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Just a heads up that this episode originally aired in September of 2019, which, as I'm sure you can imagine, it was a very different world for a lot of reasons.

So just know that before you go into this. Of course, the questions are always fascinating and the answers for Michael are wonderful, so we wanted to share this with you today.

Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt, and this is lead to win the weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life. And in this episode, I'm going to be answering your questions.

Megan Hyatt Miller is on parental leave, spending some much needed time with her newly adopted daughter Naomi. She'll be back with us soon.

But in the meantime, I've got, as always, Larry Wilson. Hey, Larry.

Hey, Michael. How are you? I'm doing great. I'm looking forward to this. I always like answering our listener questions.

Marissa, our social media manager, fields them all the time. And we get a lot of them through Instagram. And that's where all these questions today came from.

So hey, guys, if you are not following Michael and Megan on Instagram, you really need to do that right now. You ready to dive in?

We're ready. And just, you know, full disclosure here, I have not seen these questions. And so I'm going to be hitting this cold, which I like.

Yeah, this will be fun. As always, we get a lot of questions about goals and goals setting. So we have a few of those. I'll pick one here for you.

This is from Andy Cumber. And he writes, Michael, I've been a full focus planner user. And I love the system. Obviously, you've talked a lot about smarter goals in the past.

My question is, how do you create meaningful relationship goals, specifically in terms of marriage in the smarter format without having that become a checklist.

And I know nobody spouse wants to be just another item to tick off their list. How do you navigate that?

Well, here's what I would do. You know, oftentimes these are what I would call aspirations, not goals. For example, you know, I want a closer relationship with God.

Or I want deeper intimacy with my spouse. So the question to ask yourself is not how do you turn that into an achievement goal, because I don't frankly know.

But how could I reduce it to a habit or a practice that if I did consistently would create the context for creating deeper intimacy.

So it's not that the habit becomes an end in itself. And I'm going to give you a concrete example here in a minute.

But it provides the context where it can happen. So for me, when I was trying to figure out how to develop deeper intimacy and get closer with Gayle, and we've been married 41 years.

So I, you know, I want to preserve this relationship. I instituted a simple habit goal of a weekly date night.

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