Will's Way Quantum Podcast
Will's Way Quantum Podcast
Mastering the Art of Goal-Setting for a Balanced Life
Unlocking the Power of Goal-Setting: A Path to a Balanced Life
In this episode of Will's Way, we’re diving into something we all strive for—a balanced, fulfilling life. The secret? It starts with setting clear, meaningful goals. Inspired by Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, we’re taking a practical, no-nonsense approach to turning your big dreams into real, actionable steps that push you forward.
We’ll break down the eight key areas of life—things like health, relationships, personal growth, and spirituality—and talk about how to create goals that bring a sense of purpose to every part of your world. You’ll learn how to take those big, sometimes overwhelming ideas and turn them into smaller, manageable steps using the SMART framework. Think of it like building a road map to your own success—whether you're working on a business plan, improving your health, or deepening your connections with loved ones.
I’ll also share some of my personal story—the struggles I’ve faced, the lessons I’ve learned, and how embracing a deeper sense of purpose has helped me stay on track. Along the way, we’ll talk about tools that can keep you focused, like journaling, planning, and even just reflecting on where you are and where you want to go.
If you’re feeling like life is moving too fast or you’re stuck spinning your wheels, this episode is for you. Together, we’ll explore how to stay accountable, track progress, and celebrate small wins as we create a vision for the year ahead. Let’s cut through the chaos and focus on what really matters—living a life that feels meaningful and balanced.
oh, my days, it's been a minute. It's been a minute since I heard that. Wow, that brings back some pure memories for me. Just that little riff that I made back then brings back some pure memories for me. Just that little riff that I made back then. Welcome back to the Will's Way podcast. Crazy, I'm saying that. Crazy, I'm saying it. It's been a while, it's been a very long minute and you know what, calling myself out on my bull crap this year Accountability, doing the things I used to love to do, I need to do again, and the podcast was always one that I wanted to get back into.
Speaker 1:And we're here. We're here, we're ready to do things, ready for a brand new year. It's literally the first today, I mean talk about trying to make take action. It's on the first day of saying what I'm going to do. I'm going to do it, and I said that I was actually going to do it on stories today, on Instagram, which means I have have to do it. That's what accountability is. You can't say you're going to do it and not, and you feel bad then. So accountability is always a difficult one. But podcast today, we're going to keep it nice, short and sweet. I'm going to try to keep the podcast episodes around about 20 minutes, so nothing too long, nothing too difficult to be able to follow. I want to keep it really nice, short, sweet and add value. Every single one I do. There's a purpose out of it and it's going to be driving right. What is the value of listening to this 20-minute piece? How can you implement it into your life? How can you then become successful from that as well?
Speaker 1:And obviously, it being the first today, the first thing I really want to talk about is goals and planning, and goals is one thing, but planning is another, and that's the thing. We all make goals, but we all know, without actual having a definite plan of action, just like Napoleon Hill said in the first book of To Think and Grow Rich, you cannot get to your next stage of your life. You can't get to them successes without having a plan, because setting goals is great, but if you don't know how you're going to get there, it's difficult. And also, your belief system can't believe you're going to get there with not having a plan, because it doesn't. It doesn't actually physically believe it can do it without having a set out roadmap. All right, but this method that I'm taking is I've taken. I've read a lot of books, I've done loads of different ways of planning. I've tried things myself.
Speaker 1:Things work, some things didn't, and keeping consistent for a long period of time is very difficult. It can be, but you have to remember when the consistency starts to drop off a cliff, your life will start to change as well, and you won't start to get the same results you did back in the past, because you know things are going to slow down for you. So today is really about how do we set the goals, how do we do it, how do we set it out? I've got a little framework here that I want everyone to really think about. And if you haven't set your goals and you haven't set your plans and you haven't reflected, they're the three things that you have to do early as possible, before the new year starts. If you can do it today, it doesn't even have to be on the first day, like you can do it in January if you want to. The whole point is just you've just got to do it. You've got to be able to reflect on the last year, then take feedback and stock of that and how to propel that into this year and how to make changes from it. So you know that you're going to advance into the future from it. It doesn't have to be complicated.
Speaker 1:So here's the way that I've split this, and really, what you want to try to do is look at the different pillars of life. So, inherently, what we have is eight pillars of life that we should all really be looking at to be able to remain balanced in life. It's not all about earning loads of money. It's not all about just, you know, spending loads of time with family without earning money, and it's also not allowed, you know, just forgetting your partners, your friends or your family. You've got to be able to have a good, balanced, round pillar of all of these pillars, because if one's lopsided, then the whole table will fall. So the whole point about balance is being able to make sure we're a taking stock of that. These things are all going in the right direction. But that also means that we need to set goals around each of these pillars, because if we just set financial goals, then we're going to forget about our family, and if we just, you know, do family, you're going to forget about your financials, which are also very important. So being able to have. This is extremely important.
