The Goal System That Never Fails

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Hi, I'm Wes. Welcome to The Goal System That Never Fails. This is my favorite topic to talk about of all time.

I have covered this topic so many times. I do a lot of speaking, public speaking, seminars, trainings, things like that, working with a lot of different businesses, a lot of different individual clients.

And anytime, I always say I'm always ready if I have to give a presentation because I can always use what I'm going to share with you today in a presentation, and the people will get value out of it.

Now, this is something I've used to accomplish every meaningful thing that I've ever done in my life.

It's the way I lost weight when I needed to.

It was the way I lowered my A1C when I needed to.

It was the way I got my first book published.

It was the way I was able to stop working for other people and become an entrepreneur and work for myself.

It's the way I've been able to start my consulting businesses.

It's the way I was able to start my online businesses.

It's the way I've literally done everything of any importance in my entire life, is using this simple system.

Now, I know that some of you are saying right now that that's a clickbait title: The Goal System That Never Fails.

How can a goal system never fail?

Well, I'm going to share that with you.

I've got seven steps here that I use with every goal of any importance that I've ever achieved, and I still use this same system today.

This is how I start, work through, and finish every system I work on, every goal I work on, everything.

And the never fails part is in steps five, six, and seven, which I will share with you and explain to you why I call it the goal system that never fails.

So number one is decide what you really want, and this is the most important step.

We can say or think we want a lot of different things in life, but usually saying something and wishing something is different.

Sure, I wish I had a hundred million dollars, but saying that is what I really want requires me to do what it takes to get the hundred million dollars.

And so far in my life, I have not been willing to do what it takes to get a hundred million dollars.

So when I say decide what you really want, it's much deeper than just thinking or wishing.

You need to decide what you really want, and you need to commit, mostly mentally, to getting what you really want.

So it's very important to figure out, what do you really want? What is this goal that you want?

Ask yourself this: When you think about what you really want, think, am I willing to do whatever it takes to get this goal?

Because almost everything is possible when you set out a goal, but there's always a cost or a group of costs associated with accomplishing anything important.

You have to choose whether you're willing to do what it takes or not.

So that's why I say decide what you really want is the most important step here.

You need to make sure what you really want is what you say and that you're willing to do what it takes to get it.

So how do you know what it takes to get what you really want?

Step number two: find someone or a group of people that have done what you want to do, learn exactly how they did it, then copy what they did.

I know that sounds simple, and this is a simple, straightforward system.

Doesn't mean it's easy.

Find people that have done what you want to do, then copy what they did.

Learn everything that they did to accomplish what you want to accomplish.

I told you, I mentioned, it's how I got my first book published.

My first book was published, I don't know, probably 25 years ago, forever ago.

It has absolutely nothing to do with what I do now.

It was a book about games.

But growing up, I always wanted to be a published author.

And I didn't do a lot towards that for most of my time growing up, but when I started getting serious, I started looking at how other people had become published authors.

And I started doing the things that they did.

I found out how they did it, and then I did it.

And that ties in with step three.

Step two is find someone who's done it and copy them.

Step three is create your system or your plan based on what you learned, how someone else accomplished what you want to accomplish.

Break it down into the smallest steps possible.

That's step three.

Create a system or a plan based on what you learned in step two, and break it down into the smallest steps possible.

If you don't know what the first step is, you're in trouble.

Keep digging until you know what the first step is.

Then step number four: take immediate action on the first step.

This is the second most important step here.

The first step is the most important.

Decide what you really want, because you've got to get that right.

But if you never take action, step number four, take immediate action on your first step, you're never going to get anywhere.

So you've got to take action.

Now, I mentioned, if you don't know what the first step is, you're in trouble.

You need to learn more.

You need to research more.

You need to dig more.

But once you know what the first step is, you need to immediately take the first step.

You don't need to know step two through seven hundred and twelve yet.

All you need to know is what's the next step.

So you take action as soon as you've got the next step.

You know what it is.

You do it.

You take immediate action.

Now, so far, I'm getting ready to get into the never fails part.

Because it is very important.

But so far, decide what you really want.

Find someone who's done it, and copy what they've done.

Create a system or a plan based on what you've learned, how other people have done it, other things you can learn that are going to help you.

