Here is the complete transcript of the podcast
Today’s podcast is for you. If you’re struggling to set goals, welcome, or welcome back to successful Srini. Happy Sunday morning to you. I get this question, sometimes from people who listen to this podcast, and also from people who have been to my seminars, workshops, and even family get-togethers. Hey, I listen to the podcast, I am on your email. You talk about goal setting. I’m struggling with it. I understand the concept. Understand the principle I struggled with this. So in the last few days have been around, meeting a lot of friends, pre-Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, post-Thanksgiving, all that is going on. Or all that happened. Not I don’t want you to keep on happening. But it all happened. In one of the conversations, a friend of mine, a longtime friend, somebody who I look up to tells me that he’s struggling, coming up with some goals for next year. And he is a listener of this podcast, so he knows how serious I am. He wants my help. So he gives me this permission, or he commands me to set a goal for him.
So I know him I understand where he comes from. So it was easy for me to answer the question. But then thereafter, he tells me Srini, can you set a goal for my children? And hit children but not there? I’m like, okay, so you have three kids, and to set goals for all your kids. Okay. And they’re all over the place. So one is 28. One is I don’t know. So I said, Yeah, I can do that. If they listen, if they follow if they take it seriously, then I can. And as I was thinking about her children, that’s when this idea crossed my mind. Maybe I should do this for all. Everyone who is listening to this, you? I don’t know you, there is a high possibility I may not have met you. Why can’t I set a goal for you? The goal setting is easy because I did it for him and for the children. So the idea crossed my mind. And here I am comfortable Sunday morning, recording this podcast. So if I have to set a goal for you, what goals should I set? And how do I know which goal will work for you? That’s the question. That’s the answer to this podcast. Now, if you look at goals as such, that is you can wake up and set up any goal you want to set up for today. And chances are you may accomplish that goal. The question becomes says how do you set a goal that not only you achieve, but also explore yourself along the way, along the way, you explore yourself to such a level that other goals start to happen. Other things which you otherwise thought are not possible, will start to happen.
People around you start to see you differently. You internally feel good. You externally radiate energy and internally feel that you are Superman or Superwoman. You become unstoppable, you become invincible. That’s how I look at goals. So hundreds and 1000s of goals you can set, some could be done today, some could be done over the next week or the next month, or the next year. But which one should you choose? That is going to make sense and is going to bring all of them together, tie them together and make you this wonderful individual you want to become. That’s the question. Okay. So if I have to categorize all these goals, there are four or five categories. I talked about this multiple times on the podcast, you can group a bunch of your goals and call them financial goals. You can group a bunch of your goals and say these are my relationship goals. You can group a bunch of them together and say these are my personal goals. The physical goals. So you can put all these goals into different categories. That’s the point. Which category should you go after? The first and foremost category that I will go after which I’m going myself, by the way, is the physical category, your health, physical health, mental health, and physical health. Something that can be measured something that’s tangible. If you work at it, it’s going to produce results. So for my friend, I set this goal for him and I’m setting this goal for you, which is in the New Year, the Year 2023. One goal I have set for him is to go and hike to Everest base camp. Why Everest base camp? Why not anything else? Because Everest base camp is an easy trek, that can be relatively accomplished. Relatively accomplished, which means it’s relatively easy to track. That’s the point relatively easy track, easily accomplished can be done easily. I’ve done it multiple times. And each time, every time I go there, I feel like wow, okay, anybody can do this. That’s my belief. Because of that belief. It’s easy for me to be on this podcast and say that no matter who you are, or what you do, you can hike up to Everest base camp. Simple. That’s how I positioned this. But there’s also a backstory to this. This was the year 2018. This was in December 2018. And I was sorry, I take that back in October of 2018. Pretty cold, I was hiking up to Everest base camp. And I did that in six days. I just kept on going up the set for six days, all the way to Everest base camp from Lukla, the starting point to all the way up, typically takes two weeks, 10 days, but going up and down, I went up in six days takes about 13 days to go up maybe five days to come down something like that.
