In this episode we talk about goal setting and why so many of us never hit the goals that we set.

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My name is Greg Klunis and one of the biggest goals I've ever set for myself was a complete and utter failure. Back when I was 13 I read a copy of

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins. Now this book kicked off a summer in fact a year of reading personal development and

self-help books. By the end of that summer I was so confident in my ability to accomplish

great things that I decided I was going to make my first

million dollars by the age of 21. Now of course at the time I thought that no goal was complete without announcing it to the world so for the next five years I made sure to tell every single one of my friends and everyone who ever asked me the dreaded question of what do you want to do when you grow up.

This goal became my identity. So of course when I hit 21 and I hadn't accomplished it, there was a huge sense of disappointment.

Not to mention, my friends and family went out of their way to remind me of the fact that I hadn't accomplished it.

Now I'm telling you this story because it's a perfect example of why so many people choose not

to set goals for where they want to end up in life. Setting big goals that are completely

out of your reach leaves you feeling disappointed, depressed, and honestly like a complete failure,

which is how I felt. with that said there is a significant

amount of research to prove that setting goals can do wonders for helping you to create a

better life so what are we supposed to do? Is it just as simple as embracing

failure and disappointment? Well it turns out that the answer lies in our

approach to setting goals. But before we dive into that, let's first

talk about disappointment and pain, or rather the fear of disappointment and paint.

In an article for the website Life Hack.

In an article for the website Life hack dot com Dustin Wax writes

according to the research of psychologists, neurologists, and other scientists

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