You Have One Life Set Bigger Goals

This is a big show. Im going to challenge you. I get real and I talk real numbers. I
step out of my comfort zone to motivate and inspire you to set bigger goalsgoals
that make your biggest dreams look small. Ben asks if it will be a potentially lifechanging episodeI say yes, but not potentially. It will be a life-changing
episode. Youll laugh, you might cry, but youll certainly come away with a renewed
vigor and a very specifically-defined goal that you will undoubtedly accomplish.

Sean McCabe @seanwes

I'm never allowing myself to think that I failed to meet my goalonly that I haven't
gotten there yet.
5:13 AM - 21 Apr 2014

Sean McCabe @seanwes

Where you're at is a result of the goals that you set prior to this day and the steps
you took to achieve them.
Dream big, and start small.
2:22 AM - 22 Apr 2014

Show Notes

The Goal I Achieved Before I Started On It

06:05 5 years ago, I wrote an email to myself:

06:46 Whats important isnt the monthly goal or the type of work. Its this
part: I have my new job. Ive got it.

07:13 I didnt have it. But I believed that I had it. In my mind, it was already
done. In my mind, I was already there.

08:05 Once I believe that Ive achieved it, its just a matter of having reality
align with my mindset.

08:57 How long do you think it was before I met this goal? 1 week? 3 weeks?
8 months?

09:07 Two years later, it hit me. Being self-employed, I didnt immediately
know my monthly income off-hand like an employee with a bi-monthly
paycheck would. I had to run some calculations and add up revenue from
various sources, but once I did, I saw that I had passed $3,000 in the last
month.

09:46 This was a big moment for me. When Id first written that goal, I was
shooting for the stars. The time it took to get there didnt matter. I didnt
place a deadline on it, the important thing was that I had already
accomplished the goal in my mind 2 years ago.

This Mindset Scales

10:15 Fast forward 3 years, Im now making 10x the monthly goal I set 5
years ago. Whats different? What has changed?

Nothing has changed: I continue to write down my goals and believe Ive
accomplished them.

11:05 Thats it. During the 6 months that I was preparing, planning, and
working on Learn Lettering, I wrote down my goals and believed that I
achieved them. I was planning for success.

12:38 Im never allowing myself to think that I failed to meet my goalonly

that I havent gotten there yet.

14:56 Where youre at is a result of the goals that you set prior to this day
and the steps you took to achieve them.

15:42 Limited goals affect your mindset.

19:13 Its easy to write all of this off as some high-in-the-sky, think-yourselfinto-success nonsense. But the truth is, most people are scared to set big
goals.

19:27 What if I dont accomplish them? What will other people think of me?

19:33 Dont share your big goals with everyoneshare them with people who
believe in you and will support you. It really is your mindset. It comes down to
whether you believe you can achieve thiswhether you believe that
you already have achieved this.

When you dream big, people will call you impractical. But you cant think like
everyone else if you want to see different results from them.

21:03 Maybe you have a goal of what you want to do vocationally. Maybe you
have a goal of where you want to live. Maybe you have a goal of what car you
want to drive. Maybe you have a goal of what house you want, or how often
you work, or when you work, or where you work. People will think certain
things about your goals and it doesnt matter. It is absolutely RIDICULOUS
to shape your life around what other people think. Let me tell you
why

21:22 Even when it comes to the closest person in your life (your boyfriend,
girlfriend or spouse), you probably share about 45% of your waking
life with them.

22:10 And thats the closest person to you! If you consider even your best
friendslets say you actually hang out with them once a week (and kudos if

you do that often)youre probably sharing about 1.52% of your life with
them.

23:28 In theory, your spouse and best friends would be believing in you and
supporting you in your goals. But acquaintances beyond them are probably
sharing 0.5% or less of your life. People will talk you down from your goals
why let someone who shares such an infinitesimally small part of your life
limit your potential and your aspirations? Why let these people tell you that
your goal is impractical?

You are the only person who lives 100% of your life.

24:54 This is it. This is life. Youre listening to this show and that is amazing,
because you exist right now. Youre alive. That is incredible. You have ONE
existence. It is an utter shame to let what someone else thinks limit you.

27:14 Why you need to reevaluate your goals regularly.

28:06 You cant reevaluate your goals too often.

Wipe The Slate Clean

32:07 What do you want to do?

33:05 Take your goal and evaluate what youre doing. Evaluate whether what
youre doing is going to enable that goal and make it possible. If your goal is
to travel and your job does not allow you the freedom to do so, then get out
of that job.

33:28 Wipe the slate clean: What do you want to do? Forget the money.
Forget your payment. Name a figurename whatever amount of money you
want, and lets assume its deposited into your account automatically. Its
done. Now: What do you wake up wanting to do? What are you passionate
about? What is going to fulfill you?

33:56 Well I want to sit on the beach all day for the rest of my life!

34:02 That might be fun for awhile, but after the honeymoon phase wears off,
then its not really going to fulfill you long term. We are designed to be
creative. We are designed to be productive. We are designed to make things,
and we want to feel like we have a purpose.

34:47 You need to uncover that purpose. Go deeper.

Its too easy to keep your dreams within the constraints of your current reality.

36:38 What you dream is going to motivate you. If youre dreaming too small,
thats all youre going to get.

36:43 If you think 1 million dollars is a lot of money, you might get 1 hundred
thousand. If you think 10 million dollars is a lot of money, you might get 1
million dollars. Its about your mindset. Its about how big youre dreaming.

Stop What Youre Doing Right Now

37:15 Write down ONE large goal.

1. 38:00 Take a goal that you previously thought was large, and double
that goal. Write it down. Write a note. Send an email to yourself.
Hand write itit doesnt matter. Write down one large goal and dont
limit it to your current reality or what you think you can accomplish.
What do you want? What is your dream?
2. 38:39 Secondly, write down 20 steps MINIMUM that would lead you
to accomplishing that goal. The first 5 will be easy10, a little bit
harder. Youre going to struggle getting to 20 things, but I dont want
you to stop until you get to 20. The 20th thing might be the one that
works, so dont stop short.
3. 39:07 Now pick ONE and start doing it. Just pick one and do one
small step every single day towards this goal. Thats it.

39:27 Do you believe it? You have to believe that you have achieved
this goal.

48:38 Most people die before accomplishing their dreamsoften before even
getting a taste of their dreamsbecause they settle. They let people talk
them out of it. Heres the thing:

Everyone else is going to have priorities for you, and how you should live your life,
and how you should spend your money.
They will impose their priorities on you.
Do you want to disappoint those people or do you want to disappoint the future
version of yourself?

52:15 If you have a lofty goal, and you write down the reasons that you want
that thing, you will find that there is a lesser version of your goal that will fit
all of that criteria. Every time. The question is, Are you going to settle?