All right, ready to set some goals. So before we get into this, I, at the workshop, I always remind people and I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't remind you of this now, and you know the story of your life, the story of all of our lives is being written. Make sure make damn sure that you are the one holding the pin. You are writing your own movie, make sure you're the hero. Make sure it's not a sad movie, make sure the hero gets what the hero wants. You're the hero.

Get what you want out of this life. That's why you're here. That's what we're about to dive into and work on so got a couple of things to to share with you in this video. As we the main exercise for this video is going to be on this page in your workbook that says goals and it'll be the one that goes from five Yours all the way down to one month. And then on the next page, we're going to go from one month, all the way down to, you know, weekly and daily things. And then within that I'm going to show you what my daily to do list looks like how I break these things down.

But before we get into the specifics of this, the general concept here is reverse engineering. And this is it's a thought process that has transferred to anything that you could want to pursue. If it's bodybuilding or physique stuff, if it's strength, if it's business relationships, it's identify what the end game, what the end result the desired outcome is. And then how do we get there? This is exactly why we started this course by asking you, you know, what does success look like? If We wave the magic wand and we're six months or 12 months down the road, where are you?

What has to make this? What has to happen to make this a success for you? And then we just we break that down and we work backwards. Okay. So, on this sheet, we're going to start at five years out, five years from now, where do you want to be? What is your five year goal?

Okay, so go ahead, hit pause and write down your five year plans, your five year goals. And again, like we talked about at the very beginning of this course, the more granular you can be, the more specific you can be, the better right so five year plan, hit pause, write it down. I'll see you on the other side of the pause. All right, you back. One note on the five year plan before we start breaking that down. I don't want to knock five year goals are five year plans.

But I don't know anybody in business or anybody who consider himself an entrepreneur, who is exactly where they thought they would be five years ago. See your five year plan as as a trajectory as as a thing to kind of point and go after. But I'd say for 99.9% of the people, it's not going to look exactly the way you think it will today. So five years from now, you may be way past that you might be somewhere next to that you might be somewhere completely different. But definitely five years of growth from today. So just realize that the five year plan can will and most likely will change.

So more of a guideline, then an exact map. So with that said, let's assume that we're going to get to that five year plan. In five years, what has to happen in the next 12 months for you to get to this five year goal? Let me give you an example before we hit pause, if my five year goal was to go back to school and get a master's degree in whatever, then in one year from now, I should probably be starting my schooling. Right? And in six months, I probably should have applied to several different programs.

And in the next three months, I would need to do my research and look into 1015 different programs and be choosing the ones that I want to apply to. So then in the next month, I would need to figure out you know what What's the thing that I want to go back to school for? What's the endgame? You know, where am I going to try to live? What are the best programs? Bah, bah, bah, bah.

Right? So you see kind of how we reverse engineer this. And in order to get here, we have to do a, b, c, d, right? It's, you know, if the stream is too big for us to leap across, what are the stepping stones? What are the points along the way to get us from this bank to the other bank, as we cross the stream that doesn't have a bridge. However, you want to break that analogy down, whatever metaphor makes the most sense to you, but we're reverse engineering this thing.

So what has to happen in 12 months? What has to be true? 12 months from now, to move you towards this five year goal? Hit pause, write it down. I'll see you on the other side. All right.

Ready? Six months, same thing. What are you going to do? What must you accomplish? Who must you become in the next six months in order to be on your way to accomplishing the one year goal, or the one year plan? Hit pause, write it down.

So crazy noise going on downstairs. All right, so you're back. Now we're going three months. Okay. And we're going to pause just a minute here. Talk a little bit more about three months.

You'll see in parentheses 90 days. This is also quarterly. I love to break the year down into quarters. You know, if you have a business background, you've probably heard q1 q2, q3, q4. It's January through the end of March, April through the end of June, July through the end of September, and then October, November, December is q4. So 12 months, each quarter is three months.

So for three month quarters or 90 day stretches. If we break the year down like that, man, you're close by really fast. And it's very easy for us to say, Okay, if I'm going to accomplish x, in the next 12 months, I have 490 day periods to make progress on that thing. Or these things. And one quick note here I'm I think I'm I kind of the way I've phrased and position this so far has been towards a singular focus. And I realized that we all have multiple facets and dimensions to our lives.

