New Year Goals for Winning Life in 2020
Brendon TEST Burchard shares practical advice on setting goals, managing time, and building discipline for high performance in 2020. He covers reducing distractions and increasing focus to win in the new year and decade.
Hey, all, it's Brendan. And I'm wishing you and your family and your loved ones a happy, a warm, wondrous holiday season. And I thought I'd share this video with you to talk about how do you finish the year in a good place? And how do you begin this new year, 2020, this new decade, in a wonderful place. How do you start the new year in a way that you can win? So in this session, you're actually gonna go behind the scenes with me a little bit because I'm gonna cut you into a Zoom call I did with one of my clients about how I felt that their senior leaders could really understand what they want in life and understand the five things they have to do in 2020 to win the year. So it's a little bit of an unusual format because outside of our Fancy, you know, YouTube here, I'm going to actually cut into a zoom call. We did, but I felt that the content was so perfect for this time of year. And I so desperately want you to raise your ambitions for this next year and to deepen your discipline at the same time, because I want you to have that experience that we call the high performance experience in life. You know, where there's more vibrancy, more connection, more fulfillment, but it takes a different way of thinking. And I think that this training I did today really perfectly encapsulated how I feel that people can have an extraordinary life. So I thought you would really enjoy this. Please take some notes, post your questions down below, share this with other people who, you know, really want to have an awesome 2020, and let's end this year strong. Please enjoy this session. And now I want to share with you five things that you can do to really kick this year into high gear. Now, if you've been with us for a while, or you've been in my community for a while, or read high performance habits, maybe some of this is redundant for you. And that's good, because I really believe with higher intention and deeper discipline, this year, you're going to do great. And some of the things we're talking about are just discipline, things, you know, you should do. But listen, common sense is not always common practice. And that's why so many people who could be extraordinary fail to reach their full potential. They're not even doing the foundational things, you know, the foundational things you should be doing in your life. It's time to do them more. If it's with that discipline that suddenly we become extraordinary, you know, if you struggle with that, go to My YouTube channel and type in discipline and you'll find a video on that. Matter of fact, watch anything from me on YouTube and you'll. There's hundreds of hours there for you on any topic you could possibly need. How do I deal with stress? How do I have a better relationship? How do I meditate? How do I be more productive? Whatever. There's something for you on my YouTube channel, so check it out. So if this seems redundant in any way, good. We all need a coach to remind us of the fundamentals. And that's what these are. Because I bet you can look at each of these things. I'm going to teach you these last five things and I bet each of them you can say, dang, Brendon, I wasn't as disciplined as I could have been or as intentional as I could have been in this last year or this last decade in each of these areas. Watch this first one. You all know this one. And I bet you weren't as intentional or disciplined as you could be. Listen to this one. Quarterly, weekly and daily goals. Quarterly, weekly and daily goals. Quarterly, weekly and daily goals. Think about that. In 2019, did you have clear quarterly goals? What about 2018-2017-2016-1514, 13, 12, 11, 10? Huh? Did you. Were you as intentional and disciplined about writing out and setting quarterly, weekly and daily goals? Did you set the quarterly goal and work it backwards into a monthly goal and and work it backwards into a weekly goal and work it backwards into daily goals? Or did you just wake up each day and go, guess I gotta go to work? Did you just wake up each day and turn to your phone looking for some inspiration going like this, Scrolling through, you know, I mean, did you really live your life in any goal based way in the last decade on a consistent basis? Not you set a new year's resolution, hope to stick to it? Not. No, no, no. You strategically planned the year, like go out, not just to 2020, go to the very end of 2020, end of 2021, 22, 23, 24, all the way up to 2030 if you want to. And just ask what are the primary things I would love to achieve, have, feel, experience, be, relate, create and work it all backwards. If that sounds overwhelming, just say, what are my 2020 major goals? And. And how do I break that down into quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily goals? You should not ever start a Monday without clarity about what must happen by Friday. You should never start a Monday without clarity about what must happen by Friday. Otherwise you're going through the motions and you're losing a lot of time. I know you know this, but this one is so simple. When I come into people's lives as a high performance coach, and it's one of the very first things, if you ever heard me work with all these celebrities and heard them talk about working with me, the funniest things, they all say, well, yeah, first thing he did is made me open up my calendar. I don't ask them almost anything. First I say, let me see your calendar. And if I look in their calendar and I can't see that they've been architecting something out, if I can't see they're working backwards from some primary goal, then it just looks like a bunch of random meetings or it looks like, you know, no scheduled or block time. I know there's a lot of opportunity there to help them get back on path. I would love to see your calendar. I would love to know that you have somewhere, maybe in your office, you know, a big sheet of paper that has all the months drawn out, you know, 12 boxes on it. Here's what's going to happen to each of those months. And then you know what's going to happen in each of your weeks. And then you're going to be back on track again. Everyone knows they should do goals. And so few people look at their goals less than. At least in our research, less than 20% of the North American public looks at their goals every week. They don't. They just say, well, what are my meetings? Or where am I traveling to? But they're not looking at goals. That's why I really believe this bigger and bigger and bigger divide of people