Goal Setting Doesn't Work...Do This Instead!

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Well, this happens every year around this time of year. No, no, no, no, no. Not all the partying and all the stuff in your face with all the.

Goodies from the holidays, but New Year's resolutions, goal setting, all that stuff.

And here's the thing, the statistics show that a lot of people will fall off the wagon. Literally only 9% of people that set resolutions ever make it successful and 83% actually never even set any goals.

Why is that?

Well, in this episode of the Affluent Entrepreneur show, we're going to talk about that. Because the idea here is this goal setting doesn't matter unless you have a system and a process and a framework for goal getting.

And I'm going to give you that.

Framework on how to get your goals.

And make them a reality.

So I look forward to seeing the episode and welcome to this episode of.

The Affluent Entrepreneur Show.

This is the Affluent Entrepreneur show for entrepreneurs that want to operate at a high level and achieve financial liberation. I'm your host, Mel Abraham, and I'll be sharing with you what it takes to create success beyond wealth so you can have a richer, more fulfilling lifestyle. In this show, you'll learn how business and money intersect so you can scale your business, scale your money, and scale your life while creating a deeper impact and living with complete freedom. Because that's what it really means to.

Be an affluent entrepreneur.

Welcome to this episode of the Affluent Entrepreneur show. And this one we're going to talk.

About goal getting, not goal setting.

Too often we're sitting back as we get towards the end of the year and we start setting goals and we go through these goal setting workshops and, and everything and we've got smart goals.

And Asmart goals and, and core strengths.

And all that stuff.

All that stuff is great, but it.

Doesn'T get you to the goals. If you just look at the statistics. It's crazy that 1, 83% of people.

Don'T even set goals.

And yet what ends up happening is that even if they Set goals. Harvard did a study and even if they set goals, I'm just going to look at it so I make sure.

I get it right.

14% have a plan, but their goals are unwritten.

Okay, 3%, only 3% have written the goals down.

So I wonder, I'm just curious, do you set goals?

And if you set goals, do you.

Do them in writing? Because here's the thing that they also found is that 14% that actually have goals are 10 times more successful than those without goals. 10 times 10x.

And the 3% with written goals are 3 times more successful than the 14% that have goals.

So imagine this by having goals first, you're 10 times more successful. By writing them down, you're three times more successful than them. That's 30 times if I do the math right. Okay, My point is this, is that too often we stop with goal setting and we don't have a process for goal getting. And I think that what we're really looking for is not the goal itself, but the progress towards the goal. When we talk about financial independence, when we talk about financial freedom, yeah, we will set the number out there, but the number isn't as important as the journey to the number who we become. The richer lifestyle, the deeper impact and the complete freedom. See, see, it's not about the destination because frankly, even if we set that.

Financial freedom number up, we may actually not make it.

And so if we're not enjoying the journey, if we're not on the right.

Aligned journey, if we're not in a.

Process of progress, then what's the goal worth? And so how do we turn around and make that happen? Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to walk you through what I call the goal getting triad.

I'm going to walk you through a.

Process that I've used. I think going back to college days.

When I started studying for the CPA.

Exam, which is a four day exam without calculators, that it helped me kind of set some things in motion. And so all of my big goals are built around, around this goal getting triad. So it allows me to navigate through that. So we're going to walk through this and I'm going to give you the kind of the process that you can use to not worry about just goal setting resolutions, any of that type of stuff.

But how do you actually make progress towards those goals and achieve the goals?

How do we actually raise the probability of success and even greater than the statistics that I've shown? And I think that the way to do it and the way that I've.

Seen to do it, because I've experienced it for decades, is you actually have to have a goal getting process in conjunction with the goal setting process.

So I'm not going to talk about how you set the goals necessarily. I'm going to talk about how you.

Get the goals once you have them set.

So we're going to jump to the iPad here and we're going to really kind of hit on some of these things of what does it take to get goal getting in place? Because if we don't do this right.

