Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,919. Today I am taking an excerpt from a book called How to Be an Imperfectionist by Stephen Guys. Now, this concept is, it's called ceilings and floors, or ceiling and floor goals.

Ceiling goals are the types of goals where everything has to go perfectly.

It is the perfect ideal goal that they're astronomical.

These are the goals that you reach for, the ones that you hope for, the ones that are best case scenarios.

Now the floor goals are the let's make sure we make this, we hit the target goals. These are the bare minimum goals,

the ones that when the smoke settles, you want to be able to at least hit these. Now, what I would

suggest is that your floor goals, let's make sure we hit this target

goal should be process oriented. They should be the types of goals that you have 100% control over.

The ones that you know that if you execute these things, the results should take care of themselves, but in some cases, they don't.

Giving your best and executing your plan doesn't guarantee success. It makes it, it increases the odds.

It makes it more likely that it will happen than not, but it doesn't guarantee anything.

These are your floor goals,

your let's make sure we hit the target goals, goals that no matter who you're performing against,

whatever the weather is, whatever the circumstances, you can look yourself in the mirror and say,

I did this because it was fully under your control. Now the ceiling goals, those could be more results-oriented goals.

These are that if everything goes perfectly goals.

And whenever you end the performance, your results or how you do should land somewhere between your floors, your floor goals and your ceiling goals.

And so I just thought that was a very interesting concept that I just heard from the book,

how to be an imperfectionist.

Maybe it's something that resonates with you.

Maybe it's something that resonates with somebody else.

And hopefully you enjoyed this episode.

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