Break it into the smallest steps possible.

Then take immediate action on the first step, or immediate action on the next step.

Okay, that's the foundation.

Once you start taking action, step number five is evaluate.

Every time you take action, every time you do a step towards your goal.

This is a goal system, remember?

The goal system that never fails.

Every time you take the next step, evaluate what you learned.

Because now, you've started learning from other people that have already done what you wanted to do.

Then, you've started taking action.

You've created a plan.

You've put it into action.

You've taken the first step.

Now you've got more information.

You're learning how it's going to work for you following through these steps.

Because if it's a big goal, even if you know every step someone else took, it's probably not going to be exactly the same for you once you go through the steps.

But as long as you take action and you start evaluating what you learned from each step you take, that's valuable information.

And that leads to step number six.

You adjust based on your evaluations.

Now, every time you take a step, you learn more.

You evaluate that and you make adjustments to your entire plan.

Now, let me tell you something that happens every once in a while.

And this is why I told you step number one was the most important step.

Decide what you really want.

You can think you want something, say you decide on it, commit to it, and start going through all these steps.

And then eventually, here's what can happen if you didn't do step number one correctly.

If you didn't decide what you really want, eventually you'll be doing step five and six.

You'll be evaluating and adjusting.

And you'll realize that's not what you really wanted.

Now, the downside to that is you've spent a lot of time figuring that out.

The upside is that once you figure out you started with the wrong goal, then it's your plan and your goal, so you get to change it.

Right?

You are in control of your goal, your plan.

So you evaluate, you can constantly evaluate.

Evaluate everything you're doing when you're working on a goal system.

Consistently, constantly evaluate.

And then make adjustments.

And then, once you adjust, go to step seven.

Take immediate action on the next step.

Now, sometimes the adjustment is going to be simple.

Sometimes it's going to be a simple adjustment to the next step.

Oh, I tried this and it worked this way, but I learned that the next step would work better if I did it this way.

That's adjusting.

Evaluating, learning something, and adjusting.

Then you go back, you adjust your plan, and you take immediate action on the next step.

If it's simple, you make a simple adjustment.

If it's huge, like if you decide, well, this is not really what I wanted, then the adjustment is to adjust your goal and to start over.

But you're not even starting all the way over at that point, because you've already evaluated enough times and learned enough that you know more.

So the reason I say that this is the goal system that never fails is, you never lose until you quit.

And it's okay to end up with a different goal down the road than you started with.

It's your plan. You get to change it if you need to change it.

Now let me give you a simple one that hopefully will make sense.

Let's say your goal is, I want to make $100,000 a year.

So you go through this, you commit to it, you've found people that have done it, you've found out how they did it, you've picked the best way for you to do it, you've created your system or your plan, you've broken it into small steps, you've started taking the first step, then you evaluate, you adjusted, you took the next step, and let's say you got to $100,000 a year.

Good for you.

You accomplished that goal.

And that is a doable goal, by the way.

That's not what this is about.

But there's plenty of people who have done it.

I've done it.

You can do that anyway.

Then you've reached that goal.

What next?

Well, if you've done that, maybe your next goal is, I want to make $200,000 a year.

So you've already learned how to make $100,000 a year, you adjust, create a new goal or adjust your current goal, take immediate action on the next step, and go through the loop again.

It's simple if you do it and stick with it.

The only way you lose is if you quit.

You continue to adjust, evaluate, and adjust, and take an action.

So this is Wes, Your Life Systems.

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One last time through the seven steps.

The goal system that never fails: decide what you really want, find someone who's done it, copy what they did, create a system or a plan, break it into small steps, take immediate action on the first step, evaluate, adjust, and then take immediate action on the next step.

I hope this has helped you as much as it has helped me throughout my life.

Thanks for being with me.

What's Next?

·        Choose one goal and write down what you really want, not only what sounds good.

·        Ask whether you are willing to accept the likely costs required to pursue it.

·        Find someone who has already done something similar and study the path they took.

·        Break your plan down until you can clearly identify the first small action.

·        Take that action immediately, then write down what you learned.

·        Adjust the plan or the goal when the evidence tells you to, then take the next action.

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