 Hey, also, we're going to be talking about goal setting. So this is my biggest secret around setting goals for 2022. Cheers, y'all. All right, so I just got off alive. I did a live for somebody, and it was talking about goals. And he's in his 20s, and he's like, hey, what would you do differently in your 20s knowing what you know now versus your 30s, 40s, and I'm not 50 yet, by the way. But what's up, Veronica? How are you? What's up, Anpeg? But I want to share with you all the concept around goal setting that I've gotten to learn to have obviously great, great success. But also, one of the biggest things that I see that people miss, and it's unbelievable how much I see people miss setting themselves up. But so I've been very fortunate. I've traveled around the world, and I asked a lot of times the same questions because honestly, what else do you really have to talk about? You can't just have new topics all the time, right? It's really the same stuff over and over and over again. But here's the reality is that I have people, and I use Michael as one of these people to just talk to you. What's up, Mike? How are you, brother? But in the chat, do me a favor. What is your goal for 2022? Let's see if I have it here. Ah, I don't, right in front of me. But anyway, I have a whole training around this. But the biggest thing is when I get people who I ask them what their goals are, it's kind of like they're not sure. And so I want you to be honest with me. Who doesn't really kind of know what they want? Like if I ask, what do you want? What do you want in the world? What do you want in life? A lot of people don't really know. And so my advice to the 20-year-old was go say yes to a lot of things and go figure out what it is you want so that when you're 30, 40, 50, 60, you kind of have an idea of stuff that you're wanting to achieve in your life, the impact you want to make. Maybe it's a tangible, maybe it's a material thing, maybe it's an impact in other people's life thing. Working on my goals, hard to believe I can manifest them. Yes, but what are those goals, right, Ampeg? And so the first thing I realize is a lot of people don't actually have goals. Or if they have a goal, it's so arbitrary that they actually can't even figure out, like how do you know if you achieve it or not? So this is a good example. People say, hey, I want better health in 2022. I'm like, how do you know it's even better? Like how do you perceive that to be? Because it's a perception, right? We know with pain, people that are in pain, you can literally, people can have perception of pain. It's really kind of crazy. If they have, let's say, eight out of 10 pain level, right? And then we get them to get healthier and they start feeling better. And literally, they can do 100% more activity, meaning they can go to the gym, they can work out, they can pick up their kids. But yet they still perceive their pain levels are the same, right? So how do you measure that? So you can't really measure health, but you can measure 10 push-ups. You can measure a run in a marathon. You can measure a weight goal. So having tangible things to measure are great ways to show you that you're progressing towards, I call them steps in the ladder to a North Star, something that's bigger than yourself, something big and global. My goal is to lose 10K of fat and gain 5K of muscle. That is awesome. Hubba, bubba, bubba, bubba, ba-da-boota. I don't know how, from boo-ba-boota. Is that boo-da, boo-hoo-da? I don't know if I'm saying that right, but to Apollo, I love that. But that's very tangible. So I like tangible goals that give you very specific data. Because keep in mind, this could always change. But here's, this is a tip for you all. If everybody doesn't have a goal, you're like, I'm having a hard time putting my foot on a goal. I go to Canada all the time, and I swear none of them have financial goals there. It's like, it's unbelievably have no financial goals. Because they're like, oh, R-A-I, it's good enough. I'm like, but what is your goal? They actually have dreams. They have these huge dreams that they wanna live, but they're afraid to talk about them. And there's a key in there. When you talk about your goals, they're more likely to come true. There's some books that talk about that too. But here, write this down. This is a book I would recommend. If you have a hard time finding goals or figuring goals out, this is a book I would write down. High School Wrestling Clinics, Local Wrestling Association, sweet. My wife just texted me that. Futureboards, hashtag futureboards. This is a great way to help spark in your brain the idea of things that you might, and it's not just tangible things. It's not just a car or a house or a watch or a purse. Those are okay too. It's okay to have. Having a goal gives you a purpose to move towards something in your life. I think it's really, really important. But that is one idea. So if you don't have a goal, or if you have a hard time finding goals, I'm gonna give you two tips. One tip is to get this book. The other tip, and this is a secret I had to learn. I got lost in my 20s, my late 20s, and I found that I was searching for nothing. I didn't have a mission and goal. I spent my whole life working towards stuff. And then one day I woke up and I just felt like I had no ambition to work towards anything. And it was a dark time in my life. I think anytime you're not working towards a better future for yourself, and your family, or yourself first, and your family, your loved ones, I think people are the most lost. Be honest, that's just what I believe. Now you might say that you're the most zen to make a challenge that. I don't know if I agree. I think humans by the nature are pack animals. We're pack, we like to impact people and be around people. In general, that's the majority. But here's the other secret. If you can't find your goal, there's a really easy way to help you get there is surround yourself. This is the second one. So setting the goal, I have the three P's. Have a purpose, meaning set a goal for something that's purposeful you in your life. Number two is surround yourself with the right people. So here's the cool thing. If you don't have a goal, and I was very fortunate