Monday Morning Motivation
The Goal Achievement Podcast, hosted by Matt East, is all about helping you find clarity, design a plan, and most importantly achieve your goals.
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Monday Morning Motivation
Podcast Transcription
It's Monday, May 3rd, 2021, this is Monday morning, motivation for Patreons only. Let's get your week started off right.
Good morning, it's Matt hope you're all doing really well. This is day number 123 into the year, which means we're 33.42 through the year, that's the bad news. The good news is we have 242 days remaining and over 66 percent of the year remains, so let's get dialed in.
Something I want you to consider before this week begins before you really dive into it is just how the time this week you're never going to get back, you're never going to get this week back. It's so critical for you to understand that, and once you realize that, I just want to encourage you to not take any chances, chances with it. I wanna encourage you to proactively determine your fate this week, you're not going to get this week back, you're not going to get the time back.
Don't take today for granted, don't take this week for granted, it's absolutely time to execute.
If you're... if you are paying me to get you jacked up for the week through these Patreon recordings, you are doing stuff in your life, and if you're doing stuff in your life that you're wanting to get jacked up about, you're wanting to be excited about, do not meander through your day, do not meander through your week.
Make a decision about what you want to accomplish this week, make a decision about what needs to be accomplished today, get laser-focused about it, and let's knock it out.
No messing around.
That clarity is going to provide so much positive direction for you as you're moving throughout the day because stuff's going to come up, crap's going to come up, and if you know where you want to go, you are in such a better position to get there and while you're thinking about what you want to accomplish, I just want to encourage you.
This is something we've worked on for a couple of weeks now, I just want you to make the decision that today is going to be a great day, make the decision that this is going to be a great week, it's just going to be a great week. You can make that decision today and you can make the decision to bring tremendous energy to your interactions and bring a positive outlook with you as you are collaborating with others or as you're working on... on your projects throughout the day, you get to decide the energy that you're going to move through, move through your day with.
And I just want to challenge you to take a couple of minutes and consider that, and consider how you want to, what type of energy you want to enter the room with, what type of energy you want to bring to your discussions and your collaborations and your clients and your, your work.
And I just want to also challenge you to trust your gut and execute on your work, trust your gut, each of you, you guys, all I know everybody that's a patron. Each of you are tremendous guys that have, that are working on really amazing stuff, and you guys all have incredible instincts, and I want you to trust those instincts.
I want you to trust your gut this week as you're executing on your work.
If you struggle at all with motivation this week, you're not going to struggle. Today, you're probably ready to dive into your work, you're coming out of your weekend. But if you're struggling at some point this week, I want you to just get started on that activity that needs to be done and trust that your motivation and your flow will follow after you get started.
We talk about this all the time. Trust your motivation to follow after you get started, trust your process, and, and I almost guarantee if you can get into your work, yeah, I know what each of you are working on. If you can get into your work, that motivation is almost always going to follow, it's always going to come for you guys.
So just want to also encourage you to remove self-doubt by taking action.
I want you to err towards too much action this week, err towards too much action if you're thinking, hey, should I do this or shouldn't I? Most of the time the answer is, take action, be the aggressor, dig in, make the phone call, send the email, be the aggressor. 99 percent of the time that's the right answer.
More action is the answer.
And one last thing, as you're thinking about your targets and your goals and how this week plays into those, here's a challenge for you. This is for a specific patreon, so Ben has written an incredible book, he's starting to get some amazing momentum around and he's been working on the recording with some actors, voice actors, and... a voice actor, and, and it's just going really well. And I know he mentioned in the mastermind, he said, you know, it's this thing's going to definitely sell. I'm going to like, it's going to sell 10000 copies, and I completely 1000 percent agree with that, absolutely no doubt about it.
So I know that you know that it can sell 10000 copies.
I just want to challenge you to increase that goal, I'd go for a bigger target man, I'd go for a monster target, you know, make it make your brain thinking about not 10000, but about 100000. That, that's the number that it's going to reach, that that's the number it's going to get to, I think there's no doubt you can do that.
And if you only get to 25 percent of that number, so if you fail by 75 percent, you still hit 25000 copies versus hitting your goal of, say 10k and you never said your goal was 10K? I'm just saying that this is a good example of having a big target. So you've never told me what your goal, as you just mentioned, that, hey, this thing's going to at least sell this thing is going to sell 10000 copies, and I 100 percent agree with that.
I just want to challenge you to get a little more comfortable with pursuing even a bigger target, like a, like a, like 100000, if that's what gets you thinking a little more, gets you a little bit, I don't know, just more juiced up like a bigger target. Like if that scares you a little bit, I'd go after that 100k number and, and if you only get halfway there, you sell 50000. If you get you know, if you only get 25 percent of the way there, you sell 25000.
So that's just a challenge, I mean, I'm trying to make these a little more personal since there's only a limited number of patrons. So my shout-out is to Ben. Ben, think about a big goal man, you... There's no doubt you can do it, and I want to help you hit that goal any way that I can. But I just want to encourage you to get comfortable with pursuing some big targets. And, and I just want to challenge you to think big, to get some big thinking going on.
We all need to think bigger, man. I need to think bigger.
And so that's just kind of a reminder, hey, let's think big on this, and you don't you know, nobody judge, and if you get 100 percent to your goal with you get you know, think if you get 75 percent to 100000 goal, that's 75000, it's unbelievable.
So anyway, big goals, big goals for everybody.
Think big, big goals.
Not, not little thinking, big thinking this week and that's it, I just want to encourage you guys to have a great week. You know, you're given 365 days per year, you have 242 of those remaining right now. 28 days left to go this month, you guys get 24 hours in a day. You probably have, what about 18 of those hours remaining, so let's really capitalize, let's make it a great week.
If you need anything from me, let me know.
Let's make it a great day.
Take the time to get clear on what you want to accomplish today and what you want to accomplish with your time and energy this week.
Let's do it, go get them.