- I'm gonna show you how you can have this.
I'm gonna show you that whatever goals you want,
whatever dreams you want in life,
you can achieve it, but you've gotta follow this strategy.
Hi, everybody, it's Linh Podetti here,
and for those of you who don't know me
and are new to my channel, I'm a mother of three,
a serial entrepreneur, and I'm here and I'm passionate
about helping people achieve time and financial freedom.
And so, in this video, I wanna share with you
how I have achieved it all, and it all started
with my dreams, with my goals.
I am a big goal setter.
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Before I go on about how to actually set the goals,
I wanna share with you my journey.
I came from a very poor background.
So I was living in Vietnam.
We didn't have anything, I remember my parents
were always saying we don't have enough money
or who do you think we are,
and every time we ate, they always make me
feel like this is my last meal.
So I have a bad habit of eating everything I have
on my plate because they always made me feel
like I don't have anymore left to eat.
But it was true, back in Vietnam,
there wasn't a lot of food.
But I was lucky enough to move to Australia.
But my parents were quite narrow-minded.
They did not believe that you can make your own destiny.
They always tried to convince me
that whatever state you're born in,
like if you're born in a poor family,
you're destined to be poor.
My parents drilled that in my head
and wanted me to believe it,
but I am a stubborn kind of kid.
I was a black sheep, I would always challenge them.
I didn't care, some kids sort of don't wanna
disappoint their parents, and they'll like nod
and go okay, mom, okay, dad.
And then do the things on their back.
But I was opposite, I couldn't help to go, no,
I don't believe you, that's not true.
One day, I'm gonna show you that I can be successful.
One day, I'm gonna show you I'm gonna be rich,
and I have this tendency to sort of speak my goals
out loud because I just have that confidence.
I just know my heart that if someone could do it,
if someone could have what they have,
I could also have what they have,
if I just learned what to do like them.
If I have arms and legs like them,
there must be nothing different about me and them.
It's just something that I just don't know yet,
and I'm gonna get it.
And so, coming from that background
of no support, no guidance, like I didn't know anything
about goal setting or anything like that.
But I think what ultimately got me to this journey
is just my belief that I was gonna be successful,
that I was gonna be wealthy.
And so, I was on my journey, on my own solo journey,
and so, what I wanna share with you
is that first of all, you need to forget
about everyone else, even if your own parents
are saying you can't do it because you've got this,
because you've got that.
Don't believe anything at all.
You just gotta not listen
and just do your own thing.
I had so much problem with them that I ran away from home.
I ended up having a kid at 20.
If you watch my other videos, I would've told you that.
I had a kid when I was really young,
and I was in financial despair.
Like I had no money, I remember pouring,
filling up the petrol tank and could only fill up
like $20 worth, because my parents didn't really
look after me, I had to look after myself.
Which I don't hate them about.
I mean, I'm grateful that they've taught me a lesson
about how to be independent,
but I've been in struggle town.
I did not come from a rich family or had any great mentors.
What am I trying to say that is that it doesn't matter
what your background is,
does not matter where you come from.
I've been there, and I'm telling you
that you can change your life.
And if you, right now, are feeling like I have no way out,
you can because when I had a kid
and my parents kicked me out of home
and said you're not coming back because you chose
to do that, I had no way out but to save myself.
And so, I had to sort of swam out of the ocean,
and when I had no choice but do that, I made it happen.
And so, I wanna let you know that you will work it out,
you will make it work.
So goal setting, I always had been a dreamer, all right?
So you start off with a big dream.
You need to do what your big dream is.
My big dream was I really wanted to be wealthy,
and be able, you know what?
I wasn't wealthy, thinking about being wealthy
to be like greedy.
I was thinking about wealthy, and I used to, as a kid,
as much as I was angry at my parents,
I would imagine going to the bank
and paying off their mortgage and then them going
to their bank and the bank person goes,
oh, you've got nothing to pay, your house is paid off
or something, and they would be so happy.
And so, I would always dream about being wealthy,
but being able to surprise people
with being generous and giving it to them.
And so, it's always been in me to be that kind of person,
so that's why my business, Outsourcing Angel,
it's all about social impact and helping people.
But that's my big dream, my big dream,
my one single dream is to be really successful
so that I could help myself
and help as many people as possible.
But then, under that dream, I look at that time,
I didn't really know what I needed to do to get that dream.
I had a one year goal, I had a three year goal,
and I had sort of like a 10 year goal.
Of course, when you look at the 10 year goal,
it's almost this, you feel uncomfortable
because you're like, how am I gonna get that?
But I still put some big dreams in there.
Like I remember back 10 years ago
when I was a single mom, started my business,
and had no money, nothing, from the bottom.
I had like 10 year goals, like I don't know.
