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Welcome back to Success with Srini. Today on the podcast, I want to extend the same thought I had yesterday. Yesterday I talked about how to go from fear to freedom I talked about, you can achieve financial success, you can attain all kinds of material success, whatever success you always thought about, you could, but then once, after attaining that success, if you continue to stay in fear, then you have not achieved the freedom. And this is all about attaining freedom, all this life, the pursuit in life is to attain freedom. So, I’ll extend the same thought a little bit today. And we’ll talk about goals. And we’ll talk about obstacles. Okay, you have goals, you’ve identified goals, you have written down your goals somewhere, maybe you read you should? If not, because I’ve been driving that on this podcast for a very long time you need to have your goals written down somewhere. Now that you have your goals in place, the question is, as you’re trying to get to those goals, you are encountering obstacles. And if you’re truly you truly are going after your goals, it is expected that you will be faced with obstacles. There’s no way out. It’s not simple, there isn’t a is a simple path to any goal that’s worth going after. So there will be obstacles questions have become says, How can you go after the goals? When do things become tough? Here is what I have seen personally, people who sustain or survive, or just stay with their goals are the people who really know what they’re after. And people who quit, are those people who were looking for a reason to quit? Honestly, they never were committed to begin with.
So everything starts with you precisely knowing why you are doing something that you are doing. I have a clear objective for doing this podcast. I have cleared objects between everything I do. So I have it in my mind. I know what I’m going after. And because of that, there are many obstacles. By the way, there are many obstacles, but then I’m staying on the course because I expected these obstacles. I’m committed, I know the end outcome. And I’m going with the process along with the flow. It’s also important that people have goals that are all over the place. Okay, it goes back to the point where do you know exactly what you’re going after? Do you know exactly what it is that you are trying to achieve? And the big goal part is okay, you probably figured that out already. You probably have written that down. But then do you have all the short goals leading to that big goal? That’s the question. I have been insisting here on this podcast to have your short-term goals, very short and precise. Don’t write long, big descriptive goals for your short-term goals. That precise, the singular, like one-liners. And you know, you got to get them done. And you will get them done. So I have goals that I’ve set for today. And I want to get them done. And they are one-liners, I’m not writing a whole long descriptive paragraph about what I want to achieve today. I don’t have time, and I’m going to get them done. So precise, short goal descriptions for short term goals, they quickly can be achieved, they should be and they add up to that bigger goal, which which is drawn out like maybe three or six months down the road. Now, as I’m pursuing these goals, as I’m pursuing these things that I need to get done, I’m also infusing elements
of everyday life into it.
For example, one of my goals was to go climb Everest. And for that one year, for one full year, there were multiple short-term goals that I had to achieve. And while I was going out for the short-term goals, I was infusing my life. Every part of my life was about this, this whole process of climbing mountains, I was watching videos, I was reading books, I was reading the stories of people who achieve these mountains. You know, I was studying every element of a mountain, literally, I mean, climbing, hiking, running everything that I could consume information, training, coaching, whatever I could consume, I was everything every moment of my life was about the climb and people who know me during the time they know me how I was loving every moment of my life, just in that frame.
Now, while I was doing this, I was also constantly talking positively of myself, not allowing any other negative talk to come in not allowing anybody around me to talk to me negatively, and none of that stuff. And I was constantly reflecting upon my efforts to reinforce order, and persistence in myself. So what I mean by that is, I would go back and look at my last four or five days’ performance and say, Okay, I’ve done this, today, I’m would improve this, or today is going to be better than that, or at least I’m going to meet the standards that I achieved five days ago. So kind of reinforcing by reflecting upon the past effort, so that I stay constantly positive along the way. Now, these are some ideas, how you how to deal with obstacles, and along the way, many came in specifically for the average project, many things came in the middle, I’ll tell you, there were days when I woke up in the morning, and I like, Nah, I can’t do this. I just want to go sleep for a couple of more hours, but I had to wake up early 435 o’clock in the morning, and then push myself no early morning cardio, then come back, rest and then have some diet and then go back and do a little bit of strength training in the late morning, then come back, sleep, whatever, and then go back in the evening and do some lifting and all that so and alter the alternate the schedule, do strength training in the morning and cardio in the evening and cardio in the morning and all that so all kinds of permutation combinations. And there were obstacles along the way.
But here’s the truth, life will throw more obstacles your way. And Ryan Holliday said, the obstacle is the way if you have obstacles, that means you’re doing something meaningful, in my personal experience, you are challenged. That means something about you is right. That’s why you’re challenged. You’re facing heartburn, you’re facing heartbreak, you are emotionally down, that means you’re doing something right. Right, something right. The key is to stay focused. If you take your daily goals, or your life goals, to take a life goal and make them a part of your daily life and use positive self-talk you will become unstoppable. That’s the truth. Take a life goal. Make them part of your life, and you become unstoppable. And you have positive self-talk. So life goals. Take your life goals, make them a part of your daily life, and use positive self-talk. And you’ll become unstoppable. I hope today’s podcast episode is helpful if it is, you know this, I keep repeating myself. Keep asking the same thing they did write a review, share it with a friend or a family member who you think you believe will benefit from this. And if you have a question for me, you know how to reach me.
That’s all for now. I’ll catch you again tomorrow with another question may be from one of the podcast listeners or maybe one of my own ideas. We’ll see. Stay tuned.