Thoughts on goal setting as Brian brings up some examples from books we've covered here before such as, The One Thing, The Slight Edge and Mini Habits.

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Long term goals suck.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I wanted to talk about long term goals, goal setting the traditional style. I don't think there's anything wrong with setting a long term goals, and then laying out the steps necessary in order to get it.

In fact, just the other night I was talking with you about this book, The One Thing and in it, he does a really good job at discussing how to come up with a with a large goal, or both.

Both these gentlemen that wrote it talked about how to set a large goal and how to move yourself back and kind of pull out a big goal and and break it down.

Let's say you had a five, a five year goal, and we've talked about this a lot on here.

Oh, here it is. This is this is from Oh, Chapter 14, Live by Priority.

Goal setting to the now.

Okay has a little diagram here.

You start with a someday goal.

And you break it down to like, okay, well, to get to that someday goal, how would I get there?

Like in five years, where should I be in order to reach that goal?

And then at one year, then you pull it down to a monthly goal?

You know, if I'm going to reach that one year goal, how can I?

What do I need to do every month, and then based on that?

What do I have to do every week, and what do I have to do every day?

Then it comes down to what do I need to do right now, and that works really, really well.

For a very small percentage of the population, I'll tell you where this type of goal setting works well, it works really well for organizations and groups of people and teams and businesses.

And that's why I talk about it a lot.

I talk about long term goal setting a lot here because most businesses lack it. But it's the type of thing that that pulls everybody together and gets everybody on the same track in thinking it's kind of necessary in order to move this a behemoth like a business or an organization forward, you do need those things.

Here's where it gets into issues.

It gets into issues personally, when you're doing it with personal goals.

For some reason, it's very difficult for most people to do, and I was reading a book, and I'll tell you more about it in the future. But I because I'm still digesting, and I've been done reading it, but I'm still digesting some of the thoughts in it.

And some of the ideas that they presented in that book was a they said that this might have a lot to do with people's mindset regarding, you know, short term versus long term thinking.

The ability do we you know, does a large percentage of the population really have the ability to?

You know, what is it what is the term it is?

And of course, it's completely slipping my mind what the actual term is, while I'm talking delay gratification, there it is. delay gratification, do people have the ability to delay gratification.

And it all comes back to this concept of the marshmallow test?

Where I don't know if you've heard this one,