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Hello and welcome to the Achieve your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves. And we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Achieve youe Goals podcast. This is your host, Hal Elrod. And last week we talked about rediscovering what matters most in your life and then aligning your schedule with your true priorities. I think it's one of the most important topics. It might be the topic of my next book. It'll definitely be part of it. This week we're gonna continue that conversation with what I'm calling the mediocrity intervention. And essentially, mediocrity, I think, is a word that has a lot of different interpretations and sometimes people view it as an insult. I view it as a reality check for all of us. I view it as a really healthy way of evaluating whether or not we are living in alignment with our true potential, with what matters most to us. The way that I would define mediocrity, in the simplest way, it's about accepting less than we want and less than we're capable of, right? And if you're honest, we've all done that at some level. Everybody has. So this is mediocrity. The intervention, if you will, is just a reminder, a reality check, an invitation to evaluate how am I living in relation to what I really want and what I'm capable of. That's it. That's all this episode is about. In fact, I'm planning on keeping it relatively short. But I want to begin with the end in mind. What I mean is, like, think about the end of your life or towards the end, when you're looking back, right? Not like when you're on your deathbed, but you know, when you're getting in your 80s or 90s or hundreds or wherever you aspire to live toward. Like, imagine toward the end, the last year, if you will, and you look back because one day this will all be over. And so at the end of our lives, I don't believe that we're going to care about the bills that we paid, but how much of our attention does that demand, right? Paying bills and making money and all of that. Not that it's not important. It's a part of life. But I don't think we're going to care about the bills that we paid or the cars that we drove or what other people thought of us. What will matter is whether or not we lived a good life. Now, a good life, that's subjective. You would define what a good life is for you. But I believe that. Again, following up on last week's episode, which was about rediscovering what matters most in your life and then aligning your schedule with your true priorities, I believe that will be the measure of a good life if you did it, meaning you lived in alignment with what truly mattered most to you. And for far too many of us, or for all of us at different degrees. Varying degrees. You know, some people are living mostly in alignment with what matters most to them. Some people are completely in alignment. And it's a small percentage, I think, for most of us, we look back and we go, oh, man, I wish I would have done that differently. Like, I have regrets. I wish I would have. I don't know if I said this last week, but I moved away from my dad. My dad moved. We were in California. He moved to live next to me and watches, you know, my kids, his grandkids grow up. And then there were some things that went on in California, like in the state that my wife and I did not feel good about and didn't agree with and decided we wanted to move to another state. And I did. And my dad was trying to talk me out of it, but he never actually said, like, how this is. Like, this will break my heart if you leave. This will make me so sad. I was so oblivious. I don't know why it didn't connect with me. And now it's one of my greatest regrets. Family is what matters most to me. Like, family is what matters most in my heart. And last week, like, we talked about, if it matters most in your heart, it also needs to matter most in your schedule, otherwise you're out of alignment. But anyway, so that's heartbreaking for me. Like, I'm sad, can't change it. But I've told my dad. I've expressed him multiple times, dad, I'm so sorry that we left. You know, and he's. I mean, my dad's sweet, and he knows I was doing what I thought was best for me and my family. And he doesn't make me feel bad about it at all, which is great, right? He doesn't guilt me or shame me or Go, ah, yeah, I can't believe you did that to me. Never once has he said that. But it's out of alignment with what matters most to me. So back to this idea of the mediocrity intervention, right? You think about getting to the end of your life and looking back and being grateful if you lived in alignment with what mattered most to you. And here's the thing. It doesn't matter what happened in the past up until today. You can't change the past. And you also can't change other people, but you can change everything else. And so it's about today. And if you didn't listen to last week's episode, I'd encourage you go back and listen to that. It was episode, I think, 605, right? You just go to miraclemorning.com podcast and you can go find all the episodes. And it was titled what matters most. But using that as the foundation for this episode. And you don't have to listen to that episode to get value out of this one. But going back to this definition of mediocrity, again, it's accepting less than we want, less than you want, accepting less than you want and less than you're capable of. That is how I define mediocrity, right? It's not a judgment. It's just an assessment. It's an evaluation. It's a consideration, right? Like I want to always be considering. Am I accepting mediocrity for myself? Meaning, am I accepting less than I want? Is this really what I want? Am I in alignment with what matters most to me? And mediocrity, as I said, it's not about being average, but it's about you feeling good about living in alignment with your potential, what you desire. And the good news is you have everything within you today, right now to change that. If you struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep.