What’s Your Goal Setting Purpose?

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

I've always believed goal setting is the heartbeat of our lives. Goal setting is one of the most powerful tools you have to create your best life. My question to you is… do you know what your best life is supposed to be? I came upon my belief not from a book or a guru but from a realization I had many years ago. I found I was happy when I was chasing something bigger than myself that was also in alignment with how I felt on the inside. I was unhappy when I was checking items off my list and not honoring my true self. After years of pondering, I concluded that a purposeful outcome would eliminate frustration and boredom and generate excitement and enthusiasm. That leads me to the two definitions of goals: 1) The end toward which effort is directed. 2) An area or object toward which players in various games attempt to advance a ball or puck and usually through or into which it must go to score points. Most people treat goals like the number two, a To-Do list with a short-term outlook. People who focus on the first definition are long-term thinkers. But what's the real difference? What "end" do you place your focus on? Heartbeat goal-setters know there are many "ends" before the ultimate termination point we call goal achievement. That's what excites and drives them. They purposely focus on that 'end.' Everything else is a step in the journey that is only needed to get to their pre-determined outcome. Heartbeat goal setting. It's purposeful goal setting that ignites a fire in your belly, gives you a mission, and makes you happy. Everything else is an item on your To-Do list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you? Have a Tuesday. So let me ask you a question. Have you got a big old stack of goals,
0:21.4	like laminated, maybe in your wallet or your purse or your pocket that you carry around with you?
0:25.2	Real long list of goals, do you? I do. No, I don't mind. I know. I have a few written down,
0:32.5	but I understand the purpose of those goals and that's what's so easy for me to keep track of them.
0:36.8	Do you do that? We'll talk about that today. The purpose of your goals and where you may be getting
0:41.6	off track and maybe where you might be right on track. Could be either one. We'll see. It is a daily
0:46.4	boost from MotivationToMove.com every single day since about two weeks after podcasting was
0:52.2	invented. I was there. Simple mission. I understood that life begins when you move. In other words,
0:56.3	you decide you have an idea to get up and go do it. And then I also understood very quickly.
1:00.6	Life gets in the way. Challenge has happened. It's a why. I just want to do this. Why did things get
1:05.6	more difficult? I don't like that idea. I never liked that. I just didn't. And so I thought, okay,
1:10.2	well, if it's going to happen anywhere, let's figure out a way to get beyond it. Which is kind of
1:14.0	what today shows about focusing on the getting beyond that life, getting away moments and getting
1:18.0	what you want. So I'm going to be fun show today. I'm happy to have you here today. Springtime is
1:22.3	coming. It's getting so nice out there all around the country. Little, little, little,
1:25.0	what do they call the upper tier of America? Way up there. Minnesota and stuff. Still cold there.
1:30.1	Here in Florida. It's just gorgeous. I'm just going to say it out loud of the podcast.
1:34.5	My name is Scott Smith. I'm the founder and the chief motivating officer here at MotivationToMove.com.
1:38.9	Happy. You're here today as we get on with this big show. Go set it. Okay. Come here for a second.
1:43.9	Inside Scott logic. Scott logic is just the, it's how I make sense of the world. It's do this,
1:48.7	not that because this works and that doesn't work. And that's kind of it. It's common sense.
1:51.5	You've got your own version of it. I have a more studied version probably in some ways, not
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