Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode

1,812. Today's a reminder to be very mindful of the goals that you set for

yourself. In some circles, they don't even believe in goal setting because it's

a recipe for disaster, particularly results oriented goals. When you ask

someone what their goal is a lot of times, it's to achieve a certain thing, get a

certain weight, win as many as certain games, win a certain championship to all

our great, but those are outcome goals. And while you would love to say you have

100% control over that, you don't. We don't have 100% control over all of our

outcome goals because there are other people competing against you, people who

are just as strong, if not stronger, just as fast, if not faster, just if have

just as much as many resources, if not more resources than you. And at a certain

level, everyone has the same goals. Everyone wants to win. Everyone wants to be

successful. Everyone wants to be a champion. And so we can happen sometimes if you

don't achieve your goal, it derails you, you lose focus, you lose motivation, you

get overly emotional, and you throw everything away. A suggestion I have is

instead of focusing on results oriented goals, focus on process oriented goals. And

to do that, you identify what you want. And then you ask yourself, what is

under my control? 100% under my control, if I focus on those things, it makes the

odds of me achieving that goal more likely. And then focus on that. Focus on those

things you have 100% control over. And if you're a leader, a parent of coach of

any kind, help your athletes, children, students do the same. Instead of having

them focus on results oriented goals, have them focus on process oriented goals. Or

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