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

There's nothing inherently wrong with the smart goals technique etc.

There is definitely a lot wrong with the visioning of oh this is what I you know I let me sit here and make a vision board and a mood board about my five-year plan.

My best piece of advice is, let's just start with tomorrow.

Okay, let's just start with tomorrow, as opposed to,

oh, what do I want to do in five years and my vision board and my mood board and all that stuff?

How would the person you want to become?

Again, it's about living according to your values and nobody can tell you what your values are.

How would the person you want to become spend their time. And by blocking out that time to say, you know what?

Yes, I have a dream that someday I'll write a novel. I have a dream that I'll get my PhD. I'll get a dream that I'll have a successful business

okay but how much time are you going to invest in that and knowing that constraint

of the same 24 hours with everything else that you want to do and that you dream of forces you to

prioritize and that is essential no consistency over intensity that is

essential to getting to that long-term goal is to work on it day or over day after day after day

relentless forward momentum this is how we accomplish these big goals not just

dreaming about them the only metric of success from now on for you should be one thing.

Did I do what I said I would do without distraction?

That's it. That's all you got to do.

It's not about finishing anything.

It's not about finishing anything.

Because when you say to yourself in your calendar, I am going to sit at my desk and work on

my book, as you said Lewis, right? For 45 minutes whatever it is you say you want to do I don't care how long you work on it

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