If we don't do this right, you're.

Going to find that your success is spot. You're going to wonder why in one month you're doing great, in another month you're doing not so great. And by the end of the year you're kind of mediocre. I don't know if you've ever felt that. I know for me, I've been in those spaces and when I found myself.

Here, it really was a result of me not using the goal getting process.

That I didn't have a process in.

Place that I'm on top of and working through.

The other thing that happens is that when you start to fall off the wagon, when you start to not get progress or not to see the progress.

Or not measuring the progress, is you start to lack drive, you start to kind of give up, you start to.

Just settle and, and I'll be honest.

With you, I just finished a, a launch. I just finished a launch. And during the launch, I'm notorious for just picking up the phone and calling.

People just to chat, just to talk, just to see what they're doing, how they're doing, whether they're clients or not clients. If I have their number, I'll literally.

Pick up the phone and call and first it blows them away, it messes with their mind, but.

But more importantly, it allows me to.

Connect and connect with him.

And the thing that I found, especially.

This year is in the conversations because of the turbulence, because of the uncertainty, because of the economy where it was. And maybe you're feeling this too.

And I know that I've felt it.

A few times during my life.

Because I'm.

I'm not exempt.

Yeah, I'm just as human as you are. I still have the fears, I still have the challenges. It's not a straight line. But I heard a lot of people that are willing to settle, to accept their current life, to accept their current circumstances and say, well, this is just my lot in life, I don't buy that. That, that saddens me. If we're going to be willing to settle now, I'm not saying not to be content, okay? I'm, I'm content, I'm happy, I'm blessed, but I'm never going to settle.

Never going to settle. And so I think that when we start to get to a point where we lack drive, we are willing to settle. And I have this belief, maybe I'm idealistic. I don't know.

I feel like when my toes are.

On the edge of that grave, when they're about to put me in, I.

Want to be absolutely freaking exhausted. I want to be sweaty, I want to be dirty.

I want skin, knees, I want dirt.

Under the fingernails so I can look.

Back and go, yeah, I did it all. I lived it fully. And then I said, I'm good to go. You know, one of the challenges for me as I was diagnosed with cancer was one of the huge drivers for me. I said.

I love life too much. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. And not that anyone's ever ready, but.

To have that kind of passion, that kind of love, that kind of desire.

That kind of drive, I think that's what really starts to move us forward.

It's not this insatiable lack of contentment. It truly is about growth and experiencing. It's why one of the core critical outcomes of the affluence blueprint is a richer lifestyle, which has nothing to do with wealth.

It has to do with how we feel and how we experience life. And I just want each and every one of you to. I want to be your champions, to experience everything in life that you want to. To not settle, to not give up. Because here's what I know, that even if you only get half way towards your goals or 70% of the way towards your goals, it's farther along than you would be if you didn't try for the goals.

See, so if we don't get this right, you know, you're in a situation.

Where you have lack of drive and that starts to get you to stew in pessimism. And you're sitting in pessimism, which.

It's like this pollution in your system that just breeds more pessimism, more negativism. And, and we can't grow in that place. We gotta come from a place of gratitude, appreciation, desire and everything. And I'm not saying that I'm, I'm not always this happy, you know, passionate, inspired being. I'm not, I'm. Listen I'm human. I have my moods.

Ask my wife. I have my times, my struggles. You'll hear more about them. You'll hear more about them. You know, it's not. It's never been a straight line for me, but what has never been. What has never been an option is giving up. So I don't want you to give up on your dreams. I want to champion you. I want to support you. I want to challenge you. I want to push you.

I want to give you a hand up. I want to give you a kick in the rear when you need it.

Because your dreams are worth it.

So if we get this right, here's what's going to happen. We get this right, all of a sudden you see a gateway to success. It becomes the entry point to make that happen. And that gateway will put you into hyperdrive.

And instead of being in a situation where you lack drive, I mean, you're ready to go.

You're excited every day or most of.

