How to Avoid 4 Common Goal Setting Mistakes

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

4.6 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The new year is here, and so is the opportunity to achieve your biggest goals. But too often, common mistakes hold us back. In this solo episode, host Ken Freire breaks down four goal-setting pitfalls and shares practical strategies to overcome them.

Key Takeaways

Clarity is Key: Avoid vague resolutions and define clear, SMARTER goals.
Don’t Play It Safe: Risky goals inspire growth. Safe goals keep you stuck.
Take Action: Announcing goals isn’t enough—daily action is the real game-changer.
Find Your People: Accountability and support are crucial for staying on track.

Resources

Watch on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/1hKiE64_YyI

This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet,
0:11.0	so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays.
0:18.0	I'm Ken Freire, and unfortunately, I am not here with Marissa Hyatt because we have decided
0:24.4	that for the next several weeks we're doing some solo episodes. Marissa's done some and I'm going to
0:30.0	be doing some to just give ourselves some reprieve. But fear not, I have some great content
0:35.9	to deliver to you because today we want to talk about
0:38.7	how to avoid the four common goal setting mistakes.
0:43.3	And you know, we've all been there.
0:45.4	We're getting so excited for the new year that's coming right upon us, right?
0:50.7	We're setting all of our new year's resolutions.
0:53.1	We're just super excited to hopefully
0:55.4	start afresh. But we know what ends up happening. We set these goals and then a few weeks
1:01.8	later, we kind of hit them. Or maybe even a week we're like doing strong and then we start to taper
1:06.7	off by February, March, we miss it completely. And what we want to do is avoid that. Why does that
1:13.7	happen? Because there's four common goal setting mistakes. So let's walk through each one so that you
1:20.4	could actually hit the ground running and be successful this year. Mistake number one that people make
1:27.3	is that you stop short of clarity.
1:31.3	This is why New Year's resolutions don't work because when most people start make a resolution,
1:37.6	they stop at an aspiration. An aspiration is something like, I want to get fit or I want to be less anxious. Now, don't get me
1:46.5	wrong, that's a good start, but it can't stop there. You see, you need to clearly define what you
1:54.8	want and why. This is why our smarter goal framework is super important. And there's four parts of the Smarter Goal Framework that you want to use to actually get immense clarity on your goal.
2:08.2	Those four are specific, measurable, actionable, and timebound.
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