Want Power Beats Willpower Every Time
episodePreviously titled “How To Set Goals & Magnetize Your 2025 Vision To You” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 3, 2026
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Welcome to this special masterclass. We've brought some of the top experts in the world to help you unlock the power of your life through this specific theme today. It's going to be powerful. So let's go ahead and dive in. If you set your goal correctly, how do you know how to set your goal the right way in order to create a quantum leap in your life?
Why should your goals scare you?
There's several things about goal setting that I think are real key points. If you're shooting, to make this kind of an exponential leap in performance. So then, first, it needs to be a serious stretch goal. You need to scare the horses, you know. It needs to scare you. Yeah. There needs to be some, there needs to be, but secondly, it needs to be a goal that, it needs to be a love story around that goal, I think. Because when you go for a big goal, any goal of, much significance you're going to have some setbacks you're going to have some obstacles that come along you're going to get kind of banged up and bruised up maybe and you need to care enough you know the heart is what sustains you through that and so there you know people talk about a passion for this for this goal and I think well
That's a fine word and it fits, but some people say, well, I just don't have that passion. Well, you just need to care for it or at least be committed enough to it that you say, I'm gonna stay the course. I will put myself out there. And I think that it needs to be your goal, not somebody else's goal for you. Not a should or ought to goal. I think a fundamental mistake that a lot of people make is they don't believe in themselves enough and they don't reach high enough. Who is it? Astro Teller, who is the head of Google X, you know, their innovative arm that said 10% can be as hard as 10X. You know, a 10% improvement, not necessarily any improver. Small acquisitions were every bit as difficult to make work as the big ones.
which is kind of a counterintuitive thought. I mean, normally people don't go out with their mind drifting down that path. But with You Squared, the handbook is, it's kind of based on counterintuitive ideals, kind of things that stop you and kind of, you know, make yourself uncomfortable. You know, that's one of the points. Well, why would I want to do that? You're an athlete. If you're not willing to make yourself uncomfortable, you got to get off the field. Absolutely.
Yeah. So it's almost like 10X is just as easy or just as challenging as 2X. And it's about how you frame it and about going after it the right way. It's what it sounds like. They're both going to be challenging. So you might as well go for the bigger leap than the one that's like just a little bit more uncomfortable.
I don't care what direction a person is drawn. They can make quantum leaps in that zone. whatever their strike zone is. But I don't really spend a lot of time, I guess, trying to talk people into making a quantum leap unless they have something inside just- They've got to want it. Knowing at them.
They've got to be hungry. They've got to be- You know, anxious about something changing, they're going to want to change. They do. Because some people know they want something more, but they don't know exactly what it is.
Yeah.
And so they're in the uncertainty of, well, I'm not sure which direction I should go in. And here's another problem I see is people have too many passions. I've got this idea and this idea and this idea. Which one do I choose? And when someone has 10 different passions or different roads that they could go down, how do they know which one they should go down?
That want to factor, that's the X factor. And, you know, people talk about willpower. Well, I want to talk about want power. What does that mean? It's want power is how much do you want this thing? Again, you know, how much are you in love with this idea? I do think. that there are times when we're kind of directionless or a person certainly can be. And so for that poor soul, although they might be happy, content, doing fine, really, but they kind of like something to change and be bigger and better and more dramatic or whatever. And so sometimes I think we can maybe find that magical era just by playing with the curiosity or saying yes to random opportunity that just comes smack in front of us. Or maybe...
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