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The Double Win

Setting Goals That Actually Work For You

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Education, Productivity, Influence, Teamleadership, Self-improvement, Selfdevelopment, Achievement, Business, Intentionality, Management, Personaldevelopment, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Megan and Michael talk about five mistakes that people make when setting goals and how to move forward. Then, Joel speaks to author Luke Burgis about the importance of how we're motivated.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I have some desires that are like a pile of leaves

0:02.5

when a little gust of wind blows across them, they're just gone.

0:05.8

There's not a lot of continuity and enduring value in those desires.

0:12.4

That's Luke Burgess.

0:13.8

He's the entrepreneur in residence at the Cioca Center for Principal Entrepreneurship

0:18.6

at Catholic University of America.

0:21.0

He's also a veteran entrepreneur and the author of the book, Wanting,

0:25.1

the power of my medic desire in everyday life.

0:27.7

And I'm here to say, Wanting is actually one of the best books I read in 2022.

0:32.9

In fact, it's why I wanted to have Luke on the show,

0:35.7

specifically because he has a really helpful framework for thinking about the goals that we pursue,

0:43.2

especially the desires behind the goals, why we want to pursue them in the first place.

0:49.4

If you think of this as how we invest our time and energy,

0:52.5

I want to invest in desires that are ultimately going to lead to de-flourishing

0:57.4

and I don't want to have wasted my time pursuing bright, shiny objects

1:01.8

that I'm not going to care about in 5 or 10 years.

1:11.6

Hi, I'm Joel Miller.

1:13.0

I'm the Chief Product Officer here at Full Focus.

1:15.5

And today on the Business Accelerator Podcast,

1:17.8

we are talking about the mistakes we make as we pursue goals.

1:22.5

Our founder, Michael Hyatt and our CEO, Megan Hyatt Miller,

1:26.3

are going to talk about five mistakes that people commonly make as they pursue goals.

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