Are these next 10 minutes worth potentially the best year of your life?
Are you ready to finally follow through on your new year's goals?
By the end of this video, not only will you have a written list of goals down,
but you're also going to have the exact tools that you need to stay consistent
with those goals. Before we dive into it today,
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this video is not just going to be about learning - I'm expecting you to take
action and implement. So if you are watching,
if you are planning to fully commit and play full out for the next eight to ten
minutes, just get out a piece of paper,
get a pen out and get ready to get to work.
Too often we get stuck in this cycle of setting big goals,
getting crazy excited,
and then potentially following through for a few weeks or maybe a few months,
and then going back into the norm. And so it's up to us to break that cycle,
to create a new system and a new routine and a new way of thinking that allows
us to actually achieve the goals that we set.
And that's exactly what we're going to learn in this video.
So what we're going to cover today is a very simple sequence of steps.
We're going to have three steps that are more questions,
things to get you thinking about where you want your goals to go this year.
And then we're going to have four steps to actually improve the chances of you
following through and staying consistent. Now,
this information has changed countless of people's lives.
It's been published in books.
It's been spoken about by some of the most successful people in the world.
So I guarantee if you implement what you learn today,
you will be successful with your goals. So the first question is very simple.
What do you want to change in your life? Now this could be your body.
This could be how you feel about yourself. This could be a relationship.
This could be your career or a business that you own. But ask yourself,
what is it that you want to change this year? When you answer this,
you can move into question two, which is what do you need to commit to,
or what can you commit to that is going to allow you to achieve this?
So I'm going to go with the example of wanting to change your body.
Let's just say you want to lose weight. For question number two,
for what I could change or what I could commit to,
I may say something like I am supposed to move more,
I am supposed to sleep better. I am supposed to eat smarter.
Something along the lines of getting the wheels spinning of what it's going to
take to achieve this goal.
And then question number three is going to be now that you have what you can
change and what you can commit to,
what is it that you can eliminate from your life or that you should eliminate
from your life in order to achieve this?
So if I was talking about changing my body, this could be late night eating.
This could be going crazy on the weekends.
This could even be something as simple as sleeping in on the weekends or
sleeping in during the week and missing out the opportunity to get a workout in
in the morning. But just ask yourself, odds are,
if there's something that you're committing to,
there's also likely something that you can eliminate in order to achieve what
you want to commit to. So again, those three questions are,
what do I want to change in my life? What can I commit to,
to make this change and what must I eliminate to make this change?
So once you have these three questions,
you're basically dialed in on what you need to create the system in order to
achieve this goal.
And this is exactly what we're going to go through with the four steps to making
this change successfully. Now,
everything that we're about to talk about can be summed up with one simple word,
incremental.
The biggest mistakes people make when it comes to approaching a new goal is
trying to do everything at once. Changing the diet,
the exercise routine and sleeping habits all at once to basically the lifestyle
of a completely different person. And so with incremental changes,
we want to make very small shifts that don't feel like it's this massive leap or
this massive mountain that we're looking to climb.
And so let's dive into these four steps. So step number one,
and many of you may have heard this, is setting S.M.A.R.T Goals. Now,
if you know this, I want to encourage you, are you actually implementing this?
So S.M.A.R.T. Goals stand for goals that are specific measurable, achievable,
realistic, and time-based.
And so once you've figured out what you need to do to get to that ideal outcome,
we want to set process based S.M.A.R.T. Goals.
Meaning we want to set goals that are more about the process than the actual
outcome. So instead of lose 50 pounds, which is more of an outcome-based goal,
we would set something like go to the gym four times a week,
which is more of a process-based goal. And so right now is your chance to set,
okay,
what is the goal that you want to commit to in order to achieve this change?
And then you just go through each letter, right? Is this goal specific?
Do I know exactly what this goal is? Is this goal measurable,
is there a number behind it?
Is it something that I will be able to tell if I can achieve it?
Is this goal achievable? Maybe it's way far,
you're thinking way too big and you need to dial it back.
And basically go through each individual letter in order to make that goal a
reality. Once you have that goal, we move into step two. Now,
likely many of you set a goal that is very, very large.
Going from not exercising at all to exercising four times a week,
going from eating whatever you want on the weekends to just eating salads and
chicken and rice and broccoli. And so rather than take these massive steps,
step two is all going to be about breaking this down into mini steps. Now,
if you are someone who is always setting goals and is never following through
with them,
the best advice I can give you is to break this single goal down into 12
individual steps.
