561: How to Set Goals that Hit the Right Target
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Most of my clients set goals for themselves. Most of them are going about it the wrong way.
Why do you think so many people who set a goal of weight loss end up regaining the weight? Why do so many people who get out of debt shortly reaccumulate it?
My friends, as you set goals for yourself, I want you to keep in mind that there is a massive difference between external goals and internal targets.
In today's episode, we're going to talk about a different way to set goals and go about achieving them in a way that ensures you get what you want most! We're taking a deep dive into the idea that the goal is more about feeling than doing. I'm going to help you understand what it means for the GOAL to be the FEELING you're after and how to prioritize the way you want to BE over the things you ought to DO.
This simple shift in the way you set goals and the way you think about goals will improve your consistency and make sure you don't waste precious time and energy pursuing an external target when your real goal is an internal shift.
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Set Goals by Setting Clear Intentions:
How do you want to feel?
How do you NOT want to feel?
What choices, actions or thoughts contribute to how you do want to feel?
What choices, actions or thoughts contribute to how you don't want to feel?
What can you do about it today?
What's the difference between the things you want to do and the way you want to be?
What can you do about it today?
When you're in a moment of struggle or negative emotion: what feeling are you looking to obtain?
How can you create that?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.4 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:29.8 | I hope your day is off to a fantastic start and I feel very confident that we are going |
| 0:35.0 | to make it better with today's episode. |
| 0:39.4 | This is actually a listener request and I get a lot of those. |
| 0:43.9 | I love them. |
| 0:45.2 | If you want to hear about something on the show, have me go deeper into a topic we've already |
| 0:50.0 | talked about or dive into something we haven't yet touched on, let me know. |
| 0:55.2 | This is your show as much as it is mine. |
| 0:58.3 | So keep the requests coming. |
| 1:01.6 | This particular request came from a few people after one of the more recent VIP emails. |
| 1:07.8 | So I have a free email list and every week I send out a story and inspiration, something |
| 1:16.4 | that really moved me or something that really moved one of my clients and recently I sent |
| 1:24.4 | out a very powerful lesson that one of my Primal Potential Masters Club members reminded |
| 1:32.7 | me of on one of our webinars about how really the goal is the feeling. |
| 1:40.6 | How we want to feel needs to lead before the things we should do, right? |
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