Escaping the Drift - The Weekly Drop: The Journey to Sustainable Change
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What are the common reasons New Year's resolutions fail?
their new year's resolutions, man, why people fall down when they make these resolutions and they don't get to what they're going to do. And I'm going to give you five things that you can do to have a lot of success in that with what you do. And we all know the story, man, January 1st, tomorrow, if you go to the gym, there's going to be 9 million people sitting in the damn gym. It's going to be impossible to get to a machine, but by mid February, everybody's going to be gone. And why is that? Why does it go so quick from February to nobody being there? Why does that happen so fast? And if you read this book, this is one of my favorite books. It's called Atomic Habits. I love this book. And then James Clear talks about motivation's not enough.
Why is motivation not enough for success?
You know, motivation is like a shower. It's something you require every single day. And if you're just depending on motivation to get you through to where your habits need to be, you're going to have a problem. What you have got to do is you've got to, instead of relying on the motivation of I want to get better, You have to set up systems that will support that end goal. And one of the things I'm gonna give you when we're done today is if you're watching me on Instagram, you're listening to this or watching this on the gram or you catch it later. If you go to the link in my bio, the very first thing you're gonna see is a free business planning course that I'm gonna give you. And it's not just about business planning.
You can literally use that one page system, the system that I use to plan anything in life. You can use it to plan, How to lose weight. You can lose it to start a new skill, to start a new business, to do whatever you want to get better at the job that you currently have. And it's free to get. You can go right in there and grab it. But you're going to see how a lot of the stuff that's in that one page business plan, that course that I'm giving you for free, you're going to see how a lot of that stuff translates back into everyday use by building good systems and understanding what it is. And if you look at atomic habits, when it's talking about not having the right idea or having good enough systems, it's because you don't set your goals right. You know, I hate the word goal. I've always said that I hate the word goal. And the reason I hate it is because, you know, look at football, right? We're coming to the playoffs right now.
And at the beginning of the year, every single one of those coaches for those football teams, those pro football teams, they asked them at the opening press conference, coach, what's your goal for the season? And they all said the same thing. My goal is to reach the Super Bowl. They knew at that opening press conference our quarterback sucks. They knew they don't have a good defensive player.
How can setting SMART objectives improve goal achievement?
They just knew it. But yet they still come out firing saying, my goal is to win the Super Bowl. So for me, I don't even call the things that I want to accomplish. I don't call them goals. I call them objectives because that's something I'm going to achieve. I just make a decision, a conscious decision to achieve this. So when you're setting goals or objectives, they should be smart, which means they should be specific. They should be measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. How often, I think the last part of that is probably the most important thing. Give yourself a timeframe because how often, dude, do you do these things where you have
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the common reasons New Year's resolutions fail?
0:41–1:26
2
Why is motivation not enough for success?
1:26–3:13
3
How can setting SMART objectives improve goal achievement?
3:13–3:55
4
What are the benefits of using systems over goals?
3:55–4:37
5
How can ChatGPT help in achieving personal objectives?
4:37–5:15
6
What strategies can ensure sustained personal growth?
5:15–8:30
7
How to create measurable health and fitness goals?
8:30–14:20
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