Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll explore the importance of goal setting in

the life of a leap. Andy, a lot of us are repeating our annual attempt to make and

keep New Year's resolutions. Having known you for quite a while,

I know you're not really into those.

Well, I'm not a big goal-setter.

I have four or five goals that hang on a little cork board in my closet at home and I basically

update those every year but that's pretty much it. I don't have a sophisticated system and I have friends

that have these very sophisticated systems. In some cases they pay lots of money to take classes on how to set sophisticated goals.

In fact, I actually went to an orientation one time where there was a company trying to sell this sort of package.

It was all about this way of setting goals.

I was so exhausted by the end of the orientation.

And it was so funny, Lane, because I had friends that were with me

if several of us went, and they could not wait to sign up and I told him I said you don't need this you already do this you're so wired this way anyway why would you pay someone to help you do what you naturally do anyway.

I'm the one that needs to help, but I didn't sign up for the class.

So goals are very, very important.

I think everybody in our listening audience has set a goal for,

you know, at some point along the way. I just think some people are more

oriented that way than others. So then does that mean you don't want to talk about

goal setting? Not really. Okay. Actually I have a funny story about goal setting.

And I don't think I've shared this with our podcast listeners, but when I was in high school,

just stop me if I've told you this before.

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