 One of the exercises that I've kept hearing again and again and again from people like David Goggins, Grant Cardone and Dan Penia is to think about your goals. You write them down and then look at your time, look at your day and actually write down how much of your day, which actions during your day were productive and actually moved you forward towards your goals and which actions and what time spent was spent not doing anything productive, not doing anything that actually moves you towards your goals. Now I had this issue where every time I saw this thing I would either not do it because I thought oh I'm above it, it's beneath me, or I would do the exercise but I would do it in a very half-hazard way, just kind of like write it down, be like okay yeah blah blah blah, next. Now in the last few months I've really learned the importance of this, not just exercise but just way of living where you want to write down your goals every single morning and every single night and you want to ask yourself continually during the day is what I'm doing right now moving me towards my goals or is it not and the answer should be a clear cut yes or no because some people think that let's say you go go to a conference or a party and you talk to people and then you think well is this moving me towards my goal of becoming successful and then you might say maybe because I'm talking to people and you never know what would happen but this is what I call the lottery mentality let's you know live it up to luck and hope it works well that's not the way of the successful people what you want to do is ask yourself is what I'm doing directly moving me towards my goal right now tangibly moving me towards it whether it be money, fitness, love whatever your goals may be so if you're sitting down and you want to get healthier you want to get more fit and what you're doing is talking about fitness thinking about fitness hanging out with people who talk about fitness but you're not actually doing fitness right now you're not actually doing push-ups pull-ups running any sort of exercise you're not actually moving towards your goal same with money if you plan an idea for a business you make a really good plan or you start executing a strategy that's a very long term and it will only make money in the near months you're not actually moving towards your goal the only indicator of if you're moving towards your goal or not is whether you're actually taking actions which move you forward now with statistics with results that you can actually show so make sure you follow this rule if you can't measure it it doesn't exist now am I saying there's nothing intangible in life of course not but what would you rather depend on would you rather depend on a gut feeling or an emotion or would you rather look at numbers look at actual math at facts and use that to base your judgments I know for me every time that I made an emotional decision on life any every time I disregarded data or just felt you know this is what intuitively feels right without looking at data I got punished by it why because there's a lot of people on earth that are perfectly happy to go with their intuition it's just a biological drive and some people know how to take care how to take advantage of that so make sure you use the math in your life make sure you use statistics measure everything that you want to improve in your life and then you'll start seeing results also make sure that you validate everything that you want in your life every time I get money it doesn't matter if it's a $2,000 sale if it's a $15,000 salary or if it's a $99 sale or a $999 sale any time I get money no matter how much or how little I make sure to celebrate it I make sure to validate it I look at it I thank for it it doesn't matter if you believe in God and Allah Buddha if you believe in the universe if you just believe in yourself make sure to thank for it to say I love this thank you for the money thank you for me getting what I want even if it's just a bit even just pennies any time you get what you want even if it's a bit make sure to think for it because if you don't you're gonna lose that too so this was a quick lesson about focus about being goal-driven target-driven and using statistics and validating your goals if you have any question about this topic feel free to ask in the comments and I'd love to help you check out my book in the description evolution of a maniac which will help you shortcut your way to success by teaching you the biggest mistakes that I've made that personally hurt me a lot and also the lessons I've learned from them and also the lessons I learned from all of my successful activities thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video