How to Set Goals So You Can Achieve Them: A Strategic Approach to Life

Main subjects

Strategic thinkingChildren, parenting, and family lifeAn entrepreneur's strategy and decisionsCHChildrenHealth, rest, and lifestyleF/Friend / friends

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00The biggest mistake in planning your life
• 01:48How to approach setting goals
• 03:09A mistake in how we think about goals
• 04:39How to build a life strategy that leads to long-term success
• 07:50What to do with your life: how to choose
• 10:40A real-life example: approaching a child's choice of career
• 14:16A strategic approach to goals
• 15:40Long-term thinking
• 18:34Conclusion

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• 01:21

  Did they genuinely develop, or did they experience complete deterioration and emptiness because they were thinking in the short term: that they could resolve the situation right here, right now? In reality, they didn't see what would actually happen and weren't working on their main tasks and main…

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• 03:28

  When I said the main problem in a person's life is trying to resolve their short-term tasks, I meant that they have no sense of how this task and goal, or this short-term goal, connects with the next task or goal.

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• 07:17

  I look at whether changing jobs will make me feel better, if feeling better mattered to me, and whether changing jobs will allow me to find an entirely new job.

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• 13:16

  My friend said, “Of course she doesn't need to study business, because she can always take that course later.”

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• 14:21

  This very often leads to conflicts, because some parents push too hard, and some children enjoy studying while others don't.

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• 14:31

  Whether someone becomes great has nothing to do with whether they enjoyed it or didn't enjoy it.

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• 15:10

  Because when I said the main problem in life is living by short-term tasks and goals, I meant that the person sees nothing beyond those short-term tasks and goals.

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• 17:05

  So interpreting this topic, this video, only as me saying I'm against addressing short-term issues is, of course, not an accurate interpretation.

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• 17:55

  Most importantly, this way of thinking is where you genuinely scale up, where you genuinely develop as a person.

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• 18:20

  That your personal state isn't as important as your family's state; that your professional work is less important than your inner emotional state each day.

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