And each individual step is one that you're going to do the following month.
So if my first goal is going to be working out for four hours a week for an hour
and a half each day, and I'm coming from not working out at all, my first.
Step of this process-based goal.
Would be to work out three times a week for 20 minutes. Now,
once I've completed that, and once I've gone through the month,
then I can up it a little more,
maybe it goes to four times a week for 20 minutes.
Maybe it goes to three times a week for 30 minutes,
but basically breaking apart this one goal into small,
tiny little achievable goals.
And I think it's also important to note you don't need the full 12 steps of
goals. Maybe you only think ahead a month or two months or three months,
but the point here is breaking this big goal down into tiny bite sized pieces
that isn't going to be this massive transformation for you.
That isn't going to be a completely new lifestyle,
because the reality is most of us don't adjust to completely new changes very
quickly. And that's going to lead us into step three,
which is to focus on your identity. Now,
this is something I like to call the circle of transformation. Now,
the outer layer of the circle of transformation is all about focusing on the
outcome. So this is the end goal that you want to achieve.
So if you were looking to lose weight, this would be losing,
let's say 50 pounds.
The problem with this is that you're putting all of your energy and focus onto
that end result,
which is not allowing you to actually invest yourself in the process.
And when you don't get that result immediately, you get discouraged,
you get frustrated with yourself and you fall back into that old routine.
And so the second layer of the circle is all about the process.
Now this is a step up.
This is investing your focus into the actual process that you have to go
through. Of I have to work out, I have to eat healthy. I have to sleep better,
and this is better than focusing on the outcome,
but it's still not the best because the reality is that if you're just focusing
on the process, it's not helping you really become that type of person.
It's still something you feel like you have to do.
And that's where we get to the inside of the circle,
which is all about identity.
We want to start crafting something where it's in our identity,
that this is something that we do and that this is who we are.
And all of a sudden this shifts from something that is something we have to do
to something that is just part of us.
And so when you start pursuing these goals and you inevitably find yourself
thinking about wanting to get to that outcome,
or thinking about investing all of your energy and kind of dragging your heels
of going through the motions,
start shifting that line of thinking into thinking about who you're becoming and
being the type of person that does the things that you're doing.
And I will say this is only going to come from taking small steps daily,
and acknowledging those steps,
and it's not something that's going to happen in a month,
but it is one of the biggest transformations you can make in order to have
lifelong results. And then finally we get into step four,
which is all about friction and greasing.
Now friction is basically making all of the things we don't want to do that much
harder to do and making all of the things we do want to do that much easier to
do. So let's take losing weight for example.
Let's say part of my goals is wanting to go to the gym a couple of days a week
and not wanting to late night snack. Now,
if I were to grease the goal of wanting to work out more,
I would think about - "what could I do to make the process of working out
easier?"
I could get an accountability buddy who could check in with me or even work out
with me each day.
I could track myself on an app and have someone watch that app.
I can make a bet with a buddy saying every time I didn't work out when I was
supposed to, I would pay him $50.
But what is it that you can do to make it more enticing for you to actually
follow through on the things that you're commiting to?
And then on the other end, when we're talking about friction..
So I don't want to snack late at night,
what can I do to make it more difficult for me to snack late at night?
So the first thing that's going to come into mind is just getting rid of all
foods that I normally snack on.
Other things could be having the food in the house,
but having them in a location that takes a lot of effort to get to,
whether it's the top shelf of the cupboard or it's the very back of the
refrigerator, but something that you have to put a little more work getting.
So it's not just a simple grab away,
but the question is what can you do in order to make this more difficult to
actually do? And I promise you,
if you take the time to answer these two questions and think about what you can
grease and what you can create friction around,
this is going to be the biggest game changer to make sure that you follow
through with these goals. So just to break that down one more time for you.
The first part is going to be asking yourself three questions.
What do I want to change in my life?
What can I commit to in order to create that change and what can I eliminate in
order to create that change? And then the second part is four simple steps.
Number one, creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals. Number two, breaking those S.M.A.R.T.
Goals into tiny bite size pieces.
Number three,
focusing more on the identity rather than the outcome or the process.
And finally,
finding the areas in your life where you can create friction and greasing.
So with that being said, I got to ask you,
what is your number one goal for this new year?
Let me know in the comments below. And of course,
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