When I do my goals, whether it's at any of these levels, year, six months, three months, one month, I always split my paper into multiple areas, and usually it'll be On a piece of notebook paper like this, or it'll be on my legal pad, let's just say it's on my legal pad. And I might have my personal business over here. And then I'll have a relationship down here. And then I'll have my health and fitness stuff over here. And then over here, I might have side projects, the companies that I consult with or you know, whatever the other things might be better human project is over here. writing and speaking is over here and 567 stuff with Paulo is over here.

Yeah, I know that some of those were in the same place. Obviously, I wouldn't be writing in the same place but I think you get the point. So, you know, realize that you've got multiple layers to your life, multiple pillars. You know, your continuing education personal development business. family relationships, health fitness movement, you know, so while we may be looking at your singular focus for being in this course, as we go through this particular exercise, when you use this for yourself, realize that this can and should be applied to every area of your life. So we're at the the three month portion of this thing right now.

Okay, so in the next quarter in the next 90 days, what must you accomplish? Who must you become what are the actions and habits and systems and disciplines that you have to have in place in order to make progress? halfway to your six month goals? hit balls, write it down. And I'll see you down here where we're going to talk about one month. All right, it's time to do it.

One month goal, what are you going to accomplish? In the next 30 days, right now, it is go time you are doing this in the next month. Okay, so this is where you want to be in 90 days or in three months. What has to happen in the next month? You've got four weeks, what are you going to get done? Hit pause, and I'll see you on the other side.

All right, got it. So now we're going to get into the next page in your workbook. And this more than maybe any other concept has helped me be successful and make a tremendous amount of progress since 2012. And that is move the chains. If you read the book, fuck your feelings. You're familiar with the concept.

If you're not familiar with the concept, I'll give you the quick version of this. It is a football analogy. in football, we get 10 plays for both Ways to move the ball 10 yards. Most teams punt on fourth down. So let's not even talk about going for it on fourth down, let's divide 10 yards by three plays, and we get 3.4 yards per play. So in other words, if we average 3.4 yards per play every single play, then we get a first down every three plays.

We never have to play. And as long as we don't do anything stupid, like fumble, we're going to get a first down every single three plays, and we're going to eventually score a touchdown on every single possession. The team who scores the most points in the game of football has yet to lose a game. It's that simple. Remember, simple, not easy, right? Keep moving forward, keep scoring touchdowns, keep putting points on the board.

What is a touchdown for you? What is a touchdown in your business in your pursuit? How can you make progress on that thing? And the thing to keep in mind is that touchdowns aren't logical, you know, sometimes you turn around and hand the ball off, running up the middle and expect to gain 3.4 yards, and you get a huge hole and it turns into a 20 yard game. The next play, you might get stuck to the line of scrimmage and you get zero, turn around, hit the ball off, you get eight yards, turn around, hand the ball off, huge hole, touchdown 50 yards, right. The point here is, and this again, this, I didn't realize that when I learned move the chains, but I do realize it now that in itself is process focused.

It is the actions every single day that we must do to become the person who gets the results that we want. The people who score touchdowns with regularity and consistency are the people who run the next play and focus on just moving forward. On the other hand, somebody who is result focused would be the person who's trying to throw Hail Marys, trying to get on ESPN with those highlight reel plays. I promise you, boring, consistent, tedious and monotonous. You know, think about the people you know who are successful. They are the people who do the unremarkable things with remarkable consistency and do them remarkably well.

If you're going to be a pro at anything that you want to accomplish, or pursue. You've got to nail the fundamentals. You've got to know the basics, and you've got to do them well, over a really long period of time. Like we said in a previous video, you don't wind up in the Hall of Fame by accident. It takes a lot of repetitions and a lot of deep work. Focused work, intentional, showing up and doing the things.

And so that's what move the change is all about. So you're going to take your monthly goals now that are on the previous page. And you're going to break them down right here into weekly goals. So you know what it is that you need or want to accomplish in the next 30 days, the next four weeks. What are you going to do in the next seven days? What are you going to do this week to make progress on those things?

What can you do? write those down here. Hit pause, write it down. I'll see you on the other side. All right, got him. Now we're going daily to do list.

And so before I show you how I set up my daily to do list and remove the chains portion of that. Just a quick note on how I handle my monthly and yearly goals. So I Do set yearly goals every single year, sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve. I'm auditing the previous year and setting new goals for the upcoming year. Within the yearly goal setting, I'll also set quarterly goals. This is where I want to be by the end of March.

