In this masterclass on goal setting and achievement, we dive deep with three remarkable experts while I also share my personal journey with setting and achieving ambitious goals. Price Pritchett reveals the counterintuitive truths about making quantum leaps in your life and why you must "scare the horses" with your goals. I share my own goal-setting process, from visualizing and writing down specific dreams to manifesting major achievements like The School of Greatness book and PBS show. Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes explores finding joy in the struggle and why the journey matters more than the destination. Former NFL punter Steve Weatherford shares his inspiring journey from a 108-pound freshman to Super Bowl champion, demonstrating how consistent action and unwavering positivity can transform dreams into reality. Get ready for game-changing insights on setting audacious goals and enjoying the process of achieving them.In this episode you will learn:Why setting "stretch goals" that scare you is essential for making quantum leaps in your lifeHow to overcome the planning trap that kills most big dreams before they beginThe power of "want power" over willpower and why you must have a love story around your goalsWhy consistent daily action and positive self-talk are crucial for transforming your lifeHow to find joy and meaning in the struggle rather than fixating on the end resultFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1712For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Price Pritchett – greatness.lnk.to/1502SCLewis Howes – greatness.lnk.to/1145SC Dean Karnazes – greatness.lnk.to/1280SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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?
Chapter 2: 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.
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Chapter 3: What is 'want power' and why is it important?
Chapter 4: How do you make decisions on your goals?
It's that process of being willing to take new risks, change your modus operandi, fail your way to success.
You talk about seeking failure in one of the chapters of U Squared and in another chapter about suspend disbelief. I loved a few quotes in this because I believe self-doubt is the biggest killer of dreams. It's what holds us back from success. Taking the steps necessary to fail often, frequently, in order to make those big leaps.
And in your chapter on suspend disbelief, you started with saying, act as if your success is for certain. Most people have so much doubt. Is this possible? What happens if I fail? What happens if I do succeed? The pressure. What about all the judgment I'm going to get from the actions and the failures? And you say, if you must doubt something, doubt your limits. I love that line.
And one other line that really stood out to me is, your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. And when I read that, I was like, wow, this is so true. It's not a product of accurate thinking. It's of habitual thinking. We've been thinking limited consistently. And this habit of thinking limited keeps us in a limited position.
a state of being, a state of mind, as opposed to accurate thinking, what is possible. We don't step into that enough. And this whole chapter really opened up for me because my thesis in life is self-doubt is the killer of dreams.
And when we can learn to believe in self, which is something you talked about here as well, needing to believe in yourself, it needs to be your goal, and you need to have a love story around this pursuit. But if we can't learn to believe in self, It's going to be hard. You can love the idea of your goal. You can have clear goals. But if you doubt you, your dreams are going to die.
And I think that's a challenging thing for people to say, well, how do I learn to believe in self? How do I learn to have accurate thinking, not habitual thinking? How do I learn to doubt my limits as opposed to doubting myself? And how do I learn to act as if my success is for certain when I've always doubted me? What do you say to that statement?
It's a killer question. Well, you get to choose how you behave. To heck with your thinking. Let's say your thinking is what it is and it's riddled with doubt. You're ravaged with doubt. You still get to choose how you behave. And you can You can act like you've got what it takes. You can't.
You can do it.
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Chapter 5: What daily habits can help with goal achievement?
And the day that I wrote those down, it was 16.75 inches. And it took me 104 days, but I went from 16.75 to 19 inches, which is 2.25 inches. And I'm not taking some of the vitamins that other people do to be able to make that growth. So it's something I'm super proud of because as much time as I had spent in the gym, that was one thing that had eluded me for the past 19 years in the gym.
I'm 33 now, 19 years in the gym, and I wrote this program down. I was never planning on turning it into an e-book, but I wrote my news resolutions down. I put them on Instagram because, to me, if I make those resolutions and I share them with everybody on Instagram, they're going to keep me honest.
So if I knew I put it to a timeline of 90 days and 90 days went by and I didn't have 19-inch arms, the people that support me on Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, they're going to be like, What are you doing? Your arms look the same. So I shared that journey. And after about six or seven weeks, I started to get questions like, dude, your arms are getting huge. What like what are you doing?
And it was about like the eight week mark. I had I had like another month to go. And I decided I wanted to put it into an e-book and share it because it was working so well for me. And it was something that I always struggled with.
Final question. Let's do this. Since I already asked you what's the definition of greatness, let's do what's the question that you want to ask everyone listening to answer?
So if I can ask all of the listeners, all 1.3 million that downloaded it this month, what would I ask them?
What's the question you want them to answer over on Twitter with both of us? What's the call to action you want them to do in their own lives to get better?
You need to form it like that, Lewis. Okay, this is what I want all 1.3 million people out there to do in their own life. They have the three gratitudes in the morning. I want to encourage people to look at their schedule for the day. whatever it may be, you know, picking the kids up from school. It could be a board meeting. It could be a delivery they have to make.
I want them every single morning out loud, not in your head. I want you to speak out loud, whether it's while you're drinking your cup of coffee or you're having your green juice or you're in the shower. I want you to positive self-talk your way through the perfect day. And I want you to do that every single day for 30 days.
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