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Most of you watching this, the reason you haven't hit your goals is because you've sent your entire life focused on the goal. And when you focus on the goal, every day you don't hit the goal, you feel worse about yourself. So how do we focus on inputs? 1. Define actionable steps. Okay, here's an example. Instead of saying, I'm gonna get fit, commit to walking 10,000 steps a day or going to the gym three times a week. And so we're gonna define what are the actionable steps that we can take that are under our control. I cannot control if my body loses a pound today, but I can control If I walk 10,000 steps, if I hit the gym, and if I eat these macros. Now, the next piece of that is that we want to track our inputs. An example of that is like using a habit tracker or a checklist, basically something that can monitor your daily tasks. Something easy that I used when I was losing £100 is I used my fitness pal. I just tracked in there every day what I ate. Not to mention that, but I also used my phone to track how many steps I took. The third piece is we want to detach from immediate results. An example of this, if you invest a set amount into savings each month, you will grow wealth over the years, even if growth seems slow at first. But here's the thing. If you invest in something and you're like, why am I not getting money tomorrow? If you're too attached to the results, then it's like you feel like you're failing. And so we need to detach from the results. And instead we focus on the inputs and we know the outputs will eventually get there. It's just like investing. When you invest your money into something, you might not get a return for a year or two years, but we know no amount of, like, wishing it would go faster is going to get it there. You just got to let time do its thing. The same goes for anything that you're setting for yourself as a goal. And then the last step is reflect and adjust. Okay, so, for example, if you say my inputs are, I study three hours a day, but you're still struggling with the thing that you're studying, then maybe we want to adjust what our input is. Another example, I'm walking 10,000 steps a day. I'm eating 1500 calories a day, and it's been two weeks and I haven't lost weight. Should I swim instead of walk? Should I add some cardio? So basically what I'm doing is I'm reflecting on the results that I've gotten and then I'm just saying objectively, should I change my inputs to see if this result can be achieved? The main point of focusing on inputs, not outputs, is so that you reduce the anxiety, you detach from the results, and you don't get discouraged and quit. The reason most people don't hit their goals is because they quit, and they quit because they're so attached to the outcome. The reason that focusing on inputs helps is because it allows you to stay in the game because you're seeing that you're getting these tiny little wins on a daily basis and that feels good. And so then what happens is you fall in love with the process and then eventually you hit the goal. Now, here's some pro tips. One, we want to use leading indicators, not lagging indicators, as inputs. So we want to use actions that predict success rather than measure failure in business. If your goal is to increase revenue, we want to track how many qualified prospects we're getting, not how much cash we're collecting. If our goal is to lose weight, we want to track how many days of the week we stick to our meal plan, not how many days of the week we've lost weight. The second pro tip is that we want to automate inputs. Like I said, I used my fitness pal and I used my phone to track my steps. I didn't have to think about my phone as long as I kept it in my pocket. That was going to track my steps for me. For my fitness pal, it saved all my most frequently eaten meals so that the moment that I ate something, I could just swipe and it would add it to my diary. And so, as much as we can, we want to figure out how can we automate something. Your future self is built by today's actions, not today's ideas. When you focus on inputs, you get really clear on what it takes, and then that clarity creates confidence and that confidence creates consistency.