So, what do we do when we have identified our goals, got clarity on the underlying drives that motivate us and recognized the obstacles that lie in the way? In this final part of our four-part series on the WOOP GOAL SETTING METHODOLOGY we discuss how to draft the actual plan we need to execute on our goals and get ourselves m,moving forward.
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Transcript
Well, Hey everybody.
Speaker:Guess who?
Speaker:It's Jonathan Doyle, once again, welcome back to day four of the
Speaker:woop goal setting mini masterclass.
Speaker:If you're tuning in for the first time, go back.
Speaker:What.
Speaker:Three episodes.
Speaker:We do want a four-part series.
Speaker:This is day four.
Speaker:We're talking about the woop goal setting methodology from doctor or professor.
Speaker:Gabrielle OT engine.
Speaker:It's a really simple methodology that I first heard of a while ago.
Speaker:I really like it.
Speaker:I think it's a useful, helpful, intelligent, and it
Speaker:can really move us forward.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:We've been talking about the other steps.
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Speaker:We are on day four.
Speaker:You're ready.
Speaker:We're going to jump in.
Speaker:Over the last three days, we've talked about this w double Opie woop goal
Speaker:setting methodology w standing of course, for wish what it is that we want.
Speaker:That's significant for us.
Speaker:What is the wish?
Speaker:What is the.
Speaker:Different state of being, what is the different state of attainment
Speaker:or accumulation or contribution?
Speaker:No one gets judged on what their wishes are, right.
Speaker:Unless they really bad and going to hurt people, then we will judge them
Speaker:and he'll judge them very quickly.
Speaker:Um, But of course we're not that kind of community are we, we are a group
Speaker:of people who are trying to do useful.
Speaker:Beautiful.
Speaker:Uh, add things that contribute to the greater good build the
Speaker:world, because the way you change the world is you grow two things.
Speaker:You do your own personal development, and then you try and sow into
Speaker:the development of others.
Speaker:We do enough of that.
Speaker:We get a very different planet.
Speaker:So the first w is wish.
Speaker:What is it that you want?
Speaker:The second, uh, the first O is outcome.
Speaker:What is the deeper driver underneath that?
Speaker:Go back to day two and check out that, um, and again, apologies that
Speaker:the audio on those, uh, LA the first two episodes was all over the place.
Speaker:We've got all that fixed now.
Speaker:So outcome, what is the outcome?
Speaker:What is the deeper driving state underneath your wish?
Speaker:Because once you attain the thing, whether it's a Nobel prize and
Speaker:academy award, a brand new Ferrari.
Speaker:Uh, house in the French Riviera who knows friends, whatever it is that your wish is.
Speaker:Once you attain it, you will discover that underneath it was something else.
Speaker:A feeling, state connection, intimacy, love, relationship, excitement, joy
Speaker:contribution, all these important human experiences that lie underneath.
Speaker:The attainment of our dreams and goals.
Speaker:Think about it.
Speaker:You know, think of here's a random example.
Speaker:Think of the Wright brothers, right?
Speaker:Flying their first plane at kitty Hawk.
Speaker:Opening up an entire new.
Speaker:Era in human history.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I don't think that they said to themselves that their entire wish was
Speaker:to, you know, really just get this thing to fly, because I'm sure that
Speaker:when it did fly and they'd experienced it, they're like, that's amazing.
Speaker:We did it.
Speaker:But underneath that would have been this incredible sense of what
Speaker:achievement the deeper goal was.
Speaker:Achievement.
Speaker:The deeper goal was contribution.
Speaker:The deeper goal was excitement.
Speaker:And a place in history.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:It's not enough for us to just have wishes.
Speaker:Underneath them.
Speaker:We need to know the outcomes.
Speaker:And yesterday we talked about the obstacles.
Speaker:That one of the, probably the major thing that really stops all of us
Speaker:from attaining those things that are most important to us is simply the
Speaker:experience of obstacles that we are.
Speaker:They're not prepared for them.
Speaker:We haven't thought about them.
Speaker:And all of a sudden there's difficulty challenge problems.
Speaker:We didn't anticipate.
Speaker:And we question ourselves and we begin to give up.
Speaker:So yesterday we went deep on this idea of obstacles today.
Speaker:Today's the simplest part.
Speaker:We go from w w O to the P in woop, which is simply the plan.
Speaker:We want to talk a little bit today about making a plan.
Speaker:When the obstacles come, we need to be clear on what the plan is.
Speaker:The overall God goal itself, we need to have some kind of plan.
Speaker:We need to have some kind of direction forward.
Speaker:We need to have a clear sense of this is what's important.
Speaker:These are the steps that I'm going to take.
Speaker:This is how I'm going to respond to the difficulties that I face.
Speaker:That is my plan.
Speaker:You can get super fancy on this.
Speaker:You can sit down with a journal for hours and scripted out.
Speaker:I find aspects of that challenging because life's very fluid.
Speaker:Isn't it?
Speaker:Like it's.
Speaker:You can definitely plan, but then you have to accept contingencies.
Speaker:You have to accept the fact that there are variables that
Speaker:all sorts of things can change.
Speaker:I got three young kids, like every one of my days is just this blur of contingency.
Speaker:It's like everything.
Speaker:Every day, there's different things that can happen, different
Speaker:possibilities all the time.
Speaker:So it's important to understand that our plans are guideposts.
Speaker:They show us.
Speaker:Intelligent steps forward, but we also have to accept that rigidity is
Speaker:not our friend and micro managing.
