627: How To Achieve Meaningful Long-Term Goals with Dorie Clark
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by the to-do list that's preventing you from setting and achieving goals that would actually improve your life? We've become conditioned to chase instant gratification from the quick wins and dopamine hits that come from staying "productive." But those short-term victories often distract us from making meaningful progress toward the goals that truly matter.
And today's guest is the perfect person to help shift your mindset to create long-term impact that can transform your career, relationships, and life.
Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 and Inc. Magazine. She teaches executive education at Columbia Business School and is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, and Reinventing You. Her work focuses on helping professionals think strategically, build lasting influence, and achieve goals that compound over time.
In our conversation, we explored why so many people get trapped in short-term thinking, how patience and consistency create extraordinary outcomes, and Dorie shared practical strategies to stay motivated, build habits that support your future self, and stay committed to achieving your biggest long-term goals.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Escaping Short-Term Reward Traps
- Balancing Urgent Work With Long-Term Goals
- Real Examples Of Playing the Long Game
- Doing Favors For Your Future Self
- How AI Changes Long-Term Achievement
- How Hal & Dorie Are Using AI
- People Give Up On Ideas & Goals Too Soon
- Be Aware Of The Raindrops: Clues Of Progress
- Daily Habits That Support Long-Term Success
- The Hidden Cost Of Short-Term Living
- Making Daily Progress That Motivates You
- How You Can Connect With & Learn from Dorie
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, |
| 0:22.6 | and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:35.4 | If you find yourself overwhelmed with more to do on your to-do list than you can get done, |
| 0:39.3 | and that's keeping you from creating, setting, and achieving meaningful long-term goals, |
| 0:45.5 | today's episode is for you. My guest is Dory Clark, author of the book The Long Game. |
| 0:51.1 | And we're going to talk about how you can make sure that the goals you're working |
| 0:55.2 | towards each day are meaningful, are valuable, will be transformative in your life as opposed to |
| 1:02.1 | just answering emails and checking things off of your to-do list. If you don't know Dory, |
| 1:07.3 | she's been named one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world by both thinkers |
| 1:12.3 | 50 and ink magazine she is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education at columbia business school |
| 1:18.0 | she's also the wall street journal and usa today bestselling author of entrepreneurial you |
| 1:23.5 | reinventing you stand out and as i mentioned long game, which was named the number one |
| 1:29.4 | leadership book of the year by Inc. Magazine. She's a former presidential campaign spokeswoman. |
| 1:35.4 | She writes frequently for the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. You can learn more at |
| 1:39.8 | dory clark.com, and you will learn a lot more today during this conversation about how you can achieve your |
| 1:46.0 | long-term goals and stick with them, even when it feels pointless, even when it feels far away, |
| 1:51.9 | and you're not sure if you're going to get there. This episode will show you how. |
| 2:02.6 | Doory, it's so good to be with you. Hal, I'm so happy to be here. Thanks. |
| 2:05.6 | You are literally the perfect guest for, this is the Achieve Your Goals podcast, and your book is about doing small things over time to achieve meaningful goals, right? |
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