All right, team, welcome back to The Man Talk Show.

Connor Beaton here.

Today I'm talking about what to do if you don't like setting goals.

Now, I will admit first and format, like straight out the gates, I really don't like goal setting.

I've never been.

I've tried it so many times. I have tried to set goals. I have tried to have smart goals and

a linear trajectory towards very specific outcomes. And for me, it's, I just hate it. I just do not

like it. It doesn't work for me. It feels constricting. I feel caged in. It feels boring. It doesn't

feel adventurous or exciting. And I never stick to it. I almost never stick to it. I will,

however, I will set some targets. You can call those goals. You can call them whatever you want.

But how I approach this is very, very different.

And I've noticed that there's a lot of people that traditional goal setting and goal acquisition

just does not work for them. And so I'm going to be sharing with you what I use and how I go

about actually achieving and accomplishing things in a way that is very, very different.

Goal setting is traditionally something that's very linear.

So you create a goal and then you create a workback plan to attain or reach that goal, right?

And that's what smart goals are, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timebound.

And you can kind of map out every single part of the journey of reaching that goal.

Now, for some things, like, for example, if you're wanting to put on 10 pounds of muscle mass,

there is a very specific trajectory and pathway. That's your goal, right? Putting on 10 pounds

of muscle mass, there's a very specific pathway to get there, and you can chart that out,

and it can be very linear. Same thing with like losing 10 pounds. If you wanted to lose 10 pounds,

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