Marcarnos objetivos (y alcanzarlos)

0:09 Hello everyone and welcome to ideas for a better life. I am Eugenio pallar Ruiz, a hard- working reader and lover of personal development. Today I want to talk about the importance of setting goals in our lives and how we can achieve those goals. But before you start, as always, remind yourself that you have at your disposal a compilation of the most relevant ideas and tips on personal development in my four own books. I leave you their link in the notes of the episode and also, as many of you have asked me how and where to train in personal development. I tell you what has worked for me, which is IPPE' s master' s degree in personal development online, an institute of positive thinking. You know the best training in that field. If you want to take a look at the most free trails, I leave you in link in the notes of the episode and if you have decided to change your life, but you are not yet ready to do a master' s degree, I recommend that you download the ebook for free twenty - five habits for economic abundance, an approved system, step by step with which you will get better your relationship with money so you can start having the lifestyle you want. I also leave your link in the episode notes so you can download it. And now we' re going to talk about targets.

1:42 Think about the last time you crossed a task off your to- do list. Surely what happened next is that another task immediately arose that took its place. And this isn' t bad. This is good. You don' t want to have a single goal in life, because after you get it, you might find yourself lost. They think what happened, for example, to the astronauts traveling on the Apollo ship when they returned from their journey to the Moon, unfortunately several of them fell into a depression because they felt they had nothing left to fight for. And so, today, NASA, as part of its training of these astronauts, urges them to have goals to pursue them once their missions are completed. So, if astronauts have targets, how can you not have targets? You who are listening to me or I' m talking to you about how we set those goals, because the first thing is to take a notebook. You can also do it on the computer, on an excel sheet. You take a notebook or excel and think about everything you want to get in the next one to ten years. And then you write a list of all the things you want to get in the next ten years as quickly as possible, without thinking too much about the things that are

3:15 coming out of you. Try to have about fifty goals in total, about when you have them you will assign each of those objectives to one of these four categories a year, three, years, five years or ten years, depending on what you think the time you think will lead you to achieve that goal. I recommend that you balance that list so you don' t have too many goals in any category, remove items from those categories that have too many goals, and add new ones to those categories that have very few. What I' m trying to tell you is that you don' t have all your fifty goals, don' t put them in the ten- year period, report them to you in one-, three-, five-, ten- year periods. Next, what I' m asking you to do is to mark with a circle or to sub- ray on the extel that or to make one that you put in another color on the extel the four most important objectives of each category, four by four. Well, you ' re gonna have a list at the end of this exercise, a list of sixteen targets in total. Okay, let' s assume those are your targets. What I' m going to ask you to do later is write a paragraph on each target. In the first half of that paragraph, I want you to describe exactly what that goal is, to expand the description or name you have given it. And in the second half of the paragraph,

4:46 what I want you to do is write down why you want to achieve that goal. If what happens to you is that you can' t think of any reason to have that goal, to want to achieve that goal, then that goal doesn' t deserve your time to erase it and trade it for another goal. On the other hand, when you' re clear about your goals, you' re going to have to prepare yourself to achieve them. In most fields, people do not expect to achieve success without spending years studying, without spending years practicing, For example, in the field of medicine, no one would try to operate on another person with an open heart without having been studying before for years. So I recommend you create your own walking college.

5:38 And this you can do through books, through videos, through podcasts. Find Ile biographies of people who have achieved what you want to achieve and put their teachings into practice And if questions arise, because obviously you cannot ask a book. You can always look for a person you think has succeeded or is where you want to be and invite them to have coffee, because the price of that coffee is going to be worth it if you take advantage of the time and if you ask them the right questions that you have to prepare in advance. Another idea is to attend lectures, courses, seminars that are taught by those people you admire. Pay close attention to their small gestures, ask them about their daily habits, because if you can identify the habits that successful people share, you can use them in your own life. And, obviously, they won' t guarantee you getting to where they are, but they will put you in a much more favorable context. The idea how you see is that the more time you spend with people, whether with physical presence or through their teachings, with people who are already where you want to get better than better. So whatever method you choose to be close to these people, reserve at least thirty minutes a day. I no longer ask you for 30 minutes a day to learn from them and even a small part of your income

7:13 every month. On the issue of income there is a concept that is quite simple. Normally, people who have a balanced budget and who manage their money well tend to spend about seventy percent of their income on their needs. Here we go rent, mortgage, food, leisure, etcetera. But there is another thirty percent who reserve in a special way. They reserve that thirty percent divided as follows, five percent for formation, income that you use to train in what interests you, another five percent for charitable works, can already be contributing to your community to help those in need. Whatever you want. With that we already have a ten- five percent formation, five percent charities and then another ten percent would go to savings so that you can accumulate wealth over the years and another ten percent that will invest to create wealth. And here, then, there are different ways to do it. You know, property, monetizing hobbies. Anyone, any path that serves you to create wealth.