The days to make it happen.

And in the end, what really starts.

To go is you have a knowing. You have a knowing of your outcome. See, I don't know if you know, but as I got diagnosed with cancer in June of 2019, had my first surgery in July of 2019. I had a second surgery in August of 2019. In those surgeries, they removed two tumors. Two tumors. One was seven and a half centimeters.

I then went through a series of treatments, and I went through my treatments, multiple series of treatments. And in December, they said, you're clean, you're clear, you look good. All right, so December of 2019, I feel like I'm on cloud nine. We beat. We beat cancer down within six months, and it was. It was good.

Then April of 2020 comes around. You know, we got hit with the pandemic in March.

I had a live event that I.

Was going to do, but we pivoted and had to turn it to virtual because of the pandemic. People weren't traveling and all of that. So we flipped it to virtual.

I do my event, and I finish.

On April 23rd of 2020.

April 24th, I go in for my.

Next checkup, my next scope and scan. And as I'm laying on the table and he's doing the scan, I hear my surge.

I hear my surgeon say, well, that's something. It's not something you want to hear the surgeon say. And he says, there's another growth in there in the bladder, and we need to go in and take it out. What there was, was two more Tumors that either. That were missed or grew. So here I was in a situation where I thought I was clear, and the. And the rug got just yanked out from under me, and I. I started to spiral again. The fear, the. The thoughts of. Of what it could mean, the possibility of losing my bladder, all of those things came rushing back in a moment. And. And all of that scared the hell out of me.

And I was in a dark place as we were getting ready to do the surgery and schedule it and everything, and I happened to have a conversation with a friend who said to me, he says, you. You don't sound good. And I said, I don't feel good. I'm really scared.

It's this. Is this the. The. The.

Path that I have for the rest of my life where I'm going to have this constant, oh, it's back. Oh, it's back. Oh, it's back. And I still. I still have that fear today, you know, and I'm two and a half years clear. There's just that lingering fear. But there's something different. See, he asked me a question. He says.

If you knew. If you knew the outcome, how would you show up today?

If I knew the outcome.

I would show up owning the outcome.

And he says.

Well, what do you think the outcome is? I said, I'm gonna beat this thing. I'm gonna beat this cancer. He said, do you really know that? I said, I don't know that we ever know it. He says, no, in your soul, do you have that. That belief that inside of you, this knowing? And I said, yeah, I do. I do. He says, what are you willing to do to make it happen? I said, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.

See, when we come from a knowing, when we come from a knowing of the outcome.

We will step into what it takes to make that happen. And I started to think about what.

He said, and I said, okay, so what do I need to do today.

To move me closer to that outcome?

What do I need to do tomorrow.

To move closer to that?

Because.

I know what I'm.

What the outcome is.

I just don't know what each day.

Is going to hold on the process to that outcome.

That's something that will unfold each day.

As we talk to the doctors, as we go through the treatments, as we go through the surgery and all of that.

And as it unfolds, it gives me more information to make more decisions to.

Do the next thing for the next day.

And I thought about it. I said.

This happened to be around cancer, but it's actually no different than just life.

See, we have an idea of what we want our outcome of our life.

To be, don't we? Don't you?

I do. We just don't know how we're going.

To get there each day and each.

Day we take a step.

That step gives us more information so.

We can process it and we can.

Make another step, but in the knowing that every step that we make is towards the goal that we set.

And I think that when you come from that place and when you get this goal getting right and you come from a place of knowing, it makes.

It easier to start to walk that path.

Now the question is, what do you.

Need to know to make this happen before we get to the truth triad.

And I, I think that there's a.

Couple things that you need to know.

And the first is this, is that.

Micro successes are the key. Okay.

When it came down to the cancer, yeah, I wanted, I wanted it completely.

Wiped out.

But I knew.

That there was a process.

How was it going to change my diet? How is it going to change my perspective? How is it going to change my mindset? How is it going to increase my strength and my vibrancy?

