The Importance of Achievable and Measurable Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the importance of having achievable and measurable goals in order to achieve success.

Clear and Focused Goals

• Successful people have clear, focused, achievable, and measurable goals.

• As you move forward in life, you should have fewer goals that are highly specific to your future self.

• Having too many broad or non-specific goals can lead to a lack of focus and progress.

Attributes of Achievable and Measurable Goals

• Achievable and measurable goals are either an event or a number.

• Personal example: Launching a book with a goal of selling 200,000 copies within six months.

• To achieve your goals, you need multiple workable strategies or pathways.

The Third Door

• There is always a third door or alternative pathway to achieving your goals.

• This third door may not be obvious but requires creativity and flexibility to find it.

Finding Better Strategies

In this section, the speaker talks about the importance of finding better strategies and pathways to achieve goals. He emphasizes the need for adaptability, courage, and an upgrade in thinking.

Importance of Trying New Things

• To achieve something new, one needs to try things they have never done before.

• People rarely update their belief systems, thinking systems, or strategies.

• One should not attach their current identity to their past identity because hopefully they've learned new things and are not the same person as before.

Learning from Failure and Feedback

• If you're not embarrassed by who you were 12 months ago, you didn't learn enough.

• Psychologists have found that people are either approach-oriented or avoid-oriented. Approach-oriented individuals are willing to fail and learn from feedback.

• Through feedback and learning through experience, it's insane how much one can grow and transform compared to their former self.

The Power of Feedback

In this section, the speaker talks about the power of feedback in helping individuals improve themselves.

Importance of Multiple Drafts

• Grant gives an example of first graders doing multiple drafts of drawing a butterfly. By applying feedback over several drafts, they were able to draw a much better butterfly than their first draft.

• Through feedback and learning through experience, human beings can grow, transform and improve compared to their former selves.

Setting Measurable Goals

In this section, the speaker shares his own goals and emphasizes the importance of setting measurable goals.

Speaker's Goals

• The speaker's big three goals are to sell over 200,000 copies of his book by the end of the year, get 100,000 people on his YouTube channel, and get 100,000 people into his free future self-course.

• Down below is a link to join the free future self-course.

Setting Achievable and Measurable Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the importance of setting achievable and measurable goals. He emphasizes that one should aim to accomplish three specific outcomes every three to six months, which will allow them to make big leaps towards their future self.

The Big Three

• One should aim to accomplish three specific outcomes every three to six months.

• If you have more than three goals, you are too spread out and not focused enough.

• Goals should be achievable and measurable.

• Accomplishing these goals will allow for greater levels of freedom, confidence, and situation than your current self.

Dan Sullivan's Quote

• Everything you want in your future has the qualities of being both more achievable and more measurable than the things you did in the past.

• Looking back at your own goals, you'll notice that as you go forward, your goals become increasingly achievable and measurable.

Daily Accountability

• Accountability is one of the most powerful things you can do to improve your life.

• Daily accountability is important because immediate feedback is a flow trigger.

• Choose an accountability partner who you trust and like.

• Shoot each other a text at the end of every day sharing how well you did on your big three for that day.

Simple Daily Accountability

In this section, the speaker talks about a simple daily accountability system that can help individuals focus on their important tasks and achieve their goals.

Three Things To-Do List

• Have no more than three things on your to-do list.

• At the end of each day, share with an accountability partner how you did on your big three.

• Use a single text message to report one out of three, two out of three or three out of three.

Planning for Tomorrow

• Write down in bullets the three outcomes you want to create tomorrow.

• Share these outcomes with your accountability partner via text message.

Benefits of Daily Accountability

• Creates social bonds and social accountability.

• Provides immediate feedback and builds confidence over time.

• Helps identify high leverage activities that have massive impact.

• Allows living intentionally and focusing energy on things that matter most.

The Compound Effect of Living Intentionally

In this section, the speaker discusses how simple daily accountability can lead to living intentionally and ultimately achieving audacious goals.

