Achieve Goals by Being Intentional - Episode 318

We’re excited to be starting a new five-part series on living an intentional life. You want to live the life of your dreams. In this episode, Richard and Laura discuss how to set a course for your life that gets you where you want to go.

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3 Golden Nuggets

Determine the Destination. You need to know where you are going or you’ll just coast downhill. What are you not disciplined at? When being intentional, you can overcome those things you’re not very disciplined at
Declare your destiny. Declare your destination as if you’re already there. Write it down. And speak it out loud.
Work the plan. Intention starts with when and how you get out of bed and how you spend your morning. And ends with when and how you go to bed. Every day.

Show Notes

Being Intentional leads to the life you desire

(2:30) The key word here is intentional. You have this opportunity to create the life that you truly desire, but you gotta be intentional to create it. If you’re not, you just wind up coasting, and when you’re coasting, you’re coasting downhill.

You need to know where you are going. We’ve all heard of setting goals. We’re tired of all the talk about goals. It’s a lifestyle. We call it destination. You have to determine the destination. Where are you going and why?

I want to be fit and healthy because it’s part of the freedom lifestyle. You work to stylize and systemize and monetize your plumbing business ultimately to lead to what we call the freedom lifestyle. Part of the freedom lifestyle is being fit so that you can enjoy the life that you created.

(Check out the Success Academy to learn more about knowing your why.)

How to Achieve Goals (AKA Get to your Destination)

(11:19) When you go on a trip you enter the destination into the car’s GPS. You can have a life GPS. Just declare your destination.

Declare it as if you’re already there: I am 225 pounds, classic body build, with six-pack abs. Before you get there, you’re going to declare it.

We call it Daily GPS because you do it daily. And write it down. (13:38) Just a simple 5×8 notebook.

It doesn’t have to be only business. It can be anything. For example, “I have a 3-bedroom lake house at such and such lake with a boat dock.”

Then speak it. The power is in speaking it. It may seem a little silly, but it’s not. This is mental strength.

For those of us that are men and women of faith as in having a relationship with Jesus Christ and the one true God, we know how the universe has been created. It was spoken into place. The same God that purposely and wonderfully created us all has given us that authority and that ability through Jesus Christ to speak things into place.

Follow a Daily Routine for Success.

(19:17) There’s still hard work involved. You can’t just be a “wantrepreneur” sitting back and only dreaming and talking about it.

Be intentional about how you start your day. Don’t just roll out of bed or hit snooze over and over. Be up early.

Winners are up early before the sun and they go to get it done. Get up and do things that are positive:

have quiet time,
spend time in the Word,
be learning something,
do your workouts.
and declare your destiny.

And don’t even touch the phone. Wait until you are in the office for that so you don’t get mentally distracted.

Successful people go to bed early. They control their day, and they control their time. You’re a CEO of your own plumbing business. CEOs get up early before the sun to get it done.

Richard’s Call to Action.

If you want to learn more about numbers that matter and how to best run your plumbing business, why not schedule a free 30-min strategy call with us? Let’s talk about your goals and where you want to be this time next year, and we’ll help you create a path to make that happen. Schedule your free strategy call here today!