In this video, we're going to go over how you can benefit from this course. So, in order for you to benefit from this course, there are some things that you need to lay out first, you need to be able to kind of lay out the plan, the action plan, right, the actual goals. So let's jump right into this here. So, in order for you to gain the maximum benefit from this course, we're going to begin by setting goals for this particular course for this journey that we're going to take together. So stop for a moment and answer these questions. Okay, maybe take about 1015 minutes, and then come back to this video.

And so make sure that you answer all of these questions here. What exactly do you want to get out of this course? What's stopping you from getting that right now? What's important to you about achieving those goals? Right, whatever goals that you have set up for yourself, what will it be like if you have more confidence, right for you to have more Confidence in particular situations and whatever kind of context right? And what will having more confidence ultimately do for you?

So stop for a moment and answer these questions. What do you want to get out of this course, you obviously want to get more confidence but in what area you want to be more confident with public speaking, we're talking to strangers with you know, a certain skill set that you are trying to develop, right. And so what's currently stopping you from getting this right now you don't have the proper competence. You don't have maybe the confidence the belief in yourself that you can accomplish that or be more confident in that particular area. Right? And what's important to you about achieving that goal, right?

And this is where you want to have three different layers, okay? This is where you want to be like, okay, what's important to you about achieving your goal? Okay, great. I'll be able to, let's say, make more money, okay. When ultimately making more Money is a very top layer, what is that more money going to get you? Well, that more money is going to allow me to, you know, be able to spend more time with my family and do this isn't that whatever that may be right?

Take vacations. And then you think about it. Okay. Well, what's important to you about taking vacations about being able to spend more time with your family? Right? Well, ultimately, it may be that you want to have peace of mind, right?

And knowing that you have choices, and that you can be able to take those vacations that you can spend more time with the family because you don't have to worry about x, y, and z, whatever that may be. Right? I'm just trying to give you an example there of the hierarchy as far as the top layer, right of what's important to you, and really what it comes down to once you peel back the onion, right, the layers of the onion there. So here's the thing. It's going to be a thing where sometimes you're going to have a little bit of hesitation. A little Bit of doubt.

But the key thing is to catch yourself. And I'm going to show you a lot of different techniques and strategies that you can use to catch yourself when that feeling of fear of uncertainty comes to you, and how you're going to be able to overcome that instantly in your mind, because it's all a process that you're running, right when you're actually experiencing fear, uncertainty, doubt, right, whatever that may be. That's negative. And then we have How will you know, when you get more confidence? What are you going to be seeing, hearing experiencing, that's going to tell you that you have more confidence, right? You have to be able to have a picture in your mind that shows you Okay, me being more confident is x, and I'm going to be doing y I'm going to be hearing X, Y and Z I'm going to be seeing X, Y and Z.

And that's going to tell me that I've actually accomplished my goal, right? And so what we want to do next is set a smart outcome for yourself and an outcome is something that you desire and or want, it's similar to a goal, yet it can be much smaller. In this particular example, the terms are going to be used interchangeably. And the acronym that we're going to use is smart. And it stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed. So with the first three, here, we have specific, measurable and achievable with specific, you want to make a specific outcome, hyper specific, you want to be able to see, hear, feel, that particular experience, you want to be able to call that out and say, I'm going to be seeing hearing feeling x, so I know that I've actually achieved it right.

And you want to stay away from the generalities. You want to get hyper specific. So a general outcome would be I want to get confidence out of this course. Okay, well, that's a very general that does not work well with a specific outcome such as, I want to gain two specific strategies or two Techniques right for eliminating my fear of changing jobs and gained confidence in knowing that I will succeed at whatever job I have. So get specific at what you want to accomplish, right? And then measurable, your outcome is measurable when you have a clear way to know if you've met your outcome or not.

That's why it's important to know what you're going to see hear and feel in your experience is going to tell you that. So here's another example of having something that is very generalized. So I will be confident by the end of this course by using the techniques described in his book that's very general, right? So if we want to get a little bit more specific, and we want to have something that we can measure, right, we can have something where it's, hey, I will make more direct eye contact with people in my new job that is hyper specific and exactly what you're going to do. I will maintain competent physiology, posture and bearing and I will be more outgoing by initiating conversations with my co workers. So you Imagine yourself doing all of these right?

Imagine yourself specifically having more eye contact with people. You can imagine yourself and see yourself initiating conversation with coworkers, right that you previously haven't had any conversations with, right? And when it comes to achievable, you want to make sure you have big goals, right? That stretch you that stretch your comfort zone, you want to make sure that you have short term and long term goals, right? So that when you say your short term goals, they're actually achievable right in the short run. And then you don't get discouraged for your long term goals, because every single goal is achievable if it's broken down right into small little pieces.

So you want to make sure you break your goals down or your outcomes into small little pieces, so that you avoid setting yourself up for frustration for headache, right? Because you're not able to attain that particular goal. So plan it out precisely so that you know the smallest steps that you need to take. And so when you reach those small steps, you're getting kudos, you're be able to congratulate yourself as moving forward, you know, another step towards your goal, right? And then we have realistic and times. And when it comes to being realistic, I mean, this one's really in the gray area, because there's a lot of things that quote unquote, are realistic to one person, but then may not be realistic to another.

So you think about Neil Armstrong, who is the first person to land on the moon, very few people actually believed that it was even possible to go to the moon, right? A team of us scientists knew that it would work in theory, right? They knew that, hey, if we come up with a strategy, if we come up with an algorithm, write a formula for us to get there. It's possible, right? But in theory, and at the end of the day, you really just need to know that it is possible. And even in theory, if it's possible, it can be done right, as long as your outcome has a basis.

In reality or theoretical feasibility, then it's realistic. Okay. And then finally, we have timed. So you want to make sure that your outcome is within a certain timeframe. Because if you don't have your timeframe set, then it could take you 10 years to accomplish something that could have been done in one year and six months, right? A lot of times people will say, I have all these big dreams, I have all these huge goals, but when it comes to asking them, okay, what is your immediate short term and long term goals, they will not be able to tell you because they don't have deadlines attached to those.

Oh, you know, I'll be able to do X, Y, and Z and have X, Y and Z money. Sooner or later in life one day in life, I'll have it right. But if they just keep saying that and thinking that then it's just hoping and wishing and praying versus when somebody is definite. And they say, by this date, I'm going to be doing x or y and this is what I'm going to be experiencing right then it allows you to put some pressure on yourself and get things done because you have a deadline, right? So a key to achieving smart outcomes is to monitor your progress. be accountable to yourself, and check regularly to make sure that you're on your track, right?

And that you're consistently increasingly moving in the right direction is what gets measured gets accomplished. It's one of my favorite phrases here. You want to make sure that you're always always keeping track of your progress. You have a definite timeline there, and you're moving towards your goals each and every day. So that's going to be here for how you can best benefit from this course in how to set SMART goals and we'll see you on the next one.