This is The Daily Strike, with your host, Tanner Price, a podcast from The Refinery Training, where our mission is impact, and our medium is commitment. Today on the show, we're talking goals, and how the articulation of your goals can allow you to show up more powerfully and effectively in the life you're leading. I hope you enjoy the show. Thank you guys so much for being here today, and I'm excited to share with you one of my favorite subjects when it comes to goal setting.
I find this to not only be useful, but to be informational, that it actually allows us to see something that we may not have seen before, to access a certain ability that we may have been asleep to before. And that is the idea of two types of goals. And the names that I give these goals are directional goals and destination goals. So to put this into perspective for you, a destination goal is one that you have every intent to accomplish, and it's within your control.
And by that, I mean, the way that you show up in the world can bring that to pass. So for instance, if your goal is to become a millionaire, you're absolutely able to do that, whether it be through saving, earning, whatever. The potential is out there. You just have got to go do it and fulfill on it, totally within your reach.
Now, say for instance, we're talking about a different style of goal, a directional goal. Maybe it's something like, I want to be the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Okay, you want to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, you can put every strain of your energy and being towards it, yet those who choose the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, it is eventually out of your hands.
That being said, it is useful to have that as a directional goal because it allows you to show up as if you are a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And in the end, whether you get the prize or not, the trophy, whatever, it doesn't matter because you were able to come to that work in such a way that it served you as much as it would serve any Nobel Peace Prize winner. And so in your life, begin to observe these goals you have, right? You cannot control others, but you can control yourself.
And there's an immense amount of power in doing so. And as you do so, you can accomplish these destination goals. Like you should expect yourself to have those happen and to check them off the list. And for a destination goal, you can check off the list, you can make it happen.
But a directional goal is just one that's useful for you to have. And you may accomplish it. Like it may be checked off the list or it may not. But by having that goal and acting in accordance and in alignment with it, you're going to be better and more intentional because of it.
Now, hopefully you're getting an understanding of these destination versus directional goals. The thing I want you to realize why this even matters, right? You're saying, hey, Tanner, honestly, I'm just going to set a goal and I'm going to go for it and hopefully I make it, right? I'm going to give it my best shot.
That's great. But we want to design your life or to architect your experience in such a way that you're able to fulfill on and hold yourself to full accountability from whatever approach you're taking. So with a destination goal, you are fully accountable. It's all in your court.
If it doesn't happen, it's on you. A directional goal, you need to approach in the same way. That being said, checking it off the list isn't a matter of it happening. It's a matter of you acting as if it's happening.
It's allowing you to use goals as more than plans, right? We wouldn't have goals if they were just plans. And so set your directional goals. Set your destination goals.
Hopefully they both scare you. But hold yourself to the highest accountability that when happens, a destination goal happens, and then also hold yourself to the highest accountability that your directional goals happen for you. Whether there's the title on it, whatever it might be in the outside world, what matters is that you've approached it in the way that needed to make it happen, the product to pass. And I would bet, I'd be willing to put a lot on the fact that as you approach them, most of those directional goals are very possible in happening.
The thing that we want to avoid is corrosion of self-worth and inviting self-doubt because you didn't quote unquote meet your goal word for word. There's a lot more that goes into it. And there's a lot more that is available to you when you're intentional and articulate about your goal setting. So today, just find one, maybe a daily goal.
Maybe your goal today, your destination goal, would be to read 20 pages in your current book. That is fully in your control. Okay? And a directional goal might be to make an impact on someone's life.
At the end of the day, you can act in such a way that you will make an impact on someone's life. The impact that they take from your interaction is essentially up to them. Now you can show up usefully to that experience, but it's up to them whether it's going to make an impact on their life or not. You can just provide as much as you can as if it's going to make an impact on their life.
So a directional goal versus a destination goal. When you can articulate these, you're going to invite more self-worth, self-power, self-enablement through this specific articulation in your goals. I hope this occurred clearly and powerfully for you today. We'll talk more on it as time goes, and I hope that you can begin to develop this understanding and the usefulness in articulation, and in this case, articulation of goal setting.
Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you and all you do and your dedication and commitment to your self-development. Have a great day, and we'll talk to you tomorrow on the podcast.