Season 1 Chapter 13 -Purpose Inspiring Goals

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Chapter 13 Purpose inspiring goals. Now's the time to take out a pen and paper because we are going to put you to work. We are working on goal setting with Dr. Janwitz. Okay, Doc, tell us, what is your approach to goal setting?

You gotta love goals. That's where, that's where the pedal meets the metal, right? So you know, there's, there's a couple things of goals. I took professional coaching certification and they talk a lot about certificates, smart goals, right? And so it's an acronym. If you don't know about that. S M A R T. It stands for specific. So you need to have a specific goal, like what is the target, what is it you want, what is your outcome? It's got to be measurable. So that's the M. You got to measure it. I'll give examples of this. It's got to be according to their coaching, attainable. It has to be R for relevant and it needs to be T, like time based as well. One of the biggest things that people do is they say that they want to do something. They're not really clear how they're going to measure it. They don't even know if it relates to what it is they want to do and they don't put a timestamp to it. So one of the biggest mistakes people make is they don't put a timestamp to things. So, you know, just like in managing a team, if you say, hey, we got to get this thing done, what are we getting done? How are we going to measure that? It's done, it's completed based upon evidence of success. Of what? Is it something that we can achieve? Is it attainable? And then when is going to be the time date of that? Now that is a really good tactical way to handle the small chunking of things. But when it comes to big goals, there needs to be something. Magic needs to happen there. Okay. And so this is an, an acronym that I came up with that I love and it's called Magic goals. And so Magic goals are for the big goals, the big things that we want to have in life. And so they have to be again be measurable. But instead of being attainable, I want them to be attractive. I want them to be giants that will inspire creativity.

Oh, I like that.

Isn't that great? So measurable, attractive, giant that inspire the creativity. Because. Because to be able to obtain something that is attainable doesn't really require you to become more resourceful, to become more creative, to really elicit who you are. So again you look at this synergy success cycle. It starts off by saying, hey, what are you good at? What are the God given gifts and talents that you have? What is your behavioral style? What are your values? What's your viewpoint? Knowing this, how do you celebrate? How do you earmark those things getting then clear as to your purpose? What is it that is your why? Why do you want to create this change? What's your vision for it? Then you shift from that vision of saying, how do I get very tactical about it? You got to break down the big steps, but you have to have a big goal. You know, so many times we get caught into what it is that we want and then we set goals and based upon the limitations of our current belief at that time.

Yes, that is true.

And so what happens is we have to then think about the what that we want, not the how, what first, then the how. So the what can be that big magic goal and then the how will come up with that when you inspire the creativity and that you are attracted to that process. So I love having magicals and magicals long term goals. In Jim Collins book From Good to Great they talk about it as a bhag goals, big hairy audacious goals.

That should scare you.

I know that's a scary one, right? But it should get you a little nervous. But I love magic goals because that's where the magic really happens. So the practice that I have today is totally different than the practice I had years ago because it was a different magical goal of what we wanted to achieve. Your health, of what you have. Now if you only set standards for your goals and your smart goals of what you want for your health in the next short term, well you're going to base it upon the limiting beliefs and go, well, I can do that or I can't do that. So that'll be the smart goals. But when you have these magic goals, it'll cause you to rise and do things that are greater than you think your capabilities are. So I love goals and it's just so important to have them. And it's important also not only to have them, but it's important to redefine them as you go through life.

Right.

Because one of the biggest mistakes people make is they'll achieve a goal and they won't set a new goal, and then they become very stagnant in what they're able to do. So setting new goals, revisiting them again, if you treated your life essentially almost like a corporation or a business, small business, where you have to have a quarterly review or an annual review, making sure you're taking a day for yourself or half a day, where you can sit down and find an inspiring place for you that invigorates you, where you can reflect, you can see your wins. You can then see your vision for what you want and then create magic goals. One to two of them, a quarter, and then having it broken down by smart goals.

Nice. So that sounds like a good marriage, the smart goals and the magic goals.

Yes, absolutely.

One of the challenges that I believe most people are struggling with is time management. You know, as I mentioned earlier, we're living such a busy lifestyle in today's society that people are really struggling to find those pockets of time. But you mentioned managing your personal life as a small business, and part of that is time management. And in the book, you discuss a concept called compressing time, also known as the Parkinson's rule.

Yeah, Parkinson's law.

Law. It's a law.

Yeah. So it's a law. So there's two, really, principles that you want to learn. So the first one is, we talked about it earlier, is Pareto's principle, which is the 80, 20 rule that says that.

20% of the activities will produce 80% of the success in areas of whatever you're focusing on. So first, if you understand that, then the idea is, say, how can I extract that 20%? And then how do I compress that into the time that's important? So Parkinson's law says that the resource will expand to the parameters that are given to it. Let me break that down in another way. Time, the resources of things will expand to the time you allocate it. So, for example, if you're taking. If you're in college and you're taking a test, right, and you got a test coming up. Well, our paper is due. Let's suppose. Well, if the paper is due on Friday morning oftentimes, and you get this assignment on Monday, someone might wait till Thursday night to get it done, and they'll have expended the whole week where they got it done, maybe in the last hour or two before the thing but it took them the whole time. And what that does is that creates a lot of mental clutter. Right? Because now they might have got that paper done on Thursday night, but yet Monday through Wednesday they might have been saying, should I get it done? Should I not get it done? Am I going to devote time here? And because they had such a big resource of time, it got done. But that really expands and wastes a lot of energy as well. So we have to think about time management, but we got to think about energy management just the same. So if you realize that that's where making both smart goals and magicals are time based, okay, you want to make sure that you encapsulate a time. And a lot of times we underestimate.

