Ep 383: Throwback to Ep66: Q & A – When You Have EXTREMELY Large Goals Should You Start By Focusing On Smaller Goals?

The Jim Fortin Podcast

Jim Fortin

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Start Your Transformation Now Goals, for most of your life you’ve heard people talking about goals and why you should set them. In this Q&A episode I talk about goals from a few different perspectives and I talk about why I don’t personally set them. Yes, you read that right, I don’t set goals. In this episode I talk about: [6:56] Working by a “12 week year” [10:38] Why it’s important to break down goals into quarters [11:32] Why tracking is so important if you set goals [12:15] How “processing styles” can sabotage your goals [14:29] The role of habits in your goal achievement [15:23] How subconscious identity plays into your goals [26:40] Why goal setting can be detrimental, research proven [29:33] And, finally, why I personally do not set goals I really enjoyed creating this episode. This is such an overrated topic, in my opinion, and it’s one that that has been drilled into our heads since we were kids. So, I go a few different directions in this episode. If you want to set goals I talk about breaking them down. If you don’t want to set goals or you want a more healthy approach I talk about some Harvard research and my personal approach. I had fun with this episode, I hope you enjoy it. Listen, apply, and enjoy! Transformational Takeaway Break goals into 12 weeks and trackable results. Know your brain based processing style so you can apply it to your goals. And, finally, counter intuitive I know, but don’t set goals when you work from BEing the goal first in your mind. Let’s Connect: Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This is a throwback episode
0:05.4	to episode number 66, which was titled, When You Have Extremely Large Goals, should you
0:11.9	start by focusing on smaller goals? What I talk about in this episode is the fact that,
0:17.1	you know what? And this surprises a lot of people. I don't set goals. And I haven't set goals. And even
0:24.4	research demonstrates that 92% of people who set goals fail with their goals in the first 30 days.
0:33.7	So what I talk about in this episode, there's something beyond setting goals. Of course, you want to learn
0:38.7	how to work with your brain. But what I set beyond my goals, because when I set this, the goals
0:45.2	happen automatically. What I set, metaphorically speaking, is my identity. Because whatever my identity is,
0:53.5	is automatically what I'm going to create goals are not.
0:57.9	This is why I've said before goals are bullshit.
1:00.8	So set the identity and whatever you want, whatever that identity is set to will happen automatically.
1:07.3	Enjoy the episode.
1:08.9	Hi, I'm Jim Fortin and you're about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast.
1:15.6	I'm widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation, and I've coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years.
1:22.6	Here, you're going to find no raw, raw motivation, and no hype, because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology, and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you've never thought possible.
1:38.4	If you're wanting a lot more in life to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive, and to bring
1:46.7	more abundance and prosperity into your life, than this podcast is for you because you're going
1:52.1	to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that,
1:57.7	anything you want then becomes possible for you. I'm glad you're here. Okay, so this
2:04.4	episode is about goal setting. There are a lot of different places I want to go. And, you know,
2:12.7	most episodes are really easy for me to do. And the last one, if I was allowed a like one get out of jail
2:19.3	free card for an episode, it would have been the last episode. That was a hard episode for me. And the reason
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