271. How to Set Goals and Achieve Them: 5 Point Alignment System

How to Set Goals and Achieve Them: 5 Point Alignment System

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00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:38 The Power of Belief

01:53 Focusing on the One Goal

03:49 Identity-Based Habits

04:56 Keeping Goals Visual

06:28 Focusing on Trajectory

09:48 Conclusion and Call to Action

Ash Roy Video Transcript (This transcript has been auto-generated. Artificial Intelligence is still in the process of perfecting itself. There may be some errors in transcription):

Brian Tracy:

Hello, I'm Brian Tracy. I'm here with my friend Ash Roy. It is a great pleasure to be, uh, with Ash

Ash Roy:

Brian Tracy's advice gave me a great foundation for setting and achieving my goals. When I, what I'm going to explain to you is a life changer. But in today's world, which is moving faster than ever before, due to ai, I discovered something is now missing.

This missing piece has become the backbone of my five-point alignment system that I have created. To help you set and achieve your goals in 2025 and beyond, and I'm really excited to bring this to you today. Let's do this.

My first point, you'll see it when you believe it. Most people don't achieve their goals because they don't believe enough in the possibility that they can actually achieve their goals. They set goals sometimes even great ones, but deep down they don't really believe in the capacity to achieve them. For me, this silent disbelief showed up in the form of self-sabotage, procrastination, perfectionism, and everything else in between.

Now, I'll talk more about how to use identity-based habits to overcome this problem later in this video, but for now, I'll say this when I've spent a lot of time visualizing myself. Succeeding and priming my brain for success. My belief in myself has outweighed my fear of failure, and to me, that's been an absolute game changer.

Those have been the moments when I've had the biggest breakthroughs in my business and my life. So my recommended action step for you. Is to regularly visualize yourself succeeding. Journal about it. Think about it. Spend time emotionally connecting with that future self of yours who has already achieved your goals.

And then bring that back into the present moment and execute hard. Speaking of executing hard.

Point number two, get clear on the one goal that matters most right now and execute like crazy until you complete it. Identify that one goal that will make your other goals either easier to accomplish or completely redundant.

Here's Brian Tracy talking about it.

Brian Tracy:

Select one goal. The goal that can have the greatest impact on all the others. And focus on that one goal.

Ash Roy:

If you'd like to watch the full conversation with Brian, I'll link to that in the description below. See, choosing the right goal is everything. It sets our trajectory and our pace.

In terms of accomplishing our objectives, hiring great team members is a perfect example of such a goal. When you hire great team members, they tend to help you build your business by taking the initiative to create the necessary systems and standard operating procedures that will help you to achieve your goals faster without you even having to ask them to do those things.

You see? They don't wait for permission to do great things. They're hardwired to figure out what is needed most right now and to execute on it. They will get you the results you want without your having to be too involved. So if you can get your hiring right, that will render other goals like building systems and standard operating procedures, et cetera, redundant.

Conversely, if you don't get the hiring right, you'll end up with the opposite problem, where you'll be micromanaging your team. You'll be building all the SOPs or standard operating procedures yourself. You'll be building the systems in your business and working round the clock and burning yourself to a crisp.

You know, Peter Drucker said it best. Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. He also said there's nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency, something that shouldn't be done at all.

Point number three, your habits probably aren't the problem. Your identity probably is in his book titled Atomic Habits.

James Clear, who I interviewed on this podcast and episode 175, link in the description below, talks about three kinds of habits, outcome-based habits, which focus solely on results like. Lose five kilos or make $10,000 in three months. Process based habits, which focus on the action itself, like go to the gym once a week, and identity-based habits, which ask what kind of person does this particular thing consistently.

Now, James explains that most lasting change comes with identity-based habits, and those are the best ones to form. Here's James Clear talking about identity-based habits in our conversation. Your actions reinforce your identity. So your action right now is to decide what identity you want to conform to, to be able to achieve your goals, identify as that person, and then take action every day to reinforce that identity and to normalize that goal and make it a part of who you are.

