Aim, Set, Achieve!

Hello dear listeners, Morgan here. It’s a pleasure to be back introducing yet another episode of the list building lifestyle shows with your trusted guide, Igor Kheifets. It seems Today we’re delving deep into the labyrinth of goal setting. Oh yes, my friends, while on the surface goal setting might appear straightforward and hardly needing a second thought. The truth is, in order to get it right with your goals, and actually work on achieving them, you need attention and thoughtfulness right from the outset. And as is typical of Igor, he’s not without a strategy. He’s crafted a goal setting process refined over the years, and he’s more than ready to share it with you today. Now, before we get too deep, a little side note, though, I may have the dulcet tones of Morgan Freeman. I’m really just his digital twin living in the world of bytes, and bits. Don’t be fooled. And now friends back to the gold. Igor’s even got a little secret exercise from his old mentor to share with us. So, whether your goals are big or small, just taking shape or in need of a revamp. Today’s episode promises clarity and direction. Gather around folks for an episode you won’t want to miss. Come on Igor.

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My goal setting process rolls around usually one big goal and a bunch of secondary goals but because my mind is really terrible at trying to think of multiple goals at the same time, I try to focus on one goal at a time. And because of that, I have to be very careful about what that is. So, it has to be so big that everything else becomes almost insignificant. But as far as the process goes, I found it much easier to set goals in the reverse process of starting with what I hate or what I don’t want, and then working my way towards what I do want from there. Again, I don’t know why exactly. I’ve always been a negative driven person, like I’ve always been, you know, negative thinking first, and then from there trying to make my way to the positive. So that seems to work. But if you’re more of a positive person, you can get excited with ideas, then you should just ask yourself, if this happened, you know what needs to happen for me to So, sit back and really be fulfilled, or really be happy. And if you can’t answer that question, ask yourself what is bugging the crap out of me right now, you know, and then you can start making your way towards a goal that way. And then once you figured out what the goal is, you can actually go and like add another layer to it. Because we all know that a lot of people set goals but they don’t necessarily do anything to, to work on them right to achieve them. So, when you can kind of make sure that doesn’t happen, you can start making a list of reasons as to why you have to achieve that goal. As in, you know, when I was moving to Canada, I set a goal of moving to Canada, getting a Canadian passport and really starting over in the western hemisphere. I actually knew that I wanted to move to Canada, but I wouldn’t be procrastinating about it a lot.

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Like I wouldn’t get in touch with lawyers, I would look into ways to get my citizenship. I wouldn’t necessarily even go to the embassy or wouldn’t even book an appointment with the embassy just to go and check it out. I wouldn’t travel to Canada like I went to Canada. Eventually I came to Canada without even seeing Canada. I just came to Canada. That’s it. I didn’t know what I was going to do. So, the way that happened was I basically sat down and remembered clearly. On Thursday I was discussing this with my mentor at the time, Tom Beale. And then he said why don’t you make a list of 100 reasons why you need to move to Canada. I said Are you nuts? 100 reasons. I can’t squeeze a reason out of me. She said Well, you know, give it a shot. See if you can get 10 2050, I mean even having 50 is better than not having anything at all. And I remember that’s exactly what I started working on and it took me about a week or 10 days. is, but I think I did some, like 70 reasons. Now if you have 70 reasons that you just wrote down, why you need to do something, the chances of you doing that are going to be much, much higher than just writing down the goal and forgetting about it, right? So, the other thing that I use a lot in my goal setting is I try to, I discovered about myself, that I keep myself accountable, not necessarily towards me. Like, if I need to do something for me, like I might or might not, like, if I need to get on a diet to lower inflammation in my body, I don’t know, I might not do it, I might be too lazy. But if I can find the accountability string, and pin it onto the people that I love, be it family, be friends, be team members, whatever, that is much more likely to happen.

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So, if I can find the reason that revolves around people that I care for, I am able to solidify my intention to achieve the goal and start taking action towards the goal much faster. So, with Canada, the reason that, you know, as soon as I’ve done this exercise became very easy for me to start taking action towards moving and eventually moving is because you know, the first-time reasons were all about my business, oh, I need to move because, you know, I’ll be on the on the eastern time zone. So, it’s going to be much easier to do joint ventures. If I move, I’ll be in the eastern time zone. So, I won’t have to do webinars at 2am. If I move, I’ll be in physical proximity to different seminars, and I can go to more seminars. If I move, I can physically meet up with a bunch of, you know, high rollers in the industry, all kinds of stuff like that. So that was like, the first 10 reasons, when I ran out of those, I was like, well, if I move, I will be able to secure a much better future for my kids. Because they’ll be grown up in a much higher quality society than the one that we’re living in right now. Then they’ll have more opportunities. We’ll be able to live in a much bigger home, yes, we’ll be able to do this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, all of a sudden, the next 20 reasons, they’re all about my kids in my family. So, by the time I’m done writing those reasons, I was like, wow, it seems like this decision will have a huge impact on my phone, my family, and then the future of my family. And even like, I can even say, okay, even a couple of generations, right. And that, that starts adding what I would call meat on the bone for this goal, right? It goes from just being this naked sort of basic, oh, that’d be nice. If I did this, I would have substance. And, and, and the meat, they’ll grow on it to be like, well, it’s not just about the achievement of a goal or, you know, hitting the next level, it’s actually about all this other stuff that surrounds it. And becomes not only important, but becomes a bit of a necessity.

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Because as a parent, for example, if you recognize that this decision can lead to 20 positives for your kids, what ends up happening automatically, is that you realize, if you don’t do this, you’ll be taking away these 20 positives from your kids. Okay, so I mean, show me how many parents do you know that let’s say, their kid is eating ice cream and really enjoying it, how many kids can actually take that ice cream away from the kid and throw it into the trash can and watch their child, you know, cry, not too many parents can do that. And that’s, that’s okay, that’s what parents are for. So, once you establish Wow, look at all these 20 Different reasons that, you know, my positive family will have a positive impact. It’s like, I have to do it now. So, any goal you set, whatever the goal is, if you can figure out who you hold yourself accountable to and it could be yourself, by the way, but it could be your father could be a mother, it could be your children, your spouse, your boss could be whoever, you know, I’ve seen this, by the way before where, you know, an employee. And one of the one of my starter jobs, there was an employee who was really, really looking and seeking approval of the boss of our department boss. And I’ve seen him do some crazy stuff, just to kind of almost kill themselves in the process, you know, just to please that person. And then you know, there was like a clear accountability string that I could see. So, this is very important. It’s not just about having clarity of outcome, but also accountability. How do you hold yourself accountable? Is it to yourself? Is it to your father figure? Is it to your friends and family? Like how do you make it happen? And that’s So, really cool. Because once you recognize that you don’t necessarily feel that you have to put in as much effort as the process of achievement, the process of the work you’re putting in towards that goal will not feel like work. Because the accountability that you’re experiencing will give you so much motivation that no one will have to wake you up in the morning for it. You’ll be jumping out of bed and you’ll be pushing and that makes all the difference.

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