I was cleaning out my closet when I found a notebook from my early twenties. A list of things I wanted to accomplish before I turned 30. Practical things, specific things, personal things. Some of them felt impossible when I wrote them.

I had done all of them.

Including the rental properties, everyone told me a young person couldn't afford. Including the book. Including the Jeep, which turned out to be a bad financial decision. I had written the list down, forgotten about it, and my life had moved toward it anyway.

I went and found Emily and showed her. She looked at the list, looked at me, and said: "You should have made your income goal higher if you knew it was actually going to happen."

We laughed. Then we sat down and wrote a new list.

This episode is the actual goal setting framework Andrew and Emily use to build their life together, including the six areas of life worth examining before you set a single goal, why SMART goals aren't quite enough and what the two extra letters change, the difference between outcome goals and process goals and why most people focus on the wrong one, and why the goals that feel most uncomfortable to write down are usually the ones most worth writing.

This isn't a theory. It's the real thing, including the parts that are messy and imperfect.

If you found a notebook ten years from now with everything you wanted your life to look like, what would be on that list? And what's stopping you from writing it down today?

Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment.

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