Focusing Energy on High Leverage Activities

• By texting your accountability partner the three things you want to accomplish the next day, you plan your next day and live with intention.

• Over time, get better at choosing better big threes by focusing energy on high leverage activities that have massive impact.

Zone of Genius

• Focus time on what Gay Hendricks calls "the zone of genius," where one is in a flow state doing activities they want to do without competing with anyone else.

• Spend mornings better by waking up and working on things that matter instead of being drowned out by a long to-do list.

Busyness vs. Effectiveness

• Having 10 items on a daily to-do list is a busyness model, not an effectiveness model.

• Focus on the important things that matter and delegate, outsource or delete most of the other tasks.

Setting Audacious Goals

• Set ridiculously high goals because whatever you focus on expands.

• Changing your life one degree versus changing it 180 degrees requires similar amounts of effort.

• Go for something really big and don't put limitations on yourself.

Conclusion

Simple daily accountability can help individuals focus their energy on high leverage activities that have massive impact. By living intentionally and setting audacious goals, individuals can achieve success beyond what they thought was possible.

Setting High Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the benefits of setting high goals and why it is easier to go 10x than 2x.

Benefits of Setting High Goals

• Most people have average goals and don't strive for greatness.

• Going 10x instead of 2x forces you to take more action and think differently.

• Making your goal 10 times bigger leads to non-conventional thinking and strategies.

• High hard goals are far more motivating than small goals.

Specific and Measurable Targets

In this section, the speaker talks about how specific and measurable targets can be more motivating and lead to finding workable pathways or plans.

Importance of Specific and Measurable Targets

• Seth Godin's quote "You see whatever you're measuring" emphasizes the importance of measuring progress towards a specific target.

• Specific, measurable targets with valence are more personal, meaningful, and motivating.

• The more specific the target, the easier it is to find workable pathways or plans to achieve it.

Deliberate Practice

In this section, the speaker discusses how deliberate practice can help upgrade your brain by taking bold action, experiencing prediction errors, and rewiring itself.

Upgrading Your Brain with Deliberate Practice

• Deliberate practice involves taking bold action and experiencing prediction errors that lead to rewiring your brain.

• Low hope people continue doing the same course of action, while high hope people use feedback to come up with better pathways or strategies.

• Pursuing 10x goals and going through an enormous amount of learning and feedback can lead to rewiring your brain and upgrading it.

The Power of Big Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the benefits of setting big goals and taking action towards them.

Benefits of Pursuing Big Goals

• Pursuing big goals rewires your brain, enhances your sleep, and helps you see the world differently.

• Pursuing big goals reduces competition and allows you to be free to be whoever you want to be.

• Pursuing big goals helps you build confidence and imagination, which is good for your brain and sleep.

Growth Mindset

• Having a growth mindset means focusing on your goal rather than worrying about current constraints.

• Measuring progress against yourself rather than others or ideals leads to happiness and progress.

Embracing Change

• Being adaptive and letting go of old ways of doing things is necessary for achieving big goals.

• Your future self will be better equipped than your current self, so don't overly attach yourself to your former self or current constraints.

Conclusion

• Pursuing big goals is motivating, inspiring, exciting, and less competitive.

• Embrace the joy of being wrong along the way as it leads to deep learning.

The Three Levels of Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the three levels of goals and how they can help individuals achieve clarity, productivity, and transformation.

The First Level: Why Goals

• Why goals are in the form of a purpose or mission that gives individuals a sense of calling.

• Having no more than three harmonious passion purposes that align with each other can be helpful.

• Purpose goals take individuals out of themselves and into the world where they have a cause and help someone else.

The Second Level: What Goals

• High hard goals are way more motivating, exciting, and interesting than low goals.

• High hard goals may take several months or years to accomplish.

• Having further out goals is powerful as it allows individuals to run their own race and avoid forceful short-term outcomes.

