 Smart goals, how to set and achieve your goals. Hey, have you been having a difficult time setting and actually achieving goals? Well, in this video, we're gonna fix that. I'm gonna give you a method that you can use that will help you immediately set the right goals and achieve them and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Thank you for watching this video. I appreciate you visiting my channel. And don't forget to subscribe. There's a big subscribe button down there. Make sure you hit that button and then turn on all bell notifications, okay? When you turn on all bell notifications, you will be notified every time I do a new video. And when I go live, you'll be part of the Fisher family, the VIP group that gets in front of the line. Okay, so let's jump right into this. But before I do, I wanna remind you that there is a course below, $97 course. You can get it for zero, absolutely free. All you have to do is click the link and learn. There's no credit card required. Now, I wanna read for you a quote from Bill Copeland. He says, the trouble with not having a goal is that you spend your life running up and down the field and you never score. Do you ever feel like that? You ever feel like you're kinda spinning your wheels and you're doing stuff and you're working hard and you're getting up early and you're staying up late but you just don't get anything done? Well, this video is gonna fix that for you. Now, I've been selling online since 2009. I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products. And I'll tell you, setting up goals, looking at where you've achieved things, where you need to work on things. This is something I do on a regular basis and you have to too, but you gotta have a system. So that's what I'm gonna give you in this video. You have the system. Once you have the system, it'll be easy. Now, a lot of people will spend their lives drifting from job to job or from task to task or just sitting in the same job and never really getting anywhere. And here's the reason why. It's not because they're dumb. It's not because they're lazy. It's not because they didn't have opportunities. It's because they didn't have any goals set. Setting goals is a real art form. It's a real skill. It's something that you have to do if you wanna get ahead in anything. SMART is actually an acronym that's used to guide your goal setting. And I wanna walk you through each one of these steps. Professor Robert S. Rubin, St. Louis University, wrote about SMART in an article in the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He said, SMART has come to mean different things to different people. Now, to make sure your goals are clear and reachable, each one should be one of these letters. Okay, the first one is specific. Specificity, that is so important. It's gotta be specific, okay? If it is, I wanna make a lot of money, that's not specific. I don't even know what a lot of money is. You have to specifically say, I wanna make $10,000 a month. I wanna make $100,000 a year. Whatever that is, it's gotta be specific because if it's not, you can't break it down into increments. How are you gonna break down a lot of money into increments? It's pretty tough to do. What is a lot of money divided by 12 months approximately? It makes no sense. All right, so that's the S. The M part of SMART is measurable, meaningful, and motivating, okay? So you've gotta be able to measure it. Now we can obviously measure money. That's pretty simple to do that. But what about sending out a lot of emails? I wanna send out a lot of emails. A lot is not measurable, okay? You gotta get rid of the word a lot or a whole bunch or any of those things because they're not measurable. You gotta say, I wanna send out 10,000 emails or 5,000 emails. Now those are meaningful and it's motivating to me too because if I send that out, I know I'm gonna get something back. So that's a measurable one. When we get to the A, the A is very, very important guys. A is very important and A stands for achievable, achievable. Is this something you can really do? Is this something that is achievable, okay? Now an example would be Roger Bannister who broke the four minute mile. You know, that was pretty amazing. He did that in the 50s, I believe. And when he broke that four minute mile, nobody had done that before. And that year, so many people did that after he did because they now said to themselves, well, that's achievable, that's something I can do. Now, if you were to go out today and you're not a runner and you're overweight and you say I wanna break the two minute mile, you probably are not gonna do that. That's probably not achievable. But you'll be amazed what you can achieve if you just try. Now, the R to smart is relevant but there's more to it than that. It's reasonable, realistic and resource results based. Okay, so that's a little bit of a long one but let's look at it first. Relevant has to do with, does it have to do with meeting all your other goals? Okay, is it out of the ordinary from all your other goals? Is it