Speaker 1:So the seven or eight pillars of life that I like to call them are one being health and fitness. Without your health, you haven't got anything, and it's true. Career and business, friends and family, romance and relationships, personal development, finance and net worth so investments and savings and wealth, recreation and hobbies. And spiritual so spiritual could be, religion could be, could be innumerable things. For me, it's all about meditation and finding something that's bigger than me and my purpose and what I'm here to do. For other people it could mean religion and it could be just trying to find yourself being closer to God or whatever you want to call that universe, whatever you want to believe, which is more than I respect, but the fact is we still need to set goals for that, because it's a very important element and part of our life. So, with all of them eight pillars that you've got I've worked through something okay, and basically it's a four step process for you to be able to look at each pillar to make sure that you're doing the right things and set goals in each one.
Speaker 1:Okay, so say, for example, we pick health and fitness and this would be the criteria to go through for every single pillar. So the first one would be looking back last year and saying, well, what worked, worked good, what did I do good within my health and fitness that worked? And then you write all them things down, try to get to like five to six points of that if you can. If you can't, start to find three or four, you know that you've severely failed within that area. Which is okay. Which is okay. We're looking at the past and we're looking how we improve. Okay, then what you look at is what didn't go well. So again, try to now, within that, say, well, did I eat a lot? Was I not disciplined? Was I not waking up enough? Was I missing consistency from workouts? What didn't work and why didn't it work? Because the reason why is the bit we need to address.
Speaker 1:Okay, third is what are you channeling? This is really important, okay. So what that means is who do you want to be, what is that version? And this is what manifestation really looks like. It's about you deciding that I am going to be this person now, right, and you embody that frequency or that energy or that person before you're physically, kind of in the physical realm, that version, if that makes sense, and by doing that you can start to really channel the person you want to be. Okay. So what are you going for next year in health and fitness? So that could be an example of.
Speaker 1:I want to be lean. I want to look muscly good. I want to be able to run 5k without getting out of breath. I want to be lean. I want to look muscly good. I want to be able to run 5K without getting out of breath. I want to feel energetic. What's the best version of that? Because you need to claim that. Do you know what I mean? That's the claiming of it, and that's such an important part of all of this, because if you can't channel who you're going to be, then, honestly, it's going to be very difficult for you to meet the person that you want to improve, to be in the future, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Now we go through what have we learned? So what have we learned from the mistakes? So, basically, what we're trying to do is what didn't go well. We're trying to see why that didn't go well and then say what have we learned from them things? We write down. Good, you know two to eight things that you feel that you've learned within that. Okay, then, from them things that you've learned.
Speaker 1:What we want to try to do is sit around about four goals, and it's really important that these goals are measurable. You've got to be able to measure them. So everyone's heard smart goals. Probably people heard it in business. We use it a lot within maintain, because when we're setting goals, we need to understand well, are we on track to them?
Speaker 1:Goals? How do we measure our success in terms of what it means? Okay, so metrics that we can measure. So, say, for example, is health and fitness. You might say, well, I want to be able to run 5k within two months. That's a metric. So there's a distance that you want to be able to run and you put a time on it of when you want to achieve that goal as well, which is also very important. Okay, I've put all of my goals through each and every pillar, basically from a year. Right, I don't want to aim too far into the future.
Speaker 1:I'll do another podcast in the, you know, on something different and that's kind of more vision boarding, and we're still going to do a little bit of vision boarding with this, but the idea is like the five years and your 10 year plans are a lot different to what you're looking at, your one year plans. Okay, what we want to try to also do is make these goals realistic. All right, I know we all say, oh, you know, let's manifest a million pounds and you know let's, let's fall into our life. I get all that. I'm not saying it's impossible, right, but the thing is, what we've got to be able to do is motivate ourselves to make sure that the goals that we set are measurable but they're also achievable, because if you can achieve them goals, it's all about consistently getting the 1% better every single day method. Right, as long as we can consistently do small amounts daily, that is going to 100% propel you a lot further than trying to push yourself stupidly far on days where you know you can't push yourself that far.
