you guys design the world's foremost
lifestyle design system it's so
different from goal setting and
one of the things you've said is that
traditional goal setting is broken why
is that you know any goal setting is
better than nothing but if you really
want to get effective with your goal
setting you've got to make sure that
you're not doing it in a vacuum and what
i mean by that is just focusing on one
or two categories of your life because
often vision a career goal that you set
could be completely counterproductive to
a family goal that you might have or
completely contradict a health and
fitness goal there can be a lot of
tension between goals when they're just
set in a vacuum
but when you have a crystal clear vision
for the life that you want to be living
where you know exactly where you're
taking your entire life the person you
want to become and the life that you
want to live
then all of your goals are aligned
they're all directed at the same target
the energy of those goals are sort of
flowing like a river in the same
direction and that's when there is no
friction between your goals a win
anywhere becomes a win everywhere and
we've found that it's just infinitely
more effective than traditional goal
setting for sure when you have that life
vision that north star that you've
thought down you've thought okay these
are all the things that i believe this
is who i am you've done that
self-discovery piece and then you can
then build your life or your goals in
conjunction with that life vision and we
call it the
the golden thread of consciousness your
life vision is a big hairy audacious
goal out there right but then you break
it down by goal by goal by goal yearly
quarterly monthly weekly down to your
day and that golden thread of
consciousness from your life vision
there's little pieces along the way that
you're going to do all the way down to
your very present moment and that is
where everything happens everything
happens in the day that's why we call
those those habits you do every day
those daily actions
the 12 sacred choices because it all
comes down to the present moment what
you're going to do in the moment and if
you don't have a life vision you could
you could make a million different
decisions and they could take you in a
million different ways but if you know
where you're going and you know your
life vision then you you have a rudder
you have a north star and each goal that
you set is a is a piece of the puzzle
it's a piece of a much bigger picture
they're not just all disconnected pieces
all over the place they add up to
something it's integrated that's exactly
right that's why it's so critical to
know what your ultimate destination is
before you sit down and set a bunch of
goals
and what i love about what you guys are
doing with lifebook is that you don't
just have someone look at goals in the
most common areas which for the average
person living in the western world is
career and finance right you're looking
at 12 different categories that's
correct that's exactly right now some
people do set health and fitness goals
that's the other one that i'd throw in
that's relatively common
very very few people set goals for their
emotional life
how do you want to feel every day you
know how important that is that's
massive right
very few people set goals for their
character what kind of a person do you
really want to become what kind of
character traits do you want to
cultivate in yourself that's a big one
that can completely change your life
very few people set love relationship
goals where do you want to take this
or how about parenting goals
what do i want my kids to
really focus on this year to expand
themselves as human beings so we look at
the entire pie not just one or two
pieces of the pie right
and it's so beautiful what you guys have
done lifebook is probably something that
everyone should be required to do before
they get married that everyone should do
as soon as they graduate from university
and everyone should do as soon as they
join
a company in fact at mine valley every
single person who joins mind valley we
ship them off to a retreat for four days
in the mountains where they go deep and
they create their life book and when
they come out of it they're faced with a
choice maybe they discovered something
that makes them realize that they
shouldn't be joining mind that's right
and that's cool go and do your own thing
that's perfect you have our blessing and
others decide okay this is who i need to
be now i know what i want to do within
mine valley to become the person i want
to be exactly and so either way it's a
win-win for everyone but you're bringing
in deliberate consciousness into a
crucial junction in someone's life
everyone on the planet needs to be doing
live book so if you find these ideas
interesting join us for a deep dive into
the life book process with john and
missy butcher in a new master class on
mindvalley
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