Why I didn’t accomplish my goals

At the beginning of the year, I created a list of goals. Some of them were “input goals.” Some of them were “output goals.”

The input goals were simple. One of them was to post 365 videos this year. 

I didn’t set a follower goal. I didn’t set a views goal. I just set a goal to post 365 videos. Right now, I’m only 9 videos away from accomplishing that goal.

The output goals were confusing. They included things like run a marathon, generate $50k in product sales, max out your Roth IRA, write another book. 

I accomplished a couple of these, but most of them I didn’t accomplish.

Recently, I realized that all the output goals I accomplished had a very clear plan attached to them. 

Before I started training for the marathon, I printed out a running schedule. To max out the Roth IRA, I set up a recurring transfer. 

But I didn’t create a clear plan to write my second book. I didn’t create a clear plan to generate $50k in product sales. 

I turned my output goals into input goals by creating a clear plan for each one: a printed out, physical paper packet, with daily or weekly checkpoints. 

I’m taking this into my planning for 2025. Input goals only. And for output goals? A clear, daily plan of action.  

As James Clear once said…

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”