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Focus on This

#014: How to Finish Goals that Drag on Forever

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Planning, Timemanagement, Education, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Productivity, Business, Achievement, Focus, Worklifebalance, Goals

4.5657 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As a high achiever, you love to get things done. But some goals just seem to float out there on the horizon. Some are just hard to start. There’s never a good time to begin. Others, you just can’t finish. Sure, you make progress. But it’s just hard to finish that last 10 percent. We’ve been there, and we know the solution. You need to make sure every goal has a time key. We’ll show you exactly why that matters so much—and how it will help you finish. Do this, and you’ll never have trouble getting started on a goal. You’ll always know exactly what your progress is. And, best of all, you’ll know when you’re done! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, what do you think is worse? Living in constant reaction mode or missing the goals that

0:07.6

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0:13.2

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0:22.4

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0:28.2

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0:34.2

at fullfocus.com forward slash rise.

0:44.0

Focus on this.

0:46.0

So you got that last one over. Let me run up.

0:46.9

Run it back.

0:50.4

Welcome to another episode of Focus on this,

0:54.0

the most productive podcast on the internet,

0:56.8

so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays,

1:02.2

with your host, Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton.

1:05.0

It is Monday. Courtney, how you doing?

1:08.1

I'm doing great, especially because we're talking about goals again.

1:12.9

We talked about goals last week, and we have two more episodes after this one, all about goals.

1:18.6

That's right. We're diving deep on goals. And there's an important reason, because sometimes we can

1:23.8

feel like goals drag on forever. That's what we're really keen on this week.

1:31.1

If you ever had a goal, Courtney, where you set it for this quarter and then you're like, wait,

1:36.0

didn't get there. Maybe you said it for the next quarter or maybe it's the next year. I've been

1:41.2

that way with New Year's resolutions. Oh, totally. I feel like that is like New Year's resolution culture that we live in.

1:47.6

It's like, let's just have the same goal over and over that we do for two weeks of January and never get anywhere.

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