The amount of effort it takes to achieve a goal, but we also often overestimate how long it can take to achieve it. So one of the things that we do is we need to learn how to give us some maybe shorter timelines, which will then cause us to prepare and enter the game in that area much more with a sense of urgency. Because every day matters, right? And people depend upon us as.

Spouses, as parents, as co workers, as leaders in our life and in our community. People are depending upon us. So it's imperative that we learn how to compress time by using Pareto's principle and then setting really tight boundaries in time where you can do that. You know, one of the worst things you can do is have a blank calendar. When your calendar is blank, it really creates a lot of havoc in your life because a lot of things can creep in there to compress that time.

Well, there's a saying too, that if it's not in your calendar, it doesn't exist.

That's right. That's right. If it's not scheduled, it's not real. So schedule it, put a time bound to it and stick to it. And again, use all the other strategies that this is. If you notice, this is essentially like a course or everything builds up on the next. I'm taking an investment course right now. I want to learn how to manage money even better. So I committed to the course and created a vision for what is I want to do. And promises. And each of these concepts build onto another. Well, each of these aspects of the synergy success cycle build on one another to be able to achieve your best health and your best life ever.

Excellent.

Yeah.

You also discuss the 10 time rule in your book. How does the 10 time rule come into play?

Yeah, so. Well, I want to give a shout out to My friend, Grant Cardone, Great, inspiring book for me, a pivotal book for me. He's kind of a mentor in some ways. And so the 10x rule says that.

Most people underestimate the goals of what they want to do, and they underestimate the amount of effort that it takes. So a lot of times I would encourage you to set your goal 10 times greater, which is what he teaches, than what you think. So if you think you want to have success in your life and arbitrary, let's talk about I want to be a millionaire. Okay. Well, what if you said, I want to be a DECA millionaire, I want to earn $10 million? Well, that's a bigger goal, which require a bigger strategy, a bigger why, and it'll cause you to become more resourceful. So we need to make our goals bigger than what we want to achieve. Like, if you want to get good at running 5Ks and set a goal to run marathons, and your 5K will become easier, Right? Because even if you set a goal that's 10 times bigger than what you wanted to originally achieve, and let's suppose you only got five times bigger, well, you still got a 500% increase than what your original goal was. So you need to make sure that you are making your goals bigger in regards to health or other areas of your life, and then also realize and appreciate you have to take action and action at greater levels than what you think you had to do. And if you do those two things according to Grant's philosophy, and I certainly believe it, you'll really break through your goals.

Nice. So now take a breath. I know that was a lot.

I get excited about this.

Don't get overwhelmed, because the next concept is going to help make all of this easier. And that's the concept of compounding and leveraging. Leveraging is one of my favorite concepts. Tell us how somebody can leverage and compound their personal knowledge and experiences.

Absolutely. So, yes. I mean, oftentimes one of the first things someone can do is they can set up a magic goal and go, oh my God, how am I going to do this? Right.

Yes.

And so the leaders that I've really studied over my life that have achieved long term success, not just like, shoot up there and it goes away, are people that have played the long game. And just like you talk to any financial advisor, like I told you, I'm studying it now. It's the power of compounding interest. It's that when your money is then making money and that money is now reinvested, and that money makes more Money, the pot gets bigger. Well, if you think about that in terms of your health or even think about in terms of your knowledge and your experiences, if you work on this personal development path in life, right. Like many of the viewers probably are, you'll notice that as you gain that knowledge, it just builds on itself naturally. So it will happen as a natural consequence to compound that knowledge. Right. And then there's, of course, ways to leverage your time too. So, you know, I always ask myself, how can I do one thing that can improve the quality of my life? Combine it with another thing to multiply the effect. So, I mean, a simple example is how can I exercise while reading a. While reading or listening to a podcast, Something that inspires me. So whenever I'm exercising, I'm combining that with exercising my brain. Right. So you're compounding those things. Or if I'm going to eat a meal, right. If I'm going to have a lunch, why not have a lunch and build a relationship at that same time?

Right, Right.

Or I compound. You know, I mean, when you talk about writing a book, which I encourage people to do, the great thing about writing the book is that it causes you to have to organize all those thoughts that you have, and you're compounding your knowledge and your experience because it's causing you to do these things. So I really love the concept of kind of like forcing the issue by committing to something. So I'll pay in advance of something. I'll, I'll commit. I'll go at the highest level of things because it just puts me in the game that much faster and then surrounds me with people that I can compound that knowledge to achieve those goals.

Right?

Yeah.

So you definitely are task oriented like you said, and you're a maximizer.

Yes, yes, yes.

What a great resource you are to everyone who's listening. You have much so, so much wonderful knowledge to share. And wow, I can't wait to go back over the action steps and start implementing them myself.

Good. Do it.

Excellent.

Awesome.

And I can't wait to start compounding and leveraging more.

Let's all become maximizers like Dr. Chan with that's awesome.

Well, it's all about just using your strengths and really discovering what is it you want, why you want it, and then just knowing to go for it. So if there's something that you've been thinking about that you've been wanting to do, now is the time. Go ahead and get it done. Make yourself committed to it. Take whatever next step you need to do to move the ball forward to create your best health and your best life.