098: Deciding Your Destination: Start With the End in Mind
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Goals are an integral part of creating plans for success, but sometimes it's difficult for us to know where to begin when it comes to setting a goal. Your goal may be a project, a habit, or a task, but whatever it is, all goals start with you considering the final destination, and that's what I want to focus on today. We will discuss the idea of starting with the end in mind, creating counterbalance in order to achieve certain goals, the importance of visualization, and creating milestones to ensure that you meet the big goals and dreams you have set for yourself.
What's In This Episode:
- 3 different categories of goals
- Leaning into an area of focus in order to achieve a specific goal
- Beginning with the end in mind through the power of visualization
- How to create & utilize milestones to attain your goals
- Assessing your milestones in order to identify when you need to readjust
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 8 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's most important to you. |
| 0:11.9 | Join Tanya this season as she focuses on planning for success using proven productivity strategies. |
| 0:17.7 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to |
| 0:21.8 | inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 98. All season long, we're talking about creating plans for success, |
| 0:41.2 | and no discussion about planning would be complete without talking about, of course, goal setting. |
| 0:47.7 | So for the next few episodes, we are going to be talking all about goals. Now, when we talk about goals, people get really caught up in |
| 0:57.5 | this idea of what goals should be. And quite honestly, we've got to stop shoulding on ourselves. |
| 1:05.5 | Goals can be anything you want them to be. There's no right or wrong answer to what your goals are or what they're |
| 1:12.2 | supposed to be. And I want to encourage you to think about goals a little bit differently. |
| 1:17.4 | Instead of these big, abstract things hanging over our heads, think of them as milestones. |
| 1:24.2 | We need to get to where we want to go. Goals may be projects, habits, or tasks, but they all start |
| 1:32.7 | with the final destination in mind. And that's what I want us to focus on today, starting with that |
| 1:38.6 | end in mind. Now, if you've ever heard me talk about goals, you may have heard me talk about the importance of |
| 1:45.2 | figuring out where it is exactly that you want to go. Now, it doesn't do us any good to create |
| 1:52.2 | goals for ourselves if we don't know where those goals are leading us. Think of it like a river. |
| 1:59.3 | Let's say you're on one side of a river and you need to get to the other side. |
| 2:04.0 | There's no bridge. |
| 2:05.1 | There's no road. |
| 2:07.1 | Would life always be easier if there were just a clear path? |
| 2:10.9 | Oh, I can't tell you the number of times that I have prayed just to see that path. |
| 2:16.5 | But that's the thing with life. Rarely is there really a clear |
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