The Third Level: How Goals

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Setting Far Out Goals

In this section, the speaker talks about why having far-out goals is important for slowing down time, removing anxiety, allowing for deep learning, and creating new trajectories.

Benefits of Far Out Goals

• Having far-out goals slows time down by removing anxiety and allowing individuals to think about what they really want.

• A far-out vision allows for deep learning during the process of achieving big challenging high hard goals.

• From a time relativity standpoint, having further out goals slows time down even more.

Creating Far Out Goals

• Having goals that are big enough to take three, five, or ten years to accomplish is recommended.

• Setting far-out goals allows individuals to set serious high hard goals and create a new trajectory.

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic timelines.

Conclusion

In this section, the speaker concludes by summarizing the importance of having purposeful goals at different levels and setting far-out goals for personal growth and transformation.

Key Takeaways

• Purposeful goals at different levels (why, what, how) can help individuals achieve clarity, productivity, and transformation.

• Setting far-out goals slows time down, removes anxiety, allows for deep learning during the process of achieving big challenging high hard goals.

Specific Goals

In this section, the speaker talks about specific goals and how they are different from high-level goals. He explains that specific goals are things that can be accomplished right now and should be focused on impact rather than busyness.

Characteristics of Specific Goals

• Specific goals are things you can accomplish right now.

• They should be focused on impact, not based on busyness.

• The most effective thing to do is to ask yourself what is the most powerful thing I can do right now that would help me achieve my high-level purpose.

• Minimum effective dose means what's the minimum dosage for something to get the desired result.

Benefits of Having Specific Goals

• Having specific goals allows you to fall in love with the process and enjoy the present moment.

• Engaging in high hard goals creates huge compounding effects if you're consistent.

• Short-term targets like weekly or monthly targets allow for sprints and short-term intense objectives that push you way outside your comfort zone.

Being Both a Tortoise and a Hare

• You can have both long-term high hard goals while also having shorter term specific targets that are 80/20 meaning they're focused on outcome and effectiveness.

• Once committed to playing a longer game, it gives permission to be more courageous in the short term because it's not do or die in that moment.

Organizing Your Life with Purpose

In this section, the speaker challenges listeners to define their high-level purposes and identify three organizing principles for their lives. He suggests setting high hard goals that align with these purposes and having no more than three short-term goals on a daily or weekly basis.

Defining High-Level Purposes

• Challenge yourself to have no more than three high-level purposes.

• Identify the three organizing principles for your life.

• Set high hard goals that align with these purposes.

Short-Term Goals

• Have no more than three short-term goals on a daily or weekly basis.

• Identify the big three outcomes that would make massive exponential progress towards your big goals.

• Use slow, peaceful, mindful consistency while having short-term courage bursts.

Achieving Any Goal: Core Essentials

The speaker breaks down the psychology and core essentials of achieving any goal. He emphasizes the importance of mastering the idea of imagining a future and creating it quickly by increasing one's perspective, realizing how space and time work, and visualizing outcomes.

Mastering Imagining a Future

• Increase your perspective to understand how space and time work.

• Visualize outcomes to spontaneously create them very quickly.

• Get better at creating what most people consider extreme luck or impossibilities.

Key Principles for Transforming Your Life

• Whatever you focus on expands; whatever you start to think about, you start to see.

• Mentally wanting something is different from emotionally believing it.

• Living in alignment with key principles transforms your life.

The Power of Imagination

In this section, the speaker discusses how imagination is key to learning and growth. He explains that while knowledge keeps you stuck in dogmatic views, imagination helps clarify where you want to go.

The Importance of Belief

• Believing is essential to achieving what you want in life.

• People who resist progress emotionally don't create progress in their lives.

• Emotional acceptance that you deserve something is necessary for success.

Proactive Future-Based Gratitude

• Being grateful for future scenarios leads to a state of acceptance.

• This creates faith that knows it has already received and acts accordingly.

• Accepting your future self and thinking from your goal can lead to non-linear exponential progress.

