How to Set Goals and Achieve Them

Do you avoid setting goals because most people fail to achieve them? The truth is, people who achieve extraordinary success don’t think like the majority. They set goals, follow systems and learn from others who have made it. If you surround yourself with achievers, you’ll start to think and act like them and get better results. Why settle for less when you can break the mold?

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I think the philosophy that says I’m not going to set goals, because most people who set goals not achieve them, is the same philosophy that says I’m not going to get married, because most people get married and get divorced, and on and on and on. You see, if you think about what most people get in life, you come up with a really miserable list that basically will make you become a couch potato and say, there’s no point. Like, what’s the point? Look at most people. See the people who move the world and get the best in life, and the people who enjoy an incredible lifestyle, they’re not like most. They’re really not. And if want to be like if you behave like most, you get the most people’s results as well. I think what you should be doing, what anyone should be doing who’s having trouble with goal setting as a concept is find people who set goals and achieve them, especially if they can find these people in real life, like, if they can hang out with them for even an hour and just be in their presence and get a sense of their energy. Because for me, when I’m in the presence of somebody who’s like, let’s say better than me, right, in some way, in some area of their life. Like, let’s say they achieved a much bigger financial success.

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I actually want to learn from them. I want to know what they do, how they think, because if I can do and think like them, I’ll probably achieve results like that. If you act a certain way, you get certain results. And, you know, having tried a lot of stuff that didn’t get results, you know, that’s like a testament to the fact that I just wasn’t trying. Didn’t find the right thing for me yet. I didn’t write the, I didn’t find the right system yet at the time. So to me, any result in life as a result of following some kind of approach or a system, or a thinking pattern, or habits, or a series of habits, maybe stacked one on top of the other, like a like a pancake tower.

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And as long as I can follow them, at least to an extent, to good enough extent, I can get better results. Let’s say marriage, right? So marriage, like a lot of people, fail with their marriages. Marriages Fall apart, etc. But if you really break down, what makes a marriage successful? If you really, if you bring, like, a bunch of couples whose marriage is successful, let’s say you find five couples or who have lived together for like 40 years, never got divorced, had their hardships and challenges, but stayed together. And you interview them, you will find commonalities, and you follow these commonalities, most likely, your marriage will be okay. There’s a famous book or an interview or YouTube video that talks about like the Regrets of the Dying, like somebody who used to work in the hospice went around asking people the same question for years, and she boiled it down to five things, five most common things that people regret when they die.

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And it had something to do with… I think it was something like, I wish I spoke my mind more. I wish I didn’t work so hard. I wish I did. I spent more time doing what I enjoy. I wish I spent more time with my family, at something else. So chances are, if you spend more time spend if you spend more time with your family, if you spend more time doing things you love, you spend less time you know, working, especially if it’s a job you hate, if you spend, uh, more, if you speak your mind more, then you’re probably going to be you’re probably going to have fewer regrets when you die. But you see, it’s only something you can do after you’ve discovered that information. Still, will most people have regrets before they die. Yes, does it mean we have to No, we really don’t.

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Again, I always, you know, one thing I’ve always had about me, and I noticed that most successful people have about them, is that they don’t really think of themselves as most people. You know, they kind of think they’re smarter than most people, they think they’re more deserving than most people. They think that they can do better than most people. I always felt like that. I never wanted to conform and fit in. I actually wanted to break off from the masses, like these days, the masses stand for eating and being entertained, and maybe, you know, there’s a gender conversation and all that stuff like, I don’t connect with any of that. I don’t see how living a life where every day focused on eating and getting entertained is a is a productive and great, happy life.

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