Dr. Jeff Spencer
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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You really need to take the time to ask yourself, is this goal really relevant to me? And why is it relevant? Put the pen to the paper and to be able to create a body of evidence as to why this is relevant, because the relevancy creates a certain level of personal commitment and insistence that you do achieve the goal if you have confirmed it to be relevant. The next thing is indicators.
The I in right is indicators. There must be adequate indicators there that assure you that the goal, again, is worth pursuing. Indicators like, do I get enough notoriety coming back from this? Does this give me enough credibility? Does this provide the income that I need for me to be able to pursue this? So there's a number of indicators that we do need to name.
that we do need to hold accountability for. Because again, when we have vetted this through a purposeful process, then it allows us to have a different type of relationship to our goal. I think people have way too casual a relationship with their goal. They're not in love with it or they're not gonna fight for it like they really should. The G in right stands for gravity.
I mean, what is the emotional gravity and grit that the achievement of this goal avails you of, what are you gonna say about yourself once you've achieved this goal? Are you gonna have a greater trust in your ability to be a manifestor of what your talents are and your ability to contribute to humanity?
Well, if it brings that level of gravity and it gives you that type of grit, well, I certainly think that it's a goal worth pursuing. The H in right stands for humanity. You know, I think personally that our goals need to have a big slice of humanity attached to it. Like how is this actually impacting people, places and things on this planet like right now?
Because if that isn't answered in the affirmative, then we just kind of don't have that level of commitment that's necessary to stay in the game and keep pushing when the goal gets tough. And every goal is going to get tough. And there have to be certain things that are there that allow us to stay in the game to move beyond that. And that's why the idea of grit is extremely important.
The H is, and humanity, why humanity is really important. And then the T in right is time. Is this the right time to be pursuing the goal? Yes or no. Do you actually have the time to pursue the goal? Yes or no. Does the time from where you are to goal completion suit your sensibility? Yes or no.
And if you've deliberately taken the time to scrutinize the goal that you're proposing to pursue through that line of questioning, and you've answered this in the affirmative, then you have a level of commitment within self that will absolutely 100% guarantee that you will find yourself in that winner's circle.
Well, I think the goal clarity, it goes back going through the right goal criteria because if you're answering in the affirmative, all of those, because you're taking the time to really answer the questions, as they're intentionally provocative to hold you accountable for being able to stand behind what you're proposing to do. And as I said earlier, I think a lot of people are way too casual.
They look at the goal as the giver of something to me later, like the home, the house, the security or whatever. But it has to be more than that. to be able to stay in the game and to be able to stay in belief and to stay in commitment when the inevitable challenges always surface within a goal.
And if you do not have that, then you cannot have and do not have the conviction necessary to do what has to go right in critical moments where you may be doubting yourself or even questioning whether you should continue to pursue the goal itself.
Well, the blind spots are things that we cannot outrun and every one of us has got them. I can only tell you that. And that's why I feel like there's an important space to be held for some cornerman type of accessibility to make sure that we're seeing everything that we need to see without the presumption that we know everything, because that's a catastrophic perspective that unfortunately is...
taken a lot of people, unfortunately, out of the game that they could have won had they had the insight to see what their liabilities and their risks are. And a point I want to make here is that no prolific achiever in any discipline does not look at it through the eyes of what can go right, what can go wrong. what are the probabilities?
And there's a certain category of person that feels, well, you know, if I cast doubt on this, then I'm drawing doubt into reality, and therefore I'm shortcutting myself when I should not be thinking about anything that could be adversarial to me in this process. And I can tell you that is absolutely unadulterated garbage.
I don't know anybody that's a prolific achiever that does not always take a full and thorough inventory of what the probability of risks are so that they leverage themselves against success. They don't deleverage themselves in favor of failure. I've never seen that complete mythology.
I would first, I would say, let's not use the word mindset because mindset makes it sound like there's a rigid set of things that if applied guarantee an outcome. That's not true. That's like, oh, I'll just think good thoughts and somehow everything will backfill and manifest. That's not true. It's all about actions and the things that are done.
So I kind of look at this through the eyes of the champion's mind. meaning the champions have a mind, meaning that the mind is like a three-dimensional entity that has the capacity to look at, think, evaluate, collate, transmit, share, and store information in a very thoughtful way that represents reality. And that's the way that all the prolific achievers do it.
They look at the way that I advance things forward is not a way of thinking. We're taking action on the evidence that we see in front of us, that history has informed us that if we execute this, then it will take us here. I think that's the most important thing. We begin to forget that aspirational achievement. It's actually a verb. It's not a passive noun. It's a presence of being.
It's the actions that are taken. Therefore, I just suggest that we take the time to really look at the relevance and the sources that we refer to to get our information about what it is that we should be doing. Because many times, What we think it is is not what it is at all, but it sounds good to our human mindset.
It's touchy-feely nice, but historically, it can't necessarily deliver on what we hope it to be. And that, again, why I feel it's really important that we have the right level of corner man influence as we're learning the process of achievement, which is actually, it's a learned skill. It's not something that we're born with.
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