Richard Canfield advises setting measurable, specific health goals — for example aiming to be in the "top 1% for your age" — because specificity makes progress tangible and comparable to population statistics. He also emphasizes that success requires consistency (including on weekends) and that vague, ‘pie-in-the-sky’ goals lack relevance and measurability.
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I love the 1%, top 1% for your age and what's interesting about that statement as well as the idea that success happens also on the weekends those are really interesting principles I think for people to take away from this. If you're taking notes while you're listening these are good ones to write down. But what's nice about the top 1% of your age, I'd never considered that before but I like it because of the specificity. So something that's measurable you can measure you and then you can stack that up against statistics that you can find about people in your age category. A lot of times people will put these kind of pie in the sky ideas of what, what health is and they'll say I want to be A, B and C but there's no relevance point for them to be able to say what does that actually mean? It's not tangible to some degree and your goal that you've identified is something that has tangibility because it could be measured.