to be in an area in Southern California where I surrounded myself with fricking awesome people. And what they did is they got me believing in dreaming again. They showed me the impact that you can make. Brian Stenzer's a good friend of mine, just moved to Florida. Martin Choi, Dr. Ian Riley, Neil, Darren. I mean, I can go for days. There's so many of Scott. There's so many people that had made such a big impact because they were chasing their life. They were obviously, they were living their life going after their dreams. And when I got around those individuals, I realized that there was so much more I could do. So if you're right now struggling for your health goal, or your financial goal, or your life goal, get around people that have what you want and be with them, get with them. And now the only rule is you can't be the Debbie Downer. Apologize that your name is Debbie, but you can't be the Debbie Downer. You have to go with the flow. You have to say yes, you have to encourage them. You can't try to hold them back from their goals because you're not seeing your goals. And that can be very tricky sometimes. You might find yourself saying about them, wow, their heads are in the clouds. I can't believe they don't really need another house. Well, heck, I want 10 more houses. Why? Because I have some really cool things I want to do in my future and I want to make an impact on a lot of lives and it has to do with a lot of cool things, right? So you can't put down those other people's goals, but go surround yourself with those people that have big goals and visions and dreams and it'll get you going in that direction. Now the alternative is you go hang around people at work or people at home that don't have goals and dreams. What are you going to do? You're going to have less goals and dreams. If you want to lose over 100 pounds, go hang out with Aunt Peg and do what she does. Because I guess what? She's done it. She's lost way over 100 pounds, by the way. Congratulations, Aunt Peg. So that's the number two piece. Surround yourself with the right people. And number three is you have to develop a plan to achieve your goal. We had this idea, this mindset a little bit of, I love thinking, girl, Rich, if you haven't watched, read the book, thinking, girl, Rich, I'm on number seven times. I'm on seven times right now going through it again and again and again because I keep learning and growing. I got to keep doing the basics that make the difference. But it's not about thinking and go Rich and sit on a couch and be zen and let the world come to you. That's not how it works. You got to put a plan together. You got to go out and go accomplish it. And the plan is, looks like this. If you want to lose 100 pounds, find out what Aunt Peg did and then do what she did. Now, guess what? Your plan might be a little different than your plan, but it's probably a good path on the direction that you need to go. If you want to go financially make, I meet a lot of people that go, I want to make a million dollars. But the question is, is how many people that they know that have made a million dollars, are they willing to do what that person did to make it each year? That's the question you have to ask yourself. And if not, you either got to change your goal or change the person that did it with less time and less effort, if that makes sense. You got to find the person that won the lottery or whatever else they did. But the idea here is you got to find a plan to accomplish that. I find too many people, I'm in the health of fitness space, right? And they go, I want to get big and buff. I got a lot of dudes. All my dudes out there, they want to be big and buff. Any dudes out there that want to be big and buff? I get it all the time. I'm like, well, what are you going to do? They might go to the gym a couple of times. No, that's not going to work. The guys that they're trying to look like literally go to the gym five, six times a week for 12 years, for 15 years. I've been going to the gym. I get my first weight set when I was eight years old. And I'm not nearly as buff as I used to be, but I can get buff pretty easy. Why? I have a lot of years set into that. So my whole point of that is, is that when you have a plan, you got to have a plan that's going to work and you got to follow through the plan. Too many people stop short. So the reason why most New Year's resolutions don't work long-term and the biggest secret to setting goals is you got to figure out what it is you want. If what you want isn't exciting to you, you're going to quit. I'm going to let that sink in for a second. If what you want, here's the deal. I actually, I'll tell you a story. You guys, if you know me, I love my mom. She's a big part of my life. And my mom went through a lot of ups and downs and challenges and she lost her husband, my stepdad. And we were sitting down having this talk and you could tell and I go, mom, what do you want to do? What do you want your future to be? My mom was like, I think roughly 60 at the time or 59 at the time. And she was lying to me about what she wanted to do. It sounded great, by the way. It sounded magnificent when she said it. What she said that came out of her mouth sounded good, but the way she said it didn't sound good at all. It was very uninspiring. So if you sit down with me and I'm going to see some of you guys in Nashville, some of you guys in Kentucky here soon and you tell me your goals, I hope you got to give me full permission. When you talk to me, I'm going to give you full permission to, I'm going to call you a liar if you're lying to me. My point to this is that when you talk about your goals, it should get you fired up. When Aunt Peg talked about losing 150 pounds, I was fired up. When Kathy Barry talked about breaking 200 pounds lost, you felt it. Well, guess what? If you're excited about your goal, you're more likely to pursue it. Now, here's the challenge. If you don't have a goal in mind that's really concrete in your mind, you tend to quit faster. So you have to do, you have to support yourself. You have to go find ways to get ambitious about a goal. You have to go put tools and resources around you and you have to surround yourself with the right