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The Game Changer Life

#546: When Goals Are Irrelevant

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9550 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Are your goals set up to succeed—or are your daily habits silently sabotaging them? Find out what to look for and how to fix it fast. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the gamechanger life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all aspects of your life.

0:28.2

This is the Game Changer Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

0:32.6

Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson in Noragora Hills, California studio.

0:39.1

The topic we're going to talk about today is simply when goals are irrelevant. I was playing with this title going back and forth,

0:47.2

and I was going to say when goals are overrated, but goals really aren't overrated because when you're

0:53.7

trying to accomplish something,

0:56.3

everything starts with a goal.

0:57.8

I mean, I always say goals are the easy part, right?

1:00.4

Because you still have to come up with a strategy and then the tactics.

1:04.2

Remember, goals are where you're going, strategy, what you're going to do to get there.

1:08.6

Tactics are how you'll do it.

1:09.9

It gets harder as you go. I say goals are fun.

1:13.9

Plans and strategies are easy. Tactics are hard. But they're not really overrated because it all does start with the goal.

1:23.5

But it can become irrelevant. The goal can become irrelevant if we're not doing a lot of other little things that help us reach that goal.

1:32.3

So I thought this was a better title. And I just see so many people over the years in athletics and business, they're really great at planning the future.

1:41.7

And they've got all these great goals and dreams and they have have these really nice plans, and it doesn't get done.

1:48.1

They don't really change anything about who they are.

1:51.3

They don't change their habits, their mindset, their character choices,

1:55.8

where they spend their time, with whom they spend it.

1:58.6

And they kind of just make those goals irrelevant. Those goals

2:02.3

eventually can start to mock you over time with, hey, look at me. Here's what could have been

2:08.2

and should have been. If you'd have done, what you should have done. And so I want to just to be

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