down i was on the right track it's where you write it down that i believe matters
and what i did in 2020 was i wrote it down on a big chalkboard in my office
and when you are writing them down it's important to start small start with your small goals first
and write the ones that are you know you're like okay those are achievable and then go to
the next piece where you're like okay these are a little bit more dreams you and then go really big
i believe write all your goals down everything that you want to accomplish for the year
um just like i did it could be in your personal life it could be in your business life it could
be in your spiritual life and just any any parts of you that are that you want to write down
write them down i just believe that that is a really important piece is to take what's in here
and what's in here and get it somewhere and that actually moves us right along into step two
and i kind of hit on this but the the step two is put them where you will see them every single
day and like i said mine are in my office i walk by them every single day it's a chalkboard right
as i walk through the store in my office there's a big chalkboard and all my stuff is right there
i haven't touched it other than to check stuff off for the entire year i didn't erase things
i did actually end up adding two things as i went through the year but um yeah i just really
believe that an important part of goal setting is putting them where you will see them every day
and i think i was trying to think of this today i was like okay well what would i do
if i didn't have an office where would i put them well i'd probably get like a poster board
and put it on my wall in my bedroom that's that's something i would do maybe in my closet
if i had enough space in my closet because i'm in there every day another place i was thinking
of i have a really big mirror in my bathroom and maybe on half of it i would just get like a uh
what are they not a sharpie uh just like what you would write on a whiteboard
and i would write those write your goals down somewhere where you can see them every single day
i just really believe that that is an important piece especially for a type nine so that we don't
forget because i am really good at forgetting and i'm really good at obviously writing them down
and then never going back to check them until maybe the next year and then i'm like oh and some
of them i do end up hitting just because you know they were goals that i probably was gonna hit but
a lot of them i'm like oh darn it i totally forgot that was a goal and it kind of makes me sad and so
now i'm like no what are my actual goals what do i want to think about and make sure it's part of
my daily life every single day of the year all right so let's move along to step three what is
step three it is define your why why do you want to do it this is what will motivate you guys if
you know your why why do you want to achieve this goal when do you want to achieve it by what do you
want to achieve like all three of those things are really important and be specific write it down and
don't be afraid to dream big i dreamed really big this year and i'm gonna be honest with you
a lot of my goals had to do with my business um some of them were personal and some of them were
business and a lot of them were my youtube goals because at the beginning of 2020 january 2020
i believe i had between three and 600 followers on youtube i will double check that for you and put
that right here but i'm pretty sure it was a very low number and so some of my goals were like hey
um in order to be profitable on youtube i need a thousand subscribers and four thousand hours
watched and so those were some of my goals and then i was like and then so those are
attainable and then the next piece is i'm gonna dream bigger and so i wrote 2 000 subscribers
and 8 000 hours watched and then i wrote you know 3 000 subscribers and 4 000 and 5 000 and
i think i topped it out um around five thousand and i hit 5000 in december or j
or maybe november i'm not for sure when i hit 5000 but guys i hit those goals
and i really believe part of it was because i knew my why i knew i wanted to teach the enneagram
on this platform so that i can give some free information away to people that are struggling
to figure out who they are and what they want to do and stuff like that my heart really really
breaks for people and i want to see people succeed and so therefore my vision and my
why aligned with what i was doing and so that's really important to do i did write down you know
when do you want to do these by and i wrote it by the end of the year and so i didn't really
write goals down where i was like okay i want to reach this by this day and then reach this by this
day i didn't do that i might do that this year but last year it was just like okay by the end of 2020
this is what i want to reach and guys remember we had no idea what 2020 was gonna look like
so but i still reached my goals and so i really believe that it didn't matter you know i wrote
them down i believed in them and in the end this is what motivated me seeing it every single day
um that was a big piece of the motivation okay so let's move along to step four step four was
a little harder for me um but i do believe it's a big one in reaching your goals and this goal would
be is there anything you need to change or take out of your life in order to achieve your goal
that's a big one right because i think for me um what that looked like was i had to give up
things that i wasted time on i have so many time wasters guys you guys know type nines
are deadly sin or deadly passion or core weakness whatever you want to call it is sloth and so that
is something i struggle with daily and i knew that there was some air there was some areas in my life
that needed to get cleaned up and so i took off a game on my phone that i really really really
loved and i didn't know i was going to take it off for the whole year i actually just thought