What do I need to do to.

Get through the treatments each day? All I had to do was take one step.

And put another step in front of it and celebrate the day and celebrate the success. See, what leads to big successes is.

The stacking of micro successes on the way. And too often we're looking at the big goal and we never celebrate the.

Progress to the goal.

And so when we talk about goal getting, what we really need to do is make sure that we have these micro steps, that one we can build on and layer on and stack on to get us to the big success. It's the very reason that in the affluence blueprint, when we, when we do the visioning process, we start at 10 years and we bring it down to.

5 to 1 to 90 days to.

Action steps so we can build into.

The micro successes, the celebration, the progress, the understanding that we've made progress towards the bigger goal.

The other thing that I think you need to understand is that micro successes are the key, but also blame builds walls.

See, when I got diagnosed with a.

Cancer, the first thing I did was start to look for something I did to deserve it, something I did that caused it.

Someone, someone, something outside of me that I could then rest on and say, that's the reason.

I don't know for you, you might look at something in your life and God, God forbid that it is cancer or anything like that. But you might look at it and start to look outside and say it's their fault. You know, when the Ponzi scheme hit.

It would have been easy to blame.

Him and say he did it to me.

See, the problem with blame.

Is we never reflect on what our ability and responsibility is.

I was responsible for getting into the Ponzi scheme. I had the ability to move forward in the cancer.

But I would not have made that decision if I placed blame or I found blame. Blame will create war walls. And so it's time for us to.

Look at things and say, look, our pathway to goals, to getting and achieving and success and financial freedom or wealth or a great relationship. It happens in steps, but it doesn't happen in a straight line. We're going to stumble, we're going to fall, we're going to screw up, we're going to have setbacks. The question is how you respond to.

Them.

And what the message is that it's telling you.

The third thing that we need to know and understand as we move down.

This road is this positive expectancy.

Is going to help you move through this. So what do I mean by that? This is really all about me looking.

At and say, I am expecting a positive outcome. I'm not going into something with trepidation.

Saying, oh, this works, I hope this.

Works, and well, I'll try it. Because what happens is that is different. We are playing a game of curiosity.

With the anticipation of not losing versus.

Playing the game of curiosity and going into something with a knowing and with the expectation of a positive outcome. When we approach something with expectation of positive outcome, we actually approach it differently.

With more fervor, more commitment, more ownership.

That's what starts to drive us. So if all we're doing is listing out a bunch of goals on a page and we don't connect to them, therein lies the very reason we're not getting the goals.

Because goals setting is this sterile exercise. If we're not careful, that says, all right, I went through the goal setting.

Exercise, now they'll magically manifest.

They're not. They're not. So let's talk about the triad. Let's talk about what it takes to really walk through this. The goal getting triad and the process.

To make that happen.

And there's a couple things here that I want to highlight as we move through it. There's three primary elements of the triad. And the first is this idea of.

The goals must be personal.

They must be personal.

Here's the thing is that if they're not personal, if they're not personal, then they're not connected to you. They're separate from you.

But when we make them personal, we are connected to it. There is a reason for it. There is something internal to us that is driving us through it.

When we make them personal.

Our desire goes up. See, think about this.

When you ask a child, what do you want to be when you grow up? Do they tell you one thing or they tell you a list of things?

See, because children, they have this expectation, this personal kind of look at that view of themselves, of possibility. And for some reason, society poisons us with mediocrity. They educate the desire out of us.

We need to bring it back in.

And the way you bring it back.

In is making sure that the goals that you're setting are truly personal to you. There's. You're connected to them.

And there's two aspects that help. Help with this is that the first.

Is that this idea of positivity, okay, positive expectation, is how we think about the goals.

If we come at the goals with this idea, when I set my goals, I set them. But then I start to put these reasons next to it. If I come at the goal saying, this would be nice, well, that's not a goal.

That's an interest.

