You pick an hour when you have a lot of energy. Sit down and write down everything you could ever possibly want in life. All the stuff, houses, cars, boats, jet skis, planes but the important thing is, take the lid off your brain. Imagine if you write it down, you are going to get it. If you want a yacht, private island or jet, don't limit yourself because there is truly nothing you can't do, be or have.
Look at Elon Musk, $3 billion startups. Don't tell me you can't make something happen. You can. There's that. Write down everything you can think of. Also, write down all the things you want to do, not just the stuff. Maybe you want to write a book and all the places you want to go to as well. I've got a travel vision board behind my green screen. Write down all those places.
Maybe you want to climb every mountain over 14,000 feet or jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I did that and I will never do it again. Whatever you want to do, write it down. Also, write down if there's a skillset you want to learn. If you want to learn multifamily real estate, come spend a couple of days with me. I will give your readers a code. You can come for $100 and I don't even sell anything there. It's eighteen hours of training for $97 if you are interested in this business.
Lastly, you want to write down who you want to help. We will do more for others than we will do for ourselves. That's the fuel. The goals are important. At the end of this process, I will explain why they are not the most important but you need them to push you, pull you and keep you focused on what you want, not what you don't want. Once you can't think of another thing, I want you to put down how many years you think it's going to take you to achieve each goal.
For those of you who are analytical, don't stop and analyze your answers to this. Keep writing as you are writing the goals and don't overanalyze how long it's going to take. Guess at it and throw a number down there, 1, 3, 5, even 10 or 20. It's human nature to overestimate what we can do in a year and massively underestimate what we can do in 5, 10 or 20 years.
Let me pre-frame this. I'm going to give you some examples and this is not me bragging. I'm just hoping to inspire you if you are reading this. When I was eighteen, I knew I wanted to live on the beach. There's no beach in Denver but I would visualize the palm trees, sand and surf. Twenty years later, I ended up building this $8 million, 10,000-square foot house on the beach, which was frankly unthinkable when I was eighteen. The point I'm making here is don't limit yourself.
Put a number by each goal and then I want you to pick your number one goal. That goal when you get it, you are like, "This is incredible. You have arrived." Put it on another piece of paper and then pick your top three one-year goals. You've got four goals. Put your number one goal and top three one-year goals on a separate sheet of paper and leave room in between them.
At this point, you are ahead of 99% of the people on the planet that do a New Year's resolution that's forgotten by February but there are a couple of more quick steps. The goals are important. You need them. They are going to push, pull and propel you but why they are a must is the real fuel. You need to write down why you have to achieve each one of those goals and use emotionally charged words. Words are very powerful and you want to utilize them. Words like amazing, beautiful, incredible and words that are going to juice you. You might say, "I can show my kids what incredible success looks like. I can show my wife what it means to live a life of amazing abundance." Use emotionally charged words so we can have the freedom to do whatever, whenever, wherever and bring whoever we want.
Once you've got a positive reason why it's a must, add a little second piece here. Put some pain in there if you don't achieve the goal and make it hurt so I don't feel like a failure, fail my kids, husband or wife and live a life of regret. Many people fear failure. Fear of regret is a lot worse. There was this hospice nurse in Australia named Bronnie Ware. She took care of patients at the end of their lives. She asked them a question and the question was, "Do you have any regrets?" She even wrote a book about it called
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The number one regret was, "Not living the life I could have lived, living someone else's life and not doing what I know what I'm capable of." I can't think of anything worse than that.