A short motivational talk (YouTube video) by Richard Canfield about achieving personal goals. The speaker urges listeners to clearly define what they want (future state), honestly assess their current situation (truth), and create a plan to close the gap. Practical tactics include breaking oversized next steps into smaller actions and committing to one achievable action today.
Chapters
The thinking and the mentality is all the same. What do you want? Get very clear about what you want. Don't be embarrassed by it. Don't be ashamed of it. Don't think you don't deserve it. Just start with, what do you want? That's future state. Where are you today? All progress starts with the truth. So let's just get real about where we are today and then let's start a plan to fill the gap. And if you really believe that what you want is yours, then we can help you get there. Simple as that. And whenever someone is challenged with the next step towards getting there, there's like one or one of two things. You do either one. Okay, the next step is too big. Break it down into a smaller step. Let's just figure out something that we can do today. We take a little step towards that. Or we say to ourselves, what if achieving that next step was the only thing that we could possibly do today?