Interests don't come to fruition unless it's by happenstance. No, I want a goal. I want something that is as if a rope is tied to me and it's tugging me along, it's pulling me into it. And so one of the things to do is this, is that for every goal, for every goal you set, I.

Want you to write.

One to three emotionally compelling statements about the goal. Why is it that this goal is so important? Why is it.

Do you want this?

And if they don't tug at your heartstrings, if they don't tug at your.

Soul, then they're not emotionally compelling enough. Or possibly the goal isn't that important, which is totally fine. Just be straight with yourself.

So when we start to move through.

That, it starts to give us steps in getting to the goals.

So first things first, as you do.

Your goal setting, I want you to write one to three emotionally compelling statements around each goal.

It's why in the. In the.

In the affluence visioning process, the way.

The process we walk through is to.

Connect it to you emotionally, to connect it to your desires, to connect it to something bigger than just something on a page. Okay?

The second aspect of personal is that.

You need to have Patience. Listen, let's face it, there are things that you can't control. I can't control what's going on in the stock market. I can't control what's going on with the economy, inflation, interest rates.

I can't control a bunch of things around me, but I can control some things. And so we need to look at.

The things that I can control, that you can control and control the controllables.

And we have to find fortitude and flexibility to move through those things that we maybe can't control. And as they present themselves, we got to look at it and say, all right, that was a.

An obstacle.

That was a wall that has a door in it. We just didn't hit the door. We got to find the door.

And so one of the things that we do when we set goals and I do planning for folks when I'm.

Working with businesses or entrepreneurs or folks with trying to build businesses or wealth, is we start to look for alternatives.

So knowing that things can happen and it's not a straight line, but the key is that if I know alternative ways to get to that same goal, then I've already thought about possibilities and.

Options before I hit any obstacles.

Now, there's a chance you don't hit.

A lot of obstacles, and then the alternatives didn't matter.

But what you want is the alternatives.

And the options before you hit an obstacle, because then it makes it easy.

To maneuver, pivot, or do something different. It's the very reason that when I.

Do stock trading, when I do anything with respect to trading or even investing, I know the exit before I know the entrance.

I know what I'm going to do.

If it goes against me. I know what I'm going to do if it goes for me, we plan.

It out and build it out, and.

Then we have the patience and the fortitude to stick with it. See, back in 1990, I think it was 96, 97, I herniated three discs in my back.

Herniated three discs in my back. I was having a hard time walking. The easy thing to do, which is what they recommended was, hey, let's go in, we'll do surgery. And we're going to, we're going to shave the discs away. That was 8 millimeter herniations right in the spine.

And, and I. And I started to ask the question. I said, so if you shave it away, isn't the problem the compression?

Yes. And I said, okay, but if you.

Shave it away, does that solve the compression? Not really.

You know, we can do some other Things. I said, so what happens down the road, say five years, 10 years?

He said, well, at some point you'll.

Probably have to fuse the vertebra.

I know that ain't happened at that time. I was in my 30s. I said, if I'm starting down the pathway to fusing my vertebrae, then what.

Am I in for?

I'm physically active. I want to stay active. He says, well, the likelihood of you solving this without surgery is very, very small. I said, but there is a likelihood, right?

It's possible.

Said, great, then I'm going to go that path. That was a long road. Nine months of pain, nine months of not sleeping, of acupuncture, nerve conduction studies, traction, epidural injections, all kinds of things.

But as I sit here today, never had surgery, I'm active, continue to be active, healed and fine. And you'll know if you use vertebra. But here's the deal. About six months into it, I remember laying in my bed in pain.

Struggling and saying to myself, maybe I just need to give up and do the surgery.

And I was going to wake up that next morning and I was going to call the doctors and say, let's schedule the surgery. And for some reason when I woke.

Up the next morning, I said, wait a second, you have never quit anything before.

Why are we quitting now? Why are we quitting now? So I went to the doctors instead and said, what more can we do to solve this?

We, what else can we do? How do we hit it with more?

