Hola! Welcome to episode#4 of Living and Extraordinary Life Series. This principle ties in well with the last one, which was Sensory Acuity.
Principle #4 is having behavioral flexibility.
You see, it’s stupid to know your outcome, take action toward it and keep doing it even though you’re not getting any closer to your original goal.
Yes, persistence is a great attribute to have, but stubbornness? Not so much. With your awareness you can gauge if the life you’re living is by design or by default.
Living a life by default means you’ve got something off. It could be the timing, the action, the approach, or even your beliefs about the whole thing.
In this podcast, we decode how you can turn-around any situation by being flexible enough about your behaviors. That means you tweak your behavior (action steps, beliefs around your goal etc) and then measure the results.
We also look at a mantra I personally use a lot in my life, and suggest my clients too.
“Do Something Else”
When things are not going the way you’d like them to be, STOP cribbing and whining because from past experience, you know that’s not going to serve you.
Instead, do something else. Do one thing differently. Change something about your action. Try on a new belief.
Stuck for a long time?
Not getting enough results?
Unsure why things are not working?
Shit hit the fan?!
Just do something else.
As simple as that, but works wonders. Try it.
We also decode why we do what we do using BJ Fogg’s Behavior Model.
All behavior is based on reason. For you to behave a certain way, something must be happening right to cause it.
Fogg’s model explains what makes up a behavior (and how you can change it too for behavioral flexibility). Here are the 3 elements we explore in-depth in the podcast:
1. Core motivators
2. Ability
3. Triggers
All this, and more, in this week’s lesson. Listen below and tell me what you think (~17 mins.):
Episode 4: Listen here
Missed Episode 1? Listen here. [~8 mins.]
Missed Episode 2? Listen here. [~12 mins.]
Missed Episode 3? Listen here. [~10 mins.]
]]>
Hiya. Welcome to Episode #2 of successful and extraordinary living. In today’s podcast, we talk about the second step in the series which is taking (massive) action.
[Missed podcast 1? Listen here ~8 mins]
Once you know your outcome, it’s not enough to acknowledge it and do nothing. Instead, take that knowledge and convert it into something more tangible through action.
Will Rogers said, “Even if you’re on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
Have a goal? Great. But unless you’ve taken the first, tiniest action-step toward it, you haven’t truly committed yourself.
Think about the last time you set a great goal for yourself. Pick one that you did not achieve. Now, look closely — did you really commit yourself to it? Did you take the first tiny step toward it? After the first step, did you take the second step toward it?
You stopped midway; you silently announced that your goal was not achievable. You took it as failure and tried to forget about it. But you wanted it so bad that you started blaming yourself for being a “failure” in attempts to justify your giving up.
If that rings a bell, good! Awareness is 95% of the journey.
Most people mistakenly think of their goals as un-achievable, whereas all they really need to do is re-adjust the action steps.
Motion –> Emotion.
Once you get moving, you’ll create pretty extraordinary emotions (happiness, sense of achievement, a feeling of awesome. . .)
Action never sleeps. One step sets a segue for the next, and so on. That’s when you’ve got massive action. That’s when all the ducks line up in a row.
So listen, there’s no problem with your goal. The problem is in your action (or the lack of it).
In this podcast, I share a personal story and decode what kept me from taking action and how I finally had to make the move. I trust you’ll put this into good use.
The podcast is about 12 minutes long, so give it a listen and tell me what you think in the comments below!
]]>
Welcome to Episode #1 of the first podcast ever at Pick Your Goals! 
I am super-thrilled to launch this baby and trust that you’ll gain value out of it.
Today’s podcast is about the first principle of success and extraordinary living. Over the course of next few weeks, I will share one principle of how you can live an extraordinary life, right here and right now, via a super-short and value-packed podcast.
Do you know what separates successful people from those who are not? A handful of principles as it turns out. The principles come from NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming and I’ve personally found them to work 100% of the times.
And it ALL starts with the first principle which is knowing your outcome. If I am clueless about what I want from my efforts, I get a mediocre result. It’s like bread; there is no passion in it. Like existing, and very unlike thriving.
Why are you working your a** off day in and day out? Why are you in that relationship? Why are you taking up that project?
When you answer the why, any how will take care of itself. Your why is your outcome — that’s why you’re in the game!
To live an extraordinary life, you got to know what your specific life looks like. What’s extraordinary for you? In short, what are you shooting for? What do you want as a result of your efforts?
Simple example: You wake up in the morning and walk toward the kitchen. You know you want to have some coffee. Without that knowledge of outcome, you’d be lost and waste your time.
Same goes with life. I can’t tell you about the innumerable times I’ve just gotten into the “action” part without fully realizing whether or not the outcome is what I want.
I hope to share the same message with you through this podcast.
It’s less than 10 minutes long, so give it a listen and tell me what you think!
]]>