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The Playbook With David Meltzer

This is How You Should Be Setting Your Goals

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

This choice, choosing to detach from an outcome, can seem extremely conflictual, and it is hard for people to understand. One of the common questions I get is this: “How do you have goals yet remain detached from an outcome?” The truth is, I’m very driven toward the goals I set. I try to take my ego and time, two driving factors for many, out of my goal setting. What I do is this: I set a goal, and at the same time, I detach my happiness from the goal. I do not create an immediate plan to get to my goal. My plan, when I start out, is simply to provide value toward that overall goal every single day, making sure I put forth a minimum amount of effort toward the achievements I want and “raising the bar” each day as I proceed, in order to build momentum. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What happens is we automatically create resistance

0:03.0

and we have an illusory opinion of the future.

0:06.8

So an example of this would be,

0:09.4

I'll be happy when I graduate college.

0:11.4

I'll be happy when I get married.

0:12.9

I'll be happy when I have kids.

0:14.0

I'll be happy when I make a million dollars.

0:15.7

This is the paper.

0:18.8

You said, don't attach your emotions to an outcome.

0:21.8

I love that.

0:23.0

Can you explain that and why that's important?

0:25.3

I want a great question.

0:26.3

It's counterintuitive because people are like,

0:29.4

what do you mean, Dave, you don't have goals,

0:31.9

which is indicative of another lesson, right?

0:33.9

It's not what I say, it's what you hear.

0:36.0

And when we're talking about attaching emotions,

0:38.4

the energy that you put into motion,

0:40.2

you're feeling to an outcome.

0:43.2

What happens is we automatically create resistance

0:46.2

and we have an illusory opinion of the future.

0:50.0

So an example of this would be,

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