Speaker 1:The same thing happens with diets. Same thing happens with, like, workout routines when they're too strenuous. How many people have you seen, like you know, be really unhappy with the way, way they look, go into kind of a boot camp scenario, absolutely smash it, do incredibly well. After two, three months lost a load of weight, looking really good, then gradually fall straight back into the place where they came again, and it's because what they've done was was quite quite a big change. Rather than consistently changing a small amount every day to be able to influence your subconscious kind of habitual way of being and the subconscious part of the brain, that also will revert back to what you believe if that makes sense, and that will always then take over your actions in the future as well.
Speaker 1:So this is really why it's so important, guys, to be able to set the realistic goals we want, to make sure that we can actually achieve them within that year. But I also feel like you have to put a deadline on everything as well. You can't just say I want to do this, because if you're quite subjective with the timing, then the universe will provide that back to you as well in a very subjective, you know, random way, right? So when you say and you affirm I want to be able to have this by the end of you know the year or the start of next year, you're putting a timestamp on these goals and also, you've got something to measure against as well. Okay, for example, we did this with our business in terms of turnover, so turnover is always a really good one for people. Obviously, profit is also a very good one to measure as well.
Speaker 1:But when we look at turnover, what we're trying to do is say, well, ok, how do we break these goals down now? Because if we know that we're going to have to be able to achieve over the year and there's 12 months in the year, we break down that figure, what we've chosen for the year, we break it down into 12. So now we know what monthly targets we need. We can then break them targets down into how many customers does that mean? So that monetary value will equal a customer ratio as well. So we can say, right, okay now, rather than saying, okay, I want to earn a million turnover for the year. Right, we're now saying that I need to get to a million, but the way that I'm going to do that is to be able to earn £85,000 a month, and that means that I need to gain free customers per month up until the midway through the year to sustain that value.
Speaker 1:So now what you've got is actual instruction to say I need free new customers. That's what it means. So now I need to look for three new customers. What does that mean then? So how do I look for them? Okay, do I go do marketing campaigns? Do I do a couple of trade shows, do I go out and reach out to do some upsell with my existing customers? It gives you the roadmap, right.
Speaker 1:This is the problem with everyone that picks numbers out of the sky. That is great. We need to be able to be specific with it. But how do we break that down into achievable chunks that we can follow every single month? That allows us to be on track to them goals to be where we need to be as well. So the goals in terms of smart framework extremely important for us to be able to understand that as well. So from okay, you have action steps to be able to reach them Exactly what I just said then and with them, action steps, we also then actually define when the deadline is to get them actually done as well, which is such an important thing to do as well in terms of deadlines, okay.
Speaker 1:So once we've done that, what we do repeat that process right For all of the pillars. There's eight pillars that we want to be able to focus on. So, through all of this, what we do want to be able to see right is your goals. For every single pillar that you've got, you should have four to kind of five goals for each pillar and what you've got, and then, from that right, we want to have a list of actions, also with deadlines, that you put into some form of planner.
Speaker 1:Now, this is always a really difficult one, okay, because if you don't track right this is why reflection is important yearly reflection is important, weekly reflection is important, like reflection is so important to see where you've gone on a regular basis. But if you don't have somewhere to put this or journal, or plan or planner, then this is going to be really difficult because you're not going to be able to take stock of yourself without writing it down and going through a thought process with it. Ok, there is a planner on Amazon called Legend Planner. Ok, I'll link it somewhere. I don't know where I'm going to link it, it depends where I put this, but wherever I link this, this planner here will actually have metrics every single month from reflection and also will tell you on from these eight pillars, how do you feel that you've achieved in terms of fulfillment of each of them pillars and what can we improve on. So, once you've gone through all of your goals and you've done what worked well in your reflection for the year, these goals can be put into this planner as well, and then we can also put the action points that we found from each section into this planner to make sure that we're doing the things as well every single week that are able us to do it.
Speaker 1:So the legend planner, also as well, has a weekly kind of set out things to do, has kind of Monday to Friday, saturday, sunday has this week's main goal. So some of these goals might be able to be converted into here, or you might have smaller goals to be able to get to the bigger ones. You've got a work to do list and you've got a personal to do list. This is quite good as well, because what I like to do within this, within the actual weekly view, it's got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. There's eight areas here that are really important.
Speaker 1:You don't really want to be having more than eight things to do within that week, unless they're. If you've got eight things on that list, you're probably not delegating correctly, or you're not. If you're getting them all done, great. But you should really be focusing on four key elements or a couple from each of the pillars each week to do, and if you do that, you're on track. Baby, you're going to go places 100%. So at the top there's a main goal. It says reward if achieved, and you've got a habit tracker on there as well. And then you've got to think as well to achieve some of these things. Or looking at, what are you channeling from one of them, subheadings there, you also want to be able to say well, if I'm going to be channeling that, what habits do I need to do every single day to achieve that? Do you know what I mean? And if it's health and fitness as well, I want to be able to be more energetic. Well, it might be drink water or two gallons of water a day, and that's a way that you can measure it and a way that you can understand whether you're meeting that criteria or you're not meeting it.
