Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times bestselling author, celebrity

fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

My name is Shaline Johnson. Thank you so much for joining me on the Shaline Show. Today

we're talking about goals and the mere mission of goals for some people at Freak's Yow

because it feels heavy and it feels like, oh boy does that not sound like fun. So I

want to make this really simple for you today and exciting and fun and light and actionable.

Today I want to talk to you about a very critical step that most people leave outside of their

goal setting. First and foremost you have to know this. Your goals need to be in writing.

First of all goals need to be measurable meaning that you can't, it is not in your best interest

to set goals that are vague like I need to get in better shape. I need to build my email

list. I should spend more time with my husband. All of those are so vague and your brain

doesn't know what to do with ambiguity. That's why when we hear like part of a story,

we fill in all the extra pieces. We're not doing that to be gossip, we're not doing

that to be nosy, we're not doing that to invent facts or details, but our brains need

specificity. That's why when someone is trying to tell you about a restaurant to visit

or a place where they've gone in your city and they're trying to explain to you where

it is, you're like until you can really picture exactly the location and you know what

it's next to you and you're like, oh I've been in that plaza before. Your brain just

can't even handle it and it's trying to picture in all these different places. It's the

same reason why when we meet people, we're like, well, is he married or is he single?

Did he grow up here? Did he grow up in the Midwest? You know, like we want all the details

because our brains want, we don't like ambiguity. We like, we like very specific information.

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