A Goal Digger is a individual who is ambitious and clear of the things they want. Goal diggers have dreams, goals and aspirations for independence, success, and their version of happiness. They “dig in” and do the work to become the person they strive to be by setting SMART & PURE goals. It is a mindset of setting goals for your life and doing what it takes to achieve them. Whether they are goals set in your education, your career, your personal life, or some other area.
A GOAL digger never stops working towards their goals.
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Hello again and welcome to the next episode of Level Up, the podcast that focuses on leadership, self improvement and continued growth throughout our everyday lives. I'm Jose, your host and I am joined by my co-host, and the CEO of All-American Lumping LLC, one of the fastest growing national 3PL Logistics and Freight Handling companies in the U.S., Crystal Garcia.
Last week we discussed "Defining Success"…how we define success for ourselves. What that looks like for us as individuals and we also touched on failure and what that looks like as well. You can't have one without the other, right?
Today we are going show you how you can be a "Goal Digger". Not a Gold Digger. But a GOAL DIGGER
So first thing's first, what the hell is a GOAL Digger?
Read Excerpt: Neffi, a blogger posted in the Buzz Blog that…
A “GOAL digger” …is someone who is ambitious and clear of the things they want. Goal diggers have dreams, goals and aspirations for independence, success, and their version of happiness. They “dig in” and do the work to become the person they strive to be.
Being a “GOAL digger” is all mindset. It’s the basic of setting goals for your life and doing what it takes to achieve them. Whether they are goals set in your education, your career, your personal life, or some other area. You are setting goals for whatever it is you desire that will define success to you. Tackling obstacles and burdens that may get in your way, being determined, persevering, sometimes a little suffering with blood, sweat, and tears.
A GOAL digger never stops working towards their goals.
What have you done to get better today?
Q: What do you think about Neffi's definition of a Goal Digger?
Goals provide you with direction, purpose and motivation. They are the destination in the your mental GPS that allows to see where you want to go in life or business. Without goals, you're just aimlessly moving through life, business is just one sale after another without any true purpose. This can be frustrating if you are trying to achieve something specific.
This typically ends in frustration, disappointment and in severe cases, depression.
Q: How did you overcome that obstacle and how were you able to double your earning potential in just a few months?
Q: Have you ever tried to achieve something without having a specific goal in mind? What happened and how did that play out?
One of the three critical criteria for being a Goal Digger, is that a Goal Digger sets VERY, VERY SPECIFIC goals. The more specific the better. A vague or wishy-washy goal is nothing more than a desire. A lot of people have heard about SMART goals, SMART being:
Another way to look at it is through the PURE format which is:
P-Positive, U-Under your control, R-Right sized, E-Ecological
Q: How do you set goals to achieve what you want to achieve in your personal life? Professionally? In business?
Example of weak goals (Desire)
I wanna new car
I wanna bigger house
I want a better job
I want to lose weight
Example of strong goals
I want a 6-Series Covnertibel BMW M3
I want a 4 BR home in Manteca with a pool and it must be close to a good school
I want a position as an Operations Manager for Walmart making $95K a year with good bennies
I want to lose 30 pounds of fat and gain 10 pounds of muscle, dropping my waistline from a 42 to 32
When goals are not quantifiable how can you assign value?
I want to be happy as I was when I was in college
Q: Have you ever set a goal without a timeline? Did you achieve that goal? Have you ever over achieved a goal that you set that was too low? What did you learn from the process?
Example of poor timelines
One of these days
Eventually
Next year
Putting your goals in writing is a great way to commit to yourself what you intend to accomplish. People who write down their goals are almost 42% more likely to achieve their goals.
Q: Do you commit your goals to writing? What does that look like? How often are they revisited? Do you only do this for business or also personally? How has this impacted your success?
Journaling
Balanced Scorecard
Strategic Objectives
Q: Have you failed to achieve a goal you set? Why did you fail and what did you learn from that failure?
Read Quote: Darren Hardy says, "If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined"
Q: Either of you set goals got 2021 yet? What will that look like?
As we bring the infamous 2020 year to a close in just a matter of weeks, many of you will begin setting the same old new years resolutions you always set. You know, Lose weight, save money, travel more, etc. We've all done it.
This year, I challenge you to do a few things differently. Take out your pen and paper or write this down in a note app:
Set a simple theme for the year. This year our theme is Health and Wealth. Last year it was "Show up and Be Present" in honor of one of Crystal's very close friend that passed. (Crystal can add)
Your theme can be what ever 1 or 2 things are most important for you that you plan on focusing on. Use this theme to align your decisions throughout the year. Regularly discuss your theme with you power circle and hold each other accountable when you are not acting in alignment of that theme.
Set SMART and specific goals that align with your WHY and your values. For example, my WHY is family. My value is also family, one of my goals for 2021 is going to be to visit my son in Texas in February of this year. I am also going to take go on a family vacation to Costa Rica in July of this year, if COVID allows.
Write your theme and your goals for this year down. If you are able too, I recommend purchasing the "Living Your Best Year Ever" journal, designed by Darren hardy. You can purchase it on Amazon for about $35, the link is provided below. It will definitely help you fine tune your goal setting process and allow you to become a better GOAL DIGGER. But just writing it down on paper in notebook or on a note app like OneNote, or even sending yourself an email with your goals outlined, you will have a greater chance of accomplishing that goal.
