+1: Goals: Telescopes + Microscopes (#1315)

And Heroic Apps to Dominate the Day and Decade

 

Not too long ago, we spent some time with Brian Cain and some of his wisdom from a couple of his little fables: One Percent Better and The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery.

 

I want to revisit some of his wisdom.

 

Let’s talk about your goals.

 

We’ll invite Cainer back to the party to help us check them out from a couple different perspectives. 

 

In 10 Pillars, he tells us: “Setting big goals is great, but they have to be the right goals or they become traps. Financial goals must be secondary to family goals or you won’t have any family to set goals with. You also need to have telescope and microscope goals. Telescope goals that you can see off into the future, and then you must reverse engineer a process back to your microscope and execute on your microscopic daily goals. Telescope goals are 1, 3, 5+ years into the future and the microscope goals are what you will do in the next 24 hours to move towards your telescope goals. Remember, inch by inch, goal setting is a cinch and yard by yard, it’s hard.”

 

That’s from a chapter on Pillar #2 of Mental Performance Mastery—which is all about our Motivation and Commitment. 

 

Brian tells us (and all great peak performance teachers affirm) that one of the most important things we can do to get (and sustain!) elite levels of motivation is to set clear goals. 

 

And... 

 

I just LOVE the way he helps us do that.

 

So…

 

Let’s bust out our Telescopes AND our Microscopes then the Heroic app and do some work.

 

First, the Telescope.

 

What are your most inspiring 1, 3, and 5+ year goals? 

 

(Seriously. What are they?)

 

If you feel so inspired, let’s do a quick inventory of your, let’s say, 5-year goals in your Big 3: Energy + Work + Love.

 

Remember: If we don’t prioritize our Love alongside our Work we may not have the opportunity to set and celebrate the achievement of our Work goals with the people in our lives who matter most. And... If our Energy isn’t where it needs to be, there’s no way we’ll show up powerfully in either our Work or our Love so... Big 3 for the win!

 

This is my #1 5-Year ENERGY Goal: ___________________________________

 

This is my #1 5-Year WORK Goal: ___________________________________

 

This is my #1 5-Year LOVE Goal: ___________________________________

 

(Nice work! )

 

Now, it’s time to bust out the Microscope.

 

I’m biased but... 

 

I think one of the easiest ways to get clarity on what you should DO TODAY to be in integrity with the best version of yourself that’s capable of ACHIEVING those goals is simple... Do some Target Practice on the Heroic app as we move from Theory to Practice to Mastery Together TODAY.

 

Step 0. Set up your Big 3 protocol by getting clarity on who you are at your best in your Energy + Work + Love, the virtues that version of you embodies and what, SPECIFICALLY, you will actually DO TODAY to be in integrity with that best version of yourself.

 

Step 1. Commit to being that best version of yourself and doing those things TODAY.

 

Note: As we like to say (and I promise to repeat myself!)… New Year’s Resolutions are nice and warm and fuzzy. New DAY’s Resolutions are where it’s at if you actually want to consistently perform at the highest possible levels.

 

Step 2. Hit your targets. ALL DAY. EVERY DAY. ESPECIALLY TODAY! And even more importantly… commit and hit them on those days when you don’t (insert whiney voice) *feel* like it.

 

Step 3. Repeat. Forever.

 

See your moonshot goals with your Telescope. 

 

See the next steps in your Microscope. 

 

Dominate the day with your Heroic app. 

 

And give us all you’ve got, Hero.

 

TODAY.