
π₯How To Set Goals Like The Worldβs Top Athletes
Youβve got less than 2 months until 2024, and if youβre like most peopleβ¦
This is about the time you start to set your business goals for next year.
So when I opened my laptop this morning, I thought βWho is the best person to take goal-setting (and achieving) advice from?β
After a few minutes, it came to me⦠athletes.
From a young age, they learn to set and reach both physical and mental goals to perform at the highest level.
So, hereβs the ultimate guide to setting goals (and sticking to them) using the same tactics as the worldβs best athletes.
Hereβs the gameplan:
π― Set The Right Goal
π Track Your Numbers
π§ Train Your Brain For Success
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π― Set The Right Goal
In business, everyoneβs goal is to make more money. But that's not specific enough.
In a study, 300 Olympians were asked how they choose an βeffectiveβ goal, and how they build their strategy to achieve it.
Hereβs what they found:
Goals that were too high hurt the athlete more than helped
The βbestβ goals are found by using past performance as a measuring stick
Olympians had βsubgoalsβ to help them stay on track
Hereβs what this looks like for you:
#1 - Figure out the problem you want to solve
Once you pick a problem, explain how fixing this one problem will do one of these three things:
Make you more money (profit)
Make the business more valuable
Increase how much you make per client
If it does not directly relate to one of these three, you need a new goal.
#2 - Specify the goal
Exactly how many clients do you need to make a million a year? For how many years do you want your average employee to stay?
Make sure to choose the specifics based on your past trends.

EX - It took me x weeks to get here, so I should be able to reach Y in 1 year if Iβm focused and consistent.
#3 - Create subgoals
βIf you stand at the bottom of Mt. Everest and look up, youβre gonna say Iβm not climbing Mt. Everest. But if you break it down into sections and just put one foot in front of the otherβ¦ next thing you know youβre at the topβ. - Kobe Byrant
Over 89% of the 300 Olympians used 2 types of subgoals:
A metric. βRun a 4 min mile.β
A habit. βI will run every morning for 6 weeks.β
For you, I recommend breaking your yearly goal into 12 monthly metric subgoals, and 3-4 habit subgoals you can track.

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π Track Your Numbers
Tracking your progress helps you do two things:
#1 - Helps to see if your goal will actually solve your problem.
Remember, your goal should solve a problem that directly increases:
Profit
Business value
Client worth
So, letβs say your goal is to increase your profit by sending out 10K more emails a month.
But as you track your progress, you donβt see a correlation between emails sent and profit increase. Here, youβd most likely need to change your goal.
And the faster you see this, the faster you can find the right goal.
#2 - Keeps you consistent
Tracking forces you to answer for your actions. Itβs a simple βyesβ or βnoβ. If youβre writing βnoβ more than βyesββ¦ you know where the real problem is.
Kobe puts it perfectlyβ¦
βIβm not negotiating with myselfβ¦I signed that contract with myself, Iβm doing itβ β Kobe (via Jay Shetty)

I recommend building systems that have no room for βnegotiation.β
Tom Brady takes tracking a step further⦠He tracks his emotional output.
Brady says βIn the end for me itβs less about the outcome than it is about whether I put in the best effort relative to our teamβs potential.β
Bradyβs saying that simply checking off a habit isnβt enough. You need to track the effort you put into it.

You may want to grow your social media, but how much effort do you put towards your reels?
You may want to increase client LTV, but how much effort do you put into implementing feedback?
Donβt feel the need to write an entire journal about it. A simple score out of 10 will be helpful.

π§ Train Your Brain For Success
Iβll be honest, at first, I thought βvisualizingβ was pretty lame. Then I read this about Tom Brady:
βAfter the Patriots lost to the Broncos in the AFC championship game in 2016, Brady had a countdown clock installed in his home gym.β
Every day he woke up and looked at a clock counting down to his deadline.
Both Michael Phelps and Gabby Douglas also swear by βvisualizing your goals.β
Essentially itβs writing your goals down and forcing yourself to look at them every day.

Phelpsβ vision board at 8 years old
In the book Psycho-Cybernetics, Maltz talks about the brain as a βservo-mechanism.β This means optimizing your brain to achieve your goals.
He says the key to setting clear and definite goals is through βcreative imagination.β
AKA visualizing your goals to the smallest detail to encourage your brain to turn them into a reality.
βIf you have a clear and definite goal, your subconscious will work night and day to bring it to pass.β - Maltz
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