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427: The 12 Week Year and The Danger of Long-Term Goal Setting with Brian Moran

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.8 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined today by author, consultant, and entrepreneur Brian Moran, author of The 12 Week Year. Brian holds a view that many BiggerPockets listeners subscribe to: you are more capable than you think. Through short term sprints, Brian has found that we can all accomplish long-term goals, regardless of the difficulty. This isn’t just a strategy that works for real estate, this works in any industry. Brian has consulted with every kind of business, and the results speak for themselves. Regardless of job type, business type, or industry type, the 12 week yearhelps you accomplish more by doubling down on what you need to do most. Brian also talks about the danger of long term goal setting, and even annual goal setting. It isn’t that long term goal setting doesn’t work, it’s that it presents us with a long time frame to accomplish something we could do far quicker. That’s how the 12 week year kicks our “unproductive mindset” to the curb, and gets us fired up to do great things sooner. Many investors find it hard to break out of their comfort zone, do the things that they find hard, or even just feel motivated. The crucial part of finding success wherever you need it? Take action, start today, track, plan, and re-plan when needed. You’ll soon find that you’re fired up about things that used to seem scary! In This Episode We Cover: What the “12 Week Year” really is How short term goal setting can help you accomplish your biggest goals Why you need to shift focus to executable tasks  How to get tactical on your goals and what you can do to accomplish them Leaning into hard things and shying away from comfort The importance of “vision work” and knowing where you’re headed Holding yourself accountable for what you want most in life How repetition forms competence and competence forms confidence And So Much More! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets book store Real Estate Investment Calculators Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat by David Greene The House Hacking Strategy by Craig Curelop Click here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/show427 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Bigger Pockets podcast show for 27.

0:04.3

You can't sit here and think your way into feeling confident.

0:07.3

It only comes to our actions.

0:08.5

When you're feeling really down and you're feeling,

0:10.8

boy, this is never going to happen,

0:12.1

the best thing you can do is go out and do something that's productive.

0:15.1

If you're in sales, it's pick up the phone and make a call.

0:17.7

Even if someone says, no, I'm not interested.

0:20.1

And, turnally, you know that you're more in control

0:22.9

than if you're just sitting waiting or hoping something's going to change.

0:26.3

You're listening to Bigger Pockets Radio.

0:29.1

Simplifying real estate for investors large and small.

0:32.7

If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing,

0:35.6

without all the hype, you're in the right place.

0:38.7

Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others

0:41.7

who have benefited from BiggerPockets.com.

0:44.7

Your home for real estate investing online.

0:47.8

What's going on with it's Brennan Turner host of the Bigger Pockets podcast here

0:51.7

with another phenomenal weekend show with my buddy David Green.

0:55.7

David, it is good to have you here once again.

0:58.5

Got some big goals lined up for next year.

1:00.7

Oh, huge.

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