This was me coming back, I believe, or I was going up. This was a Tengboche A. And I was all of us, a few of us were at the at a tea house in 10 Bucha. And this is one of the small little towns got small little villages as you’re going up to hiking up the base camp. So at the city house, this was about eight o’clock in the night, and I was having a quick tea before I go up. And I overheard a bunch of people next to me, trying to figure out trying to arrange a helicopter. So turns out, the 77-year-old man needs a helicopter to go down. And the helicopter cannot come up. Because it’s already night. So he has to wait till the next morning. And he can go down. And as they were talking, I got myself a little bit dragged into the discussion. And I talk to this man. He tells me that he had surgery. About four weeks ago, I a hip surgery. I think this was a hip replacement surgery. But because he was committed to coming, he paid to come. He had to accomplish this goal anyway. And he’s 77 years old. So his health is declining. He had to do this. And he somehow came up all the way to the base camp. And while turning back, he started to feel sick, and some symptoms showed up. And he’s feeling weak. And now he’s deciding to take a helicopter and go down.
So that’s the story. So 77 years old, and had a hip replacement or something like that. And he’s going back. Pretty impressive, right? pretty inspiring. Because of this story, I’m convinced that anybody, if they put their mind to something, can do it any goal. And this is a relatively easy call to accomplish. So if you’re listening to this podcast, I’m setting this goal for you. Let’s talk about why Everest base camp, you don’t hike, you don’t run. That’s not something that you believe in. Why? Because I want you to explore yourself at the highest level. Because I want you to feel that you accomplished something that is a little bit out of your norm. Because I want you to do something that you can talk about to people around you. Of course, all that is true. But I want you to learn discipline. Everest base camp track teaches you discipline. For sure. And you can carry the discipline into other areas of life. If you’re looking for direction, in other areas of life, this track gives you direction. This track gives you the drive.
Having a goal for example, if you’re setting this goal for yourself for next year, then 2023 The best time to go up on to Basecamp is March and April of that’s the springtime. And so you have 90 days to prepare and get this goal accomplished and see easy to prepare, doesn’t matter who you are and where you want, but 90 days is a good amount of time to, I think, again, don’t quote me on this. But what I’ve seen working with people and working on myself, and it takes a good amount of time to go and get this done to the gifts, a definition gives a definition to the first 90 days of your year. And this also does other things to you, you overcome a bad diet. And this acts like a drug, literally to set you up for other things for next year. So there are so many things that happen as a result of you committing to a goal like this. But the big part of this is there are some dreams that you cannot accomplish. We as humans, cannot accomplish, we could we were going to die with some dreams within, you know, still within us. But this is something that can be done.
This is something that can be accomplished very quickly. This is the dream, when accomplished, can also make other dreams possible. This man 77 years old, had a dream when he was 22 years old to come and hike up to Everest base camp. For 50 years, he did not do anything. And suddenly woke up that year. And he’s like, Ah, I need to get this done. I’m falling apart physically, whatever. Right? I’m growing old. See, I don’t want you to think about your goals or goals of this nature this late in life. You got to get control of what’s possible now. So that’s my goal for you. Is to set a goal for yourself. Now people so my friend did ask me, What should I do after I’m done? With Everest base camp, motivating, motivating. He’s already thinking as if he’s already accomplished. Never hikes, though. Okay? It’s like, Yeah, after that, go hike up to Kilimanjaro. Maybe she Everest base camp Kilimanjaro, they look good on the resume. They look good on the resume, life resume.
Okay, I want to stop here. And I hope you take this seriously. And really work on this. And if you’re a listener of this podcast, and you do listen to this, and I don’t know if this podcast is going to continue starting the first of January, because I set a goal for myself to do this only for 365 days nonstop, and I’m pushing myself and continuing myself. But once I’m done, or once you are done. If I’m done then I may not be communicating with you. But once you are done with your goal, do let me know. Tell me that Srini I listened to your podcast I got motivated. I did set a goal for myself and I did accomplish it. There are two windows for you to do this to do it in March, ideally, or April or May. Those are the 90 days right there or go there in September, October, November, or maybe in December also. So you could literally go up anytime you want to go up there isn’t you know, Everest base camp is easy. Okay. I’m gonna stop here. Have a wonderful day. And before you know it, I’ll be here with you tomorrow. And we’re going to talk something about 2023 planning furnish only three want to continue this discussion. Okay. So that’s all for now. You take care of yourself, bye now.