Welcome to episode number 85 of The Growth Booth. Great to have you with me here today. This is the first in a two part series where today we'll be talking about goal setting and the butterfly effect. And then in the following episode, episode number 86, we're building upon that and moving into task management and time management using a system that I've sort of cobbled together from a number of other systems over the years, which I refer to as Task Fusion 360. I'll be talking about that in the next episode. 

In this episode though, what I'm really trying to do here, my objective here with this episode, is to sharpen the sword, to help you sharpen the sword, to help you become more effective, and to help you push yourself towards achieving greater things. I think there's never a better time than now to think about goals and to potentially hit the reset button if you haven't already got goals set out for yourself. Because goals are, as we'll talk about shortly, really are a great hack to achieving greater things, and they can help you with almost any kind of a project. 

A quote from Stephen Covey has really been ingrained into my psyche, and that is that “To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.” This is just common sense. It's a little bit like saying you can't expect a different result if you keep doing the same thing. Setting goals can help you push yourself beyond whatever plateau you may currently be on, achieve new things. They can have an enormous impact on your life just as a result of simple cause and effect. 

If I think back to how my life has changed as a result of setting goals, my work life has gone from where I'm sitting in front of a screen working for the man eight to 10 hours a day in a little cubicle to my work takes me all over the world now. Recently, I was at the Formula One event in Miami. Later on in the year, I'm actually going to meet some business partners at the Formula One event in Abu Dhabi. I've got time freedom, geographic freedom to work any way that I want. Right now, I'm sitting in my own private office which I've set up the way that I want it set up. And it's a complete paradigm shift, if you like. It's a completely different situation to what I was in when I was working my day job. 

The point that I'm trying to get to here is none of this would have been possible if I hadn't first set some concrete goals about what I wanted to achieve. That was essentially to change the status quo 20 years ago. If I think about how my home has changed, when I was a poor student, we were living in a very, very cold house in New Zealand where we had to have our woolen hats on and our jackets on while we were inside the house. It was that cold. Today, where I'm fortunate to have all the mod cons of luxury living, essentially, and comfortable living. I'm also fortunate to have a holiday home in New Zealand and different properties around the world. Again, this is something that's changed as a result of deliberate goal setting. 

In terms of how my day has changed, goal setting has ultimately allowed me to decide what I do each day, what time I get up in the morning, the amount of time I have with my kids, whether or not I want to use an alarm clock, time with my wife and my loved ones, geographic freedom, obviously on a micro level, but also on a macro level. So what I mean by this is, on a micro level, any given day I could be working from my house, I could be working from my office, which is in a slightly different place. I could be working in a cafe, or that's on a micro level. Buenos Aires has got amazing cafes that make it pretty tempting to take the laptop and get a coffee and something else and work from a cafe. That's on a micro level, but also on a macro level. 

There are a couple of months every year when I tend to get to New Zealand. Got the holiday home out there, and not just New Zealand but other places as well. If I want to, then I've got the geographic freedom to be able to continue my work if I want to or not. So again, what I'm trying to get to here, the point is that my day has drastically changed from the eight-to-five of working in a cubicle that I had prior to diving into any of this kind of goal setting. 

Obviously, goal setting is not the only piece of the recipe but it is certainly part of the recipe. I think that your dreams really can become your reality when you set about going after them with intention. Part of that is the process of deliberate goal setting. One of the things that I like about goal setting is that it's a powerful success hack. I think if you are interested in studying success and if you believe that success leaves clues, then you'll see that most of the most successful people in the world, it doesn't matter what they're doing, whether they're sports stars, entrepreneurs or politicians or something else, most of them start off with a goal.

I think when you realize the power of goals, they can become quite addictive. Achieving milestones like I remember me being able to achieve a milestone of being financially and geographically free by the age of 30, that was a big one for me. These are the types of things that you can achieve if you want to sit down and set some goals and plot a path to actually achieving them.

I've been fortunate to have taught tens of thousands of people over the years through different courses, through different seminars that I've hosted around the world. I've done a lot of work around goal setting and time management, and I've seen firsthand how it's not just something that has helped me, but it's helped a lot of other people as well.

I do have a comprehensive goal setting system, and that's really what I'm going to be talking about in this episode and building on it on the next. Just before I get to that though, it's worth mentioning what happens if you don't have a good goal setting system. I think the trap that I've seen people sort of get sucked into is they end up drifting along in the current. If you imagine you're in a river and you're just floating along and the current takes you wherever it's going to take you, that's something I've seen a lot of happen to a lot of people who don't have a good goal setting system. 

