MBA2719 Why You Haven't Hit Your Goals

If you didn't hit your goals this year, it's not because you suck. Nothing's wrong with you. It's because you're setting goals in a way that almost guarantees that you're gonna fail. And the crazy part is, it's actually easy to fix. Most of the advice out there is just a bunch of hype, a bunch of motivation, a bunch of you gotta want it more. What a bunch of nonsense. Today, I'm gonna teach you the real reason you haven't hit your goals and how to fix it in a way that actually works in your real life. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zdenholm, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business. If this show has helped in any way, it would be amazing if you could drop us a quick review on whatever app you're using to listen to this podcast right now. It helps me and my team bring new episodes every week and more importantly, more entrepreneurs will be able to discover our podcast so you can help someone else start their journey. Thanks so much. The first reason why you haven't hit your goals is simple. You are not setting goals, you're setting wishes. Like you have some sort of lamp and a genie is going to pop out and grant you your wishes. And often this sounds like I wanna make more money. I wanna get in shape. I wanna grow my business. These aren't wishes. They're not outcomes. A real goal includes inputs. The things you actually can control every single day, every single week. And a real business goal looks a lot like this, ten hours a week of deep work. Publish one piece of long form content, one sales action every day, review progress every Sunday night. Those are goals. They create results. If you can't measure the actions you take, you can't achieve the outcome. It's that simple. I'm gonna say it again. If you can't measure the actions, you can't achieve the outcome. The second silent killer of goals is that people try to overhaul their whole life overnight. This does not work. I'm the first to say that I don't recognize the person I was ten years ago, but it didn't happen from one day to the next. It just happened because I made small changes every single day that compounded, and then ten to years later, I'm like, wow. My life is totally different. I'm a different person. If you try to set goals for your finances, your business, your health, your relationships, your routines, your hobbies, all at the same time, you are asking for failure. No one can do that. You need to focus on just a couple at a time. I'm giving you the truth that not you, not me, not the most disciplined person in the world can pull that off. Momentum …