i was gonna take it off for a month i was like okay i'm gonna give myself a month without it
i still don't have it back you know why because now i've identified it as something that wastes a
lot of my time and i don't think i'm strong enough yet so i don't think the game is bad i just think
i'm not ready for it to be back in my life and to be taking time away from what i should be doing
another one for me was reading novels or fiction um i love to read fiction i love to lose myself in
a book uh books call out to me way before tv and movies do and this is one where i was like you
know what i think i need to take a break and stay present in my own life and stay awake and so in
order for me to do that i had to take some really fun amazing things that i love out of my life
at least until i met those goals and i felt like i can responsibly have these things back in my life
which i still don't so clearly i'm not responsible enough yet but that's okay because i really really
love where um this last year has taken me i love all the growth i've seen and i will say
my word of the year last year was breakthrough and i was like okay i want a breakthrough
on my youtube channel and my social media and different areas and my life and personal and
just a lot of different areas and my health and breakthrough was my word and i will say in the end
the breakthrough was in my own spirit like i don't know does that make sense in my own soul where
the breakthrough happened by me staying awake and being present that was part of the breakthrough
of not sleeping slipping back into old habits and um not falling asleep to my own dreams and
desires but really staying present and it takes so much work and it's taken me
so much work to keep staying here but i do believe that that was a big piece to me
reaching my goals this last this last year all right so the fifth step this is a big one
especially if you're type nine but i actually believe if you're all types because you might
be linked to the type nine or this just might be something that you might struggle with it's
not just for the type nine but it is a big one for us and the fifth step is you need to believe
you can do it it's it's a lot of it is in our mind guys we can trip ourselves up and so i really
believe that we we need to believe we can do it we need to believe in ourselves we need to believe
in what we write down of like yes i can do it i can accomplish it for the nine specifically
we struggle with our presence mattering is that a word mattering matter okay your presence matters
that's our struggle and for me i've had to kind of put that lie down daily and go no my presence does
matter you know um i don't want to believe that lie anymore that my presence doesn't matter in
the youtube world in my personal life in my in my world with my friends and my family and
social media in different places you know it's not like a narcissistic thing but it's just me
waking up going no my presence matters and staying on the path that god has for me
matters it matters whatever path you are on because of course more than likely you're
not a youtuber more than likely you're not even in my lane but think about the path you are on
and stay on it and don't get sidetracked by everybody else that's on that same path that is a
big one for me i had to keep some blinders on and just stay in my own lane because when i would look
over here and look over here and see other people in my same lane doing it better or at least what
i thought was better i would start to believe that my presence didn't matter in this world
not the world in general but in the worlds that i'm in right now professionally right and even
in my friendships and stuff and so i would be like oh my presence actually didn't matter but it did
and it does and i'm here to tell you stay in your lane and when you this is okay so this is just uh
this is a freebie this is a bonus it's not even in my notes um i really believe this so though
guys whenever you find yourself looking into a different lane of someone else's and thinking
they're better you know what you should do tell them they're doing amazing that's what i've
been doing anytime it creeps in i make sure to celebrate them i just do because i'm like you know
what we don't know they might be thinking that about me right and so that is how i've been able
to put that lie down and not believe that lie and stay in my own lane is anytime i feel that maybe
it's envy maybe it's jealousy you know because we can struggle with any of those core weaknesses
um i just the nine just you know mostly struggles with sloth but anytime i feel any of that creeping
in i tell myself okay well now you're gonna celebrate them okay they're doing amazing and
tell them it's important that we tell other people that their presence matters too even if they're
doing better than us or at least what we think is better than us and so when that lie creeps
in just replace it with truth you know when you're like oh my presence doesn't matter replace it with
my presence does matter and maybe i don't know who it actually matters to right now but it doesn't
matter that part doesn't matter you know what matters that my presence matters to me that is the
key and my presence does matter to me so i've laid the lie down and i've picked up the truth okay
guys so that's all i have for today those are the five things that i really believe will help you
make and reach your goals in 2021 it's exciting i'm excited for you guys and if you feel
led to share any of your goals that maybe you want others to help help you be held accountable for or
you just want to share them because you're excited and you're like gosh this is a goal i'm going to
reach put those in the comments box below i'd love to read them i'd love to celebrate you i'd love to
cheer you on um because we're all in this together guys so thank you so much for watching today
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