I've also read probably in the hundreds of self-development, time management, productivity books over the years, and I've taken a little nugget from every single one of those, I think. And some of them have been very good, but for me most of them have been incomplete because they've focused on one part of the equation but not necessarily all of it. So that's also something I want to try to deliver to you in this episode. Also, the next episode is a more comprehensive and complete, but still very, very simple system that you can absorb from a couple of podcast episodes and then put in to practice. 

Now, I think that the mind is a little bit like a computer and it works in a very specific way. And if you want to get results, you need to set goals that your mind is receptive to. This is exactly what this training here today is all about. There are a couple of key adjustments that I recommend people make before they go about setting goals. I found that these are things that are going to make it more likely for you to be able to achieve your goal. And then there are also a couple of mental exercises, things that I do on a daily basis, which have certainly made a big impact to me. I'll be sharing how you can use these to essentially set an unlimited number of goals and then ideally, hopefully be able to achieve them all.

I think of goals as intentions, and when you set a goal, you're setting an intention that shifts the world around you. Tuning into this shift can help you navigate the waters of change better. So you set a goal, life changes, and your circumstances rearrange. I think this is just pure physics really, because when you set a goal, you start, and when you take steps towards it, you're making sometimes a teeny tiny change which has a flow on effect, and that's what causes life to change, and then your circumstances, as a result of that, to rearrange. It's all cause and effect, and setting a goal induces a change in your circumstances and committing to a goal changes the way that you interact with life in general. 

When you commit, when you inject your will into achieving something, what you're doing is you're taking a proactive approach to achieving your goals. This is a way of taking ownership, and results happen as an outcome of deliberate actions. 

Now, in saying all of this, I have noticed that there are a couple of different phases of achievement that people go through. The first is beginners luck. Now you may have experienced this, I'm sure you've experienced this, where you do something for the first time and you get some luck early on. Like maybe you create a website, you randomly are able to make some money, maybe generate a sale even though you haven't got much traffic yet. It doesn't really make sense if you look at it from a statistical standpoint, but it happens. I think of this as being a little bit like beginner's luck, but then you also have a second phase which is assistance and resistance. 

So nature is always trying to maintain a certain state, and when it's disrupted, it resists. So when you set a goal and start going after it, after, you'll often find that you get a lot of resistance. Sometimes weird things go wrong that just shouldn't go wrong. Like you sign up to a gym to start a new gym routine and new workout routine to go after some new objective that you've got, and the first day you go to the gym, it's closed because the gym workers are on strike or something. 

It's unusual, it's random. It's like a random roadblock when you're driving somewhere that is never there, but it pops up. These kind of things will happen along the way and they're just part of the course, they're part of the journey. I would encourage you not to think of them as setbacks, but just as being part of the journey. They're obstacles that you have to get past to be able to get to where you're going.

Setting goals starts a journey that is going to have both ups and downs. If you think about this from a physical standpoint, when you climb a long flight of stairs, your legs are going to start burning because you're fighting against gravity. You're going from one point to a higher point. It's the same with goals. Just by nature, there is going to be resistance, and along the way you're also going to have breakthroughs. 

Taking action and moving forward is progress, even if it doesn't feel like you're making progress. So sometimes that action, like using the gym example, going to the gym or doing a workout or putting your running shoes on and going for a run, you might not feel like you're getting any results, you might not feel like anything is changing, but it's progress. This is the principle of movement. I think it's important to recognize that you're going to have peaks along the way. You're going to have times when things are going really well and you're also going to have these valleys when you feel like you're not getting anywhere. I also think about this sometimes as you take two steps forward and one step backwards, but all of these steps forward, steps backwards, the peaks and the valleys are actually signs of movement.

I think that there are three principles that I come back to and I find pretty helpful to remember when I'm pursuing a goal, and together they almost form like an attitude or an approach. The first is acceptance, that you're on a journey and there will be these highs and lows that I'm talking about, the next one being consistent effort, the requirement of consistent effort in the form of taking some sort of action towards your goal on a regular basis, and then of course, the third one is patience, trusting that your effort is going to pay off over a period of time. 

