How to Plan and Achieve Goals, Even When the Whole World Is Against You

Main subjects

Place of residence, relocation, and identityCouples and healthy relationshipsChildren, parenting, and family lifeFreedomSilicon ValleyUnited States

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Welcome to Alexander Volchek's channel
• 01:08Goal setting through real-life examples
• 05:02Moving to the United States, Silicon Valley, and anxiety
• 08:05A question to ask yourself: feelings, freedom, and worries
• 14:17“I just want to start a business”
• 17:28Where personal and business goals intersect: a hypothetical case
• 20:05The first and most important piece of advice
• 22:23A range of goals: bodily sensations
• 26:36Harmony with yourself
• 28:40Sincerity

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 03:56

  Someone starts a partnership because they know—they've told themselves clearly—that in a year or two they don't want to handle operations in this business.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 12:17

  At least at our children's ages—three, seven, nine, and thirteen—their happiness depends on how we feel at that time, how stable we are as people, and whether we can create an atmosphere of harmony and freedom for their development, so they can grow within that freedom, with…

  Alexander Volchekdefinitionprinciple

• 16:46

  That's their right, just as it's my right, when I make videos for YouTube, to make them five minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes, three hours, or five hours long, once a month or every day. That's my choice, my right.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 17:41

  It's incredibly important to one partner that this business generate $5,000 for them—they split it fifty-fifty—because they spend that entire $5,000 on the apartment they rent, their children's school, food for their family, and maintaining their whole life.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 23:54

  It wasn't because I didn't know the techniques for doing it.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 24:30

  Moving is an incredibly fundamental, important, difficult, liberating, powerful, major, easy event in a person's life.

  Alexander Volchekdefinition

• 29:11

  When we want to recognize ourselves in another person's state, or want that person to be just like me, or want to be like that person, then in general we want to change that other person, and someone else has to adapt to it.

  Alexander Volchekdefinitionprinciple

• 30:04

  There are some variations, but people are already very similar in those respects, because we're human.

  Alexander Volchekcauseprinciple

• 30:21

  How can you understand their state outside filming a video, in their real life, interacting with their children, their parents, their wife, when they're alone, alone in this country or another country, when they're working as a director, an owner, or…

  Alexander Volchek

• 30:47

  So if I start adapting—not even adapting, but just entertaining the thought that it's incredibly important for people to feel similar to me.

  Alexander Volchek