Ep. 219 - 2022 Goal Setting (Part 1 - Intro / Financial)

Join Rob for a multi-part series on setting goals for the 2022 year!  Over the next few days, we will be reviewing seven aspects of our lives - Financial, Physical, Personal Development, Family, Spiritual, Social, and Career.  Today's episode is an introduction to the 2022 Goal Setting Workbook, by Dan Miller...and we also cover the first topic:  Financial Goals. 

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• 2022 Goal Setting Workbook by Dan Miller - 100% FREE download

Finances can contribute to a lot of our stress...but it doesn't have to be that way!  It’s possible when you know how to handle your finances.  Join my virtual Financial Peace University class, and we’ll learn how to dump debt and build wealth.  You won’t even have to leave home.  And now, you can try Financial Peace free for 14 days!  Visit fpu.com/1141840 to sign up and learn more.  Class starts Thursday, January 20, 2022.

Past Episodes on Finance:

• Ep. 203 - Financial Health (Rob's Personal Experiences)
• Ep. 115 - The Most Important Payment You Probably Don’t Make
• Ep. 79 - The Money Talk
• Episode 15 - Financial Peace

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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the All-Around Growth Podcast. My name is Rob Kaiser and I am your host. The title of today's show is Dream Plan Act. And today we are going to discuss the 2022 goal setting workbook by Dan Miller, which will be linked to in the show notes. I would highly encourage you to check out the show notes. Check out this workbook and download it and go through it with me over the next 14 days. The objective of this whole exercise is to have our goals outlined by 2022 or for 2022 by November 14th. So I've got the workbook with me, and we are going to discuss some of the aspects of it, and this may be an extended series, and this may draw into tomorrow as well if I don't cover everything that I want to cover today. For those of you who are new, this is a show that provides insight and tools to building the life and homestead of your dreams. And the beginning of this workbook begins with a quote as follows. This is actually a quote from the president of Oxford University spoken to the entering freshman in 1944 in the midst of a world war. Before I expand on some of the remaining contents in this workbook, I think that that's important to understand. All beginnings are hopeful. The year 2020 for many of us was a challenging year. The year 2021, quite frankly, was a bit more challenging for me personally than 2020. And after some correspondence with you guys in the Telegram group at t.me slash allaround growth, I know that 2021 has been a bit more challenging than 2020 for you guys as well. Quote, I'm convinced we can create a massive ripple effect to contribute to the solutions for a better life for ourselves, for our families, for our country, and ultimately the world. That's what this is about. When we begin taking care of ourselves, we are better able to take care of our families, our country, and ultimately the world. And the way that we take care of ourselves begins with a dream. With utilizing resources like this, we put together a plan. And come 2022, we act. Remember, all beginnings are hopeful. And if you're not sure about this, if you're not sure whether or not you can take this on, if you're just not sure about a lot of things, what your goals are, etc., etc., remember that indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity. Now a lot of these quotes and a lot of the things that I'm talking about come from this worksheet. And I want to make it very clear that this is not my work, this is Dan Miller's work. And it's important to understand that giving credit where credit is due is important. And because I feel that this is so important, I'm sharing it with you because it's been of tremendous benefit to me, and I'm confident that if you begin the same process that I've been working through the past two evenings, that it will have the same impact on you that it's having on me. The first category that we work through in the worksheet, or in the workbook rather, well, before I go there, on page three of the workbook, there are four qu well, okay, before I go any further, the nice thing about this workbook is it is in a PDF format that's editable. You can type your information in there, your responses to the questions or the prompts, and you can print it out for easy reference at all times. So that's nice. One of the things that I did prior to going into the seven different aspects of the goals that we're setting for next year? Prior to that, there's four questions that were asked. If we were meeting three years from today, what has to have happened during that three-year period for you to feel happy about your progress? What are the three, what are the biggest challenges you'll have to face and deal with in order to achieve that progress? What are the biggest opportunities you have that you can focus on and capture to achieve those things? And what strengths will you need to reinforce and maximize? And what skills and resources will you need to develop that you don't currently have in order to capture those opportunities. Now I opened a Word document and typed those questions out and typed my responses because these four questions that precede the work that we do within the seven categories are not editable. There is not a field for that, but these are critical questions that I think are worth answering and printing out along with this. So if you want to do that, great. If you don't, that's okay too. But in order to maximize the full potential of this workbook, I decided to step it up and do this as well. Now, like I said, the first category that we begin working through is financial. I'm not entirely sure why these categories are listed in the way that they are. But if I had to speculate as to why our financial goals are first, when