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The Daily Motivation

If You Haven't Written Your Goals Down, Do This Tonight | Matthew McConaughey

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8963 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Matthew McConaughey reveals the exact goal-setting practice he used at 20 years old, one he forgot about for three decades until he rediscovered it while writing his memoir. He explains why physically writing down and signing your goals turns them into a subconscious, non-negotiable contract with yourself.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:05.0

Howe how important is it to write down our visions, our dreams, our goals in order to manifest what we want in our lives.

0:21.6

I think it's a lot more important than we give it credit for.

0:24.6

Look, writing things down, it seems like this old-fashioned sort of archaic things.

0:29.6

Type it. It's on the screen, put it on a word, doc, save it, put in a folder.

0:35.6

It can be lost back there to actually write it with the hand.

0:42.3

Does is a different kind of objectivity you get?

0:45.3

Because it's come out, if you've put it down now, you're looking at.

0:48.3

It's outside of you.

0:49.3

It's freed up now. It's alive. It's moving.

0:52.3

Now, more so than having that goal by your bedside every night,

0:59.0

which can be good. But to write it down, if you're writing down true goals, they become written in your

1:09.4

line. They become written in your body, whether you know it or not, in your subconscious, they just, it's a way to get it into your subconscious. To write it down, now it's out of me, it's on a page, I'm objectifying it now, I'm looking at it. So now I'm having a dialogue where before it's just Socratic. But now I'm having a dialogue and it starts to reciprocate.

1:28.7

Those 10 goals, I wrote those down in the top bunk and the Delthouse, University of Texas

1:33.8

1992, my roommate was Monty Wills.

1:36.0

I remember the night I wrote him down.

1:38.6

I never looked at him again.

1:41.0

I found those and writing this book and found out that, oh my gosh, all 10 you actually did and four you're still doing.

1:47.3

That's crazy.

1:48.3

I never looked at it.

1:49.2

30 years later, you found them.

1:50.6

Yeah.

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