Chris Larsen explains why vague goals like "make a million dollars" backfire. Your brain resists them based on past failures. Instead, add operational constraints: "make a million dollars in 2025 working less than 30 hours a week." Specificity lets your brain actually solve the problem.
You need to be asking your brain really specific questions. Like, a lot of people are like, yeah, I want to make more money. I want to make a million dollars. If you say, I want to make a million dollars in 2025, that's great, awesome. I hope you do. But if you don't specify more, like, actually get really clear on that, you are going to. Then your, your, your patterning is going to start fighting you. Because, because let's say you made 200 grand in 2024. That million is super scary. And it's going to start fighting back and it's gonna be like, you can't do that. You, there's too many clients. You don't have the systems, you know, you don't have the team. That's too stressful. You're never, you know, you can't handle that amount of money. You'll just blow it. And you're gonna fight yourself on it. But if you get super specific and you say, like, I want to make a million dollars in 2025 and I want to work less than 30 hours a week. Your brain is a problem solving machine. Yes. It's literally what it does most of the time. We give it crappy problem solve garbage in, garbage out.