Point number four, the one habit that keeps every goal alive for me is keeping it visual. I have a large desk pad right under my keyboard where I jot down the key goals I'm working on, and as I accomplish certain goals or tasks, I scratch them out. It gives me a little dopamine hit and helps me to see my progress.

And because my desk pad is sitting right under my nose, under my keyboard, it's almost impossible for me to miss. The added benefit of having it on a physical piece of paper as opposed to a screen which constantly gets these notifications that can potentially hijack me from my focus is like having a superpower.

When I manage my tasks on screen-based software, which I still do sometimes, I often find notifications come in, distract me. I think to myself, I'll do this thing really quickly and then before I know it. I'm chasing rabbits. So my advice to you is to track your goals and your progress on analog devices.

Ideally, a piece of paper, like a desk pad that sits right on your desk that you're looking at all the time. So your action step here is to go get yourself a desk pad from your local stationary store and stick it on your desk right under your keyboard. And write down your tasks and your goals on that piece of paper and scratch them off as you complete them, you'll feel a sense of progress.

You'll get that forward momentum. You'll get yourself those dopamine hits that will then motivate you to keep moving forward.

Point number five, focus on trajectory, not just position. James Clear once said your trajectory matters more than your position, and I thought these words were very wise. And ever since then, I've shifted my focus from just chasing metrics.

To staying focused on the right trajectory and making sure that my trajectory is aligned with my long-term objectives. This is particularly important in a rapidly changing environment, and since AI has gone mainstream, this is even more important than ever before. So what does that look like in practice for me?

Well, I do a daily morning walk by the ocean. The spaciousness, the fresh air, and the movement help me to think and crystallize my thoughts. Into actionable ideas that I can then execute upon. Almost always, I walk away with an absolute game changer in terms of business and or my life. This is where I do my deep thinking.

As it turns out. This also happens to be a great way to do what is called habit stacking. I start my day with a cup of coffee and a little bit of journaling to get the neurons firing together, and then I go straight into my walk. The brisk walking really helps to metabolize and crystallize ideas.

Sometimes I stack a third habit onto this by throwing in a gym session, which really gets the blood pumping and my entire mind body system focused on the one goal that matters most in the day. It helps me to say no to things that don't matter and to say yes. To the one thing that matters most at that given time.

I find that when I start my day in this way, I'm much more likely to move forward with clarity, a sense of purpose, and with a swiftness that is absolutely necessary for success. Ultimately, it comes down. To cultivating and building great habits that help you to achieve your goals. I love how James Clear explained it in our conversation, which I will link to in the description below.

Add the quote that James says, time will magnify whatever you feed it. If you have good habits, time becomes your life. If you have bad habits, I. Time becomes your enemy. So what I wanna emphasize is these aren't hacks. This is a system that works together to build momentum over time, systems build momentum and reduce pressure.

If you wanna understand this framework and how it works in today's world, here's the short version. Most traditional goal setting fails because it doesn't fit the speed and chaos of modern day life because we have so much. Input from all these notifications. We end up trying to do too many things at the same time, and we do a whole lot of things poorly, but don't execute on the one thing that we need to execute on most and do it really well.

We cling to rigid plans. We focus too much on outcomes, and we ignore the emotional side of productivity. Well, this system. We'll help you fix all that because this system is all about alignment, matching your goals to your energy, your habits, your environment, and your identity. Think of goals like airplanes on a runway.

We can't launch them all at the same time. Airports stagger takeoffs for a reason. You need to get one project airborne or get it to have escape velocity as I like to think of it before you move to the next one. So if you are tired of rigid goals and ready for clarity, consider subscribing to this channel and checking out this playlist which goes into more details about goals and systems and [00:10:00] includes world experts like Brian Tracy.

James Clear, Seth Godin, guy Kawasaki, Victoria Obama, and several others who have accomplished a lot in their lives on this channel. We are not about hustle platitudes. We're about helping you build real frameworks that work for you in your business and your life. So if you have subscribed, thank you for doing so.

If you haven't, please consider doing so and let me know the comments below what your one thing is today that will help you to set yourself up for a better tomorrow. I'll see you in the comments. Thanks for watching Ciao for now.