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[00:01:01] This is optimal living daily episode 29 39

[00:01:05] 7 steps to crush your goals by Audi red sick of Audi red sick calm

[00:01:10] And I'm your narrator Justin Malik

[00:01:13] We're gonna jump right into our next article today as we optimize your life

[00:01:22] 7 steps to crush your goals by Audi red sick of Audi red sick calm

[00:01:27] It's already end of January and statistics show that 80% of our New Year's resolutions

[00:01:33] Fail by now. Are you one of those people? Are you achieving your resolutions? And more importantly, what does it take to crush them?

[00:01:43] Let's talk about weight loss you resolve to lose weight this year

[00:01:47] But then you miraculously find yourself in the ice cream aisle of your local grocery store and you're stuck

[00:01:53] But only this one time you're thinking one pint of ice cream won't kill me

[00:01:58] You're negotiating with yourself. You're also summoning all of your willpower

[00:02:02] Even if you don't walk out with a tub of ice cream, which isn't likely you will have exhausted yourself through this

[00:02:08] Unnecessary ordeal or let's look at another very common resolution hitting the gym

[00:02:14] You spend hours motivating yourself to go it's good for me and eventually you do go for the first few weeks

[00:02:21] Then life happens. We know the rest of this story. We've all been there

[00:02:26] The problem with resolutions is that they're overused as such subconsciously

[00:02:31] Most of us expect our resolutions to fail

[00:02:35] therefore resolutions are no more than a collection of wishes and

[00:02:39] Wishes that require our action do not happen by themselves

[00:02:44] So what's the answer? There are seven steps to achieve anything

[00:02:49] Number one make an unequivocal decision about what you want to achieve

[00:02:54] Once you've made the decision. There are no more debates

[00:02:58] Arguments, etc. All future decisions pertaining to this topic have already been made

[00:03:04] number two

[00:03:05] Get clear on your why?

[00:03:08] Why are you doing this for real?

[00:03:10] Unequivocal decisions only happen when our why is enormously powerful

[00:03:15] That is to say the pain of not achieving the pain of failure or the pleasure of reward is so great that it pushes us forward

[00:03:24] number three design a smart SM

[00:03:27] ART goal

[00:03:28] For example, if you want to lose weight or go to the gym, what does specific success look like for example lose 10 pounds?

[00:03:37] How will you measure your success?

[00:03:40] For example number of pounds

[00:03:42] What action will you take to achieve it like go to the gym three times per week not eat ice cream, etc?

[00:03:48] Is your goal or action?

[00:03:50] Realistic are you actually going to do it if you rarely go to the gym expecting to all of a sudden go five times a week

[00:03:57] It isn't realistic. Try three times

[00:04:00] And what is the timeline by when will you have achieved your goal June 1st December 1st?

[00:04:07] Specificity and timeliness of these goals are essential if you say June 1st

[00:04:12] There are no extensions if you're having doubts either don't commit or revisit number one

[00:04:18] number four

[00:04:19] assemble an accountability mechanism

[00:04:22] Do you plan on running a 5k publishing a book switching a job?

[00:04:27] Who or what is holding you accountable?

[00:04:30] Have you shared it with others do you have a buddy you're doing it with do you hire a coach who can hold you to it?

[00:04:36] Recently I had a client who wanted to make a job change and potentially relocate

[00:04:41] After settling on a reasonable date and devising a plan. I advised him on the first step

[00:04:47] Tell your boss you'll be leaving on that date

[00:04:50] This specific step might not be applicable in all situations, but the accountability mechanism is

[00:04:56] Number five change anything in your environment that gets in the way of your decision

[00:05:02] It's not likely you'll lose weight if you have a cake in the fridge and you won't write that book if the kids are screaming all around you

[00:05:08] Of course, we cannot control everything that gets in your way, but we can manage a lot of it

[00:05:15] number six use your willpower

[00:05:18] Occasionally

[00:05:19] Accept that relying on willpower as a sole method of achieving something does not work

[00:05:25] However, if you have followed all the steps mentioned

[00:05:27] Occasionally when confronted with attempting situation you can resist it through willpower

[00:05:32] This is only possible if number one is clear for example

[00:05:36] You've decided to lose weight, but you find yourself at a birthday party and there's cake

[00:05:41] What do you do? Well if your unequivocal decision number one is actually resolute you summon some willpower and walk away

[00:05:50] Number seven forgive yourself and persist

[00:05:53] You're not perfect

[00:05:55] Will happen you'll get sick have an important trip to take or something else might get in the way

[00:06:01] Dust yourself off and immediately get back on track

[00:06:05] See how you can make it up if your decision is truly resolute

[00:06:08] You won't have a problem with this yet a goal to write 1,000 words per week

[00:06:12] But one week you fell short and only wrote 500 well write 2,500 the following week

[00:06:18] If you're having a hard time with getting back to it recall your why and revisit your decision

[00:06:24] There's a catch though

[00:06:25] Forgiveness is only possible if you get right back to it

[00:06:29] If you made resolutions for this year take them through this process and see them come to fruition

[00:06:36] One last thought the point isn't to limit yourself or be overly rigid

[00:06:40] The point is to decide on what you really want

[00:06:43] Why you want it come up with a plan create conditions for it make yourself intentionally accountable and then go for it

[00:06:51] It doesn't mean you shouldn't eat ice cream if you want to lose weight

[00:06:54] It means that if you do decide to lose weight that you come up with a plan and follow it

[00:07:00] Failure isn't an option

[00:07:03] Cheers

[00:07:04] You just listen to the post titled seven steps to crush your goals by Audi Redsic of Audi Redsic comm

[00:07:15] And take it Audi

[00:07:16] I'd be surprised if these seven steps were really shocking to you

[00:07:21] And while shock value is sometimes good, so is hearing what actually works

[00:07:26] Kind of reminds me of Dale Carnegie's how to win friends and influence people. They're not shocking these tips work

[00:07:32] But I think the problem is that like resolutions which have become overused as he said in this post

[00:07:38] Sometimes the tips that we know work are easy to dismiss

[00:07:42] Because they take work to work like virtually everything in life at the same time that doesn't mean trying all of these at once

[00:07:50] You did have them in order

[00:07:52] But that's an easy way to get overwhelmed if you try to do everything because you'll probably do nothing

[00:07:57] Instead just pick one the one that makes the most sense to you seems easiest or jumped out at you

[00:08:03] Whatever that is try that and if it doesn't work there are six more to try

[00:08:08] I'd probably go in order on this one if possible, but if not again just pick the one that stood out most

[00:08:13] We have to keep trying otherwise. We'll get nowhere so something to think about today. Let me know what works for you

[00:08:20] I hope you have a great rest of your day

[00:08:21] Thank you for being here and listening to me and for subscribing to the show and we back tomorrow where your optimal life awaits