New Year Goals and Top Ten Reads of 2021
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
4.9 • 67 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Lawrence talks about his goal review process and goal setting strategies for the start of each new year. How type A personalities need to take the time to look back and see their past goals through a long-term perspective. Also setting "one day goals" to avoid the pitfalls of existential depression at paradigm shifts in life. Finally, Lawrence shares his top Reads of 2021, why he enjoyed about them and how they changed his thinking. In no particular order:
- Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
- Fooled by Ramdomness (Nassim Taleb)
- Courage (Ryan Holiday)
- A Hunter Gathers Guide to 21st Century (Brett Weinstein & Heather Heying)
- A life in Flow (Rickson Gracie)
- Hate Inc. (Matt Taibbi)
- The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
- Civilized to Death (Chris Ryan)
- The Choice (Eva Eger)
- Pandemia (Alex Berenson)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the End of the Lion Heart Podcast with your host Lauren Stunning. |
| 0:16.8 | Today's episode is a shorter one on setting new year goals on my top breeds of 2021. |
| 0:23.7 | 2021 was in many ways another tough year. |
| 0:28.1 | But regardless what happens, life is still a beautiful adventure. |
| 0:32.6 | The key for me is to always look for the blessings and the lessons when things don't go as you |
| 0:37.4 | wanted or as you hoped or as you expected. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm a big believer in goal setting and there's no better time of the year to go so new |
| 0:45.1 | year's day. |
| 0:46.9 | I have a few thoughts on goals. |
| 0:48.6 | Firstly, I like yearly goals and then one day goals. |
| 0:53.0 | I used to always do yearly goals and five year goals and then I went through a bit of |
| 0:57.8 | existential crisis in my mid 30s when I retired from MMA competition. |
| 1:02.8 | The goal I'd been working towards since I was in my early 20s. |
| 1:06.4 | The same time I also broke up with a long-term girlfriend and decided to change careers from |
| 1:10.8 | finance into real estate and I went through a short but pretty profound depression. |
| 1:16.3 | Because all my long-term goals had either been achieved or the ones that I haven't achieved, |
| 1:20.6 | they were no longer important to me and I didn't have what Gary Kelly calls one day goals. |
| 1:27.3 | One day goals were a concept from Gary Kelly's great book which was recommended to me several |
| 1:31.4 | years ago by my good friend Chris Gold. |
| 1:34.2 | His book is called The One Thing and it reveals the one habit that separates success from failure |
| 1:40.1 | is the habit of prioritization. |
| 1:42.4 | But in terms of goal setting, Gary Kelly specifically mentions one day goals. |
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