The dangers of setting "realistic" and "reasonable" goals
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
With goal setting, comes an overwhelming feeling within all of us. Some goals may be too big to chase after, while others seem too far from possible. As we tackle today's episode, I discuss the dangers of goal setting, followed by action steps you can take to tackle your biggest fears. Expect a learning lesson from your previous mistakes. Be aware of the mistakes other's learn from. Set a new target. Crush it.
Episode 90 Time Stamps:
(9:53) Are you afraid to fail?
(10:38) The confidence that you need doesn't come from the PLAN
(21:00) BULLETPROOF CONFIDENCE
(22:57) Anxiety... Your best friend!
(25:27) Immediate action step: don't set low goals anymore!
(26:13) Using others' experiences to cut-out unnecessary mistakes
(28:16) Use your own mistakes as FEEDBACK
(29:31) Winning consecutive championships
(31:37) "If I can't, I MUST. If I can, I WILL."
(32:00) Visualization practice | The NEW target...
DISCOVER
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| 0:00.0 | Could you benefit from building supreme confidence? What would change for you if you played your best when under pressure? |
| 0:05.9 | What's it costing you to not have the confidence, the poise, and skill to execute when your team needs you most? |
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| 0:21.7 | You'll also find out how you can apply these to your career today so that you can start to speed |
| 0:25.9 | up your results and follow a predictable system to get you to your goals. |
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| 0:34.3 | You can go ahead and access that free training in less than two minutes. |
| 0:36.9 | You'll be learning exactly what I teach my high performance professional athletes and clients about what it |
| 0:41.8 | takes to dominate. Again, I'm not you.com for slash dominate under pressure. |
| 0:48.8 | If you try to get right, then you listen to my dad. He's a beast. |
| 0:59.8 | And if you don't want to listen to him, okay, okay, you don't want to get successful. |
| 1:03.6 | If you ain't trying to dominate, man, they go listen to something else. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome, athletes, top performers, and all those looking to gain that killer instinct, |
| 1:11.6 | that edge you need to dominate in any environment. |
| 1:13.4 | This is the Sports Motivation podcast, and I'm your host, Niyu Shobo. |
| 1:18.6 | I play ball and succeeded at the highest levels, and I'm now committed to showing you |
| 1:23.6 | how you can accomplish the ambitious goals and visions that you have. |
| 1:28.3 | This podcast is designed to teach you high-level strategy, not just fluff and hype. |
| 1:33.7 | This will cut to the core if you let it. |
| 1:36.0 | And by taking action on the practical and next-level advice I share, you will see results. |
| 1:41.9 | Expect that. |
| 1:43.2 | Expect to be more confident. Expect to be more focused. Expect to be more confident. |
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