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Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

Goals Are Like Pilots and Donuts

Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Have you noticed that airplanes fly crooked? Heading to their destination, winds attempt to blow them off course. That’s why pilots turn their aircraft into the wind. They call it Wind Correction. The same thing happens when you set a Goal. While you prefer the straight path, you will likely run into winds that will blow you off course. Your spouse disagrees with your plans. Your boss demands more hours. Your kids, friends, and responsibilities keep blowing you further away from your dreams. It’s time to start thinking like a pilot setting a flight plan to a distant city with a Kristy Kreme donut store about to turn in the ‘Hot Donuts’ sign. Keep an eye on your final destination. Always set goals that factor in winds that will blow you off your course. Make minor corrections until you get where you’re heading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How are ya? Happy, happy, happy Friday! Man, I almost forgot to talk. It's funny, sometimes

0:21.9

I get into what I'm doing and I push all the buttons and it's like, oh you got to open

0:25.0

your mouth too. And turn the microphone on. It's awesome. So many, so many flashy lights

0:28.4

and buttons around here. It's crazy. All right, so are you a goal center? You are. Just accept

0:33.6

it. You are. Oh, what? How do I know that? Because you're born. Yes, you're a human. Now we do

0:40.0

have a few non-humans listening to the show. I can't absolutely tell you if they're goal

0:44.1

centers or not. We might have to work on that. But for you, if you're human and most you

0:47.4

are, you are. So we'll talk about goals today and give you a simple way of thinking that

0:51.8

maybe keep you on track. And there's a lot of nuance in between as well because goals can

0:55.3

be close to be kind of crazy. And again, the nuance is almost everything. The nuance is

1:02.1

in between the lines is the mindset that gets you there. And usually that's what's holding

1:05.0

you back in almost all cases. You know that you know the tactics. You know the strategy.

1:08.0

You've collected those for years. Tips and tricks. A numbered list. Boy, man, go to Reddit,

1:13.6

get a numbered list, right? You guys go insane for that stuff. And yet, have you noticed

1:17.6

that 80% of the population or 80% of the people you know, I'm just not doing anything special.

1:24.4

And you want to be special. And the reason they're not doing specials because 80% the herd

1:28.4

is always going the wrong direction. Never follow the herd. The herd's always wrong. You

1:32.2

know, you heard the stock market, you know, by the time you get the idea to go invest, it's too

1:35.4

late. It's the same thing for almost everything. Because most people are very much behind the

1:40.0

eight ball. So what this show is all about is pretty much saying, all right, you say you

1:43.3

want to do this. Let's just go do it. And let's be very much out in front of it and make

1:47.3

it happen. Set some goals and get them done no matter what it takes to do that. We'll do

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