Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Your Goals Are LIMITING Your Possibilities

2 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, Lewis Howes argues that setting extraordinarily large goals forces the brain to think beyond its usual limits, sparking innovative and disruptive ideas. He contrasts a modest $10,000 target, which leads teams to merely polish existing work, with a massive $20 million target that compels them to propose bold, out‑of‑the‑box solutions—such as outsourcing or leveraging AI. He suggests that individuals should adopt similarly audacious personal goals to break out of incremental thinking and create real breakthroughs.

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When you make gold bigger than you could ever imagine, it stretches your brain to think about things you've never thought about before. If I say, hey, guys, we're going to 20 million next year, I don't expect the team to get there, but they're going to come back to me. I got an idea. We can outsource this. We can use AI. I'm watching my departments come back with these incredible big ideas. But if I say, guys, next year, I want you get to 10 million, 100,000 bucks. They were just polishing what they have. So maybe in your personal life, you have to set a goal so big that it makes you think outside the box. It's not just polishing the career you have. It might be a complete disruption.