This Is How You DESIGN Your Life, Achieve Your Goals, & Make Progress In Your Life | Tom Bilyeu
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🗓️ 1 February 2022
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“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” - Winston Churchill
No matter what your goals are, if you’re going to make progress you have to accurately assess where you are, and what stands in the way of your success.
That includes being able to understand not only the obstacles put in your way by the outside world, but your own inadequacies that are holding you back.
In this episode, I answer some common questions around goal-setting, self-reflection, what to do about overthinking, and the importance of learning from suffering.
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:48 | How to Effectively Self-Reflect
06:16 | How Can I Recognize When I’m Overthinking?
08:37 | Why Bother to Learn From Suffering?
13:09 | Necessary vs. Unnecessary Struggle
19:00 | Taking Back Control of Your Own Path
QUOTES:
“Happiness, which is incredibly transitory, is probably not the right thing to focus on. The right thing to focus on, in my humble opinion, is fulfillment.” [01:07]
“I think honestly, most people live their entire lives overthinking things, but the easy way to know is whether or not you're taking action. If you're taking action, as a way of experimenting with the thoughts, you're probably just fine. If you're just trying to think your way to a solution, you're almost certainly overthinking it.” [08:19]
“Even when you truly have been victimized, you do not have to play the victim.” [10:47]
“I cannot guarantee that you will be successful in life, but I can guarantee that you're going to struggle.” [13:20]
“Steering yourself towards your goals is really about wanting something so badly that you're willing to try over and over and over again in order to make progress.” [19:42]
Transcript
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| 1:03.6 | Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. Today, we're going to be talking all about self-reflection |
| 1:08.1 | and getting real, real with yourself. Now, this is critically important if you want to |
| 1:12.9 | make progress in your life. To make progress, you have to accurately assess where you actually |
| 1:18.3 | are, stay nakedly at your inadequacies without any diminishment of self in order to figure |
| 1:25.1 | out what skills you're going to need to improve in order to make progress. That is a loop |
| 1:32.0 | that a lot of people struggle with, but unless you get it right and can really look at where |
| 1:36.2 | you are for real, what you're doing well, what you're doing poorly, adjust, gain new skills, |
| 1:41.3 | you're never going to be able to move forward effectively. Without further ado, let's get |
| 1:45.6 | into your questions. Number one, what are some things that I can do to effectively reflect |
| 1:50.9 | on myself? How can I see clearly where I'm going in life and whether I am happy? |
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