There are some prerequisites to effective goal setting and these are sort of mindset shifts, if you like, and I'm going to talk about these in just a moment. But before I do, let me touch very quickly on the power of the subconscious mind. Now, goal setting can tap into the hidden resources in the subconscious mind and this is why I think about it a little bit like a hack because it's a way of engaging your subconscious which otherwise might be on autopilot, cruising along, doing whatever, thinking about whatever it wants to be thinking about. 

Your subconscious mind is very important because the past experiences that you've had are going to influence your thoughts and your behaviors. These are all stored in our subconscious minds, and the subconscious is always running. Most of the time though, it's just noise that we're not even aware of. It's just thoughts, a constant stream of thoughts running through our mind and these are because of the subconscious mind.

The big hack for the subconscious mind is goal setting and goal setting exercises because these train your mind and will ultimately help you reach your goal. If you can get your subconscious mind aligned with what you consciously want to be achieving, then you've got great alignment of your system and it's going to help you pick up different things that you would otherwise have missed, such as opportunities. It's going to help you stay motivated. 

I think it's important. An important part of this is getting that alignment between the subconscious and the conscious mind. Goal setting is a great way to achieve that almost through brute force because you are regularly reminding yourself, you're regularly reminding your subconscious mind about what it is that you want to be achieving. 

Now, if we think about the prerequisites of goal setting, and again, these are little things I've picked up that I almost sort of do on autopilot nowadays, but I think they're important and I think they contain some of the power to unlocking the real power that you can get from goal setting. The first prerequisite that I've got there is starting off with the right intention. So in my mind, the ultimate goal is something that ties back to a fundamental level of achieving more happiness. I feel like at least for me, I can't be truly happy unless I know that I'm adding some value in some way to the lives of other people. I think this is pretty common throughout the human species. Because of that, I think it's hard sometimes to set a goal without feeling a little bit selfish.

So the way around that is to incorporate the welfare of other people into your goal and there's a really, really easy way that you can do this. I think a big problem with goal setting is that people don't always take the time to flesh out why they really want that goal. Nine times out of 10, your goal is going to be somehow tied to helping other people anyway. So if you just think about it a little more deeply then you can make that crystal clear in your mind as well. 

Another thing that I think is worth talking about are money goals and the personal conflict that this can potentially generate. There's a great deal of personal conflict for a lot of people around money and money-related goals. For a lot of people money generates feelings of selfishness in people, and a lot of people because of this shy away from the pursuit of money. Even though a big part of them may want a lot more of it, they shy away from it. Until you've removed this conflict and you realize that having money is not at odds with doing something that's going to benefit not just you but society and people around you, then you're going to be trying to move forward with a very heavy weight tied around your ankles. 

So something else I wanted to mention there and I'll get to the formula that I use and the system I use for my goal setting in just a moment, but there is something that helps you with all of this and that is when doing goal setting on a regular basis, make time for appreciation. When you consciously think about the things that you're grateful for, I think it clears a lot of these subconscious blockages that people tend to have. 

And for most of us, in order to feel deserving of what we want, we have to take a minute to generate these feelings of appreciation. This comes naturally to a lot of people, but I think it certainly doesn't hurt to take deliberate steps to generate this kind of a feeling, and that way you can make sure that you don't have these subconscious blockages.

I think the number one rule for me when it comes to appreciation is when you appreciate what you have, you tend to get more of what you want. With that in mind, let's change gears a little bit and talk about the anatomy of a perfect goal. In my mind, setting the perfect goal is pretty simple. There are four main elements that I like to laser focus in on. You might already be familiar with the SMART goal acronym. I've spoken about that in the past where you're setting Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely goals. Well, the goal formula that I use is even more simple than that. It's only got four components, and those four components are a result, a date by which you want to achieve it, a medium or a way how that you're going to do it,and why. That fourth one, Why, is optional, but really, really important I think if you want to tie in how this is going to affect not just you but people around you.

So the formula for that is “By <date>, I will have a result which I will acquire through a medium and why I will do it.” An example of that in real terms is, for example, “By November 1,  I will have a passive income stream of $500 per month, which I will acquire through building and marketing a simple niche website. This will allow me to work less and spend more time with the kids.” So we've got a date in there, which is November 1. We've got a result which is a passive income stream of $500 per month. We've got a medium which is building and marketing a simple niche website, and we've got a reason why, which is to work less and spend more time with my kids. So we've incorporated all of those things into one quite short and simple sentence, which is what I think of as sort of the ultimate goal.