reasonable? Okay, is it something that you could do? In other words, if you wanted to lose 100 pounds and you say I wanna do that in 72 hours, that's unreasonable. That's unreasonable. You can't do that, okay? And that's not realistic, okay? And it's not resource because nobody's done that without having half their body chopped off, okay? So it's gotta be relevant. And then the last one, which is really important, I think this is where a lot of people fall down, is it's gotta be time bound. And what do I mean by time bound? That means you've gotta put a limit on this, okay? When we go to school in the first grade, they let you stay in the first grade for one year, okay? And then they send you to the second grade and you get one year there and then you go to the third grade. Now you don't say, well, you know, he's a really nice kid. We're gonna let him stay in the first grade for three years. Just a nice kid, you know? No, you say one year's enough. One year is enough in the first grade. One year's enough in the second grade. Now sometimes they'll hold somebody back, I get that but they don't just say, hey, arbitrarily, it doesn't matter how long he's in the first grade. Sure, he's 14 and a half now and he's starting to date but let's leave him in the first grade. They don't do that because it's gotta be a time bound goal, right? The first grade's a year and pretty much every grade after that is one year unless you mess up. So understand this time bound thing is really, really important. So let's get into this a little bit more depth. Let's take number one here, specificity. Be specific, okay? It should be very clear and specific. You gotta say to yourself, what do I wanna accomplish? Why is this goal important? Okay, you've gotta hit all these points here. Who is involved in this goal? Now, if you set a goal and you would have a website design but you're hiring somebody else to do it, you've got somebody else involved there so you've gotta factor that in. Are they gonna get things done the way they should get things done? Where is it located? Where is this goal? How is it gonna be? Is it a website somewhere? Is it a destination I'm going to? Which resources or limits are involved, okay? So let's say you go back to building that website there. You've got $100 to do it. You're gonna have a certain kind of website that's gonna come from 100 bucks. If you've got $10,000 to do it, you're gonna have an entirely different kind of website that's gonna be built. So that specificity is really important. Number two is the measurable part. Let's dig into that a little bit more. A measurable goal should address the following. How much? How much? It's really, really important, okay? If I'm selling products online, which I do, and I say, well, how much do I want to sell online? I need a number, a specific number. I may also break that down into units. So the next part would be how many? How many of these things do I want to sell? I got a course for $1,000 and I want to make $100,000. I know I need to sell 100 courses. Basically, 100 courses hit $100,000 at $1,000 apiece. And then the last part is how will I know it's accomplished? Let's go back to the website thing. You'll know it's accomplished when every part of that website's working, okay? That's when you know you got it accomplished. So how much, how many, and how will I know that it's accomplished are very, very important. And number three, achievable. We did talk about that a couple of minutes ago, but basically it's how can I accomplish this goal? How can I do it? What resources do I need? What resources do I have? So you've got to be able to say, is this going to be achievable? If it's not achievable, all the other things don't matter. But you will be surprised what you can achieve if you just try. Now, you want to be careful. You know, as an entrepreneur, I don't factor these things in because it doesn't matter to me. But when somebody else is involved in your goal, let's say you're on a job and you want to get that promotion, there's somebody else involved that's going to have to give you that promotion. You don't have the control over it that you want to have. You know, working for myself, I can set any goal I want and go ahead and achieve that goal because it doesn't matter what somebody else is doing. It's irrelevant to me. But if you're in a job and you're trying to set up goals like that, it's a little bit different. It's a little bit tricky. Number four, relevancy, okay? Is it relevant? Let's talk about that a little bit more. Does it seem worthwhile? Is this something that's worth it to you? I had different goals. I try to set one of them as I'm working on pull-ups right now. I have a pull-up bar in the backyard and you say, is this worthwhile? To me, it's worthwhile. To the average person, it may not be worthwhile. It may not make any difference to them. It's like, I don't care if I can do that or not. I do it because I want to be able to accomplish it, but I want to stay in shape. That's very important to me. So it's very worthwhile to me. Is this the right