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15 Minutes to Freedom

E269 Your Goals Are Too Big | Why Your Goals Are Holding You Back

15 Minutes to Freedom

Ryan Niddel

Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals, Business, Society & Culture

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What happens for most people, especially this time of year? They set these outlandish goals they can never achieve. Why? Instead of realizing the huge goals are in fact long-term goals, they get frustrated and quit when they don’t see immediate results. Then, the failure to achieve those massive goals creates a guilt and shame and feedback loop telling us that we simply aren’t good enough. Today we’re going to identify how to avoid the guilt and shame by creating manageable goals.
Questions, comments, requests? Feel free to contact me at ryan@lifeoptimizationgroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

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0:00.0

The This is your host Ryan Naidel and today's episode is your goals are too big.

0:25.0

Today's episode, I'm going to share with you

0:27.4

why the goals that you've set are almost bound to fail. I know, crazy way to start out an episode. You've set

0:36.2

ostentagious goals for 2019. You're motivated. It's a first week in

0:40.1

January. You want to achieve everything that you set out to do. I can truly tell you I want

0:47.2

you to achieve that and more. That's why I'm sharing this message with you.

0:57.0

You see, most years for my life, I sat down sometime in December, maybe the first week in January, and created goals.

1:01.0

That's unfamiliar?

1:02.0

Have you yourself maybe sat down already and created some goals for yourself?

1:06.0

Some things that you know you need to change? Some things that need perfected and tweaked.

1:17.0

I get it. We all do it. It's almost like what the New years is known for is creating these new ideas and new pathways, new success principles.

1:25.0

And when I used to sit down and set these out, I would say, okay, there's all this stuff that I didn't

1:28.8

do.

1:29.8

If I look back at the past year, I wanted to lose weight. I wanted to get up earlier. I want to be a

1:34.5

better boyfriend at that point or have more money in the bank account. These are all

1:39.0

things I had to do. I had convinced myself that these were the things that were going to make me successful.

1:45.0

Also things were going to make me feel whole, fulfilled on the inside.

1:50.0

And so I would write down, right? I'd get a sheet of paper out and I'd do all the good happy things that we're supposed to do in order to make us feel successful. I'd write down, you know, this year I'm going to do whatever it would be.

2:05.2

And from the standpoint, this vantage point, I would then eventually get into like the metaphysics

2:10.5

world of discussing that I'm going to talk that this is present

2:14.5

tense like I already own these things like this is already who I am wonderful

2:20.2

right maybe you've done the same thing.

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