The 7 Things You Must Do to Achieve Your GOALS - #7Ways

Hello, Believe Nation. Today I'm going to talk about the 7 things you must do to achieve your goals. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. So one of the things I find with a lot of entrepreneurs is we set goals, right? We have goals upon goals upon goals. We have to-do lists a mile high, and we just keep setting goals, and we don't necessarily actually follow through or achieve them. And so today I'm going to share with you my 7 ways to actually get your goals accomplished. Number 1 is set the right goals. This is really important. A lot of times we don't set the right goals for us. We set the goals that we think we should do or that other people want for us, but not the ones that are actually right for us. I think of an example when I was listening to an audiobook on goal setting and the speaker was talking about in a really passionate manner. Write down all your goals. If you want to be a painter, write down create a masterpiece. If you want to make a sculpture, write that down, create a sculpture. You want to write a score for a song, write that down. And you're like, oh wow, that sounds so interesting. Like, I want to do that. I want to be a— I want to paint something. Why not? I want to make a sculpture. Yeah, it's awesome. And then I come back to it and I realize, you know what, like, I don't actually want to make a sculpture. I got kind of wrapped up in the moment listening to the excitement of this speaker, but it wasn't something I actually really deep down wanted to do. And so you really want to make sure that the goals you set for yourself are ones that even when you come back to a week later, a month later, still resonate with you. Like, the goal has to mean something. If you don't care about the goal and actually accomplishing it, or if you're doing it just for somebody else and it doesn't really mean something to you, then you're never gonna follow through. So I'd really force you to audit your goals and look at them and examine them and think Do these actually excite me? Do I have the right goals that I want to build around? And then you can focus on worrying about the steps to achieve them. Number 2 is have an important why, and this aligns closely with the first one. Why is this so important? Why is it so important that you go out and accomplish that goal? It has to come from a deep reason that really resonates with you. Otherwise, it's just going to be a wish list. We all have a wish list. We all have again that to-do list that's a mile high, and the ones that you actually deeply, meaningfully care about, you have a strong why attached to it, those are the ones that you're gonna do. Too often though, we only do the things that we're forced to do. You do it because a customer is asking for it, or you do it because, you know, somebody in your family is forcing you to do it. You don't actually do it because you have a deep why for it. And so really important is when you look at your goals, attaching a strong why to each one. If you can't figure one out, then drop the goal because you're never going to get it done. It's just going to continue to be a wish list, and we want to move it from a wish list to actually a list of goals that we're going to accomplish. Number 3 is take daily action. If this is important to you that you accomplish this goal, then you have to schedule it in daily. Look at your calendar, and schedule time for it to happen daily. It doesn't have to be a ton of time. Doesn't mean that you now have 5 hours a day to spend on this, but every day you need to take some kind of action, even if it's small, at least half an hour moving forward on your goal. Especially if you're doing this part-time, you have a full-time job, you have a family to take care of, you got lots of demands to your time, you need to carve out the time. If you don't carve out the time to accomplish your goals, the rest of your life will take over. What happened? There's this theory of big rocks first. Imagine you've got sand, you've got pebbles, and you've got big rocks. If you put the sand in first, and then the pebbles, and you put the big rocks into a jar, it won't all fit together. It's gonna overflow. But if you put the big rocks in first, then the pebbles will come in and will fit around the big rocks. And then the sand will come in and fit around the pebbles, and it'll all fit into the jar. That jar is your schedule. If you're constantly just doing the little things, which is the sand and then the pebbles, you never have time to do the big things, which are your rocks. If this is important to you, then you put the big rocks in first. Adjust your calendar, adjust your schedule so that the things that you want to accomplish that are on that goal list are in your weekly calendar so that you're doing something consistently on it. And then the rest of life will be the pebbles and sand and will find ways to take up your time, but you need to defend that time in your calendar to work on the important goals. Number 4 is commit to somebody else. You're way more likely to follow through on something when you commit to somebody else. When you tell a friend, family member, a colleague that you are going to do something, you're much more likely to do it. You know, I told Jason I'm gonna be here at 8:30 in the morning to film this video. I showed up here at 8:30 in the morning. When you don't commit to somebody else, when it's just you committing to yourself, you're really likely to let yourself down. We are not great accountability partners for ourselves. We will let ourselves down constantly. And so when you can commit to somebody else, your chances of achieving your goal go up dramatically. So you could do it through a buddy system. You know, maybe you have a spouse you want to do this with, maybe you have a friend that you want to do this with, maybe there's somebody else in your industry that you want to do this with where you have your monthly goals or weekly goals and you connect. You may do it through a mastermind group. It's what I do. For myself, we've got 8 people in a mastermind group and we meet physically once per month to talk about our goals. And then every member is partnered up with somebody else in the group and every week you have a phone call with them. It could be just 10-15 minute phone call once a week to make sure that you do the things that you say you're going to do. Say, "Here's what I want to