Stop Setting Insane Goals - SPARTAN MIND ep 014
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Setting goals is an important way to keep us accountable to the dreams and desires that we have for ourselves. Goals are an effective way to keep us on track and give our movement structure. Sometimes, however, we fall into the trap of setting insane goals - goals that are unreasonable for our current position and end up hurting us in the long run. Pushing yourself is important but you have to set goals that are achievable so that you gain confidence and keep moving in the right direction.
LESSONS:
- Be realistic about what you are capable of when you set a new goal.
- Set yourself up for success by setting goals that are tough but reasonable.
- Remember that each time you succeed in meeting a smaller goal it will add up and get you closer to your larger goal.
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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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| 0:00.0 | Are the goals you're setting for yourself insane? |
| 0:03.0 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind doc. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we're talking about insane goals. One of the reasons |
| 0:17.5 | we're talking about that today is because it feels to me like we've got lots of things that we want to do, right? |
| 0:24.3 | Like the world is at our fingertips and we've got all of these awesome things in front of us. |
| 0:28.6 | Lots of tech innovation, lots of |
| 0:35.0 | new information that we have about just how to clear your mind. |
| 0:38.0 | And one of the things that we're doing unfortunately is human beings |
| 0:42.0 | is that we're actually setting insane goals for |
| 0:44.7 | ourselves when we start new projects. When you start a new project I want you to |
| 0:49.8 | think about is the goal that I'm setting a reasonable goal. |
| 0:54.6 | Because often when you start something new, we're super excited about it, right? |
| 0:58.3 | And enthusiastic about something new. |
| 1:00.6 | And so we like to dive right in, like 100. It kind of goes back to all or nothing thinking right? |
| 1:05.6 | We're either all in or we're all out and a lot of times we want to go all in. |
| 1:09.7 | But unfortunately what that can do is that it can set you up for failure, right? |
| 1:15.0 | So let's say you've never run a mile before and all of a sudden you're like, |
| 1:20.0 | I want to start training for a marathon. |
| 1:22.0 | Great, fantastic, excellent, you can do it, I promise. and you're like I want to start training for a marathon. |
| 1:22.5 | Great, fantastic, excellent, you can do it, I promise. |
| 1:25.7 | However, don't set the goal that you're going to wake up |
| 1:28.3 | and the first run is going to be 10 miles. |
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