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iAlign #46 - You Won't Hit Your 2025 Goals (How to Change That) · The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Seeking Authenticity Podcast, hosted by Ioline, where you get practical insight and interviews aimed at identifying your unique purpose in life, one aligned with your core values.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: We help ambitious individuals who are seeking a better life build confidence, peace, strength, and pride in themselves so that they wake up each day feeling present, moved to act by their own unique adventure, and unloaded by a heavy conscience, which is where they need to be if they want to pursue an ambitious and successful life while still loving the person looking back at them in the mirror.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Flint Mitchell, CEO, founder, and head coach of Ioline, a coaching and software company aimed at building a more value-aligned world by supporting one billion people to take one value-based decision every day.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: You won't hit your New Year's resolutions because you haven't built the lifestyle that supports you achieving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: You won't hit your New Year's resolutions because you haven't built the lifestyle and the self-image that supports you achieving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not that your goals are bad or unachievable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Likely you actually are capable of setting attainable goals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though you should be honest with yourself on this as well, if that's not true.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just aren't the version of yourself yet that is capable of hitting them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That might sound harsh, but it's just the reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something that I've taken to heart, is that when I don't achieve things that I want to achieve, it's because I wasn't ready yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't the version of myself that was capable of achieving those goals yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to take ownership of my situation, as you should do for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you consistently set goals and then don't hit them, but the goals seem attainable, it's a you problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awareness of an issue is the first step to solving it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we're being honest, many of the lifestyle changes necessary to achieve your goals are fairly straightforward.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where the biggest trap is.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might think, all right, my goal is to lose 10 pounds this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna start going to the gym and eating healthier.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might even go further than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might say, I'm gonna meal prep on Sundays, I'm gonna eat 2,250 calories, because that's a 500 calorie deficit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna work out in the gym four times per week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go on walks during my lunch hour, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: These things are nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the issue is you are paying all of your attention to behaviors, but not to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the one who will be meal prepping.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the one who will be going to the gym.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the one who is going to lose the weight, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But your self-image is comfortable with you being overweight.
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  SPEAKER_00: The voices in your head don't support you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When emotions get difficult, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That girl didn't text you back, or you didn't get the promotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell, maybe you even just woke up with a headache and you fold.
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  SPEAKER_00: You lack confidence that you were capable of losing weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: You feel insecure in the gym.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't even know why you want to lose the weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, I could go on, I could keep listing these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is where your problem lies.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not in your goal setting.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the fact that you have no system or lifestyle that supports you achieving those goals or implementing those behaviors.
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  SPEAKER_00: The behaviors are simple, but you aren't ready to take them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can change that quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a couple free resources if you'd like to get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: First off, my last episode of this podcast talked about a system, implementing a real system that'll allow you to identify the environments, the people, the places, the obstacles, all the things that are necessary in order to achieve your goals.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go listen to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes about six minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next is I have a free core value-based goal setting workshop this Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, at 5 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: PST.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go in the show notes to get access to that and register.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then lastly, I have a focus module, the eye aligned focus module, which will help you create the best focus that you've had in years.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a simple PDF with a procedure that you can follow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, that's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that you reach out if you need support in setting real achievable goals and creating a system, a lifestyle that supports you actually achieving them so that at the end of 2025, you feel like you have succeeded in the ways that you wanted to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace.