Why Your Goals Fail By February (And How to Fix It)
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes
4.8 • 22K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every new year, millions of people set goals all around the world that they're excited about. |
| 0:05.4 | And within a few weeks, most people quit all those goals. |
| 0:10.8 | And it's not because they're lazy, it's not because they don't want it bad enough. |
| 0:15.0 | The real reason, they never learned how to set goals the right way. |
| 0:20.0 | And goals don't fail because the dream is too big. |
| 0:23.6 | Goals fail because the system is too weak. |
| 0:28.1 | So today I'm breaking down the five key steps to setting goals you will actually achieve |
| 0:34.2 | in 2026. |
| 0:36.2 | These are practical, they're simple, and if you follow them, you will finally |
| 0:40.0 | stick to your resolutions this year. The first key is to get crystal clear on your why. |
| 0:47.8 | Most people are pretty vague. Clarity is the foundation of follow-through. Again, most people fail because they set goals without defining |
| 0:57.3 | their why. And there's a big distinction of what you need to do here. They choose goals that sound |
| 1:02.8 | good, goals that impress people, goals they think they should want because they see their friends |
| 1:07.8 | doing these things and they say, I'm going to go do this because that's what I'm supposed to do. Or it's because what I think I'm supposed to do. But if a goal doesn't |
| 1:14.4 | have meaning behind it for you, if it doesn't tap into your heart, your soul, for some reason, |
| 1:20.4 | you won't fight for it when life gets hard, when life is challenging. It's kind of like my business. |
| 1:25.4 | There are ups and downs in business, but because I have a |
| 1:28.8 | specific purpose, a specific why, which is to serve 100 million lives every single week to help |
| 1:35.9 | them improve the quality of their life, when things are challenging, when the industry |
| 1:41.0 | changes, when the content doesn't work, when I don't get a guest that I want |
| 1:45.2 | to book, when something's not working out, I care more about my mission, the purpose, the why |
| 1:51.5 | behind it, because I love it, that I'm willing to do what it takes week after week 13 years |
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