How to Design Your Life Using “Reverse Goal Setting” (GAME-CHANGING)

About this video

Clark Kegley presents ‘reverse goal setting’ as a three-step way to design your life: reimagine, reject, and reframe. Step one is to wipe the slate clean and ask what the most exciting, ‘I can’t believe this is my life’ version would look like, thinking with the end in mind and breaking it down backward into 5-, 3-, 1-year, and 1-month goals. If stuck, he suggests modeling someone whose life you admire and flipping jealousy into a ‘why not me?’ creator mindset; he says about 70% of what he wrote in a similar exercise 10 years ago — when he says he was in debt in his mom’s basement — has come true. Step two, ‘reject,’ is to define your idea of hell and use both approach goals (what you want) and avoid goals (what you’re running from) to find authentic drive, illustrated by a friend’s encounter with a corporate worker who only talked about college. Step three, ‘reframe,’ is to chunk the gap between your 1.0 and 2.0 self into the closest next win, citing his own breakdown of a 10,000-subscriber goal into hundreds. He adds tips on goal competition — focus on one keystone goal at a time — and testing habits by asking ‘why wouldn’t this work?’

Key takeaways

• Start with the end in mind: imagine the most exciting life possible, then work backward into 5-, 3-, 1-year and monthly goals.
• If stuck, model someone whose life inspires you and replace jealousy with a ‘why not me?’ mindset, per the creator.
• Define what you do NOT want (‘reject’) — combining approach and avoid goals produces what Kegley calls authentic drive.
• Chunk big goals into the closest next win and check steps off sequentially, as he says he did with subscriber milestones.
• Pursue one keystone goal at a time to avoid goal competition, and design habits by asking ‘why wouldn’t this work?’

Episode details: published November 4, 2024 · 16:21 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Clark Kegley’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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