Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes Is A Gold Podcast.

The best place in the entire world, including all of Canada, who learn how to build new

thoughts, new actions, and new results.

I'm your host John Eckman and today I'm going to teach you how to prepare your future

self. But first, a quick word from today's sponsor. If you want to accomplish more goals

next year, you should use the calendar that I've been using for the last 11 years. It's

called the Finish Calendar and I love it for seven very specific reasons. Number one,

the Finish Calendar is big and beautiful. It's 36 inches tall by 25 inches wide. This

thing is massive. It gives you enough space to actually plan things each day. Number two,

and that I love it. Finish calendar is reversible. You've got a vertical side and a wide

orientation side. That's like two calendars for the price of one. Me myself, I prefer vertical,

but I also like that it comes in two versions, traditional paper and dry erase. Number three,

reason I love it, it makes time real. When someone says, hey, John, can you do that project in the

next six weeks? That time feels fictional to me. Six weeks from now, I can't even wrap my head

around what will be going on then. I need to be able to see the whole year, not just talk about it.

Number four, reason I love it. It's a Monday focus calendar, which means each week starts with Monday.

A lot of calendars start the week with Sunday, but that's not how my head works. Monday is the first

day of the week to me and Sunday is the last. For example, I don't know anyone who plans their new

week on Saturday night because Sunday is the first day of the week. Number five, reason I love it.

Studies show that planning when and where that you're going to work on your goals doubles the

chances you'll achieve them doubles it. That's amazing. This calendar makes it easier. Number six,

the finished calendar has 12 encouraging statements on it that I wrote to help sling shot you into a

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