The Truth About Goals No One Talks About | Ep. 343

The Macro Hour

Nikkiey Stott

Macro Hour, The Macro Hour, Fitness, Warrior Babe, Nikkiey Stott, Macronutrients, Health & Fitness, Warriorbabe

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this episode of The Macro Hour, Nikkiey Stott explains why chasing goals alone often leads to burnout and frustration. Inspired by Atomic Habits by James Clear, she breaks down the powerful shift from being goal-focused to system-focused. Nikkiey shares why achieving a fitness goal is only a moment, not a transformation and why lasting change comes from the daily habits and structure behind your actions. Instead of constantly chasing the next finish line, she explains how building consiste...

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0:00.0	Many women believe once I hit this goal, I'm going to be happy. And this is where goals can actually completely restrict your happiness. And this was me early on in my journey as well. I remember that I was like, okay, I'm going to do bodybuilding. And like once I get to this goal, I'm going to feel comfortable and confident, I'm going to be off fire, my body. Happened for a day. And I gained 25 pounds back in one one month what happens here is you live in a delay
0:24.1	i'll be proud later i'll be confident later i'll feel good later what's going on everyone
0:35.4	hey you guys welcome back to another episode of The Macro Hour with your host,
0:40.5	Nikki Stott. And on these episodes, we talk about mindset, methodologies, and tactics that will
0:46.3	help you lose body fat, build muscle, be strong, and feel insanely confident. Today's episode is
0:52.3	episode number 343. And I want to take you guys down a thought
0:58.9	track in terms of changing the narrative of focusing on an end goal and more importantly,
1:07.9	switching the gears and trying to focus on the systems that's going to get you to that end goal.
1:13.0	So absolutely, this is like one of my favorite topics to talk about.
1:15.8	I believe this is also one of the first like episodes released on this podcast platform.
1:22.6	It's inspired by the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.
1:30.8	It's so good. And I hope by the end of this episode, you guys feel more empowered on the way that you're going to tackle your fitness journey
1:38.0	and transformation. Because how you use this, how you approach this topic, it can not only change like how you look at your
1:47.9	body and look at the results, but also your entire life. So he talks about in the book,
1:52.4	he talks about how goals are about the results that you want and the systems are about the
1:58.4	processes that are going to get you there.
2:05.5	And if you think about it, in the fitness industry and most women, like, we're so obsessed with getting to the end result.
2:09.0	We want to lose the weight.
2:10.7	We want to, we're always asked, how long is it going to take me to get me there?
2:14.8	You know, I have a wedding or a summer's coming up. Will I be able to be 10 pounds
2:19.6	lighter by then? Right. So we're all obsessed with that end result. But very few people
2:26.2	sit down and actually like build out what that process needs to look like in order to get
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