Goal Setting and How To Achieve Your Goals (4 minutes)

Key Takeaways

[Music] I find that the most common problem when people are setting goals is this one is they either set too big of a goal so it feels really intimidating when you set a really big goal like you don't even know where to start conversely people set two small goals and then they hit them and then they feel very complacent as to where they're at Big goals seem insurmountable seem very distant to us so the key is you got to break a bigger goal into smaller pieces or steps and you breaking it down so here's a big goal here's the monthly goal here's the weekly goal here's the daily goal here's the minute-by-minute goal now I have a question for you what is your goal we have to have very clear goals clear goals clear results fuzzy goals fuzzy results it could be about your Revenue about your health about your creativity about whatever it is what is your goal and you need to write that sucker down it needs to be quantifiable objective something that you can measure you have to assign a deadline to it there's lots of theories on this it doesn't matter who you talk to from Tony Robbins Jack Canfield when you know your goal goal setting and you write it down using the neurom motor skills that you have it's almost like magic that it will come true I think one of the keys to helping you to achieve your goal is to see progress so when you have a really big goal you don't know if you're getting anywhere closer for example I want to look really good for summer and I need to get a six-pack now there are a lot of steps I have to take in order to be able to achieve that goal but if I say every day I'm going to cut 200 calories that makes it a lot easier a lot more manageable for me to take on one of the best tools that I've discovered is called scaffolding and an easier way of thinking about scaffolding is the magic stairway in order for you to get from point A to point B try breaking the goal down into smaller bite-sized pieces here's what I mean let's say one of your goals is I want to grow as an artist well that sounds really lofty amorphous and it's hard to get your head wrapped around that when you think about growth let's break it down well I want to get better with Adobe Illustrator Photoshop in design and Premiere let's say those are the four things that I need as an artist to become better now each one of those things can be broken into smaller goals yet how do you get better at Adobe Illustrator well some of the things that you might think of or I need to learn how to use the pen tool really well I need to know how to build shapes quickly I need to know how to draw precisely maybe I need to learn about gradients and just best practices in terms of navigation and keyboard shortcuts now you see the big goal of I want to grow as an artist or a designer has been broken down into four pieces and those four pieces can then be broken down into even smaller pieces chunking is power you don't want to over chunk where you're trying to bite the whole darn thing together you also don't want an under chunk where you make a million pieces of something if you make enough reason to fall through and you know what you want but you make the task overwhelming you'll be overwhelmed what is chunking it's taking all that's coming at you and putting it into idealized size groups that your mind can handle okay we cannot end this video by talking about goal setting and working towards achieving your goal if you just walk away and do nothing here's what I want you to do I want you to pick out a goal that you've been setting aside something that you really want to accomplish and try to apply the principles in which you've learned today now you have a clear plan on how to move forward inesi go [Music] [Applause] [Music] go