Now, once you've got a goal, there's a ritual which I like to work through on a daily basis, which I refer to as my goal getting ritual. We've been through goal setting, now it's about goal getting. This is something that you can do once you've written down your perfect goal. This is when you really get down to business and it's time to get that goal firmly implanted in your mind. This is how you're going to help tie the subconscious part of your mind with your conscious side of your mind as well, and you really want to merge your goal and make it part of you. 

I'm going to give you two mental exercises, really, really simple, that will enable you to accomplish that. These exercises are simple and only take a few minutes each per day. The key though is consistency. I recommend doing these at least five days a week at a minimum. That's what I do Monday to Friday. I make sure that I set aside a few minutes each day just to think about my goal and my objectives and get myself in the right frame of mind, not just for goals, but for being able to move forward and achieve what I want to achieve out of each and every day. 

So I like to do these exercises first thing in the morning. I find a quiet place, I make sure I'm sitting upright and I want to be in a peaceful setting. The more relaxing the better, because what we're trying to do in this, as you'll see in just a moment, is relax yourself to a point where your brainwaves change from beta to alpha. Science has shown that a state of alpha brainwaves can bring not just healing, but also accelerated learning, more creative thinking and a bunch of other benefits as well. Once you're in that relaxed space, which might take a couple of minutes to get into, and I'll give you some ideas about how you can get into that space, you can do a couple of different exercises. 

The first exercise has got a couple of different phases. The first phase is about appreciation, and this is an exercise that I do daily. It takes me between 1 minute and seven minutes, depending on which version of the exercise I'm doing. The whole objective around this one is to elevate my perspective and provide me with more awareness consciously.

So the 1 minute appreciation routine is to simply, again, when I'm in that state, that relaxed state, is to think of three things that I'm grateful for, three wins from yesterday, and three things that I'm looking forward to achieving today. This only takes a minute or so, and these can be trivial things, and there's no rules around what these can or can't be. But again, you're trying to establish a state of appreciation. So three things that you're grateful for could be you're grateful for the neighbors that you've got, you're grateful for the fact that you live in a warm home, or that your kids are healthy, or it could be absolutely anything. Three wins from yesterday could just be three things that went well for you yesterday. So, “Oh, I managed to get exercise in yesterday,” or “I had a wonderful cup of coffee with my partner in the morning.” It could be anything. Or some quality time with a loved one, or maybe you managed to tick something off your to do list yesterday. 

And then three things that you're looking forward to achieving today. This is certainly where if you've done goal setting and time management, which we'll talk about in the next episode, episode number 86, you'll have a plan in place whereby you know what you're doing on a daily basis, a weekly basis, even a monthly basis, and you can be knocking these things off. So thinking about them first thing in the morning is a great way to make sure that you actually do them. Now, that's a 1-minute approach to appreciation. 

Now, if you want to, and you might want to alternate with this, there is a slightly longer seven-minute ritual. This is something that I do sort of every other day, and this is where I sit down and I think about the things that are positive in my life right now. I try to just visualize all of these things that are positive in my life and recognize the challenges also, not just the things that are going great, but the challenges that are associated with my goals and life in general. I acknowledge them and I don't avoid them. 

I think about the things that might not be perfect, but are also not that bad. I think it's worth keeping perspective and realizing that the vast majority of the world would do almost anything to be in your situation right now. I mean, 85% of the world's population survive on less than $30 a day. I think it's 90% or 95% of the world's population are surviving on less than $40 a day. So if you've got a little bit more financial freedom than that, then just that is something to be thankful for. You've got a roof over your head and so on and so forth. 

I also like to find the best in challenging situations. So, for example, if you're in a day job and maybe you hate the day job, one way you could think about that is, well, at least it's giving you income to pursue a side project, or at least it's providing you with insurance or providing you with a way to pay the bills. You can always find a silver lining when you search for one. 

Now, when I'm sitting down and doing this seven-minute appreciation routine, what I like to think of are five things that I can be positive about in my life. So in the first exercise, we looked at three things I'm grateful for, three wins from yesterday, and three things I'm looking forward to achieving today. With this seven-minute exercise, what I do is I just focus in on five things and I keep cycling through them in my mind, thinking about why I can feel grateful for these things and why they make me happy. When I start doing this, what I find is my mind begins to flood itself with feelings of gratitude and appreciation. So that's the first part of the first exercise, is sitting down and finding a way to experience appreciation and gratitude. 

