264. How to set goals you'll actually achieve
The Psychology of your 20s
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We are writing and thinking about your goals all wrong and in today's episode I want to discuss how we can think about our goals in a manner that will make us more successful! Whether it's a fitness goal, financial, personal, career or relationship goal, this formula works for all of them. We discuss:
- The 4 biggest psychological barriers to achieving our goals
- How to articulate GOOD goals
- The 'I am' vs. 'I want' philosophy
- How to action our goals
- The power of the path of least resistance
- Overcoming goal disengagement and reversal
All of that and more! If you're ready to set good, actionable goals, this episode is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners, old listeners, |
| 0:06.7 | wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we break |
| 0:12.9 | down the psychology of our 20s and also as we welcome you back for our final episode of our New Year series. |
| 0:19.8 | We have set our theme for the year. We've talked about |
| 0:22.1 | the psychology of manifestation. We have looked back at the psychology of New Year's resolutions. |
| 0:28.4 | And today, we are going to talk about how we can be an effective, masterful goal setter. Of course, |
| 0:36.9 | I think what we're talking about today applies all year round, |
| 0:39.9 | but milestones or landmarks like a new year are really pivotal and do spur a lot of deep |
| 0:45.4 | thinking about what we want from our life and whether we are seriously doing enough or |
| 0:50.1 | motivating ourselves to be in the right place to receive these things. |
| 0:54.5 | But if you are listening, not in the new year, this still applies, most certainly. |
| 0:59.8 | And I also think that if you have a goal you really care about, you can start whenever. |
| 1:04.6 | The hardest part is just the starting. |
| 1:07.6 | And your body and your mind, you know know your body in particular doesn't really know what |
| 1:12.5 | time of the year it is only you know that so whenever it is a right time for you you should be starting |
| 1:18.1 | and goals are without a doubt such an important thing for us especially in our 20s we want to save |
| 1:25.3 | more we want to travel we want to make more friends we want to travel. We want to make more friends. We want to take |
| 1:29.1 | our health seriously, run marathons, rebuild our self-worth. All these things are really important |
| 1:34.1 | to focus on. And I think a life without goals can become awfully stagnant because how can we really |
| 1:41.3 | be actioning a plan for the future or for our ambitions if we don't have |
| 1:46.6 | any structure to our thinking, if we don't have anything that we want to achieve? Don't get me wrong, |
| 1:51.9 | though. There are definitely times when we do need to rest and be happy with where we are. I actually |
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