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I do not have any questions for today’s podcast. But then this is something that had been on the back of my mind for a long time, I have been talking to a lot of people about goals, goal setting, action, taking commitments, and all that. So I wanted to, I was looking for an opportunity to talk about this. So here we are, it’s a Friday.
So welcome back to Success with Srini. I want to keep this very simple, given this is the weekend. Let’s see where this goes. Okay, so here’s the problem. I highlighted this problem multiple times on the podcast, which is people set simple goals, they achieved them, and they feel good about themselves. My message and my observation with myself and the people that I have worked with are there has to be a goal that you need to set that is almost impossible to achieve. But if you achieve it, it’s going to not only change your life but will change the lives of many other people who are directly dependent on you. Connected to you, correlated to you, whatever. Not only that, but everybody else literally changes everybody else’s life changes multiple lives. The impact has to be big, it has to be huge. But chances are you will never be able to achieve that goal. There has to be a pursuit of that goal. There are three goals that are in my life that I want to pursue, and I continuously pursue them. I know it’s not going to happen. Of the two of them, I don’t think they will happen. One of them is a high possibility it may happen, but I’m not sure but still impossible. Now, here’s the fun part. When I set myself up for these goals, I knew they are going to be impossible. But my goal was to make them possible. There are many goals that I’ve set for myself, and I have achieved them, there are goals that I keep setting for myself, and I achieved them. In fact, last night, I set a goal for myself, I want to achieve in the next two weeks. At the start of October, I set a goal for myself in a 90-day goal for myself. And I’m working on it.
So here’s where I’m going with this, I’m going to spend the next couple of minutes, I’m going to explain why you should have at least one goal that is impossible to attain. And I’m going to share with you the backstory, I’m going to give you one goal that I set for myself, which was impossible. And hopefully, it is becoming possible, we’ll see. When you set impossible goals, there are three things that will happen, for sure happen to me, I’m seeing it happening to others, very sure it’s gonna happen to you. Number one, you will learn, you will learn at a level that is very difficult to learn from seeing other people do or from books or listening to a podcast like this, you will learn at a whole different level. And depending upon how quickly you want to go after this impossible goal, you may learn things faster. There are mistakes you’re gonna make. And from those mistakes, you will discover yourself at a whole different level. But the most important part of all this is you want to understand the gap between where you stand and who you want to become that gap will be understood. I’m not saying how to bridge the whole thing, because bridging the whole gap means that you attain that goal. And this is an impossible goal. So the goal is not to really really attain it. But then all the good things that will come as a result of that are what is going to help you attain other goals. So you learn new lessons as a part of that you understand the gap. And you keep the brain active. That’s a bigger one. You’ll keep the brain active with new learnings right brain, and the left brain all these things magic, magical things happen. Okay, the second part to this is you’re going to break from your comfort zone very very quickly. We live our life in zones. We have a friend zone comfort zone seclusion zone, somewhat you know rushed zone, different zones. And the bottom line is we want to do things that we are comfortable with. We don’t want to try new things we don’t want to break the patterns that we are familiar with. So allows you to break your comfort zone but there is something else. If this is done the right way. You’re going to raise and set a new Comfort Zone altogether. Think about that for a second. The last one is a big one. When you set impossible goals, there is a high possibility that you will meet, interact and spend time with high achievers. When you spend time with high achievers, you unconsciously model them.
I was recently taught to someone, and I discourage them to come into my coaching program. And the reason behind that was, I told them, You don’t need me. And I don’t think you need anybody or any mentor. See, sometimes we want to the mind go there. Yeah, we’ll hire a mentor and get this done. Getting a mentor in a way that is outsourcing is thought of as outsourcing route tasking. I have a mentor. So I don’t, I don’t worry about they’ll do it. For me. Usually, mentors don’t do anything for you, to guide you, you have to do it, but there is this expectation that okay, I have to because there is a mentor, I can innovate, ask my mentor to do something for me. But when you surround yourself with high achievers, you automatically unconsciously move towards and model them. So I discourage this gentleman, I said, don’t need, you don’t need a mentor. You don’t need me, you need an environment within which you can work with. And you can experience high achievers. I’ll give you an example. Many, many years ago, I set a goal for myself to go climb Everest, I talked about this multiple times on this podcast. It was very important, but it was very difficult. It was a difficult, not the physical aspect is obviously difficult, because you have to put in days and days and months and you know, years of effort to really get yourself physically there. But then, so many things you have to work through emotionally, mentally, and all that. So there is a lot of moving a lot of variables have to come together for that goal to happen. But I learned a lot through the process. I did come out of my comfort zone before you know hiking six miles or five miles was difficult. But then I got into a pattern of literally, now I have a higher zone even though I’m not actively working towards going to Everest as much as I do here and there. But most of the time 678 10 miles a day twice a day is easier. No big problem. Not a big deal at all. Of course, as a part of this pursuit, I went to multiple mountains and met some incredible achievers, and the conversations are priceless.
That mindset is priceless. And my ability to model something in real-time is priceless. As I said at the beginning of this podcast, I said when you set a goal and achieve it, you can literally change the world. We’re talking about mountaineering, we’re talking about averaging the goal that I had for myself, George Mallory and Sandy Irwin set themselves up this impossible task literally to get to the highest point on the earth, which is Mount Everest. And George Mallory attempted that a couple of times I think I could be wrong. But in the last attempt with Sandy Ervin, both of them died and died on the mountain. And George Mallory died very young, he was only 37 years old. And eventually, in 1999, his body was found literally, and there is a debate about whether he succeeded or not did he summit both of them submitted their horror, but the bottom line. It’s now known that they were carrying a camera. And the goal was to find the camera the camera was not found Sandy Ervin was not found but George Mallory’s body was found and his jacket was found. But George Mallory did something before leaving for Everest. He told his wife Ruth that he was going to take a photograph, he will carry his wife’s photograph and you need to leave the photograph on the summit. That photo was not found in a jacket. So we don’t know whether he’s submitted it or not. But here is the case. In this entire effort and story, George Mallory did something that he inspired and motivated hundreds and 1000s and 10s of 1000s of people to attempt Mount Everest. And his set forward, an incredible, incredible feat, which is of which most people don’t credit, which I was also not aware, which is George Mulder and his team at that point in time became one of the first to go beyond 8000 meters. So George Mallory got up to 26,247 feet on Mount Everest, which is almost 8000 feet, and was the first so if there is any first. So whether he’s he got on to the summit or not is debatable.
And let’s say they did not, but then you can’t debate the fact that they got to over 1000 meters, and they were the first in the world at least George Mallory was. So set goals that are hard. They’re not impossible. So you motivate, and you inspire a whole generation of people. You know, as I’m talking about George Mallory, Mount Everest, and I’m just having goosebumps, literally. Okay, I’m gonna stop here. Hopefully, this is helpful. If it is, let me know.
And tomorrow, I’ll have some more time to go back and check my inbox. I think I heard some I flagged a few of the emails from questions that have come in. And then I also scan my text messages to see some of the questions that I did not answer yet on the podcast. I’m going to get to them. So go enjoy your Friday. I will catch up with you tomorrow. Thank you.