← Ideas That Matter Podcast by Vusi Thembekwayo
Ideas That Matter Podcast by Vusi Thembekwayo
Blueprint for Change_ Goal Setting for Success
00:17:11
Produced by Sound and Sounds
Loading summary
Transcript5 lines
- [00:00]
Vusi Tembegwayo
Foreign.
- [00:10]
Chris
Hi Vusi, Chris here talking originally from Kenya, but I'm currently living in Australia and I just can't thank you enough for the phenomenal work that you do for us. To me, VT Podcast is not just a podcast but is a school where I seek knowledge I unlearn and continue to relearn. I have been following your podcast since 2021 and I can say probably I have listened to about 97% of all the episodes. In fact I've listened to the most recent one which is going above and beyond and I can't tell you how much it has been impactful to what I'm currently doing. But I just want to talk about the episode about Chronos and Kairos which speaks so much about the concept of time and timing. I'm currently in my the last year of my second decade and in two months time I'll be turning 30. Probably a new decade for me and I have been thinking and reflecting about it and I just saw it important to ask like how does one plan for a new decade? Is there something like a template and how could or what are those things that somebody need to plan so that by the end of the the new decade you would look back and see that indeed you gave your best or you went above and beyond. Thank you so much for the work that you do Vusi, and God bless.
- [02:05]
Frederica
Hello Vuzi, I'm lawyer Frederica from Ghana, West Africa. I discovered your podcast a few months ago and my life has turned around. I I earlier had some challenges which distorted my life, but listening to you has helped me get back on track. Thanks to you I've started my new business aside my law practice which is named Gorogil and is an online directory which promotes the best and reliable businesses in Ghana and hopefully beyond. I've also improved upon and monetized my social media skills and I plan on reviving my podcast and I know this is the beginning of much much more. Thank you so much and keep up with the good work. I'll be forever grateful. Thank you.
- [02:54]
Angie
Hello family. Hi. Busy. It's Angie from Nairobi. Mine is just to say that I'm so happy that the podcasts are back. I think for all the grief I've given you on social media about bringing this back, it's only befitting that I give you your flowers now that they're here. So that is super dope. I'm also really loving the frequency with which we are receiving videos on YouTube. Of course if someone is subscribed you're able to get the notification whenever you join the platform. So if you're not subscribed, you're really missing out on dope content and vosi. Or as my daughter calls you, my daughter calls you Uncle V. I gotta say, you are back like you never left Asante Sana. We appreciate you. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the next Masterclass on Club 100. And for anyone who calls themselves a busy fan and you aren't on Club 100, listen, you do not know what you're missing. Trust me, I didn't know either until I joined. My only regret is that I did not join sooner. So, guys, welcome to the community. Busy. Looking forward to hearing from you. Love you lot, guys. Cheers. And I gotta finish with some Never Let yout Down lyrics saying, everybody wanna be V, but V still alive. All right, bye, Vusi. Bye.
- [04:14]
Vusi Tembegwayo
It's time to take your seat at the table. Find out how with Vousi Tembegwayo as we discuss ideas that matter, a catalyst for bold action. Hello, family, hello family, and welcome to this, another VT podcast. And here we talk about ideas that matter. So thank you so much, Angie. Angie is a long standing member of Club 100. And as she says in the voice note, you better make sure you join and you better become a part of the community. Listen, what I want to talk to you about today is what is the blueprint for change? Because I'm sure you want to make a change this year. We do a lot of this in Club 100. The family spends a lot of time within the mentorship community talking about things like New Year's, resolutions, goals, goal setting targets. And in our most recent one, it really sparked a debate about how do you differentiate between a goal and a target? How do you shed light on what it takes to achieve these? And just dissecting them, weaponizing them, turning them into your personal arsenal for conquering this year, 2025. So this is our blueprint for change. Let's start with the fundamentals. What's the difference between a goal and an objective? Think of a goal as a mountain you want to climb. It's broad, it's aspirational, maybe a little fuzzy around the edges. But objectives, those are the individual campsites to which you need to ascend. So they have to be, as they say, smart, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time bound. It's that smart acronym. If you're familiar with the smart acronym, then you can also use it in goal setting. So remember that as you're targeting your goals and your Objectives for the year. They have to be smart. Let me give an example. So imagine there's this young lady called Nomsa. She's the CEO of a home decor company. She wants to achieve a healthy lifestyle. That's a broad goal. So she sets up her objective. That's losing three to four pounds a week, working out four times a week, preparing healthy meals, sleeping on time. She's not just dreaming about it, but she's breaking it down into smaller component parts. She'll do the same for her business. She'll say, I want to grow market share by 25%. That's the overall goal. So how does she make it specific, measurable? How does she do that? She'll say stuff like, I want to launch a new product, I want to expand into a new region, I want to improve my customer retention. Suddenly gone from a goal to objectives this year. Family, as we set our goals and dare to dream bigger than we did last year, I encourage you to add a layer of clarity to your goal setting process. Why do you want to achieve what you want to achieve? Is it even attainable? Is it adequately challenging? Have you taken the thing and broken it down into actionable steps? Does the achievement of each of them set your path towards achieving the overall vision? Does it set your heart on fire? This is the first thing you want to consider. Secondly, so do you have a plan for navigating the possible roadblocks that are going to come on your way to achieving this goal? Because you better believe it on your way there. There's going to be speed humps. I always, you know, remember that challenges are inevitable. Inevitable. They're going to come. And I can confidently tell you how you respond to roadblocks in life. That's the difference. That's the difference. The difference between winners and non winners isn't that the winners had a better shot, it's that the winners found a way to take a better shot. They made it happen. So you've got to be adapt and most importantly, you have to be resilient. I've been reading about this and I've read about this guy, Martin Seligman. He came up with this 3Pmodel of resilience. It focuses on the three key areas or components that he believed affected individuals and how they responded to adversity. The first P is personalization. This refers to how individuals attribute their failures or setbacks. Some of us internalize the issues and make it that we are the problem