is happening is because some people are failing to consider what they really want in life. And they're not working every day towards achieving quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily goals. So they're lost in distraction. Next big idea, which I know you know, but this is gonna help your morning work prep. Your morning work prep. This is really important for this community. Now you know about maybe a morning routine, right? For me, my morning routine. I get up and for 20 minutes I just move my body. I do mobility, yoga, calisthenics type work just to open up my body. Then for 20 minutes, I read something really positive. But then for 20 minutes, I plan the day. Now, even though I have my quarterly, monthly and weekly goals broken out, I still do my morning work prep. What does that mean? It means I sit down. For me personally, I sit down with my high performance planner. It helps me get my mindset in the right place, helps me look at my day helps me consider things are important. But here's the most important thing about the morning work prep. Even if your day is already scheduled for, what I'd love for you to do in preparing for your work every day is write down, what are your goals this day? I would like you to look at your current schedule and ask a simple question. How could I fulfill this day with excellence? How could I fulfill this day with excellence? And what I want you to do basically is literally look at the day, know what you want of the day, and then close your eyes and visualize the successful completion of the day. Meaning I want you to visualize or meditate on each of the major activities of the day and ask, how could I do that with real authenticity and excellence? I'll give an example today. You guys are all watching me right now. Today, before I got here, when I did my morning work prep, I already thought through this entire session. Before I ever got to the session in the morning, I just visualized. I saw myself teaching. I thought about my energy. What should my energy look like? What would make me enjoy that process? What would make me be on excellent service today for this community. I challenge myself to see it, think through it, feel it before I ever got there. I have a meeting in another three hours from now that I already visualized and walked through what I'm going to say, how it's going to feel, how I'm going to impact the other person. This morning I already thought through a meeting happening three hours from now. That's part of my morning work prep. It might take 10, 15 minutes just to sit down there, look at each meeting, close my eyes, think about how to do that with excellence. Oh, I see. I'm gonna be writing then. Well, let me, let me just think through how do I want that writing experience to feel. What are some key points I might say just thinking through the day? Notice I didn't say start the day answering emails or doing DMs or voice, text or message. No, no, no, no. Messaging, mindfulness, visualization, thoughtfulness, about how you're going to win the day. Most people, they just bumble into the day. They literally crash land in the day. All day long. They're crash landing into 10 o', clock, 11 o', clock, noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. They're completely winging it all day. And they're wondering why their life lacks strategic direction and fulfillment. Something to think about. Next big idea. This is huge. I can't tell you how important this has become. I know I've mentioned this to my community constantly. And you guys, it's just so important is that you've got to block time for socials. What does that mean? Block time your socials? Block time your socials. What does this mean? Block timing. Socials means this. You should never just pick up your phone randomly and scroll through Instagram or TikTok or Facebook ever. You should never just randomly pick up your phone to check email either. Ever. This is either a weapon of distraction for you or this can be something that keeps you on your A game. But I'm telling you what, if you let it dictate terms, you lose. So what do I mean by that? Well, did you know the average American. See the Average American does 30 minutes per day on Facebook? 30 minutes per day on Facebook. Now that's the average. That's just Facebook, not all social media. Just looking at Facebook alone, where they pick up Facebook randomly. Now if you do the math on this, and this is why I say you have to block the time, like schedule time. I do social media twice per day. That's it. I only do social media twice per day. It's blocked in my schedule when I'm going to pick up and utilize social media. It's also scheduled when I'm going to check social media. That's it. Why do I do that? Because listen to the numbers here. Did you know 30 minutes a day on Facebook. Listen to these numbers, y'. All. I'm gonna read them to you. 30 minutes a day on Facebook equates to three and a half hours a week. That's 182 hours per year. And for those who have a career like I do, or any career, you're working, guess what that means. 30 minutes a day equals 22 work days. That means four. That basically 22 work days is basically four full weeks of work weeks per year for weeks. That means you lost a month of work by checking on Facebook 30 minutes a day. Now if you're using Facebook to build your business, that's a very different thing. But that should be scheduled. You should say, oh, it's time to do that activity right now. Let me go do the Facebook thing. What else? And I'm not just picking on Facebook here. I'm picking on all social media. 30 minutes a day. Guess what? 60 minutes a day. Well, you double it, right? So if you spend 60 minutes a day on social media, consuming, being distracted by it, guess what that equates to? 44 work days. 44 eight hour work days. 44 eight hour workdays. That is what? Over eight weeks. So now you're two months of the entire work year. Two months, just consuming. If you only do 60 minutes of social media a day, and that's what most people are doing. When you can take in all social media, they're consuming over 60 minutes of consumption. Distraction. They're not utilizing it to do something. That's just consumption. Well, guess what? The average American will report that they have 90 minutes of distraction per day outside of social media. Now, let's take that one into account. 90 minutes of distraction per day, what does that equal? That equals 66 work days per year. Why do I say you need to know your quarterly, monthly, and weekly goals? Because if you don't, if you lose 90 minutes a day to distraction, that's 66 work days. That's 13 weeks. That's three full months of the work year gone. Let that sink in for a second. This is why I need to teach you. You have to block time your socials. I'm here to tell you. Distraction. And the number one thing ruining people's lives of achievement right now in the world is social media. 