get done before our meeting next month." And then you have a weekly call to say how you're making forward progress on it or not. And what you hate doing is reporting to your partner that you didn't do it. And so having that weekly accountability helps make sure that you're making forward progress. And sometimes that person needs to hold your hand a little bit, and sometimes that person needs to light a fire under your butt a little bit. Just depends on the role, depends where you're at. But having an accountability partner, committing to somebody else to say you're gonna do it, and having them hold your feet to the fire a little bit helps make sure that you're gonna accomplish your goals. Number 5 is model success. One of my favorite things to do to accomplish any goal is to model success. I find somebody who's already accomplished what I wanna do, figure out what worked for them, and then try it in my business. This is what saved my first company. At the beginning, I tried to do everything myself. I tried to come up with every new idea myself. I thought I was a creative person and I could solve this problem. And I could solve a lot of problems, but you know what's even faster? Is finding somebody else who's already solved it and then just tweak their system to make it work for you. Starbucks was started because Howard Schultz went to Milan in Italy and saw how the coffee shop was the center of life in Italy. It was the third home between home, work. It was the third meeting spot. And he looked at North America and he saw like the Dunkin' Donuts of the world where it's just in and out. You don't really spend any time in a Dunkin' Donuts. He said, "I wanna bring this Italian way of living to North America," and then later to the world. And it worked. Like, all he did to build a multi-billion-dollar empire, one of the biggest brands in the world, was model what worked in a different market and brought it to North America. Whatever problem you're facing right now in achieving your goal, somebody has already done it. Look to them, understand their success. The bigger they are, the easier it is to find out the early days, right? And that's what you want to figure out. How Howard Schultz opens another Starbucks right now is not interesting. How he went from like 0 to 1, how did he build those first few stores, how did they make their first million, that is super interesting. And so that's what you need to model to help you accomplish your goals. Number 6 is bring on a team. As soon as you can afford it, you want to be able to bring on a team to help you accomplish your goal because the bigger the goal is, the more people you're going to need. And I think a lot of people have it in their head that you need to hire somebody full-time. Time, and that's gonna cost X thousand dollars a year? You don't. The first guy I hired for my business, I hired for 1 hour a day. And that saved me more than 1 hour a day of time because he was better at doing the job than I was, and it freed up my time to go off and do more important things to help me build my business. So as soon as you're starting to make any kind of money, doesn't have to be a lot of money, anything, I would take a good portion of that and invest it back into bringing on somebody to help me even if it was for 1 hour a day or a couple hours a week, so that you can make forward momentum and forward progress. You can't do this alone. You can't. If you have a big goal, it's not gonna happen with just you doing everything. And so the faster you can get used to bringing on a team, the better. And also as a side benefit, helps build up your leadership skills so that you're getting used to managing a team because you're gonna make a lot of mistakes too. If you've never managed people before, you're gonna make a ton of mistakes. And better that it happens on a really small scale and you learn from it and get better than if it really now becomes important because you've hired somebody full-time and it has to work. And number 7 is enjoy the process. I've talked about this a lot on the channel. It has to be important to you that it's not just about achieving the goal, but it's about enjoying the work on the way to the goal. It's super important. You can only force yourself to do something for so long before you give up and you quit. Like, if you don't enjoy the work of what you're doing and your only goal is achieving that outcome, you're gonna fail. You're gonna fail because you don't enjoy the work. With the successful people who are high achievers and achieve their goals, they like the work as well. The goal is almost secondary to the actual work. Like, my goal to hit a million YouTube subscribers is a good goal. It's the next kind of logical step after hitting 100,000. Great, like, here's our goal. But much more important than hitting the million subscribers is this, is this getting better, is me enjoying the process of filming and working on how do we get the videos out there better and how do we improve the whole experience for everybody. Like, that's what really, really, really ultimately drives me much more than just hitting the 1 million. 'Cause when we hit a million, it'll be a little win, like, "Great, hey, million," and we get a, you know, new gold plaque or whatever YouTube sends you. Okay, let's keep going, right? Like, I'm not done. Like, a million is nothing. We gotta keep going, keep building, keep helping entrepreneurs. And so the process is more important than the goal. The goal helps you align your process a little bit better. If that's a goal you really want to accomplish— for me to hit a million subscribers, then I have to do certain work. I have to focus on bigger picture things on my YouTube channel and continue to make improvements to get better. But that's the work that I love doing. And so make sure that you are picking goals where you are not just excited about the goal, but you're excited about the work that goes into achieving the goal. As well. So those are my suggestions for the 7 things you must do to accomplish your goal. I'd love to know what do you think, which one resonated the most with you, which ones you need the most help with, and did I miss an 8, 9, 10 that you want to add to the list? Help out Believe Nation, show some love, leave it down in the comments below. Super curious to see what you have to say, and we'll join in the discussion. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love. I'll see you soon.