This is where I want to be by the end of June. At the end of every well at the beginning of every month, so at that time, it would be nearly the beginning of January I would also set January goals. At the beginning of February, I will set the February goals. Those February goals will be within the confines of quarter one goals and on a larger scale than that year's goals. Right. And at that time, I will also look back at January and see how I did I will audit you know which of my goals did I succeed, Which ones did I do?

Well, Which ones did I, you know, not accomplish? What am I going to abandon? What am I going to carry forward? And it's the same thing on a weekly basis. So you know, the beginning of every month, I'm doing this the beginning of every week, I'm doing this. So basically, every Sunday, I have, you know, some time where I'm looking at my goals.

And once a month that Sunday is not just weekly goals, but it's also monthly goals. And then once a year, it's yearly goals as well. So, for me, when it comes to the daily stuff, I don't go anywhere without my clipboard and my yellow legal pad. I've even gotten to the point where like, you see how it's kind of frayed at the bottom. This is actually this is almost done, but when I travel, I turn it upside down and it goes in my bag like this. I don't even travel without this.

That's how much a part of me it is. Now I've been doing it for so long, but I'm very visual, so I have to write it down. If you're somebody who functions well with like a Google calendar or an apple calendar, and if that's enough for you, then great do that. I use Google Calendar. But I still have to do this. And so what I'll do, and you can see I'm recording this video on a Friday.

So here's yesterday, this is Thursday, and this is Friday. What I will do when I do my daily to do list is there are certain things that have to happen at a given time. So at four o'clock today, I have a phone call at five o'clock today I have a phone call at six o'clock today I have an appointment. Those things get put in a square, and then I work around those to make sure that I'm getting the other things that are on my to do list done at the available or open times. I have lifts scheduled this afternoon. I have enough of a gap between the lift to come home for that next phone call.

So prior to the lift, if I have to do film videos for this course, if I have to do email stuff if I have to write or record podcasts or whatever they're going to go in the morning or early afternoon before those things that are dictated by time or appointment. So yesterday for example, I had one of those squares a block of time, that was an appointment. This was at 930 in the morning, so I couldn't do as much yesterday before that first appointment as I can today. So it's sort of that reverse engineering process, that triage process, where do I have to be for specific times and appointments, block those off first and then fill in around that with the other things on my to do list then get rid of that guy. So once we have sort of all the things that are going to happen on that given day, I will come over here in the top right hand corner, and I had the hashtag MTC move the chains, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

I don't usually list that many days out, but I have travel coming up. And I've got to be very effective with my time management before I travel starting on Monday. If only one or two things get accomplished on each day, what are those one or two things? What are the 3.4 yards that I can gain that I must gain today to make progress on my daily, weekly, monthly yearly goals? What can I do today to move the chains and keep this thing moving forward? Right.

And so for yesterday, it was record that podcast, it was work on the online course it was you know had this phone call, right? If only those three things happened yesterday. Then I moved to the chains and I made progress in My business and in all the other areas of my life. So for example, today, tonight is going to be date night. And so I actually have Donna, up here as one of the things that if nothing else happens today, I want to make sure that we get date night in, because my relationship is a huge part of you know, my life, my life isn't just business. So for today it is get my lift in, right so my movement, my health, my relationship and film videos for an online course.

So if all three of those things happen today, then I will move the chains in three different areas of my life, my health and wellness, my relationship and business. Okay. And I think this is a really easy way for us, at least for me, to be able to stay focused on what really matters. How can I make sure that I'm being productive and not just being busy. Nice goes back to To what we talked about in Section four with the quadrants of importance, what is the priority, right? The absolute priorities, get put over here and move the chains.

Everything else is just it's either important but not urgent, or maybe even not important or things that I can delegate, right? But you can bet if it goes over here and remove the chains. It is like your bond Oh thing, only you can do that. I'm not going to outsource date night to my clone, right. Okay, so that's how I use this. So now we're going to come back to the workbook.

And what I want you to do is you're going to take your weekly goals, and whatever day it is that you're watching this. So if we were at one of our better human workshops, typically that's a Saturday or Sunday, so I would say okay, this upcoming week, what are you going to accomplish and then on Monday, What are your Monday to do list items? And then on the move that changed, if you can only get two of these things done on Monday, or whatever your next work date is, what are the one or two things that have to happen? If you get nothing else done? What are those two things? That's it for this video, so you don't have to pause it.

You're just going to end the video. finish filling this one out. If you have any questions on this, let me know I'm here to help.