This year, set the right goals and make sure the goals are right for you.
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Hello again and welcome to the next episode of Level Up, the podcast that focuses on leadership, self improvement and continued growth throughout our everyday lives. I'm Jose, your host and I am joined by my co-host, and the CEO of All-American Lumping LLC, one of the fastest growing national 3PL Logistics and Freight Handling companies in the U.S., Crystal Garcia.
Last week we discussed "Defining Success"…how we define success for ourselves. What that looks like for us as individuals and we also touched on failure and what that looks like as well. You can't have one without the other, right?
Today we are going show you how you can be a "Goal Digger". Not a Gold Digger. But a GOAL DIGGER
So first thing's first, what the hell is a GOAL Digger?
Read Excerpt: Neffi, a blogger posted in the Buzz Blog that…
A “GOAL digger” …is someone who is ambitious and clear of the things they want. Goal diggers have dreams, goals and aspirations for independence, success, and their version of happiness. They “dig in” and do the work to become the person they strive to be.
Being a “GOAL digger” is all mindset. It’s the basic of setting goals for your life and doing what it takes to achieve them. Whether they are goals set in your education, your career, your personal life, or some other area. You are setting goals for whatever it is you desire that will define success to you. Tackling obstacles and burdens that may get in your way, being determined, persevering, sometimes a little suffering with blood, sweat, and tears.
A GOAL digger never stops working towards their goals.
What have you done to get better today?
Q: What do you think about Neffi's definition of a Goal Digger?
Goals provide you with direction, purpose and motivation. They are the destination in the your mental GPS that allows to see where you want to go in life or business. Without goals, you're just aimlessly moving through life, business is just one sale after another without any true purpose. This can be frustrating if you are trying to achieve something specific.
This typically ends in frustration, disappointment and in severe cases, depression.
Q: How did you overcome that obstacle and how were you able to double your earning potential in just a few months?
Q: Have you ever tried to achieve something without having a specific goal in mind? What happened and how did that play out?
One of the three critical criteria for being a Goal Digger, is that a Goal Digger sets VERY, VERY SPECIFIC goals. The more specific the better. A vague or wishy-washy goal is nothing more than a desire. A lot of people have heard about SMART goals, SMART being:
Another way to look at it is through the PURE format which is:
P-Positive, U-Under your control, R-Right sized, E-Ecological
Q: How do you set goals to achieve what you want to achieve in your personal life? Professionally? In business?
Example of weak goals (Desire)
I wanna new car
I wanna bigger house
I want a better job
I want to lose weight
Example of strong goals
I want a 6-Series Covnertibel BMW M3
I want a 4 BR home in Manteca with a pool and it must be close to a good school
I want a position as an Operations Manager for Walmart making $95K a year with good bennies
I want to lose 30 pounds of fat and gain 10 pounds of muscle, dropping my waistline from a 42 to 32
When goals are not quantifiable how can you assign value?
I want to be happy as I was when I was in college
Q: Have you ever set a goal without a timeline? Did you achieve that goal? Have you ever over achieved a goal that you set that was too low? What did you learn from the process?
Example of poor timelines
One of these days
Eventually
Next year
Putting your goals in writing is a great way to commit to yourself what you intend to accomplish. People who write down their goals are almost 42% more likely to achieve their goals.
Q: Do you commit your goals to writing? What does that look like? How often are they revisited? Do you only do this for business or also personally? How has this impacted your success?
Journaling
Balanced Scorecard
Strategic Objectives
Q: Have you failed to achieve a goal you set? Why did you fail and what did you learn from that failure?
Read Quote: Darren Hardy says, "If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined"
Q: Either of you set goals got 2021 yet? What will that look like?
As we bring the infamous 2020 year to a close in just a matter of weeks, many of you will begin setting the same old new years resolutions you always set. You know, Lose weight, save money, travel more, etc. We've all done it.
This year, I challenge you to do a few things differently. Take out your pen and paper or write this down in a note app:
Set a simple theme for the year. This year our theme is Health and Wealth. Last year it was "Show up and Be Present" in honor of one of Crystal's very close friend that passed. (Crystal can add)
Your theme can be what ever 1 or 2 things are most important for you that you plan on focusing on. Use this theme to align your decisions throughout the year. Regularly discuss your theme with you power circle and hold each other accountable when you are not acting in alignment of that theme.
Set SMART and specific goals that align with your WHY and your values. For example, my WHY is family. My value is also family, one of my goals for 2021 is going to be to visit my son in Texas in February of this year. I am also going to take go on a family vacation to Costa Rica in July of this year, if COVID allows.
Write your theme and your goals for this year down. If you are able too, I recommend purchasing the "Living Your Best Year Ever" journal, designed by Darren hardy. You can purchase it on Amazon for about $35, the link is provided below. It will definitely help you fine tune your goal setting process and allow you to become a better GOAL DIGGER. But just writing it down on paper in notebook or on a note app like OneNote, or even sending yourself an email with your goals outlined, you will have a greater chance of accomplishing that goal.
This year, set the right goals and make sure the goals are right for you.
