What do you want?
I don’t know.
Well, you really better figure it out.
Yep, OK, so, what do you want?
I don’t know.
Well, you really better figure it out.
Yep, OK, so, what do you want?
I don’t know.
Well, you really better figure it out.
Yep, OK, so, what do you want?
Arggghhh
Been there, done that.
For about 10 years, actually.
Round and round in circles.
Making no progress on the question, only grinding your gears.
As you likely know, that’s what started all this for me.
Stepping back from my career at Goldman and asking the question that would come to dominate my life—
What do you want?
Reading thousands of books searching for my answer, I never found it.
The problem with goal setting frameworks…
Is they ONLY work if you know your goal!
But, if you don’t, well, they just tell you that you need to figure out what you want!
Yet give you no way of actually doing it.
Instead you come across endless books and people talking about following your passion.
Finding your purpose.
Ranking your values, and whatever.
It fails.
And limits you to goals that you can clearly identify.
Whereas this method is built for achieving your most massive, unidentifiable goals.
Even if you don’t know what they are!
10-13ish years is all it took me!
I never figured out the answer in my research.
But from reverse engineering my own process.
See, where I got “lucky” is that while I was reading thousands of books, I was every day taking action.
Driving forward in my goals I was “discovering” what I wanted along the way.
Also, as I outline in this video, this is truly living your “journey.”
Not talking about living for the journey instead of the destination.
But converting your goals into a process, you are on your journey of doing what you want.
Sophisticated, yet simple
In some ways this 4 step method for setting goals for yourself you’ll see in this video seems complicated.
But, in fact, it’s incredibly simple.
Just sophisticated.
Because it’s built to do something that requires sophistication.
Which is, to help you move towards your most massive goals, even if you don’t know what you want!
This is the Dirty Secret for Doing What You Want.
That you don’t need to know what you want to get it!
Yes, I know that seems counter to everything we’re taught on setting goals for yourself, which is why those methods fail you!
Instead, you simply need to begin with your Grandest Visions. (Step 1)
See that many roads can drive you here. (Step 2, The Roadmap)
And now you’re oriented right, you can follow more traditional methods.
Finish with Steps 3&4
Most traditional methods for setting goals for yourself fail, which is why few people have goals.
But they most especially fail when you don’t know what you want.
Yet, once you are pointed towards your Grandest Vision, these traditional methods for setting goals can massively benefit you.
You see we do this in Step 3 to setting goals for yourself.
And then we drop down into step 4, which is even simpler still.
Forgetting all these other steps, you’re just getting yourself focused on this one small step right in front of you.
Because as I talk about in this video, no matter how long the journey, it all begins with this one single step.
You can check out the video here.