Speaker:Every single aspect of our reality is also problematic
Speaker:too, because it gets burdensome.
Speaker:It gets overwhelming.
Speaker:So, but you do want an overall schematic, a schema of how
Speaker:you're going to move forward.
Speaker:I actually like typing lately.
Speaker:I've always been a big writer, but I actually find it sometimes
Speaker:easy for me to, just, to, to express my thinking, my planning.
Speaker:By sitting down and typing it out and just organizing it
Speaker:in a, in a very specific way.
Speaker:So friends, I would love at this point too.
Speaker:Go deeper into some mystical aspect of planning.
Speaker:That's going to revolutionize your life.
Speaker:But I don't think there is one.
Speaker:I think it's pretty much common sense.
Speaker:I think it is.
Speaker:Simply deciding what's important to you writing it down, writing
Speaker:down the underlying drivers.
Speaker:Identifying the obstacles on paper.
Speaker:Planning your response to the obstacles.
Speaker:And then just planning the basic steps forward planning.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I'm starting this particular goal.
Speaker:Next Tuesday, I'm going to try and do this each day.
Speaker:I'm going to make this many calls.
Speaker:I'm going to, you know,
Speaker:I apply for this many jobs and you just sketch out the steps forward.
Speaker:It might be step one, you know, you want to lose weight and it's just
Speaker:like, I'm going to start walking here.
Speaker:I'm going to be running by this state.
Speaker:I'm going to reach out to this gym.
Speaker:I'm going to get a personal trainer, whatever it is, just map out those steps.
Speaker:Doesn't it sound so simple and straightforward, and I know you
Speaker:can be listening, going well.
Speaker:Isn't there any super magical unicorn thing to planning?
Speaker:Not really.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Oh, it's just this magic to it.
Speaker:It's the magic that most people don't do it.
Speaker:The most people and I've been, I've been guilty this year.
Speaker:You kind of have this wish, right?
Speaker:Like everybody has a wish.
Speaker:None of us have any trouble.
Speaker:Like if you, if you go and interview the average person on the street and say,
Speaker:if you could have anything you want.
Speaker:If you could change something in your life, that's important to you, what is it?
Speaker:Very few people are going to struggle to say, oh, nothing.
Speaker:Everything's perfect.
Speaker:There's nothing.
Speaker:I would want to be different.
Speaker:Hey, you might meet some people like that, but in general, that's
Speaker:the exception, not the norm.
Speaker:So we don't struggle with the wish.
Speaker:And if you take five minutes of people, they're going to
Speaker:eventually articulate the outcome.
Speaker:And then they can even articulate the obstacles, but the part that most people
Speaker:just simply don't do is the plan part.
Speaker:Is the actual sitting down on paper.
Speaker:Now this, now this, now this, now this, when this happens, I do this.
Speaker:When this happens, I do this.
Speaker:If I feel despondent, I reach out to this person.
Speaker:If I want to quit, I talk to that person.
Speaker:Um, if I'm not where I want to be, then by this date, then
Speaker:I'm going to try this strategy.
Speaker:Just get it on paper.
Speaker:That's all it is.
Speaker:That's all it is.
Speaker:Get myself excited about this.
Speaker:I think I'm going to go do some planning to.
Speaker:Uh, friends, that's it.
Speaker:That's all I want to say.
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Speaker:For the daily podcast, because I'm enjoying it.
Speaker:I'm really trying to bring you some good stuff.
Speaker:So a tune in each day, make sure you do that.
Speaker:Cause you never know when one single idea one.
Speaker:One of the concept is just going to lodge in your consciousness and
Speaker:move you forward in different ways.
Speaker:So let's be people.
Speaker:Who pursue our wishes and dreams.
Speaker:Because I am convinced that as we do it, we empower and encourage people around us.
Speaker:We empower, we empower EJ.
Speaker:That's the conjunction of empowering and, and encouragement.
Speaker:Empowering.
Speaker:I'm going to copyright that trademark.
Speaker:It.
Speaker:Hey everybody, I'm here to, what did I just say?
Speaker:Empowered you.
Speaker:Who wants to be empowering.
Speaker:Um, we all do.
Speaker:I know I do.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I just think that as we pursue these meaningful things, we come
Speaker:alive, we come alive and a energy and enthusiasm and a struggle and
Speaker:our resilience and our toughness.
Speaker:Inspires and elevates all those around us.
Speaker:Um, for all my many mistakes, you know, I really did look at my kids
Speaker:at the moment and see in them.
Speaker:Uh, yeah.
Speaker:Sure plenty of, probably of my failings, but I begin to see in them some of
Speaker:the resilience and toughness and, and.
Speaker:Energy and focus that, um, that at least I've tried to model as best I can.
Speaker:So don't forget that as you do this work.
Speaker:You are going to have an audience that audience could be your kids.
Speaker:It could be a.
Speaker:Your spouse, your boyfriend or girlfriend is OSA.
Speaker:If you have a spouse, you shouldn't have a boyfriend or girlfriend just
Speaker:to clarify, but wherever, whatever state you're in, in life, right?
Speaker:Whatever.
Speaker:Wherever you are, it could be your colleagues, your work
Speaker:friends, just your close friends.
Speaker:That is, we really step up in life and move forward.
Speaker:We do.
Speaker:You know, what is it?
Speaker:A rising tide lifts, all the boats.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:As our tide rises, we often encourage those around us.
Speaker:So don't write this stuff off.
Speaker:Articulate your wish.
Speaker:Identify the outcomes.
Speaker:Be conscious of the obstacles and go and build your plan All right, everybody
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