people. I'm always fearful of not having a goal because I want you to be clear. Goal is just a benchmark of making progress in your life. That's what a goal is. It's a benchmark of making progress in your life. It's nothing more than that. It's not a winning and losing thing. I set goals out. I choose to, I set a goal that I was going to run an Ironman and I still haven't done it yet. I set that goal when I was 21 years old after I ran the marathon. I go the only other marathon I'll ever run in my life is when I run the Ironman. I lost the use of my leg. I got my head smashed in. I got diagnosed with autoimmune disorder and I never accomplished that goal. I don't know if I'm ever going to go after that goal because now the risk and reward isn't maybe that good for me. It doesn't matter. I don't care. Maybe that's a goal I never go after but guess what? I can replace that goal with 35 other ones that are more impactful to the world maybe than myself, right? So, hey listen, if you have a goal that doesn't resonate with you here if you're not excited about it, guess what? You're probably not going to do it. You're probably not going to do it. So, what I want you to take away from this live is if you don't have a goal, put it in my chat and put it in the chat right now. If you are working with us with a provit, a leader, a leader in provit, I want you to tag them in this. I want you to reach out to them, say I need to set a freaking goal that I want to be excited about. Because I tell you excitement about a goal is number one. If you don't have that, it's okay. Then I want you to come and get around our community get around people that have goals and you will start to find yours. You'll start to find your goals. Okay, number two is then who has achieved those goals that you've achieved or want to achieve? Sorry, you're going to achieve. Surround yourself with those individuals. And I can't express this more. I learned this 12, not quite 12 years ago, probably nine years ago. I got to learn that. And guess what? I was in the most lonely time of my life. It literally in North Carolina, I had no friends by me. My wife was fully immersed in her life and her business and her law and all that stuff. And she had friends everywhere. And I just was kind of the other guy. I was the acquaintance that was the, I wasn't dumb, I was kind of cool to hang around with, but I wasn't a friend with anybody. I had to go find virtual resources of people that I wanted to spend time with. And I started getting into books. I started watching DVDs and videos. And yes, DVDs, old school, old school. And I had to immerse myself with people that thought differently, that operated differently. That was a way to get away from the noise that was in between my ears. Anytime I had to block out negativity. I had to block out TV shows that I didn't wanna be around it. I got to learn that. I was very fortunate to learn that. I'm gonna encourage that for you. For 2020, surround yourself with people in your life, people virtually, people on social media, people, if you're listening to social media, people may have a lot of crap to say and negativity to say, ban them forever. And they might be your best friend. Ban them, go get around people that are inspiring, that wanna change lives. Go follow the Kathies, the Lins, the Aunt Pegs. Go follow the people that are going to change their life and changing into people's lives. And then the last one is throughout that process, develop your plan. Alicia, go follow Alicia, upper northeast. I'll see you soon, Alicia. I can't wait to hang out in Nashville. But literally like go find, then develop your plan to achieve your success, right? Too many people don't have a goal. They don't have a goal that they're excited about. Too many people don't surround themselves with the right people. And too many people don't have a plan to achieve the goals that they're achieving. And I'm telling you, that's the secret to success. And if you're coming to Nashville, we will be doing the North Star training, the latter training to the North Star. I also have something that I'm working on that's a secret. I'm not telling anybody. I'll be the only one that's gonna know about it. You won't know unless you show up. I'm so excited about it. I just decided about an hour ago that I'm gonna do it. Big shout out to Lynn for helping me get that all set up. And Kate, I appreciate you guys for doing that. Y'all, I gotta go. I'm actually drinking coffee. I'm a little warm. I've got keto cream in here and I'm a little sweaty because I'm all excited and I'm on that second floor. So with that said and done, let's enjoy. Let's enjoy 2022. Let's not quit until we achieve what we need to achieve. And if you don't have a goal, reach out to somebody that you can trust, that you know that you can relate to. Yes, Angela, you're coming to Nashville too. I almost dropped my coffee on the floor. I told Angela about Florida, which I haven't been talking about. Hey, Melanie, you come to Nashville too. And I forgot to tell her about Nashville, but that's probably just as close to you. We're doing a team event in Nashville 22nd, 23rd of this month. I'll be coming right off of the heels of Keto Academy doing the largest education event in the world, virtually. It'll be really, really cool. We'll write into a team event. It looks like we're gonna have, I won't tell you any more details. So you have to just wait for the rest of the details. But y'all, reach out to whoever it is you're working with and have a one-on-one with them. Sit down and figure out your goals. If you don't know your goals, listen. Get this book and spend time. Go find the winners that you wanna be around and just hang out with them. And just be the cool person when you hang out with them. You can't complain, you can't be sassy. You gotta just go there, put a smile on your face and listen, right? Because you're there to learn about how to dream and live your life to the fullest. And that's really the secrets. That's it, those three, right there. Gotta go, cheers y'all. I'm just excited, I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go anywhere, I'm just gonna have a little drink, one second. I'll just have a go this time, bye guys.