Because I made the decision that I knew my outcome and I was going to do what it takes. Three months later, I was not completely mended, but I was back.

Working out, doing the things that I wanted to do and everything. But it was this patience, it was this fortitude, and it was the flexibility to make that happen.

So as you set your goals, what you need to look at is that if I'm going to create the compelling statements, we now need to also create some alternatives and options so we know other ways to achieve those goals and.

Not just one way.

We can't have a goal where all the planets have to line up for it to make make sense. Because those goals are going to be.

Really hard.

To accomplish. Okay? So I'm going to look for options up front.

That leads me to the second pillar.

Of this and that is this idea of perseverance.

Look, some of your goals are going to be 10 year goals, especially when we start talking about wealth building and everything.

Those are long term goals.

Some of them are going to be short term goals. But one of the thing that is going to be important is the fact that you're actually going to need to persevere. When you start to look at the data, when you start to look at the statistics. After six months, after six months, only 46%, less than 50% of the people that set any kind of goals or resolutions are still on them. And by the end of the year, only 9% has accomplished anything or stayed with their resolutions. That's a problem. And the problem isn't the goal. The problem is the perseverance. And underneath that problem of perseverance are two things. Two things. And that is this. When they set the goal, they didn't understand the why. They didn't understand the purpose. They didn't realize what it takes for them. What is the reason? When people come to me, especially when we start talking about money, they'll come to me and they'll turn around and say, I want to make a million dollars.

Okay.

Why? That's an arbitrary number. Yeah, it may sound good. It's a round number. Why not 10 million? Why not a hundred million? Why do you want the million bucks?

Because if we don't know the why, we can't move through it. We need to remember one of the first principles that I teach in the financial space is why before how and how much. I don't care how, how much you.

Want to make, I don't care how much, how wealthy you want to be.

Because I do know this. If you don't have the why behind it, if you don't have the purpose behind it, if you don't understand the real purpose behind it more than what I want in the bank account, then it doesn't matter what the number is.

It could be a hundred bucks and you won't make it.

So when we set the goals and we had those emotionally compelling statements, they should also attach to an emotionally compelling why. Why is it so important for you to achieve that goal? Now, when we do that, now all of a sudden, again we've got this tug rope that is pulling us along. And then for me, the goals have.

To be attached to a passion.

I hope that you see my passion for doing what I'm doing. Because this is the thing that drives it. This is the thing that brings me joy. This is the thing that heals me from the cancer, that brings the value to the cancer. I have a passion for it. I have a passion to see your dreams alive. I see if I passion to see if I can help you make those.

Dreams come to life.

And in order to persevere, when we can attach it to a why and when we can bring our passion to bear on it. Perseverance.

Is the byproduct that leads me to number three. Number three is.

Practice. See, the idea is that too often we think that this has to be a perfect process. There was a study back in 2016, 2017, Italian study, that was done with entrepreneurs. 116 entrepreneurs they brought in, they wanted to start a business.

They were going to teach them how.

To start a business and run a business.

And they split them. 50% of them went through the normal.

Training of business training, starting a business, running a business.

The other 50% went through the same.

Training, but they added a training on.

And that added training on was teaching them how to think more like a professor or a scientist, how to think in a way that their strategy was a thesis, their strategy was a hypothesis. And when they took it to market, it was to test the hypothesis and not.

To make sure that they were right.

It was simply to get more information to do that. Here's the data. A year later, those that were taught the way of thesis and hypothesis had 40 times greater revenue than those that didn't.

And those that had the hypothesis training.

The scientist training came at it. And they said that they were two times, at least two times more likely to pivot based on new information because their egos weren't in the way trying to prove it.

All right, so this is why I.

Say that it is a practice on the path to your goals.

It is something that you're putting in place as a thesis, as a hypothesis, and you're going to be moving and adjusting and tweaking. Remember I said that the days will unfold day after day after day, and based on the information, you'll make better decisions. But you've already created alternatives in setting the goals because we need those options. So now you have the flexibility to make that happen. In order to do this effectively, we build a plan.