time to do it? Now, you could go back to my pull-up things and I turned 60 years old last year. You go, well, is this the right time to do pull-ups? I think it's a perfect time to do it. Now, somebody may say, well, that's insane. You shouldn't do pull-ups after 40. But those same people would say, well, you're 40 years old. You should be a little bit overweight. And I would ask those people, how many pounds overweight should you be at 40? Approximately. I mean, give or take. Right, okay. So that's what I thought. The next thing is, does this match our efforts and needs? Okay, am I willing to put forth the effort? The example of the pull-up out there is am I willing to go out there every day and do pull-ups? Is that something I'm willing to do? And the answer is yes, I am willing to do that. Not every single day of the week, but for the most part, most days of the week, I'm gonna do that because that's the goal I want to achieve. But are you willing to put forth the effort to achieve your goal? You gotta ask yourself that. And the last one that I told you about, I wanna go over one more time, time bound. How can we do this? So time bound goal usually will answer these questions right here. The first one is when? When is it gonna happen? Okay, when is it gonna happen? When do I want to achieve this goal? When do I wanna make this amount of money? When do I wanna have this website done? When do I wanna have this email sequence completed? When do I wanna launch my course? All of these things have to have that time in there. And the next one, time bound, what can I do six months from now? What can I do six weeks from now? What can I do today? In other words, you need to break down that timeline when you achieve the goal and where you're at today and what you need to do to get to that point. This is the smart goal tool. This works. It's worked in factories. It's worked in offices. It's worked in sports. It's worked in business. It works, but you have to apply it. Because if you're not achieving your goals, odds are there's part of the smart goal system that you're not following. If you follow this system, you'll get there because you've got an achievable goal and you've got a timeline and it's something you wanna do and it's something you can do and it will happen as long as you put forth the effort. Now I will tell you, one of the biggest factors in people not achieving their goals is effort, effort. Effort's painful, guys. And a lot of us will experience some pain and we're like, well, that's not worth it. That's not comfortable. This isn't comfortable. But what's even more uncomfortable, let's say your goal is money. Let's say you wanna make X number of dollars because you wanna pay off some bills and you wanna go on a vacation and you say, well, I started doing this online business, J.R. and I tell you, it was really hard and I was having to stay up late and I missed some of my TV shows and I just don't think it's worth it. I just don't think it's worth it. To do all this I've gotta do to make some money online. And then I ask you, I say, why? And you say, well, it's painful. It's hard to do. It's difficult. It's uncomfortable. All right, what is more uncomfortable? A year from now, having a stack of mail and the stack of credit cards and money that you owe because you didn't go through a little bit of effort and go through a little bit of pain, what's more painful? Opening all those envelopes? Yeah, I think that's a lot more painful. Owing all those debts? Yeah, that's a lot more painful. Not being able to quit your job because you owe all these bills because you're stuck. You gotta have that income. You gotta have that monthly income. How nice would it be? Not to have all those bills and be working for yourself if that's what you chose to do. Now, some of you out there, you're finding your job and I'm not talking to you if that's the case. If you're in your job and you're happy, you won. But if you're not, you need to put forth the extra effort. You need to have some pain. That experience of pain is right on the other side of success. And that's what keeps most people from success is they hit that wall of pain and they're like, I'm not doing that. I am not doing that. Being successful online or in sports or anything else is being able to do things that other people just won't do. If you're doing things other people won't do, you're probably gonna be terribly successful. Congratulations to you. That's a good thing. Now, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, do me a favor, put your comments below. Tell me what you think of this video. Give me a thumbs up. Give me a thumbs down. I don't know, put something down there. Tell me what you've done to achieve your goal. Tell me what you have achieved. I wanna hear. So does everybody else. We wanna hear what you've got to say. Put that below. Also, don't forget I have a $97 course. You can get absolutely free. There's a link below in the description. It's click and learn, simple and easy. 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