Do Goals REALLY Matter for Success?

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Dean Graziosi

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

How important is it to set goals? It's extremely important! But...it's only one piece of the puzzle of success. As much as setting goals is crucial to having a successful and productive life, you must also take uncomfortable action to take steps towards achieving those goals.

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0:00.0	How important is our goals? I think they're extremely important, but I think we have to look at
0:05.0	goals in a different way. So I just want to give you a different light today.
0:14.8	So when you think of your goals, that is the number one thing everybody talks about.
0:18.9	So many times in life, people think goals will solve everything. And it's a part of it,
0:26.2	right? It's a part of it. We know if you ever saw that 50-year Harvard study,
0:30.0	you know, there's only one common denominator between a 50-year study of the most successful
0:37.1	people from Harvard. Did you ever see that study? The only common thread of the most successful
0:41.9	people at Harvard. It didn't matter what ethnic background, where they came from, if they were rich
0:45.2	or they were poor, if they got great grades or shitty grades. You know, the only common
0:49.4	factor of the most successful people at Harvard was, they set goals. So how important is our goals?
0:57.3	I think they're extremely important, but I think we have to look at goals in a different way.
1:02.0	So I just want to give you a different light today. If you know anything about me, you know,
1:05.3	I always talk about instead of setting a goal looking forward, right? Let's pretend it is one year
1:12.0	from today and we're back here celebrating and it was the best year of your life. That's the
1:17.9	framework in which I would love for you guys to look through setting your goals. Instead of looking
1:23.6	forward through a busy life, look backwards at the best year of your life and what had to happen.
1:30.0	When I say look backwards and pretend it's the best year of your life, what your brain will
1:35.0	automatically go is, oh yeah, I want to be making more money. I want some more freedom. Oh, I want
1:40.2	to lose that 10 pounds. Oh, I want to get the intimacy back in my relationship. That's still,
1:44.8	I want to be really, I know it sounds like I'm splitting hairs. You're still looking forward
1:50.0	of what you wish could happen. I've trained my brain over the last two decades that when I do this
1:56.6	exercise and we don't have to do it right here, when you do this exercise, it's not about looking
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