8 Keys to Achieve Your 2024 Goals (or any goal)
by Parker · 88 things on NewTwos
- Recently, I watched a Tony Robbins video on a planning method he calls the Rapid Planning Method (RPM).
- Tony Robins - RPM for Planning - YouTube
- I took notes on the video (below), but wanted to distill his teaching into a few meaningful keys that will help me in the future.
- RPM Rapid Planning Method by Tony Robin
- This is that distillation and I wanted to share it with you here.
- Define your result
- What is the result you want? What's the outcome you're after?
- What are the goals you want to achieve today, this week, this month, next year, in 5 years, and what will be the outcome of achieving those goals?
- What is the result you want? What's the outcome you're after?
- If you become clear about what you want, it will change what you do.
- Be clear and specific.
- "I want to lose some weight" is not clear enough. Will you lose 2 pounds, 10 pounds? Will you keep it off? What weight do you want to be?
- Clarity is power.
- We do things for three reasons:
- Because something bad will happen
- Because something good will happen
- Because it's a part of our vision
- Reason 3 is usually prioritized last.
- Write down your priorities and what you want to accomplish.
- Language is crucial
- We experience life the way we repackage it and label it.
- We label experiences and they become that in your body.
- We use habitual language patterns which impact our experience of life.
- How do you label your life? Hard? Fun? Terrible? Amazing?
- It's important to be aware of your language patterns.
- Language creates meaning, meaning creates emotion, and emotion determines what you're going to do or not do.
- Start with language. Start with the questions you ask and the words you use to answer them. Don't start with to-dos.
- Understand your purpose
- Why? Why do you want to achieve your vision? What is your purpose?
- Why is more important than how.
- Why are you doing this right now?
- Your purpose is the fuel of human emotion.
- Motivation is your motive for action. Motives do matter.
- Link your needs to your vision. There are 6 needs. If you link one need, you have an interest. Link two and you have a drive. Link three and you're going to do it.
- Inspect your focus
- What we focus on we feel.
- Focus determines your life.
- Focus determines your destiny.
- You make progress on what you focus on.
- Phones are constantly stealing our focus.
- If you don't take control of your focus, somebody else will.
- Take yourself out of reaction.
- Whatever focus goes, energy flows.
- Stop focusing on what to do or what not to do, and start focusing on your outcome.
- Focus is power. Focus on the results that are most important to your life.
- Ask good questions
- Your questions determine your focus.
- Ask different questions.
- Change your questions, change your life.
- Microsoft was created by asking, "How do we become the intelligence that controls all computers worldwide?"
- Don't ask what am I going to do? Ask what do I want? What's my outcome?
- Other examples:
- What are the three outcomes we want this week?
- What are the outcomes of this meeting?
- What's the most important outcome for my health this week?
- What's my most important outcome for my emotion this week?
- Don't command people, just ask questions.
- Strategy is more important than tactics
- A strategy is about the results we want, a tactic is what we do to achieve a result.
- Start thinking in outcomes, not activities.
- In Tony Robbin's Rapid Planning Method, the alternative title is Results Purpose Map (massive action plan).
- What's your Massive Action Map (MAP)?
- How? Brainstorm all of the hows.
- You will need to take massive action and try a bunch of different tactics, but it's most important to be clear on the strategy first.
- Create your MAP: Your massive action plan for real and lasting results.
- Maps don't always work. There are many different paths to your end result, and you can always find another map.
- Use chunking to understand your most important outcomes
- Write out all of the shit you do.
- Then, chunk together the different activities that are helping you reach the same result.
- You're chunking to meet your needs.
- Tony calls these chunks "Categories of constant and never-ending improvement."
- Personal chunks: health (physical, emotional, spiritual), creativity, financial, relationships (family, friends, community).
- Business chunks: marketing, sales, finances, culture, relationships, strategy, skills, product.
- Use emotion to drive actions
- Bring your emotion into your actions.
- Where will you get enough emotional juice to keep going when things aren't working out?
- Words change emotion, it changes your state.
- What are some words or phrases that can juice up your life?
- Mine are: love, become, help, inspire, create, change, grow, develop, persist.
- "Passion is the genesis of genius." - Tony Robbins
- These are the keys I will be using to define my goals, focus on my priorities, and overcome obstacles in 2024.
- Here are 4 steps to plan your 2024 goals:
- What do you want?
- Why is that important to you?
- What will you need to focus on?
- What will you need to do for each thing that you want?
- I hope it helps and I highly recommend his original video to learn more about planning, staying motivated, and being productive.
- Happy Holidays