A Personal Story

• The speaker shares a personal story about wanting an office closer to home.

• By chance, he meets someone who tells him a house will be going up for sale soon in his neighborhood.

Making Decisions Based on Your Future Self

In this section, the speaker talks about how he made a decision to buy a new house and shares some principles for making decisions based on your future self.

Decision Making Based on Future Self

• After realizing that he could have the house he wanted, the speaker had to go through emotional processing before making a decision.

• The speaker realized that his future self would make this decision, even though it seemed like too much work from his current perspective.

• Imagining the future you want is more important than knowledge. Most people have a default future that they don't want because they see the world not as it is but as they are.

Generative Language

• Use generative language to create the life you want. Start speaking about the future you're going to create and use language that generates and creates.

• Stop defining your current self and start describing your future self and what you're going to do. Speak castles into existence instead of speaking yourself into the grave.

• Clarify your future self by eliminating everything that does not resonate with it, including lesser goals and distractions. How you do anything is how you do everything, so once you start scaling up to your future self, it becomes more about quality than quantity.

Achieving Your Goals in Less Time

In this section, the speaker discusses how to achieve your goals in less time by reducing emotional friction and acting from your future self. He also explains how time is relative and can be manipulated based on distance traveled.

Acting From Your Future Self

• By becoming increasingly committed and excited about your future self, you'll stop worrying about what people think about you.

• You'll start making your own decisions based on your own aims and create pathways to getting exactly what you want easily and effortlessly.

• The hardest part about this is reducing the emotional friction coming to a state of clarity, acceptance, and confidence.

Time Relativity

• Time is a measure of distance traveled according to time relativity.

• The faster an object moves through space relative to something else, the slower that time is.

• Space-time is relative as Einstein would say space and time are manipulated by you.

• You can get to a desired destination in a week that may have taken my former self a decade.

Peter Thiel's Question

• Peter Thiel asks himself regularly how he can achieve his 10-year plan in the next six months.

• What he's really asking himself is how he can get onto a different planet or strategy or pathway or find a wormhole that would get him to that same destination but in only six months.

Parkinson's Law

• Work fills the space of the amount of time you give it according to Parkinson's law.

• If you give yourself 10 years to achieve a goal, it will take 10 years. If you give yourself six months, you might break some things but could probably find a way to getting there.

Psychological Flexibility

High Hope versus low Hope High Hope people are very flexible and adaptive and they're willing to find new Pathways to getting where they want to go but in order to have high hope you have to actually be highly committed to a specific result.

Slipstream Time and Achieving Goals

In this section, the speaker talks about his experience writing a book and how he was told that he needed an audience to get it published. He shares how he found ways to get hundreds of thousands of email subscribers within six months and ultimately got the book deal he wanted. The speaker also discusses the concept of "fleas in a jar" and how people can achieve their goals faster by finding non-conventional pathways.

Getting Published with an Audience

• The speaker wrote a book but was told by literary agents that he needed an audience to get it published.

• Agents advised him to have at least 5,000 email subscribers before publishing.

• It was estimated that achieving this goal would take three to five years.

Finding Non-Conventional Pathways

• The speaker researched ways to get hundreds of thousands of email subscribers within six months.

• He achieved 20,000 email subscribers in six months and 100,000 within a year.

• The speaker emphasizes that there are different perspectives on achieving goals and different strategies for doing so.

• He shares the concept of "fleas in a jar" where researchers trained fleas not to jump too high by putting a lid on top of their jar.

• Once the lid was removed, the fleas no longer had the ability to jump outside the jar because they had been trained not to do so.

• To achieve goals faster, one must be willing to find non-conventional pathways and rethink their view of time.

Being the Buyer

• The speaker shares his experience with a bad book deal and how he learned the concept of "always be the buyer" from Dan Sullivan.

• He explains that in every situation, one is either the buyer or seller. Being the seller means bending over backwards to get what you want.

• By being the buyer, one decides what they want and stops trying to sell themselves.