8:26 But remember, whatever you earn from how you spend it, it all starts with your personal development. Unfortunately, we see many people seeking to fulfill their goals in life without improving themselves before. And that' s very difficult. To increase your value, to get what you want to do no matter what it is, you first have to develop yourself personally, because if you don ' t have that point of personal development, it' s easy for you to start blaming others when something happens to you that you don' t like, is that you start making excuses when you stumble on some obstacle when something goes wrong. We already know that it is much easier to point your finger at, rather than accept that the problem is within yourself. And when you do this, you' re hindering your own improvement, your own personal development.

9:20 Because, after all, if your problems are never your fault, then you have no reason to take responsibility for your own life and start changing. Besides, we all know stories about celebrities or super rich people who are deeply unhappy, even though they seem to have everything in life. How is that possible, because, unfortunately, even though those people have made so much money, they have so many things, they most likely have never learned to be satisfied with what they have. And that' s personal development, too. Remember everything we' ve talked about in previous episodes about gratitude, and I know that there are many people who already agree with this that money doesn' t give happiness. But there are also many others who continue to assume that the money will make them more successful, it will make them feel better.

10:16 The reality is that money cannot change your character or your general satisfaction with life. So if you' re unhappy now or if you' re insecure now, chances are this won' t go away. If you make a lot of money. And now that we have objectives, we have training, we have developed ourselves personally. Now what it' s about is dividing those goals into tasks and organizing your days from those tasks. You don' t have to choose between success with an excessive workload or mediocrity with enough time to relax and do nothing. It' s not about that. You don' t have to go to either end. You have to devote time to every aspect of your life. There' s time to work, there' s time to be with the family, there' s time to do nothing. When you spend too much time in one of the areas of your life, your lifestyle gets unbalanced and becomes unsustainable in the long term. So, to avoid this, an essential strategy is to plan every day before it starts. You need a plan, you need a calendar with plenty of space so you can write down what you need to do every day of the week and every hour of the week, without forgetting to leave time blank to do nothing every day, which is also very healthy. This is difficult if you need a lot

11:48 of discipline to organize. It' s hard to follow a schedule, as it is, too, but if you try and try it, you' ll find that you don' t need to sacrifice any aspect of your life for someone else that fits into your life. If you organize them well, and the last point is your environment, dedicate your time to the right people. Our friends, the people around us tend to influence us. Whether we realize this or not. For example, if you surround yourself with people who aren' t careful with their money, people who waste, you may as well end up wasting. Or if you surround yourself with people who spend the weekend drinking, chances are you' ll end up drinking, too. People with bad habits end up making you adapt their bad habits, simply because you start to see them as normal and they don' t surprise you. You know maybe drinking is bad, but you start to normalize it, because the people around you do it and it happens the other way around. It' s the same thing. If you surround yourself with people whose habits are to exercise and sleep well, then you' re going to end up doing it too then what I know, which is hard to admit that there may be people around us who are bad influences. But if you' re honest, with yourself, with yourself, you can eliminate those relationships before they hurt you.

13:15 Or if that' s impossible, if you can' t eliminate them, try at least to spend as little time as possible with those people and, when you' ve eliminated those negative relationships from your life, the next logical step is to make the most of positive relationships. In this case, with those kind of people who told you before they exercise, sleep, read study are formed. What you want is to expand the time you spend with them, spend more time with people whose mentality affects you positively. That' s the idea I want to convey to you. So you know that. You have to have goals for every aspect of your life. But in order to fulfill them, you' re going to have to train yourself first of all in personal development, which is the basis of everything, and then in other fields, obviously related to your goals. And once you have that foundation, you have to divide your goals into tasks and manage time effectively to balance work, family, and free time, in a way that allows you to maintain a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle that leads to a better life. If you liked this episode, please give it to me like, share on social networks or visit three w dot ideas for living better. Here you can subscribe and download for free a copy of my latest book, Seven steps for a

14:46 life with purpose and if you want to learn much more and train in personal development with the best experts, check out the free master' s classes of the online personal development master' s degree of ipp Oh, Download, the free ibo twenty- five habits for economic abundance. I leave you in link to both things in the notes of the episode and just say goodbye. Thank you very much. As always and until next time