Here we go section five. And this is where you dig in and really start to map out the plan and the path to get you where you want to be. This is where we identify exactly what you need to be doing on a daily basis, right, it's time to do work. We're going to start this one with a fun rant, a conversation that I love to have, and that is smart goals suck. In the next video, we're actually going to break down your five year, three year, one year, 90 day one month plans. We're going to talk about moving to change and what to do on a daily basis.

But before we get that granular with it, we have to identify, you know what it is that you want to accomplish, and we have to put that in we have to hold that in a space and Look at it through a lens that really focuses on the process of getting there, not the actual result itself. Okay? So smart goals, if you have not been exposed to SMART goals previously, it is an acronym that stands for specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time driven. Most people teach goals by using smartphones and they'll say so let's see, we'll use fitness as an example. So early in my careers personal trainer, I may have had somebody come up to me and say, you know, hey, I want to lose some weight. Right?

And that's how most people approach a thing. I want to write a book, I want to lose some weight. I want to start a business. Okay. So right away, if somebody is a, an advocate of smart goals, they're going to win To You know, hear this goal or see this goal and say, Okay, well, it's not specific. It's not measurable.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it could be attainable. Maybe it's realistic and there but there's also no time component to that. So the way a SMART goal advocate would restructure that goal would be to say, okay, Mister, I want to lose weight. Let's turn this into a SMART goal and say, I want to lose 10 pounds in the next 30 days, okay, so very specific. It's attainable, realistic, it's definitely measurable. And we have the the time, the deadline, right?

30 Days, so 30 days, we're going to lose 10 pounds. So, here's where this gets tricky, and why I don't like smart goals. How do we determine the success or failure of that goal? It's easy right? Did you To lose 10 pounds in order for for us to succeed at that goal, we would have to lose 10 or more pounds in the next 30 days. Anything shy of that is failure.

Well, don't get me wrong, there is a time and place for this binary thinking this black and white Did you or didn't you? However, the outcome is a little bit out of our control. When we say I want to lose these 10 pounds in the next 30 days. A lot of things can happen outside of our control all in way in a day, where we might lose nine pounds or the scale might say you lost eight pounds in other pursuits, examples might be you know if i say i'm going to improve my golf game in such a way that I break at for the first time by the end of the summer, right? So I've got like 90 days to get my golf game under a well, what if the last week of summer I played three times and through my actions over the first 83 days, in the last seven days, I played three times, and I shoot at 180 81 and that's the best three day stretch of golf I've ever played in my life.

But I didn't break anything. I didn't shoot 79 Is it a failure? I mean, technically. I'm not shooting under 80 but I'm also playing the best golf of my life. Because I did the things between the time I set the goal and day 90 to be the best golfer that I've ever been Same thing with fitness. If we plan our so so we all know, we use another example of boxers or fighters of any time wrestlers who know how to shed weight for a specific fight or event.

But then I have, you know, a former Olympian come to me and say, Hey, I know how to lose weight for a fight, but I don't know how to eat for health. And I don't know how to lose weight the right way. Because all they ever did in the past, was learn how to get the result they wanted, in short term thinking, you know, almost break the system in order to you know, kind of Jerry rigged my way into the result that I'm trying to get for this short term thing. But it's not sustainable. It's not scalable. There's no longevity in that.

So right Rather than focusing on, hey, I want to lose 10 pounds in 30 days, because again, if you get on the scale, let's say you do everything right, you get on the scale on day 30 and you've lost nine pounds. Well, did you really fail? I mean, yeah, you failed to get to 10. But if our focus is not on the scale, wait, but on paper, I'm going to sleep eight hours every single night, I'm going to drink 100 ounces of water every single day, I'm going to get a meal plan and eat 90% of my meals according to my meal plan. This is the healthiest I've ever, my relationship with food has ever been. I'm working out three to four times a week, which is, you know, 75% more activity than I was getting last month.

So now I'm doing all the habits that make me a healthier version of me. I'm sleeping. I'm eating I'm drinking water. I'm physically active. Those are the things that make us a healthy person. And if I only lose nine pounds in 30 days doing it, I'm a better version of me.

So this is why I don't like smartphones, because they put all the emphasis on the result and not the process. Okay? And this is why I always say focus on the actions, not the outcomes, what are the actions that we have to undertake to get to that place? act as if what would the healthiest version of me do in this situation? How would the strongest version of me approach the next 30 days? How would the ultimate leader how would the best business version of you handle this situation?

It's focusing on the actions and the processes, doing those things consistently over time, that will deliver the results not because we focused on the results, but because we focused on doing the things being the person who gets those kinds of results. All right. I think that's really it for this video, because anything beyond this is going to start to get into your specific actions. So focus on actions, not outcomes, right? That in itself will get you into being process focused, not result focused. So keep in mind that we don't want SMART goals that focus on on the result or the outcome.

So if we take that, that 10 pounds in 30 days SMART goal, what we would do to restructure it to make it process focused or action focus is to say, I want to be a healthier version of me. My plan to do that is in the next 30 days in the next 90 days. So we have that deadline that time driven component I'm going to get a meal plan and stick to it 90% of the time, I'm going to get a fitness movement practice. And I'm going to be physically active four days a week for at least 30 minutes, I'm going to drink 100 ounces of water or more every single day, I'm going to sleep eight hours every single night, I'm going to get at least 5000 steps every single day. And now, we can still be binary and black or white at the end of this, whatever the time is.

30 Days, 90 days, we can say, Well, did I drink the water every day? Yes or no? Did I get to sleep every day? Yes or no? Did I follow the meal plan? Did I do the fitness?

Did I do the movement? Take the steps Yes or no? Right. So the binary isn't in? Did I accomplish the goal? The binary is did I do the things required?

And now we put the responsibility solely on us. It's all about our waste is all about our actions. And that is so supremely powerful because now the responsibility is on us. This is how we move into becoming a high performer. Right? Take responsibility for our actions, and make sure that we show up and act according to our values, right?

So keep that in mind. Next video, we're actually going to go through your goal and what you're going to be doing every single day for the next couple of months to make your goals happen, and not necessarily your goals, but to help you become the person who gets the results that you're looking for. We'll see in the next video