• The speaker was able to reject a bad book deal and set terms for a new deal with a different publisher.

Finding Non-Conventional Pathways (Continued)

• The speaker emphasizes that finding non-conventional pathways requires commitment and willingness to find alternative pathways.

• He encourages people to rethink their view of time and find wormholes by being adaptive, flexible, and willing to let go of their current life.

The Importance of Psychological Flexibility

In this section, Benjamin Hardy discusses the importance of psychological flexibility in achieving one's goals. He emphasizes that taking a more direct path may require emotional purging and being willing to try new things.

The Need for Emotional Purging

• A more direct path to achieving one's goals may require emotional purging.

• Psychological flexibility is important in being willing to try new things and ask for help.

• Being committed to a certain result and finding the most effective path can save time and lead to greater success.

Finding New Pathways

• To achieve 10-year goals in six months, one must be willing to find new pathways and become a different person.

• One's trajectory, state of being, and commitment determine how fast they travel through space towards their goals.

• It is possible to learn how to create results that one's former self never could have.

Pathways Thinking

In this section, Benjamin Hardy discusses the concept of pathways thinking as it relates to motivation and hope. He explains that having a goal, pathway, and confidence or agency are necessary components for hope and motivation.

Components of Hope and Motivation

• Having a specific goal is necessary for hope and motivation.

• A pathway or process from getting from point A to B is also necessary.

• Confidence or agency that one can walk the path or find a better path is also important.

Finding New Pathways

• Pathways thinking involves finding new and better pathways to achieve one's goals.

• Benjamin Hardy's father's initial pathway was going to community college classes, but he found a more effective pathway by going straight to the master.

Kitty West

• Benjamin Hardy's father was at an art store buying some art and talking about his goal of becoming a professional artist.

• Kitty West worked at the store and sensed his passion. She recommended Claude Buck, which led him down a fundamentally different pathway towards his goal.

The Importance of Commitment to Achieving Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the importance of being committed to achieving one's goals and how it can lead to finding unique pathways towards success.

The Story of the Speaker's Father

• The speaker's father expressed a strong desire to become a professional artist and provide for his family.

• He was committed to achieving this goal and talked about it with others.

• When someone suggested he go straight to the master, Claude Buck, he immediately went there.

• His actions were consistent with his goal of becoming a great artist and making a living as an artist.

Pathways Thinking

• The idea that when the "why" is strong enough, you'll find the "how".

• By being clear on his goal, committed, and continuously educating himself on new ways to succeed in his craft, the speaker's father found new and better ways to succeed.

• People were drawn to him because of his passion, clarity of goals, and thinking.

Finding Success Through Clarity of Goals

In this section, the speaker reflects on how her father found success by being clear on his goals and continuously finding new ways to succeed in his craft.

Continuous Learning

• The speaker's father continually educated himself on new ways to succeed in his craft.

• He spent time with Claude Buck during lunch breaks and at night painting together.

Finding Opportunities

• The speaker's father found his way to getting his art sold and commissioned by being clear on his goals, committed, and continuously finding new ways to succeed in his craft.

• People were drawn to him because of his passion, clarity of goals, and thinking.

How to Involve God in Your Goals

In this section, the speaker talks about how to involve God in your goals and how faith can help you accomplish amazing things.

The Power of Faith

• Faith is a vision of things that are not yet seen.

• Having faith does not need to take away from reason or logic.

• Exercising faith means seeking success, expecting success, hoping for success, praying for success, and taking bold action.

Involving God in Your Goals

• Write down your goal and pray to ask God for help.

• Whatever future you see for yourself is what drives your present identity and behavior.

Exercise Extreme Faith and Action

• Exercise extreme faith and action to accomplish amazing things.

• When you become fully committed to a goal and involve God through prayer and faith, miracles start happening.

