Hey Radicals, welcome to the show. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.

We're going to call this episode of the Radical Personal Finance Podcast, more of a coaching call.

This is not necessarily, this is not, certainly not our traditional podcast format.

I doubt today's show will be over 10 minutes.

Here during the month of July, I'm going to be releasing a few short shows here and there

as I spend some time loving my wife

and loving my kids as we had transitioned to enjoying our new baby here.

So today I want you to take the time that you would normally spend listening to the show, listen to the next few

minutes of coaching advice, and then turn off the show or turn off however you listen, phone,

internet, whatever, and spend a few minutes thinking if you're

driving, if you can't write, or spend a few minutes writing a few things down.

And I want to talk to you about the question of goals versus means and I'm

not quite sure if that's the right word for it but you'll understand in just a

moment what I mean. Here's here's what I mean what are your true goals what are

your actual goals very few people actually know what their real goals are. Now certainly if you take some time

and you write down a list of goals you'll be able to come up with some things that

you're working towards. But depending on how much time you spent thinking about them

and working them, those goals might or might not be your actual goals.

Now only you are going to know and be able to discern and tell

whether they're your goals or whether they're your actual goals.

But it's an important thinking process to go through.

Let me give you an example.

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