The second step, which takes normally three to five minutes, is to read out your written goal and either read it out out loud three times to five times, or an alternative to this is to read it in your mind. So not aloud, but read it silently in your mind, slowly, very consciously and deliberately, and then to close your eyes and truly visualize what it would be like to be able to achieve that goal. Scientific studies have also shown that there are certain triggers in your mind and in your brain that can't tell the difference between reality and a visualization. If you want to test this out for yourself, then just close your eyes for a second and imagine that you are biting into a big, juicy lemon. Just thinking about that while I'm talking about it right now is making me salivate. And that's an example of visualization. I'm not actually biting into a lemon, but I'm getting some of the same physical reactions. 

So visualization can be really important. I remember way back, going back almost 20 years ago, working a day job and having this visualization of just being able to get to $1,000 per week in passive income, I was thinking about that while I was walking to work, and I would be going over and over it in my mind and starting to imagine what that would be like. That's a form of visualization and it's healthy to do. I think this is something that can be used in a positive sense or in a negative sense. If you're imagining something negative that can happen all the time, then there's no positive I can think of that will come from that. But if you're thinking about something that's positive that you want to have in your future, then there's a lot of good that can come from that. And again, this is all designed to help you build your goal, sort of merge your goal with you and be thinking about it on a daily basis. 

So the second phase of visualization is really important. Another, just to give you a bit more of an example here, let's say you've got a goal of acquiring $100,000 through whatever venture that you're pushing on with. You might picture yourself logging into an online bank account and seeing $100,000 here, and you might just imagine what that would feel like and really let those feelings of excitement, satisfaction, and maybe relief set in. And then take it one step further and get more detailed about what would your life be like if there was $100,000 sitting in your bank account right now. What are the ways that your interactions with your friends and your family and your loved ones would change? Maybe there would be more pleasant conversations. Maybe you'd be in a better mood. Maybe you'd decide to take a week off from work and go and hang out at the beach. So imagine then what that would be like, hanging out at the beach and feeling relaxed. 

Look, I know that visualization exercises are not for everyone. I was very skeptical of them when I started doing them. But give it a try. Once you've done this visualization exercise, once you've been through this process of appreciation, then you're done for the day. You don't need to walk around the rest of the day thinking about it. We just started with some appreciation or gratitude because it helps clear out those blockages that I was mentioning earlier. It also helps solve a huge amount of sort of tug of war that occurs when people want more but don't feel like they actually deserve it. 

When you feel like you're appreciative for what you already have, you're grateful, it clears that blockage. I'm not sure exactly why this works. I'm not sure about the science behind it, but it's something that has worked really well for me. I think the repetition is really important here. The visualization component is all about training the brain, and just like learning any new skill, it's key that you've got consistency and repetition. This is why I recommend doing it at least five times a week. 

So I've given you a couple of exercises there, one being about sitting down and consciously appreciating what you have or thinking the very quick 1 minute one is great to get started with three things you're grateful for, three wins from yesterday, and three things that you want to achieve today. 

Now, there is another exercise that you might want to do. I like to alternate between what I've spoken about so far and the one I'm about to speak right now. So one day I'll do the  visualization and the appreciation sort of ritual, and another day I'll do one where I'm focused more on a vision board. This is where you have collected a series of visual images that represent what you want to achieve, and you put them on a board. You take a minute just to look at the pictures on the board and then close your eyes and try to experience, try to imagine what your life would be like if you attained all of these goals. It's that simple. 

A vision board is simple, really. It's just a collection of images of things that you want to achieve, and you put them on a board that you can look at. And then to use this vision board, you take a minute and you look at the pictures on the board, and then the idea is that you close your eyes and try to experience what your life would be like if you attained these goals or even while you are attaining these goals. It's that simple. You might have a primary goal which might be at the middle of the vision board, and then you might have secondary goals around it. So this is a great way that you can be thinking about multiple different things that you would like to happen in your future all at one time. 