Hope, Faith, and Motivation

In this section, the speaker talks about the importance of hope, faith, and motivation in achieving one's goals. He explains that having a vision for the future and a pathway to getting there is essential in developing hope. The speaker also emphasizes the need for agency or belief in oneself to achieve one's goals.

The Importance of Hope

• Research shows that hope is essential for achieving one's goals.

• Hope means having a vision for your future and a pathway to getting there.

• Having hope allows you to find unconventional paths towards your goals.

Developing Agency

• Agency refers to the belief that you can create and accomplish your goals.

• Confidence or capability is necessary in developing agency.

• Agency can come from within oneself or from others.

Expanding Your View of the Future

• Having a specific vision for your future is important in shaping your identity and behavior in the present.

• Most people have a pessimistic view of their future which affects their mindset and attitude in the present.

• Focusing on faith, hope, and motivation towards one's future increases confidence and commitment towards achieving it.

Gratitude as Key to Abundance

• Starting with gratitude creates abundance which leads to answered prayers.

• Focusing on gains rather than gaps between oneself and their future increases faith and confidence.

• Recognizing past successes helps increase faith towards bigger things happening in the future.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of having faith in God throughout the section.

Celebrating Victories and Setting High Goals

In this section, the speaker discusses the importance of celebrating victories and setting high goals to achieve financial success.

Celebrating Victories

• Celebrating victories instills in you the desire to do that behavior more.

• Emotions create habits, so celebrating a victory reinforces it on an emotional level.

Setting High Goals

• Research shows that you want to have high hard goals that are specific and measurable.

• Set a powerful target for yourself, such as a certain amount of money in your retirement account or hitting a certain number in your business.

• Have a monster reward for yourself at the end once you hit that target.

• The reward could be anything personally meaningful to you, such as getting new carpet in your house or going on a three-week trip.

Rewarding Yourself

• It's important to reward yourself when you hit huge targets with meaningful relevant things.

• Your reward isn't a status symbol to prove yourself to anyone else; it's actually a confidence-building symbol.

• You don't need to justify what you want; wanting doesn't require justification.

Building Confidence

• As you watch yourself hit certain targets and then reward yourself with something meaningful, it builds your confidence which then expands your motivation and imagination towards bigger targets.

Pathways Thinking and Concentration

In this section, the speaker discusses pathways thinking and concentration as key factors in building massive momentum towards achieving goals.

Pathways Thinking

• When focusing on a target, many different pathways can be found for getting there.

• Multiple streams of income can be created by finding many different pathways towards one goal.

Concentration

• Concentration and focus are really what it takes to build massive momentum towards achieving goals.

• You have to find a plan that works for you and a strategy that fits your skills, abilities, life situation, and desired outcomes.

Building Your Own Plan

In this section, the speaker emphasizes the importance of building your own plan and not worrying about what other people think.

Building Your Own Plan

• Build a plan and a path that fits for you.

• Have rewards that fit you and excite you.

• It's not about getting rewards to prove yourself to other people; it's about getting rewards to build your own confidence.

Not Worrying About Others' Opinions

• Other people don't have your goals, desired outcomes, skills, abilities, or life situation.

• Don't worry about what other people think; focus on building a plan and a goal that works for you.

The Power of Setting High-Heart Targets

In this section, Dr. Benjamin Hardy discusses the importance of setting high-heart targets and how they can help you achieve your goals.

Setting Powerful Goals

• Happiness and confidence are internal games that do not require external validation.

• Set powerful, high-heart targets that motivate you to find new and innovative ways to achieve your goals.

• Approach your goals with boldness and creativity by finding new pathways to success.

• Having an exciting goal can make you an innovator in your own mind, leading to the creation of new resources that would not have been there otherwise.

Rewarding Yourself

• Give yourself a personally meaningful and exciting reward for achieving your goal.

• The reward should be a symbol of progress towards your goal and should motivate you to find new ways to achieve it even faster.

Conclusion

• Setting high-heart targets and rewarding yourself for achieving them can lead to increased confidence, creativity, and innovation.