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Brandon Barnum's Journey as a Single Father

12 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this motivational segment, Brandon Barnum emphasizes the transformative power of crystal‑clear goal setting. He explains that he writes all his goals—spanning the next 50 years—down on paper, assigns concrete deadlines, and shares them publicly. By defining exactly what he wants to accomplish, meet, and experience, he creates a "life by design" as opposed to a "life by default." He illustrates the method’s effectiveness with a personal anecdote: after writing an outlandish goal to meet Bono within a year, he achieved it in six months, attributing the result to the written goal and the habit of vocalizing it to others.

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The biggest thing that made a difference in my life is to get clear on what you want. What are your goals? For me, I have all my goals written out. In fact, I have them right here, right? I have goals for the next 50 years. Wow. And I know exactly what I want to accomplish, achieve, people I want to meet, places I want to go. And so I've got crystal clarity on what my life looks like. I call it life by design, where I think a lot of people live life by default. And if you take time to really get clear on What do you want to accomplish, achieve, attract, manifest? Write it down. Have a date by which you want to accomplish those things. You'll be amazed how many things come true. Sitting on that beach, I wrote several goals that I thought were outlandish at the time. Like, I wanted to meet Bono, the lead singer of U2, in the, in the next year. I ended up meeting him in 6 months afterwards. Would that have happened had I not wrote the goal down? Maybe. But I don't think so because I started sharing my goals with other people. I started speaking them, right?