How to achieve multiple goals fast (Full system)

But I have numerous goals and I'm not giving up on any of them. A comment I hear fairly frequently. So we're going to talk about how to achieve multiple goals fast. We're going to be using the plane and an advanced version of this. Now the problem, you have multiple goals, you want to progress, but you don't want to give up on any one of them. So you end up trying all of them and getting overwhelmed or burnt out. So these are common mistakes I see around this area repeatedly over committing to deliverables, professional, personal and social. So sometimes you have multiple ones in professional or one of each. Someone's trying to increase their social life as well as working on a side business. Starting multiple projects at the same time. Now this is actually an easy trap to fall into due to how your motivation cycles come and go in your in your life. When you have this fast burn motivation, you have a tendency to want to fix all areas of your life. The last one is not stopping to think about what is on your plate right now and realizing that you're actually juggling quite a few things and then you only stop when your body tells you to when you get burnt out. So the objectives here, I'm going to help give you a system that will get all of your projects off the ground without getting the burnout. And it will give each of your projects the highest chance of success. If you do this well, not only do you get you get to work on all of your projects, but but you give them the best chance of success. How do successful people seem to juggle multiple projects? So this is something I used to wonder. I looked around and some people I knew, they had multiple businesses and they had very good health and fitness and they just seemed to have everything together. And I was kind of thinking, how on earth are they doing that? I can't even get one thing off the ground. So many exploit the system I'm about to show you. But before that, a quick question for you. How many people are in the air right now? And we're talking on planes around the world. Have a little think about that. Take a few seconds to guess. Throw me a number. 1.5 million people, approximately. It would look like this times a thousand. Lots of people in the air. Sometimes I think about this. It's pretty crazy. But we don't get them all in the air at the same time, do we? These are the planes that take off. We take them off. 162 passengers on board a plane. One by one, the planes take off. Most meaningful projects are Life quests, and this is now talking about you. They demand significant effort, focus and concentration. Most people go wrong by trying to do too many things at once. It would be like trying to get the one and a half million people in the air all at the same time. It's not possible. There are not enough runways around the world to do that. I know in London in the uk, I think it's Heathrow. Every minute a new plane goes off, leaves a Runway. So it's like a conveyor belt into the sky. Now this is the principle we're going to be using here. So how do we achieve multiple goals? I call this kind of system here front loaded energy curves. This is something that was introduced to me by a mentor of mine and I actually held a lot of resistance to this internally. It's a bit of a being honest here. I actually was very reluctant to accept what he was saying to me at this point. But over the next year or so after this, this is quite a few years ago, I learned the hard way what happens when you don't do this. So let's explain this. The energy curve. We sometimes think, okay, I just need to put a load of willpower into this. If I spend 100% of my energy on this, I'll never work on other projects. So that's the problem. That's one of the problems we experience. You know, if I need to get this plane off the ground, this project, when am I going to focus on my fitness? When am I going to focus on my social life? When am I going to focus on this other project, my work? The other, the other alternative is, okay, I'll do two minutes a day or five minutes a day, and you'll think, well, that's never going to get this project off the ground. And I'd say that they'll also be right. So you come to a conclusion that I'll just ramp up, but it just continues over time. And so what you will say is ramping up means I'll have less space to do other things later. So there's this finite amount of energy you need or your willpower to work on it. So if you focus on, say, your fitness, that's the only thing you'll be focusing on. But the reality is quite different. Now, this is from my experience and when I mapped this to clients, we found the same thing happened. So I'd say it's fairly reliable, but you can try it and follow this concept yourself and you see whether it works. The idea here is when you start something new, the Amount of perceived effort you have to put in is very high. It rises very rapidly. At the beginning, it feels like it's the only thing that you can focus on. And so what happens is the initial period comes here and the amount of energy input you need to put in is very high. So you end up with this very steep rise and then a peak. And what happens is over time, as you get used to it and you start understanding what you're doing and things become more familiar and you start to build habits, what happens is a lot of the reason it feels so difficult is it's all consciously driven. You're having to think very specifically about what to do as those actions start to transfer into your unconscious side of your mind. Unconscious, ie, it feels like second nature. The perceived effort starts to fall away, it drops. So you end up with this lump at the beginning and then over time it slowly subsides as it beds into your habit. It doesn't go to zero because you still have to think a little bit about it, but it drops significantly. So here, this is where the habit formation period comes in. So just to give you an example, when you've started a new job, the amount of cognitive load that you experience is really high. At beginning, you don't know who to ask for, what, where the departments are, how the systems of the business work. So you're trying to do your job and you can't even, it's very difficult to do because you're having to focus on all the other things. They're all conscious. What happens after maybe one or two months you understand all of those things and they all bed into your subconscious and then you can focus on what you need to do. So the load drops away. So what happens? So this is essentially what the effort feels like. It's very front loaded. But most people, they get to the top. And if you're working on your own project, if you're working in a job, you are forced to go through this curve, then you experience it. But when you're working on your own projects, you can stop this at any time. And this is a failure point, right? So most people get to the top, they experience this immense amount of effort and they think this is not sustainable. And so that they fall just before the effort curve starts to fade away and say, ah, that was exhausting and completely unsustainable. This bit is always hard. So here I'm saying your brain is a prediction engine. So if you keep going to this peak and falling, the last thing your brain remembers