307: The Science Behind Setting and Achieving Big Goals

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Raise your hand if this describes you: You start working toward a new goal with excitement, only to watch it eventually fizzle out to nothing. If you’re human, it’s likely you’ve experienced this phenomenon. Why is it some goals are just so hard to accomplish, whereas others we’re able to conquer with ease? On today’s episode of The BiggerPockets Podcast, that’s exactly what you’ll discover. Diving deep into psychological research on goals, motivation, and time management, Brandon and David will pull back the curtain on how people set and accomplish big goals and give you a GPS toward changing your life forever. If there is one episode you listen to all year, let it be this one! In This Episode We Cover: The real estate G.P.S. system GOAL Specific Difficult Feedback Commitment Training your reticular activating system Make sub goals Reward yourself for small wins PLAN Why humans need processes and steps Lead measures vs. leg measures Learn the L.A.P.S. system on finding deals Keystone habits SCHEDULE Schedule meet-ups Set the behavior, time, and location ACCOUNTABILITY Why you may want to join a group that meets weekly with clear structure And SO much more! Links from the Show GoBundance BiggerPockets Podcast 226: From “D-Student” to $400,000 in Annual Rental Property Cash Flow with David Osborn BiggerPockets Calculators Realtor.com James Clear BiggerPockets Events Goals Research Summary (Graphs) Brandon’s Blog Posts StickK App Steph Curry Shoots ‘Til He Makes 500 3-Pointers Every Day: Here’s the Crucial Lesson That Teaches Us (Blog) Books Mentioned in this Show 90 Days of Intention by Brandon Turner (Journal) Handbook of Positive Psychology by CR Snyder & Shane J. Lopez 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute by Richard Wiseman The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Mason Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff Tweetable Topics: “When people wrote down their goals, they were 33% more successful in achieving them.” (Tweet This!) “Subconscious is a powerful ally, but a terrible master.” (Tweet This!) “Every goal you desire is preceded by a process required to get the results.” (Tweet This!) Connect with Brandon and David Brandon’s Instagram David’s Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the BiggerPockets Podcast, Show the Rio 7.
0:05.0	Every goal you desire is preceded by a process required to get the result.
0:11.0	In other words, like if you want to lose weight, yeah, it's great to have a goal of
0:14.0	those weight, but what really gets you the weight loss is diet and exercise, right? If you want to buy real estate,
0:20.5	there's a process involved in the process that David and I talk a lot about
0:24.0	is the...
0:25.0	You're listening to bigger pockets radio, simplifying real estate for investors large and
0:30.5	small. If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the
0:34.8	height, you're in the right place. Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited
0:41.2	from bigger pockets.com.
0:43.0	Your home for real estate investing online.
0:46.0	What is going on everyone?
0:48.0	My name is Brandon Turner.
0:49.0	Today's host of the BiggerPockets podcast
0:52.0	and I am super excited about the show and I'm super excited about my co-hosting crime, David Green.
1:00.0	What's up, buddy?
1:01.0	Not much, man. This is a very good episode because we're not just
1:04.3	interviewing somebody else about how they bought real estate we are talking to
1:08.6	people about how they can improve their own game to buy it for themselves.
1:13.0	Yeah yeah so we, today we're looking at success in general on how people actually
1:18.2	achieve a huge success.
1:20.1	Like this has been an obsession of mine for the last few years.
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