What Goal Setting System Do You Use?

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#1

Do you have a goal setting system/process that you’ve used effectively? If so would you mind sharing?

It can be from a blog post, Youtube/social media video, paid course (will pay up to $2,000-$3,000 ) or something you’ve come up with yourself. Can be guru or non-guru based. Primarily just focused on effectiveness.

I like Tony Robbins’ 5 year goal map however I was always against focusing on multiple goals at the same time. Currently working through Ali Abdaal’s GPS video on goal setting and have found it helpful.

Years ago I read psycho-cybernetics and really enjoyed the visual component. Something about being fully immersed in the outcome is very motivating. After reading Arnold Schwarzenegger, he attributes visualization as a primary driver to his success. Thinking of using Mind’s Eye with a goal setting system this time around. And committing to daily visualizations sessions.

If the subs deal with thoughts/feelings/beliefs to make the best use of the changes I want to have system of taking action and moving forward on goals that I have now.

Open to any input or suggestions from any country.

Thanks!

#2

This may not be helpful to most people, but: I set a goal. I visualize the end goal. I meticulously break the end goal down into actionable steps. Sometimes there’s 10. Sometimes there’s 100.

I push relentlessly until that goal is achieved. When I am working toward a goal, everything outside of the goal becomes noise. The strategy is to complete one or two meaningful things a day toward achieving that goal. When the goal is attained, I see another goal. I visualize the end goal…

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#3

That’s pretty much the basis of a “project” in the Getting Things Done system. Breaking down into actionable steps from the big picture. I go for that myself.

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#4

Dude, that’s where I got it from, rofl. The GTD framework. The first thing I started practicing was the notion of “if it can be done in five minutes, just do it.” I’m not always successful, but it helps.

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#5

The way I do it is start big-picture, and start writing down the stuff that I THINK Need done. Invariably some of those are still too vague, so may become sub-goals for it. So THOSE get broken down into steps.

I ended making a website for that idea, breaking all of it down into steps, and when I log in it shows only the next steps I need to do RIGHT NOW, then when I mark done, it shows just the next step.

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#6

I love the simplicity of this. Do you do daily visualization or is this at the start of the goal setting process?

Not familiar with GTD, just checked Amazon. Is it the David Allen book?

#7

That’s the one. Great system for getting more done. It kinda lacks what I’d call an 80/20 perspective for focusing on important things. But it is great for being able to do more in the same or less amount of time.

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#8

Thank you both, I just downloaded both the GTD workbook and audio book through my library app.

#9

Yes – I spend a lot of time visualizing and journaling. Like, a very large part of the process is understanding my relationship to the goal. I question why I’m even doing it in the first place, what is the overarching goal or the aim? I like to have a practical answer to this.

For example, with most subs, the release schedule is structured around a simple question, an “organizing principle” by which all efforts can orbit around. That question is usually “what future titles can benefit from what you’re creating now.”

For example, those who have run PEACE can clearly see how it would benefit RoS, RoM, etc. It makes achieving the goal easier, since everything is interconnected, and I can flow from one title or work to another, knowing that the work itself persists beyond just the individual goal. That gives the work meaning for me, which makes it easier to achieve the goal.

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#10

  1. Think of what I want to achieve

  2. Figure out necessary habits and behaviors to achieve it

  3. Implement said habits, modify the environment, wait until the goal is achieved naturally

Essentially, who do I have to become to achieve this goal? What would a person who achieved this goal do?

  1. If I struggle with coming up with specific behaviors, then I can also ask myself - “how do I make sure that I never achieve this goal?”. We are great at finding problems
Language learning example

Let’s say I want to learn Japanese to fluency

  1. we already did step one by deciding that I want to learn japanese to fluency
  2. Even if I know nothing about learning the language, I can at least assume that:
  • listening to it as much as possible and watching things in it would increase the likelihood of me learning the language
  • looking stuff up will help me learn the language
  • reading through a grammar guide can help me
  • reading about theories of language acquisition can help me to fine-tune the process
  1. Now that I’ve figured out the behaviors, I need to reorganize my environment and behaviors in such a way that would increase the likelihood of me learning Japanese
  • I can listen to Limitless Polyglot lol
  • I can keep Japanese tv playing in the background 24/7
  • I can only watch things in Japanese
  • I can build a habit of doing Anki every morning to slowly learn kanji and vocab
  • I can download lots of japanese podcasts to my phone and listen to them whenever possible
  • I can read through a grammar guide
  • (once I get a bit better at kanji and kana) I can start reading books in Japanese, play video games in Japanese
  • I can find Japanese friends and practice my speaking with them
  1. in case I wasn’t able to identify the good habits at first, I could use the inverted thinking and think “how do I make sure I never learn Japanese” and pretty much come up with the inverted list of habits above
becoming a millionaire example

Let’s say I want to become a millionaire

  1. goal: become a millionaire
  2. even if I knew nothing about the topic, I could assume that I can:
  • listen to Genesis Mogul and EOG lol
  • research how people become millionaires
  • figure out a list of metaskills like sales, learning, etc. and learn them
  • find/create shit to sell (service, product, software, etc.)
  • find people to sell to
  • start doing it
  • scale it
    (obviously these are very simplfiied)
  1. implementing:
  • clear distractions, addicitons, etc. - make my work space as pristine as possible
  • find like minded friends
  • learn deep work
  • keep refining skills, practicing it, researching money-related topics more
  • spend time advertising, building your skillset and delivering to existing clients every day
  • etc.

you get the idea

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#11

I actually got this from ASBR. Not necessarily breaking it down into each tiny step, but thinking about things almost like programming and completing every small step like helpers to get the output I need to hit the bigger steps and get the final output I want. When I’m focused on a single output I could literally work for 12 hours and not feel a single second passing. Breaking each thing down into its own objective keeps me from overworking since I’ll draw a line once that one is done for the day, but it just means that starting is the only barrier to getting things done. Once I’ve started, nothing else exists except me getting the result I want.

Probably influenced by me learning programming simultaneously as I started running it.

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#12

I’m going to implement this visualization framework and with some frameworks from GTD for a short term goal - once I finish the audiobook and workbook.

I remember my time on ASBR, I would get hyper focused but I needed a much better system that I’ve been using.

This was helpful, thank you. The being part is good to think about. Especially with the subs, sounds like it would boost the effectiveness.

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