I'm going to own a house, I don't know if the Infinity Pool
was 10 year mark, but it was like, sort of like big stuff.
Like a well-known, I don't know, business person,
or million dollar business or something.
And then, I had the five year goal
that was a little bit more feeling like it's more tangible
and logical, like I'm gonna get married
and I'm gonna have kids, I'm going to do this.
'Cause I already knew at that age,
by that five years, I want that to happen.
So I had all those defined goals in that five years, so.
And when I make goals,
I don't just make goals about business.
I care about how I am in my love life,
how I am in my family life.
I wanna make sure that I set goals in all areas
'cause I knew that unless I'm happy in everything,
I can't even focus on business.
Like if I am miserable in love
and I can't find the love of my life,
I'm gonna just feel like, I don't know.
I guess you always feel like something's missing.
And so, set goals in different areas of your life.
For the one year and the monthly stuff that you do,
it becomes more actions.
More like okay, I need to read this book.
I need to go in this course.
Setting how much income you wanna make.
So I wanted to make five, 10 grand a month at that time.
And the other thing about goal setting
is that you have your goal and dream,
but you're detached from it.
Like you don't go this is my goal, and if I don't get it,
I'm just like flat.
I would extend the deadline a bit.
So in that first year, when I first started my business,
I was like I wanna be a million dollar business
in the first year, that was a bit
illogical because I don't even know what I,
I don't know much things.
And looking back, it's like of course that's so difficult.
But I didn't care, I set that goal.
But when I didn't get the first year,
I didn't go, oh my god, this is the end of the world.
I just went, that's okay, another year.
I just reset that same goal until I reach it,
but eventually you reach it, you just not get caught up
in the deadline and feeling like oh my god,
I didn't get it so I'm just gonna give up.
Do you know how many years I've put in my goal
that I wanted a six pack?
And I'm finally now, I feel like I've got a bit of a line.
But I've never given up on that goal.
It's always there, it might take much longer,
but I don't care.
It's like I'm just getting better every single year,
and I'm progressing, and that's most important.
But the other tip I have with goal setting
is that not only do you write your goals as I want this,
or this is what I wanna have, but also,
start to write sentences like it's already happened
and feel it.
I remember writing, at the time, I was quite lonely,
and I wanted a relationship.
So I wrote I can't believe my boyfriend is so sweet.
He loves me so much, and da-da-da.
Like I almost wrote in a sentence, as if I would be
writing it at that time when I actually have him,
and when I wrote it, I felt happy.
I felt excited, I felt like it's so real,
and when you can imagine in your mind
as if it's already happened, you just magnified the chances
of it happening.
(laughs) And so, even when after I met him,
two weeks when I met him, I said,
I can't believe we're married and we're about
to have a baby girl.
Was I scared to put that kind of goal?
I was like yes, I said, oh my god, I'm so greedy.
Not only do I want a baby, I'm asking for a girl,
but I'm like, if I wanna ask for something,
I might as well ask for what I really want.
And I really wanted a girl, I was really,
I already had a boy, and I wanted a girl.
And I wrote that, and I got a girl.
I've just lost count of how many times I've manifested
the things that I have wanted.
This Infinity Pool was not a fluke.
It was in my dreams, it was in my goals,
and it's just when you start to manifest things
and achieve your goals, you're gonna build that muscle
of belief, you're gonna just write it.
You just know you're gonna get it,
and with that energy, with that,
with that intention, you will start to attract things
much faster and more.
'Cause at the beginning when you're new to goal setting
and you haven't really achieved anything yet,
you're a little bit doubtful and a little bit
like how is that gonna happen?
You still have that semi-little voices that goes how?
But you're gonna forget about it
and just trust the universe and that it's gonna happen.
If you don't set goals, if you don't know what you want,
'cause I've spoken to people who go,
I don't know.
Like I don't know, like as if they think,
well, of course, she should know that I want more things.
But they don't even know themselves,
what that more thing is.
They just think they should have more of something,
a bit more of money, a bit more of that.
That is the problem why you feel like you're not
going anywhere in life because you feel like,
you're just happy with whatever comes.
You're not in control of your life.
You're not in control of what you want.
Because the best part about my life now
is that whatever I want and I set my mind to it
and I got it, that's the fun of it.
That's why I'm so energetic and happy and fun
is because I made this happen.
I wanted this, and I made it happen.
I didn't just walking around and I go, oh.
What a surprise, you know?
It wasn't like that.
When you ask for something, and then you work towards it
and you get it, the satisfaction you get
is so addictive and it's just fulfilling.
That's my tip for how to do goal setting (laughs).
If you have any other ways that you've done goal setting
or if you've any challenges with goal setting,
I would love to hear it in the comments below,
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