ITL069 : The Art of Goal Setting
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2013
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast, Andy and A.T. discuss the techniques that are necessary to mastering goal setting.
Andy’s tip for goal-setting is to be honest with yourself
- If Moses had spent a little more time up on the mountain, he would have come down with an 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not kid thyself.
- Don’t set yourself up for defeat by trying to do something crazy.
- As opposed to saying, “I’m never eating brownies for the rest of my life,” try to not eat brownies for a week.
- Accomplish your goals in small chunks and you will eventually accomplish something major.
Reward yourself when you accomplish small milestones
- Don’t overdo it, but give yourself a small reward.
- It’s important to keep your morale up.
Be able to measure your goal
- The bathroom scale is a great tool.
- Find a “bathroom scale” to measure any goal you set.
Instead of always focusing on the ultimate goal, focus on the process
- Become a master of the little things you have to accomplish along the way to the ultimate goal.
- Never lose sight of what you must be doing right now.
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Questions for Listeners
- What goals have you set recently? How are you going about accomplishing them?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times best-selling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.2 | Now here's your host, Andy Trob. |
| 0:15.0 | Andy, thanks again for joining us, my friend. |
| 0:17.1 | Hey, buddy, I am excited to be here. |
| 0:19.2 | This is a great time for me to be talking to you and talking to everybody else, a great time of my life. And so, let's get going. |
| 0:27.8 | A new year is upon us. And I've heard that recent study, 87% of people that have a year's resolution will break it by January 30th. So we're coming upon that time. |
| 0:42.7 | That is not, that's one 12th of the year. And you know, I mean, it's not very good. But a lot of times, |
| 0:47.4 | a lot of times people set goals during this time. And so we want to talk to you and find out what, |
| 0:52.7 | you know, when do you set goals? And is it the new |
| 0:55.0 | year? And then most importantly, how do you make sure that you keep them, that you pursue them |
| 1:00.6 | with the diligence that you talk about in a lot of your writing? Yeah, you know, I believe that |
| 1:06.9 | honesty is a, is a hallmark of a person's character. |
| 1:12.9 | And so we're taught from an early age, |
| 1:15.7 | don't lie, you know, don't fudge, don't fib, |
| 1:19.7 | don't tell a story. |
| 1:21.2 | And so that to me, in my mind, |
| 1:25.1 | I have made it a priority not to lie to myself. And I really, you know, I think I've |
| 1:31.7 | told you this before, I believe that if Moses had a little more time on the mountain, he would |
| 1:35.8 | have come down with 11 commandments, the 11th being, thou shalt not kid thyself. And I think that's |
| 1:42.5 | what we do a lot of times. You know, we make these grand |
| 1:47.8 | pronouncements to other people and they make grand pronouncements to us, especially at that time |
| 1:53.1 | of year. And, but frankly, I've, I've heard just as many people this year saying, you know, my New Year's resolution is not to make any resolutions. |
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