 What is that family lecture from the MD journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress? This video we're going to talk about flipping your goals on its head. All right guys, what is going on? Hopefully you guys are having a fantastic day. I know I started the video with a kind of a weird statement which is flipping your goals on its head but I want to give you first the normal way of people approach their goals and I want to give you a really interesting quote in the middle so stay tuned for that. Now I'm going to give you something and challenge you to transform how you perceive your goal as you're going to be much more successful if you look at things this way. When I ask you what are your goals, if you're in medicine you hear this question all the time what's where do you want to be in five to ten years and you have some big ideas right like you want to become if you're a pre-med you want to go to this med school if you're in med school you want to become this specialty your plan of residency then you may think about things beyond residency where you want to live what kind of practice you want to you have vagals right and to accomplish those vagals you may say I need a work hard I need to make the grades maybe consistent I need to be determined and those are fine those are true but they won't continue to motivate you every single day right there are days where you know you need to work hard where you need to be consistent determined but the the attractiveness of being lazy procrastinating sleeping in all of those are more encouraging than the things that just mentioned I do it too there are days where I should be motivated and should want to do my work but honestly sleep sounds much more attractive and so that process of going from present to future gold mines doesn't always work so I'm going to give you a quote I love quotes so I'm going to say this twice because hopefully it hits home how would the person that I want to be do the things that I'm about to do I'm going to say it again how would the person that I want to be do the things that I'm about to do when I first heard this like it was mind-blowing because it's so true we take goal setting from a present to a future mindset and honestly the steps that we put ourselves in which is get good grades stay determined are not you know really realistic steps they're just kind of directions and often we don't always follow the directions as I mentioned but if you use this mindset of thinking as your future self you know if you want to become a cardiologist if you want to go to Harvard med school and is totally listing out examples but if you want these specific goals think of yourself in that perspective of the person that's already accomplished if you want to get to med school that's your main goal think of the person that's already think of you that's already gotten to med school you know a year two years whatever your time frame is and ask yourself what would that future me tell current me to do today tomorrow next week and you're going to be very realistic with yourself you're going to say that future me is probably going to tell me to get off of youtube so after this video the future me is going to tell me to make sure I wake up on time the future me is going to tell me to make sure I have a schedule to get more organized whatever it may be you're going to be very realistic with yourself when you start to talk as your future successful self because you know that there are certain things holding you back and your habits and your practices that are not going to lead you to your future self so your future self you know you talking to yourself right now are going to be able to identify those much easier and you can do that day and then day out you can get eventually closer to your future self eventually you're going to get there right and then you keep moving the finish line further down then when you are in med school you're saying okay I want to go to this residency and the specialty so then you start talking as that physician that's already in residency what would they tell your current self you know what would they tell you how they tell you to study degree step one how they tell you to do on your rotations think about things in that perspective it's not just medicine right every type of thing that you want to get good at whether it's relationships if you have a significant other if you're married if you're a parent you have certain goals in those aspects too so versus just being vague and saying I want to be a good husband for my wife ask yourself what your successful you know husband uh self would look like in two to three years and then see what advice that person would give you today what would you do for your significant other same thing if your parents so think about things in that perspective hopefully this was a different take on how we often assume gold setting and that's why I said reverse it on its head because I think if you go from a future to present approach you will be able to look at things very meticulously you'll be very critical but in a positive way and you're going to make the steps every single day more often than not to eventually become the person you want to be so remember that how would the person that I want to be do the things that I'm about to do and I'm going to leave it at that hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you want more videos like this give this video a like first of all comment down below with any questions comments suggestions and I'll be happy to reply and follow up but that's it for this video give this video like if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel if you 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