is just this. It Just thinks that it's going to be this forever. It's extrapolating. And the more times you experience it, the more you embed that belief. But if you just hang in there, keep doing what you're doing, it beds in. So with the job example, you start to know who to phone for, what department where everything is, how all the systems work. Eventually you don't have to think about it anymore and then you can fall down the front loaded energy curve and get to a place where it doesn't require so much energy. Habits starts to embed in your mind. You become things, become unconscious processes. Effort experienced drops significantly. So now mapping this to what we showed you earlier, the plane analogy. This is that, this is the bit that we're talking about. If you've ever been on a plane, hopefully you have, you experienced this. It is, everyone is focusing in this period of time. It's pretty, pretty intense. And if you, if you're not a very good flyer, it's even worse. Even as a passenger you're, you're having to concentrate even though you're not flying the plane. But the pilots, air traffic control, Runway, everything is focused on getting the plane off the ground. Very intensive work. So this is mapping these two charts. You've got this period and this period. Okay, now how does this work with multiple goals? Like how does this all relate? The idea is we've got this takeoff window and what we want to do is we want to give it all of the focus and we line up the next plane to take off. When a first plane is on track, once it's maybe getting to above the clouds, then you can take off and you can focus on the next one. So what it looks like is this, If you want to be really efficient with this, you give your project your first plane or project one that period. You look for signals of things starting to bed in and then you can start stacking your next plane or getting your next plane ready for takeoff. Project staggering like this. Now in reality of course it doesn't go to zero, so it does accumulate. But what happens is it's much more manageable because the peaks of energy. So this is, and when we talk about energy, we're talking about that perceived effort. And if you, if you get to over a hundred, that's when you just feel exhausted emotionally, physically. So yeah, it looks like this, this is a framework you can attempt to follow. And I'll tell you how to do, how to build this with your real activities shortly. How does this concept help? It ensures safe takeoff for Each plane. If you've only got 100% of energy available, you don't want to be giving 50% to multiple planes or, you know, two planes or, or 30% for three. It forces you to reflect on what's required. It forces you to commit to waiting before trying to take off the next plane. So what we're saying here, many planes never make it off the ground. Unfortunately, people make a lot of errors here by trying to put too many multiple planes on a Runway and trying to take them off at the same time. There's not enough focus on the one, on the one that matters. If you find yourself struggling, question whether you are trying to take off too many planes. This is what I see very, very frequently, people trying to stack multiple planes at the same time or roughly around the same time. Again, when you look at it on paper, it doesn't seem to make any sense why anyone would choose to do this. But from an emotional and motivational perspective, it makes a lot of sense. Because if you've had a period like a life slump and you're stuck in a rut, when you suddenly feel, like, I've hit rock bottom, I need to change everything. There is a tendency to want to get everything right now because it's very painful and you want to resolve it. And so we very quickly stack multiple areas. This is very common at the. During the New Year. So when everyone sets a New Year's resolutions, this is one of the reasons why they all fail. Because they try and do too many things at the same time. And by February, everyone's burnt out. February comes about here at the peak. So, and this is what happens, you end up with lots of planes crashing on the Runway. Don't be a hero, okay? You've probably tried anyway and seen what happens as a result. Remember, you can still get one and a half million people in the air by sequentially taking planes off. Look at all of the successful people. Now, I've done fair amount of research on this. You do it yourself if you need further convincing. Successful people are incredibly good at stacking planes. They do so, so efficiently that it looks like they were juggling all of them at the same time, but they were not. You can get many planes in the air, but you need patience and you need to be fairly, fairly disciplined to refrain from working on other planes at the same time. Get what first plane off? Do it well and then you can get the next one off. Pretty soon it must be within your airport capacity. Now, sometimes you can have one Runway airport, and it really is Only one thing. The reality is like, like real airports, you have multiple runways. You just can't take the 747s off or the A380s off on multiple runways at the same time. You might want to take a big plane off and you can take a small plane off at the same time. Think about, is your Runway clear? Ensure safe altitude before moving to the next one. This will mean you have to let go of projects frequently. So we talked about this client, Carlos earlier. He had all of these goals, if you remember, fitness, nutrition, relationships, business investment. We identified how big his planes were. Some much bigger than he was willing to admit. He said, I should be able to do this. That word should, right? We need to get rid of that out of your vocabulary. So Carlos was struggling with this quite a bit and he was not willing to accept how big his planes were for him. Right. For someone else it might be smaller plane, but for him it was quite a big one. Especially things like fitness, nutrition and the business side, actually. And relationships. Right. So we focused. Sorry. We sequenced them for quick wins. We, we looked at ways to take his planes off such that we could gain confidence and then upwards provide a positive spiral for motivation. This really varies from person to person. So for him, we looked at taking some small planes off first. What did that do? Using the plane analogy, it was like giving air traffic control confidence that they can get planes off into the air. Imagine that this is like a new airport. Meanwhile, we were prepping the big planes to take off and he started to see he was able to get these small planes off, which sometimes took only a week or two weeks. We defined the Runway the planes needed and we had to sacrifice some other areas. So for example, we ended up having to park the nutrition side because that was a really difficult. It proved to be much more difficult than he thought and even I thought at the time. And we worked on some of the smaller ones. So we worked on some fitness and we worked on building some relationships. And this is to do with kind of family, friends and all of that side now small planes first massive shift in self belief. So if you remember from the previous module, we talked about how he really struggled with getting any planes off. They just keep going.