100% out of lack of clarity and lack of the ability to manage their own energy, they don't know what to do with themselves, and they're bored. So they pick this up and they let this thing take over their brain and they lose momentum towards what matters, what else? I think it's insanely important that you have the mindset of this question. If I had to double the thing I'm doing, what would I do? If I had to double the thing I'm doing, what would I do? If I had to double the thing that I'm doing, what would I do? I ask myself this question all the time. I think it's a great question of high performance. And some of you go, oh, my God, that stresses me out. No, you should absolutely be asking this question. If you had to double what you are currently doing, how would you do it? What would you delegate? What would you stop doing? What would you start doing? Some of you, you're like, oh, I'd like to make more money. No, at least ask, how would I double it? What would I have to do to at least minimum double it? Same thing. Let me give you an example. I'm going to go on a date night with Denise, my wife. I go, how can I double the fun we're about to have? Because I already know by default what we would do. Now I'm asking, how would I double it? You're going to Go, you know, you're going to. You're going to go out and take the kids out to the park. How can you double the amount of fun you're going to have? Now, I know doubling is arbitrary because some of you know, Brent, I want to 10x my business this year. Cool. Cool. That's great. But it's the same mentality. It's the mentality of asking, how would I dramatically increase this thing? How could you not just have more happiness? How could you double the happiness you have? It doesn't mean you have to hit the goal. It doesn't mean you have to double your revenue and hit that goal. It means by asking the question, it forces you to realize what is essential and what is non essential. And too many people fail to do that. Categorization. What is essential, what is non essential? And because I'm constantly asking, how can I double it? It's making me go, oh, these things I'm doing over here, this is stupid. Let me delegate that. Let me focus over here. Like next year I said, how can I double the number of books I'm going to release? That's really changed the way I approach my writing and the release scheduling. I hope that will inspire you. And last big idea, huge for 2020 and your success beyond. You need to talk with leaders every single week. Now, I know that's the benefit that you guys receive here, being part of this community. You're with me here every week or every month. Awesome. But listen, you got to be with your leaders every. You got to call industry leaders. You got to call your leaders up the food chain. You gotta talk with leaders every single week about your performance. Every single week, you need to talk about two things with leaders. What are your goals? I'm sure it's three things. Three things with leaders every single week. What are your goals? Then? What is your performance towards those goals? And then three, how can you help them? Every single week, I'm on a phone with some leader in my industry. Every single week. Here's what I'm trying to do. Here's how I feel it's going. What do you need help with? Here's what I'm trying to do. Here's how I feel it's going. What do you need help with? I ask that every single week. I'm constantly in communication with leaders in my industry by networking with them, going to their seminars, meeting up at conferences, going to the big annual conference, like getting around leaders and being in conversation with them constantly. It inspires me. They give me their new strategies, what's working for them that I can implement copy follow. It also helps them know what I need so they can give me some advice or some resources or tools or connect me with somebody who knows the answer. It also has me asking them what they need and so that I can be of service to them, which increases the likelihood that they'll help us. Right? Give and you shall receive. I think you need to way amp up the amount of conversation you're having with leaders, not your neighbor who doesn't know anything. No, the people who are in your industry already succeeding have conversations with them, consistently. Schedule them, make them happen, be disciplined about that and it will change the direction of your life. I can't emphasize that more than anything else. Listen, we all want to be in good energy and proud of who we are. We all want to relate with people so we have deeper connections and real caring in our lives. And we all want to create experiences and abundance and contributions in our lives that make life feel meaningful and magical. So now you know. This is what's up. I hope you enjoyed my 2020 session. I have so much, so much joy for you. I have so much appreciation for you. Thank you for having me in your community. Thank you for being part of my community. Thank you for all of those who send out us beautiful things. Follow me on Instagram, listen to the Brandon show podcast, buy our books, whatever you do to support me and my craft. Thank you for that. But also, I have high ambitions for you in 2020. I want you to raise your ambitions and deepen your discipline. Raise your ambitions and deepen your discipline in 2020. I want you to have an awesome end of this year and kick off 2020 in a place of real presence, joy and reverence for life. Thanks everybody. I hope to chat with you soon online or see you out on the road. Until then, go out every single day. Live fully, love, openly. Make your difference today. Hey y'. All. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, would you please smash that subscribe button and also post any questions you have down below because it's these questions that you're all asking that inspires these episodes. I'd love to hear what you you think about it. Also, if you would love to join us on our next upcoming live training. We call it our High Performance Experience Coaching program. If you like some coaching and have some perspective and get some two hours of Live with me every single month, then click the link in the post down below so you can join us in HPX Coaching. I'd love to give you some more strategies, more insight, and more interaction to help you reach your next level of success. Until next time. Again, please subscribe Share this video with anybody who could be inspired by it today. Share and thanks one more time for being part of my community.