Speaker 1:It's all about metrics. Life is a game of metrics. It is. It's a game of trying to understand what we measure in, how we improve in that. Are we going backwards or are we moving forwards? If we're moving backwards, we can pivot, we can move, we can improve.
Speaker 1:If you don't know, then how do you know you're doing well or not? This is the thing. If you leave all of this in the hands of the universe without really defining what you want right, you will be put into the randomness of life If you claim it and you affirm what you want and you start to say these are the things I want in my life to be able to take hold of. And I'm also got to be accountable for that this year as well, because there's a lot of things I didn't do last year that, from my reflection, was very like, damn, like. Man has got to go back into this with a better mindset. And that's okay, though, because I think it's the realization that allows you to look if I got this far without doing a lot of the things I should have been, imagine if I actually implemented everything that I wanted to be able to do.
Speaker 1:So having that journal and being able to really take stock is so important, guys, and the thing is a lot of people say, oh, journaling, I haven't got the time. Look, you have got to stop the excuses, man, you've got to. You know your brain is going to come up with excuses. You have to stop the excuses saying you do not have enough time. It's so crazy people say that because you don't have the time not to do it. Guys, you don't because if you can't reflect, you can't improve, you can't get to the next stage of where we want to go.
Speaker 1:And this is what I want this podcast to be about. I want to hold myself accountable to some a lot of this stuff, because I do know it, because don't get me wrong sometimes we have the answers and I think a lot of you guys listening to this will probably think well, do you know what? I think I know what I need to be doing, but am I doing it? And that's the problem. Sometimes it's not the fact that we don't know what to do. We've got this innate thing inside of us that pulls us to our dreams and aspirations, but we have a responsibility to try to get this locked down in terms of a way that we want to be able to do these things. Okay, so, guys, I'm going to link the legend planner as well, and what I'll do as well is put some of these questions and some of these kind of examples into some form of document that you guys can follow and give it a go. Fill out a few of them for yourself.
Speaker 1:If you're really, really, really wanting to improve your life in every element not just financially or money wise right. Do this exercise. I can guarantee, if you do this and you spend even half of half a day thinking about it, reflection and setting some new goals and you just did this, even to a minimum I promise that you'll improve your life in every area because you're going to start to now start thinking about becoming better, you're going to start channeling something different and you're going to start manifesting the right life for you, because you're now prompting the things that do allow manifestation to work within your life. And if that's you being a better person or channeling something different for you and affirming that you are better, but also setting the goals and doing the things that set you out to be able to be, you know, different to the other people that are not setting goals, you will start to progress in your life as well. So, first podcast of many. These are going to be very quick, short form. I'm going to throw them out there. I really want to help everyone.
Speaker 1:This year, man, it's been a crazy year in business. It's been absolutely nuts. Right, it has been crazy, but you know, I've been in business now for seven years. You know what I mean. We've got eight employees that maintain and there's so many things I want to be able to do and we've grown just insane amount. But I've learned in the last two years so much and I want to share some of the things that didn't work well for me. Do you know I mean things I've had to overcome and hopefully, some people that maybe you know starting up or people that are starting businesses, or people that just want to maybe do some entrepreneurial stuff or just start on their own or just go self-employed or want to have the faith to be able to take life in their own hands.
Speaker 1:I want to be able to share a lot of the wisdom that I think can help a lot of people. Do you know what I mean? And that's what I think Will's Way has always been about. But I'll be honest, I've kind of been through a really difficult time the last kind of couple of years. I've really struggled to just get myself in front of the camera. I really struggled just to be able to come out and share my gift, and I know that one of my purposes in life is to be able to help people through the message of voice or, or, you know, music or whatever we've got, and I know that I haven't been fulfilling that? I know I haven't.
Speaker 1:So, you know, if I even was reflecting on my spirituality part, I would say I'll be failing, because if I'm not sharing the things that I know are going to help people, then I'm not doing my bit. And there's a lot more I can do for that. But I have the awareness of that this year and I really want to do that. I want to help more people. I want to be able to have that part of me that's able to share more of me and my experiences and how we can help and how we can do all the rest of it. So, guys can do all the rest of it. So, guys, thank you for tuning in. I really hope you know that added some form of value. We can kind of do a step by step here and write them out. Guys, get the planner and start to really change your life because, guys, anything can change in a year huge amount. So take care, guys. I've been searching in the quantum.