and others externalize the issue and make it that the world is the problem. In other words, being pervasive. The second P is this pervasiveness. It describes the extent to which individuals believe that negative events will affect all the areas of their lives, rather than having a very limited specific context. Then the final P, that's permanence. And permanence relates to how long people believe the negative events or feelings will last. So it speaks to the duration, because you prepare your body for suffering, anticipating how long the suffering is going to take. Now, why am I telling you this? I want you to draw up a framework for dealing with adversity, because you will deal with it, especially if you realize your typical reaction. Your typical reaction fits into one of these categories. So instead of personalizing it and saying things like, I'm a failure, try something more. The lines of the project failed because I managed it poorly. Instead of allowing challenge in one area of your life to spill into the other, and then the other and then the other. Rather, what you should be saying is, I'm a failure in life because I failed at a work project. See how dangerous those words are? It should be, I am not a failure in life because I failed at a work project. So you might think about something in your life that goes wrong, and you say, well, you know, my entire career is over. I'm never going to get back up again. Rather than, no, that thing didn't go right, but I'm going to find a way to make it good this year. If there's something you take with you after listening to this podcast episode, it's remember that perspective is power. How you see things is how things become third and last. You will only be as good as the goals. You'll only be as good at achieving the goals you want as the habits that you have. It's James Clear's work. It says, you do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. So the real work here is to build the right systems. This is the work to do this year to have a point by which you build the right systems that can drive actionable steps that are needed to achieve your goals. And you'll be amazed at the results for what you want to achieve. It's going to be an incredible year, and I want to give you guys a personal example. So the beginning of this year, I set up in my mind that I was going to attempt, don't hold it against me now, to be a bit more institutional and religious about my fitness. Some of you here were sending me comments towards the end of last year going vusi we love the content, but, man, that. That suit is fitting really tight. I remember you. I remember you. So anyway, so kind of like December comes and I go when everybody else is resting, I'm going to try and take some time to just get back into the hamster wheel. As it pertains to my fitness, what's the biggest challenge? When it pertains to fitness, it's two things. First, showing up at the gym. Second, eating correctly. So what do we do as a family? We reconfigured our kitchen. We removed all the sweets, the scraps, and all of those things just from the line of sight. They're still there. They're in the pantry. But then what we put in our line of sight is fruit. We looked at the diet and went, well, this is kind of our starch intake. These are the carbs that we eat. We're going to substitute these with better alternatives. So, for instance, I love chips. We call them in my country for the international audience. They call them french fries. And so substituted my french fries for sweet potato fries. See? Simple, simple switch. I substituted my. My fish from being grilled or from being fried to grilled. Still eat the fish, but now I'm eating it differently. Listen, when you travel as much as I travel, I eat airplane food and hotel food 90% of my time. It's very, very difficult to eat well, but it's an attempt. Now, you'll hold me against this, or rather to the standard throughout the year, but I'm just sharing with you the journey I'm on. So we shared as a family. We went, well, if we want to make these changes, this is the thing we have to do, then the gyming thing. And here's what I realized. I mean, when I work out, I work out like the world is coming to an end. There is a friend of mine, lady friend of mine, who's a famous South African dj, radio dj. Her name is Bridget. So the one time I just arrived back in the country and I went to the gym and I wasn't aware that she was there in the morning, and I'm doing my thing and I work out and I leave and I'm completely sweaty. I leave blood on the floor and I leave. Then I check my phone on the WhatsApp. She sent me a message. She said, I was about to come and say hello, but I realized that you work out like God himself sent you to the gym. So. So this is kind of my demeanor. This is kind of how I do things, right? I struggle to be in the middle I mother all or nothing. But the hard part of the gym, 80% of it is just showing up. 80% of working out is tapping your cart at the entrance. The other 20% is your mindset. It's how you then actually work out, whether or not you understand what you're doing, et cetera. But 80%, the large part that people fail is just showing up. So I go, I'm going to try and get back into my showing up wheel. But to do this, the way my body works is I've got to shock it. If I do, half my body won't react. So over December, when Everybody was resting, 4:30 in the morning, 5:00 in the morning, we were up on our way to gym, just wanted to shock my body into like this is what we're doing right now, the year started and because I've done that over the December period, it means that I'm taking that habit into the year, but more just owing to the volume of work that I often have on my table. Last year, as I did with the year prior, I would work out at the end of the day, in the evenings, very difficult to do because sometimes the day just runs away with me and then I don't have the time. But now that we've slotted it into the mornings, it's done by 6:30 every morning and then the day starts. I'm going on tour just now I'm going to be traveling to the US and Saudi Arabia. We're supposed to be in Davos but that got cancelled. So I fully recognize that when my calendar picks up again, I'm going to have to think about how do I structure my life to make sure that the way my life works is the way I want my results to be and that my habits mirror that. What I'm saying to you is this. You get the results based on the systems you build, as James Clear says, and based on the habits that support those systems. And what I wish for you in this year of 2025 is that you'll understand the difference between a goal and an objective. That you'll understand those three P's that I shared with you, that you'll make sure that it's smart in terms of how you set your goals and objectives, that you look at your habits and what you want to be doing this year and that you make sure that your habits support your objectives and and your objectives support your goals and then you just drive towards it. New Year's resolutions are great on a piece of paper as we write them down about all the things we want to do. But at the end of the day, I know and you know that where people lack a vision, they will perish. And so, without clarity, none of this is going to happen. All right, family, I'll see you soon. Sayonara. This podcast was proudly brought to you by my growth fund in partnership with Sound and Sounds Media.