A short motivational talk by John Assaraf urging listeners to set goals based on their deepest desires rather than their present circumstances. He emphasizes using creativity, "spiritual genius," emotional management, focused action, and acquiring the necessary skills and beliefs to manifest those goals. The clip includes a personal skiing anecdote, rhetorical self-reflection prompts, and a call-to-action to pursue ambitious outcomes rather than settle.
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Why not start with what you really, really, really want and don't allow yourself to, you know, look at your present circumstances or what's happening in the world right now, but instead go and create the circumstances internally and externally to achieve your goals and dreams. Well, my friend, I hope you're having a great day. And whenever I ski, I get these bursts of inspiration. And that's part of actually not being focused on work, actually allows your imagination and creativity to, I guess, filter through. And I had this thought that I want to share with you around one of the greatest lessons I learned, and I've shared this before with many of my students in my exceptional life coaching program, and that is this. You can set your goals based on your current level of skills, your current level of knowledge, your circumstances, conditions, or you can set your goals based on what you want to achieve and then figure out what skills do you need, what knowledge do you need, what help do you need, what beliefs do you need in order to achieve those goals? And in essence, setting your goals based on current circumstances is a limited way of doing it, in my opinion. When I know that you and I have, you know, a hundred billion, billion dollar brain that can go to work to figure out how to achieve almost anything. And so, as we get into a new year, I want you to ask yourself some questions. Are you trading your life for what you love? Are you living the lifestyle of your dreams? Or is there a dream life you would really love to live? How healthy would you love to be? How much income would you love to make? How much charity would you love to give? How would your relationships be if they were just the way you want them? And why not start with what you really, really, really want and don't allow yourself to, you know, look at your present circumstances or what's happening in the world right now. But instead, go and create the circumstances internally and externally to achieve your goals and dreams. Give that a shot. What I can promise you is by focusing on what you want and being creative and using your spiritual genius, using your emotional management techniques that you can up using your ability to stay focused and more aware to get this physical body of yours into action, you'll be able to achieve more of your goals and dreams than if you set your goals based on your current circumstances or conditions. Don't settle for less. Go for gold. Go for being the best version of yourself and become all that you're capable of becoming. And I'll let you take a look at what I'm looking at as I'm doing this video right there. That's called Palmyra Peak. And there's another chairlift up there. Anyway, I appreciate you being in my orbit and following my work. And I hope that in some way I am able to instill spirit into you. That's called inspiration. Have a great day. Hey, this is John, and if you like that video, watch the next video because it is packed with things that you can do right now to achieve success way faster than ever before.
