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Questlove (1:07)
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Jay Shetty (1:36)
Everyone who's trying to build an online following right now. The rule of thumb is that it takes two years of posting consistently to break through. Why? Because those two years, you're basically moving through. Learn, experiment, perform, struggle. If you've posted every single day or multiple times per week for two years, I promise you, you have learned, you've experimented, you've performed, you've struggled for sure. And now you're going to thrive.
Questlove (2:01)
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Jay Shetty (2:09)
Hey everyone. Welcome to on purpose 2025. This is going to be our our biggest, best year yet. I want this year to be your most powerful, your most abundant, your most creative, your most mindful year yet. A year filled with opportunity. A year filled with wins and successes. A year filled with depth and fulfillment. This is the year you'll remember and look back on in years to come and say in 2025. I remember that episode where Jay said he wanted it to be the year that I finally get to where I want to get to. The year that I've been waiting for Mark your calendars. Remember this year. The way we infuse our year with intention, with ideas, with identity, with energy is what we get back from it. And I think for so many of us, we've had so many years of trying new habits, trying new tasks, maybe trying to manifest. And when it doesn't work out, we get that enthusiasm again. But then it wanes after 7 days, 14 days, 30 days. Whatever it may be, this year it's changing. And the reason it's changing is not because this year is different. We often say, I hope this year brings. Well, here's the reality. The year doesn't bring anything that you don't bring to it. The energy that you bring to 2025 is what you're going to receive back. This year can be your best year because you're going to be at your best. This year can be your most abundant year because you're going to focus on building an abundance mindset. This year can be your most phenomenal year yet because you're going to bring your most phenomenal energy. What I'm sharing with you in today's episode is my proven, tried and tested six step method to achieve all, all of your goals. This year. I have tested this method. I've tried it, I've worked on it, I've practiced it over the last few years. And I have been able to accomplish my personal and professional goals every single year. And here's what I want to share with you. It's not magic, it's really not a secret because I'm sharing it and it's something that each and every one of you can do. I truly believe that if you follow this, if you listen really carefully, you will also get to where you want to go. Now, I'm going to say one thing as you listen to me share this. Please allow it to sink into your ears and into your mind and into your heart. Allow it to truly go that deep. Allow it to truly go that far. Don't just let this be a mental thinking exercise. When I'm sharing these ideas, let them become your reality. Let them become something you're thinking, believing, practicing. So the first step is identifying your one personal goal and your one professional goal. I'm going to ask you to just pick one top personal goal and one professional goal. Your professional goal could be this is the year I get promoted. Your professional goal could be this is the year I launched that podcast. Your professional goal could be this is the year I launch my new business. And your personal goal could be. This is the year I shed that weight. This is the year I build muscle. This. This is the year I get strong. But I want you to be really specific, and I want you to describe it as if you're telling a story. Imagine you were telling a story about this year to someone next year, and you were saying, 2025 is the year that I shed that weight. I felt lighter, I felt stronger, I felt better. It's the year that I got promoted. It's the year that I worked really hard and showed myself what I was capable of. It's the year I discovered my potential. It's the year I was fascinated with this subject or this expertise. Talk about it as if you're being interviewed on a podcast and someone asked you describe what happened that year. How did that year change your life? What was the most pivotal moment in that year that redefined your trajectory, that rewired your transformation, that brought you so much joy and passion in your life? Talk about it like a story. Often we talk about our goals. Like theoretical mathematical, algorithmic tools, our goals become this language that we don't really feel connected to. It feels like something we want to do, some things we have to do, something we wish would happen, something we're waiting for to happen, rather than a story that feels natural and organic. Often our goals feel so lofty and separated, even in the language we use around them, because we don't talk about them in how they feel. We talk about them in how we think they'll make us feel. So I want you to describe, write, pour out onto a page what your personal goal and professional goals sound like when described. Like a story to a friend, like an interview on a podcast, like you're sharing with someone how 2025 was the most pivotal. What happened? I often have talked about interviews, how meeting monks was transformative for me, how in 2016, when my first video went viral, what that felt like. How in 2020, when I remember being able to serve so many of you through the pandemic, leading live meditations on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube. When I talk about it in hindsight, I realized that I've got to learn to talk about it right now as I'm manifesting. And when I describe it like a story, it feels real to me, right? How many times have you ever written a goal and you don't even believe it? Right? You write it down and you're already doubting it. You're already questioning it. You're already investigating it, assessing it, evaluating it, wondering if it's even true and going to happen. But when you describe a story, when you describe something with passion and emotion and feelings, it hits you deeper. That's what self belief is. You don't get self belief because you write down a goal. You get self belief because you describe something in how you believe it's possible. So I want you to take that time, really spend some time describing it in that way. And the way I want you to think about your goals. Because you might be saying, jay, I've got more than two goals, one personal, one professional. I have so many. Well, here's the reality. 