212. Unintended Consequences of Setting Goals Looking Forward | Clay Clark

The ONE Thing

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Have you ever worked hard day in and day out, week after week, only to find yourself wondering why you’re even doing what you’re doing? Sometimes we are so focused on climbing the ladder that we don’t notice it’s leaning against the wrong wall — and this is because there are unintended consequences to setting your goals by looking forward. When you set goals looking forward, you miss the most important part of goal setting: where you’re going and why you’re going. If you don’t have that purpose and priority before you set your goals and start working away at them, you can’t be productive. So, in this episode, Clay Clark, Founder of ThriveTime Show and co-host of Business School Without the BS, is going to share when he realized he was living a life by default and how he started living a life by design. If you want this same experience facilitated for you, consider joining us at our Goal-Setting Retreat. In this episode, you will learn... [9:30] How you can start reclaiming your calendar and your time [19:00] The ONE thing that will make saying no easier or unnecessary [26:00] What Clay wishes he had done earlier (and what you can start doing now) Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more at thrivetimeshow.com Listen: Business School Without the BS Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0	I remember when Amy and I were looking for our dream home here in Austin and realized that so much of what we wanted was just a dream.
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0:24.1	it's in your budget, school searches so you're in the right district, or even text alerts
0:28.6	so that you can fit home buying into your busy schedule.
0:31.8	It's not about finding a dream home, but a home you can dream in.
0:35.2	Find homes for the real bus at realtor.com.
0:40.6	This is the One Thing podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.
0:47.0	I'm your host Jeff Woods.
0:50.0	Have you ever had an experience in your life where there was an opportunity in front of you that looked really attractive?
0:57.0	You went after it and that opportunity set you back up to take advantage of another opportunity and that opportunity put you in
1:05.4	a relationship with certain people that opened the doors for another opportunity and one thing
1:10.4	at a time overtime you looked up one day and questioned why you were even doing
1:18.7	what you were doing. It was almost like you had been working so hard to climb a ladder just to discover that it was leaning against the wrong wall
1:27.0	There's an unintended consequence of setting our goals looking forward. It's that we don't understand a priority from a
1:36.5	distraction because we deep down the the piece that's missing is where we're going and why we're going there.
1:45.0	It's that purpose and that priority.
1:48.0	If you don't have that, you truly cannot be productive.
1:51.0	Today is going to be an example of someone who at a very early age
1:56.4	started a company was able to sell it and achieve all his net worth goals by the
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