And the way I build plans is I start long term, so I have the bigger vision. I bring it to midterms so I.

Understand some of the big, the big.

Rocks I have to conquer. I drop it down to a year.

So 10 years, five years, one year.

Then I break that into 90 day.

Increments, 13 week sprints. And from those 13 week sprints, then I look at the very minute action steps and what the expectations of those action steps are. That becomes the plan that I test, I hypothesize, and I keep moving and we stay in process. And then the second part of practice is people I surround myself with those that understand my vision, those that understand my values, those that understand my desires.

Those that will hold my feet to the fire, those that will not say yes to me just because they want to be liked. They will say yes to me because.

It'S the right thing to do. And they will say no to me because it's the right thing to do.

They will give me a hand down to help me up when I need.

It, and they're going to give me.

A swift kick in the rear end.

When I need it.

To have a group of people around you that can facilitate your journey to.

Your goals is huge.

It's the reason you get coaching.

It's the reason you have mentors.

It's the reason you get into group programs or mentorship programs or masterminds. Because now you have a common group that are moving towards their goals together. The goals may be completely different, but we are on the journey together.

And we're moving through that. Here's what we know. When you start to use the goal.

Getting triad, it will accelerate your path to the goal. Because you have a process that keeps.

You in motion, keeps you in progress. Here's what we know that when we get.

When we get the personal piece right.

And the perseverance piece right, you ultimately know what you're going to do.

And when we get the perseverance piece.

Right and the practice piece right, you ultimately know what you're going to have. And when you get the practice piece right and the personal piece right, you ultimately know who you're going to become. When we start to work from this triad, you will see that your goals will take a life of its own. Because it is not some sterile list of things that you would like, interests that you want on a page that you did one day before New Year's Eve.

But it is something that you breathe. You breathe life into it because you.

Connected it to a purpose. You connected it to why. You connected viscerally to the outcomes in a way that start to drive you. You know that micro successes are the key, that you're going to layer those moments on top of each other to live the process of process progress versus.

Waiting just for the destination.

When you start to focus on goal.

Getting beyond goal setting, that's when things will change. At least they did for me and they do for my clients. I hope that this gives you a.

Pathway to get to your goals faster, get to your goals more consistently than.

You'Ve experienced in the past.

If you've never set goals before, it's.

Time to set them them.

If you've set goals before, it's time to get them. And if there's anything that I can do to help you to make that happen financially, business wise, whatever it is.

Please, please reach out to me. This show is about you. The reason I do this is for you. I'm here to support you. I'm here as a champion and cheerleader. I'm here to, to lift you up, to kick you when you need it. Okay? In a good way. If you've got questions, if there's anything that I can do, please, please reach out to me.

Let me know. And in the process, you can ask the questions. I'll bring them on the show. I might even bring you on the.

Show, have conversation with you.

The idea here is this.

All I want to know is that I'm moving you forward one step at a time. So you're on the journey you were meant to be on, that you're living the life that you are here to live with the unique gifts that you were given and that you're never, ever going to settle for something less. And that by the time you get.

To those later days, you know that.

You lived it fully, that you lived.

That richer lifestyle like we talk about.

In the affluence blueprint, that you had the deeper impact and that you lived with complete freedom. And if I can do anything to support that journey, please reach out. I'm here for you. I am your friend. I will coach you. I will mention I do whatever I can to make it happen.

So until we get a chance to see each other, another episode, another show.

Or on the road, as I'm speaking, as I say, always, always strive to live a life that outlives you.

Cheers.

See you soon.

Thank you for listening to the affluent entrepreneurs entrepreneurship with me, your host, Mel Abraham. If you want to achieve financial liberation to create an affluent lifestyle, join me in the affluent entrepreneur Facebook group now by going to melabraham.com group and I'll see you there.

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