we work through this worksheet, based on my own experience over the past couple of years of going through Financial Peace University, grinding to get out of debt after making a number of bad decisions in the past, when I finally got to that point after working through Financial Peace University for over three years, when I finally became debt-free last year, and when I finally began establishing my emergency savings fund from that $1,000 up to what approached three to six months of savings. And that continues now, despite the fact that I've accrued some additional medical debts due to the health issues that I've been experiencing this year. But nevertheless, when we begin to work through our finances, everything else seems to fall in place. I know so many people who justify the debt that they carry for all sorts of reasons. And I understand that because I did that for decades. I did it after I went through bankruptcy. I've been through this cycle time and again of going into debt, eliminating it somehow in one case of bankruptcy, the second case paying it off in full by the time I ended up in a coma back in 2013, only to begin the process all over again. So some of the questions that we ask ourselves when we're going through finance is if you can't dream it, it won't happen. And I wanted to dig into some of those questions at a stop sign back there, but I've got a vehicle behind me, and I can't really dig into some of the questions, which is a good segue to again encourage you to check out the show notes. I will link to this in the show notes, and I would very much encourage you to download the 2022 goal setting workbook and work through it with me. Moreover, I would encourage you to join the Telegram chat group and connect with others who are doing it well. I posted it there last night and I shared it on social media. I wanted to do it Monday as soon as I got my hands on it, but I wanted to work through it a little bit and see if it was actually worth sharing. And without a doubt, it most certainly is. Quite frankly, I wouldn't advise against doing it in one shot. Sometimes people sit down to work through things and they just want to crank it out and get it done. I understand there are times where I am like that in my life with certain projects or certain things that I'm working on. This is not one of them. The way that I've been doing this is utilizing the Pomodoro technique. What's that? It is a simple method of working in 25-minute increments with a five-minute break, doing that three times, followed by a 15-minute break after your fourth Pomodoro work session. Monday night I sat down and read through this for 25 minutes. Tuesday night, just to get a feel for everything, Tuesday night, last night, I sat down and worked through this for two Pomodoro sessions, typing everything out, answering those questions, and inputting my answers into the fields on this editable PDF. The second part or the second aspect that we talk about is physical. And I'm gonna save that for tomorrow because I really wanted to provide some insight and background on the workbook itself, what what factors into that, and really why you should do it. And uh not only do it, but do it with do it with me. Do it with Andy, do it with whoever else in the group decides to step up and begin putting a plan together for the dreams that you have so that when the new year comes, we don't have to think about it and begin assembling the plan because we've done the work and we're ready to execute on January 1st. This is something that I've failed in doing, not necessarily failed in doing because I just didn't ever take this approach. I I was aware of it, I suppose, but I never did it. The way that I've done things the past few years, and I've done an episode on this as well in the past, which I'll link to in the show notes just for your reference for context, but I've done the past year review that was originally outlined by Tim Ferris. And the article where Tim goes through this exercise is linked to in the show notes of the episode that I did on this, the past year review. And like Tim does, I took that exercise to a whole new level and took it far more in depth than he did. But I've achieved the same result and I'm pleased with it, and I don't think I went extraordinarily anal retentive by taking his process and modifying it a little bit and creating more work for myself. But the point of bringing that up is because during that time when I would do that, it was always between Christmas and New Year's. That week off that I have, the week off that I take, and I may not be able to take that week off because I used up all my vacation time this year. Recovering from seizures. So I may be at work during that time. I'm not entirely sure. I may take it unpaid. Who knows? But we're not here to talk about my work schedule and my vacation time. We're gonna conclude the episode right here with, again, more encouragement to check out the notes. Move forward with your 2022 goals right now in November, so we can try and have them complete by November 14th, which is 48 days prior to the end of the year. And there is some reason and rationale behind that, but to get that, you're gonna have to download the workbook for yourself and see those details in order to gain a better understanding of why. So that's it for today's show, guys. I really appreciate you tuning in. I'm very excited about this process because it's new to me. I've already gained a lot from this process, and I know that you can too if you put in the work, if you're willing to do the work now in order to achieve results, better results than you could ever dream of later. Do it with me. Do it with Andy, join us over in the Telegram group, and even if you don't join the telegram group, work through this workbook. Shoot me an email at all around growth at gmail dot com. Let me know how this works out for you. Because like we read in the beginning of this, we can create a massive roll.