I remember the way that I used to do this was I would create a desktop background. And on this desktop background, I would have, for example, a luxury home that I might want to live in one day. I remember I had a luxury cruise liner. I had Machu Picchu, which is at the top of the Inca Trail, The Great Wall of China, I had a luxury hotel. I had a vacation in I think it was Tahiti, a photo of Bora Bora in Tahiti and a picture of my wife and I in the middle of it. And this is something I'd look at each day, and it would be sitting there on my desktop background. Regularly, I should say, I would just sit down and find myself imagining what would that be like. This was way back in 2006 when I had this particular one that I'm thinking of. And fast forward to today, and my vision board has completely changed. I've achieved everything that I wanted on the first one and I've continued to update it. So this could be a fun exercise and just get you thinking outside the square a little bit more about different things that you could do. 

So the way that I use these exercises, the first day I do just the appreciation exercises, and then the second day I'll typically just do the vision board exercise. So day one might be the appreciation exercises and also the visualization, and the second one might be specifically the vision board. I'll typically do one exercise per day. It'll typically take me in between five to ten minutes in total. So it's not a huge amount of time, but it can make a huge difference. Again, I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do this, but if you think about it, at its core, what we're trying to do here is generate those feelings of gratitude and appreciation and keep the goal at the forefront of your mind. 

And then once you've hit your primary goal, then create a new goal. If it's on your vision board, then take it off and replace it with something else and ensure that you're always adding new goals to whatever it is that you're doing, either the vision board or just the goals that you've got in your life. 

Now, all of these goals are basically useless if you don't take any action. Taking action really is the second part, and that's what I'm going to be covering in the next episode here of The Growth Booth. However, before we wrap this one up, I want to talk about how small decisions can lead to big changes. When you start setting objectives and when you start making different decisions, you might not notice right away that anything actually changes, but these little changes that you make will alter the dynamics of your reality. If you've seen a movie like Back to the Future, for example, or almost any time travel movie for that matter, then often the character will travel back in time. They'll change one small thing and it shows how changing that one small thing or making one slight change to their lives completely alters the course of their life. 

The Butterfly Effect is another movie like this where someone could go back in time and make one tiny change and it set off a whole new chain of events. I think life is a little bit like that. The things that we're doing today dictate what we're going to be doing tomorrow and what we're going to have thereafter. So when you start setting different goals and you start doing things differently, then you end up with a different life as a result of that. 

I'm a big believer in getting 1% better every single day in what you're doing or striving for that continual improvement. Because when you do that, you end up being able to compound these improvements on top of one another. If you're able to do this over a period of a year, if you were able to get 1% better on average per day, you'd end up 37X better over the course of the year. So 37X better than you are right now. This is not something that applies to physical challenges. It's not like, “Oh yeah, I'm going to get 1% better every single day at doing press ups.” It doesn't work like that. This is something that we're talking about from a more holistic level. If from a holistic level you can make teeny tiny gains on a regular basis, then they compound on one another and you can transform your life.

I think it's really important to set clear directions and give yourself a very clear set of objectives to follow, and your mind will then be looking for ways to achieve the things that you want to achieve. Visualization is a big part of this, and a specific plan to reach your primary goal is a big part of this. So if you have got a goal where you want to build a passive income stream, then find a training program of some kind that you can use to help get you there. Or if you are deciding that you're going to go on a diet and you've got an objective of losing ten pounds, then you're probably going to have to combine a little bit of diet with a little bit of exercise. So you'll choose a diet and you'll choose an exercise program, and there'll be a lot of steps and tasks that follow that, things that you need to do, but that's a starting point. 

I think it's also really important to work at keeping that flame alive, keeping the motivation going. And you can do this through daily rituals. Always remember your reason why. And that's why actually why we formatted the goal in the way that we have. It's really powerful when you use the goal setting ritual on a daily basis because it keeps that motivation burning. When you combine that with a clear plan, I feel like it's almost impossible to not see results. That's impossible that you wouldn't see results. You're going to see something. You're going to see some change.

So that's a wrap for this episode. This is episode number 85 of The Growth Booth. We've dived deep into the subconscious, the conscious goal setting, different hacks that you can do to try to get alignment between goal setting and putting yourself in a frame of mind where you're more likely to actually be able to achieve those goals. 

In episode number 86, the next episode, we're going to tackle the second half of this puzzle. We're going to be talking about time management. I'm going to be sharing with you my Task Fusion 360 system that I've sort of cobbled together and have built out of combining a bunch of other different systems that I've learned and used for the past couple of decades, so make sure you tune into the next episode to learn all about that. 

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