20% of our life leads to 80% of our wins, right? The 8020 rule. When you focus on the 20%, that affects the entire 80%. But often what we do is we focus on working so hard on 80% of things that maybe impact 20% of things. When you're forced to pick one goal for each, you pick the root, you pick the habit that transforms it all. Someone just asked me earlier today, jay, what's the one habit that changed your life? And maybe they were thinking I was gonna say something big, something profound. And I replied very simply, going to bed early. Because here's the reality. Going to bed early is the 20% that affects the 80%. Let me explain what I mean. When you go to bed early, you feel rested. When you wake up, you feel focused. When you wake up, you feel energized. You eat less junk food because your body's not craving sugars to give you energy. You have energy. It's affecting 80% of your life. And it was one decision. One personal goal and one professional goal can absolutely transform your trajectory. So don't underestimate it. Don't underestimate the power of one goal in each. Now, step two, I want you to take your goal and ask yourself, what do I have to grow in in order to achieve that goal? This is the biggest misstep. It's not that I don't believe in goals. I believe more in growth. One of the biggest mistakes we make is we set goals, but we don't know how we need to grow in order to achieve them. So if I said, hey, I really want to build this business, but the growth I need to do is I need to understand that industry. So what do I need to understand that industry? I need to read a book about that industry. I need to shadow someone in that industry. I need to get a coach in that industry. I need to go and learn online, listen to podcasts about that industry. That's the Growth. What skill do I need to grow in order to achieve that goal? If you want to get promoted, what growth do you need to make? Do you need to learn sales better? Because let's say your goal is, hey, I want to get promoted. And in order to get promoted, you need to bring in a certain amount of business this year. Now, if your goal just becomes this arbitrary target, I need to do X in sales this year. I need to do X as a result this year. That's not the growth. The growth is I need to build a sales skill set. I need to build a negotiation skillset. I need to build a networking skill set. Maybe that's what's holding you back. Growth is identifying. What is that one skill that you don't have that is holding you back from a promotion? And the best way to decipher this, if you're trying to get a promotion, is talk to your boss and say, what is the one skill that's holding me back? What am I missing that if I were to develop, it would be easy for you to give me a promotion, right? Same with starting a business. Same with starting a podcast. What is the skill that you haven't learned that would help your podcast go from strength to strength? Einstein famously said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. Maybe you've been making videos for 30 days and you're not going viral. What's a skill you need to learn? It's no point having a goal that says, I'm going to have a million followers by the end of this year. That doesn't mean anything. Setting your sights on a goal doesn't get you there. It's the system and the process. And this point in the system is always skipped. What's the skill? Is it learning thumbnail design? Is it learning the algorithm? Is it recognizing that the first three to eight seconds of a video are all you have to capture attention? Is it making sure you have a call to action at the end? Is it making sure that people feel like sharing your content? What is it that you have not learned? What do you need to grow? What do you need to build? What's the skill you need to learn in order to catapult to the next level and go and commit to learning that skill? Make this a skills year, not just a wish year. Right? We live in a year full of wish lists, but there's a skill we're missing. Maybe the skill is discipline. Maybe it's sales. Maybe it's negotiation. Maybe it's relationship building. Maybe it's public speaking. Whatever it is, you can develop it if you put enough work into it and obsess over that skill, make it the plan for your next four weekends. Saturday and Sunday are going to be dedicated to building that skill. Saturday and Sunday for the next month, the next three months are going to be completely absorbed in developing that skill. Is it organization? Is it social media management? What is it that's holding you back from that big win? The goal is not enough. And that's where so many of us go wrong. We set this goal and then at the end of the year we go, I didn't achieve my goals. Well, of course you didn't, because you didn't grow the skill. You didn't grow the muscle. The goal isn't going to make a difference. So take a look, figure out what it is that's holding you back. What skill are you missing that is blocking you from becoming the version of yourself that you know you can be A goal. A different level to achieve requires a different level from you. Right? It requires a different frequency from you. And that's what you're focusing on growing.