Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening everybody,
and welcome to today's episode
of the NeverPeak Project Podcast.
I'm your host, Coach Ranger,
and today we're gonna be diving
into creating New Year's resolutions that stick using AI.
So sit back, relax, grab the beverage of your choice,
and let's dive in as I tell you a little bit about a tool
that I use and created called Rangefinder.
Now guys, today I wanna talk a little bit
about New Year's resolutions
because it's the beginning of the year.
They are extremely abundant.
Everybody's kinda talking about them.
Whether you love them, hate them,
they're still on your mind
because in some way, shape, or form,
you have either set one in the past,
you're setting one now,
or you know someone that has set one.
Whether you are someone like me
that sets goals periodically throughout the year,
or you are a live and die
by the New Year's resolution kind of fella,
this episode is for you to help create
even more effective goals for yourself.
The thing that I've noticed is the beginning of the year
is a fantastic way for people to get interested
and excited about personal developments.
If you ask any of my friends, especially my fiance,
you'll know that I am a huge fan
of anything personal development related.
I listen to podcasts, I listen to videos that people post,
I read books all the time.
You know, I'm always, I'm doing 75 hard right now.
It's something that is very top of mind for me at all times.
That's why I really love this New Year's season
is because everybody is willing to share
what they want to create for themselves in the New Year.
But something I've noticed is that that excitement
does die off pretty quick.
And these resolutions aren't really met throughout the year.
They kind of drop off by, you know, February, March,
sometimes even as early as a couple weeks into January.
And that could be for a plethora of different reasons.
Whether it is a life update, things change,
they get forgotten,
or it's just easier to stay in that flow of inertia
and stay stagnant where you were before.
There are a bunch of different reasons
why New Year's resolutions fail.
And I think that leaves a lot of
sour taste in people's mouth.
I mean, that certainly did for me,
and it really changed how I viewed New Year's resolutions
for a few years there.
I was a die hard,
I am not a New Year's resolution kind of guy,
there's no point setting them.
And it took me a couple years to really figure out
what worked for me in terms of goal setting.
And for me that was doing things
not because I feel that external pressure
of something like New Year's resolutions
to make these goals,
but really clearly defining why they're important to me
to even contemplate doing them.
Why do we even think about it?
Why is that brain waves thinking about these things to do?
Another thing that I noticed is
accountability is a huge factor
in terms of actually getting stuff done.
I'm speaking for myself here.
It's very easy to set these goals in your mind,
even if you are very clear on your why and your purpose,
what is it that we actually want to achieve here
and how are we going to make sure
that we're checking in with ourselves
throughout the year to make it happen?
So what I really wanna talk to you guys about today
is how to set goals with purpose.
And I'm not just talking about,
I wanna lose weight because it's good for me,
or I want to make a certain amount of money
so that I can buy this fancy car.
It's really about understanding what your personal vision
for life is, your mission for 2025,
clearly defining that purpose for yourself
so that you can take that
and actually write New Year's resolutions
that are going to stick with you throughout the entire year.
I'm gonna give a couple of my own tips and tricks
and share my own personal New Year's resolutions
and goals with you right now.
But the tool that I use to do a lot of these,
I had the initial ideas,
but I wanted something a little bit easier
to make that writing process more simplified,
is a GPT that I created called Rangefinder.
Now I'll be talking about it all throughout this
and I'm actually gonna be doing
a free webinar workshop next week.
I'll put all the information in the show notes
about how you can watch that,
but I'll be walking through step-by-step
the best way to optimize and utilize this AI assistant
to create New Year's resolutions
and purpose statements for yourself
so that you can actually do what you wanna do in 2025.
Now to really just start from the beginning
of setting a goal.
Now to bring a very specific example
to the forefront of this,
I'm gonna be talking about my walk across America
that I started and completed in 2024.
Now I had the idea to walk for a few years.
I saw that Mike Posner did it,
then I found a couple other guys that had done it,
and it was something that I thought would be amazing
and fun and cool
and would make a really great story for myself.
So that was the what, that was the thing I wanted to do.
And that was great.
I was pretty clear on what I wanted to achieve,
but the thing that I was missing
was the overall purpose behind it.
And that was something that I actually spent months
clearly defining for myself.
I had to write down all the reasons why I wanted to do it,
the things that would get in the way.
I completed this, I think it's like a 10, 15 page document
called the Well-Formed Outcome.
And that'll be listed in the show notes as well
if you wanna check it out.
But really it was just this huge document
that I spent hours putting together.
I would complete one, I would throw it away,
I would start another one.
It was just this cycle of constantly journaling and writing
and getting coaching on why I wanted to do this thing.
Now that's expensive, that's very time intensive,
but for something like that it was definitely needed
because that mission statement, which I can still recite,
was to highlight, learn from, and work with people
in the US that were making a difference
in their communities.
That was something that I was able to repeat to myself
when times got tough.
When I was stuck in the rain, when it was wet,
when it was super dry and hot,
when the mountains and the hills were getting in the way
and I was on stretches of nothing for days,
being able to pull that mission statement,
have a very clear why, defined focus
of why I was doing this thing was invaluable.
And when people typically ask me what my first advice is
for walking across America,
they're usually a little bit thrown back
when I say you gotta get clear on your why.
Because that's not something that, you know,
you can't just Google equipment that you need
and think you're all set.
There has to be a deeper purpose and vision behind it.
And that is the first thing that I work with my clients
to define is what is your purpose for coaching?
What is it that you want to create from this?
And the tool that I created that Rangefinder GPT
does just that.
The idea is that you start off by typing in, you know,
I want to create New Year's resolutions.
It gives you a few questions to help you clearly understand
why it is you want that.
Deeper than just I want to be happier or healthier or better,
or I want to lose weight or shed negativity,
it really helps you get to the root of the issue.
And for example, for mine,
I typed in my overall mission and vision
that I came up with for the New Year,
which my vision is a world of inspired
and empowered change makers that aim to create
a ripple effect of positive impact worldwide.
And that really holds true to my overall mission
of my walk across America to highlight,
learn from, and work with those people.
Now I'm more so in the field of working one-on-one
with solopreneurs and business owners
that want to really fulfill what it is
that they want to create in the world
to help them step into their mission
to create the vision that they want to see in the world.
And my mission for 2025 is to use my skills,
experiences, and network to break through
self-limiting beliefs aligned with purpose
and take impactful action
towards personal and collective growth.
And the reason that's important for me
is I feel as though I've developed several skills
over the years and I'm still polishing a few of them,
but I want to be able to use what I've learned
through my walk, through my life experience
in my personal and professional life.
So keeping those at the forefront are important to me.
Now I did this separately from this GPT,
but it can help you create something very similar to that
in terms of an overall purpose for 2025.
Then the next thing I did was I jotted down a few goals
that I want to achieve for the year
and it helped me really clarify
and understand why those are important for me.
So one of the very first ones is run a marathon
and log 1,000 total miles ran throughout the year.
Now it asked me like four or five questions
per outcome that I wanted.
And really it helps you figure out
what the indicators of success are,
why it matters, and the first steps,
which I thought is really cool that it says,
this is what you want, this is why you want it,
this is why it's important,
here are some important dates,
but also it gives you those very clear first steps to take.
And that's what I really like try to focus on in my coaching
is we can sit here and talk about what you want
for hours and hours and hours,
but if we're not committing to action
and we're not doing something to move the dial forward
and get you closer to that dream outcome,
it doesn't really matter, it doesn't do a whole lot.
We can understand how you think and why that is,
but if we're not discussing what we're gonna do with it,
what's the point?
So for this one, what I really focused on
with my New Year's resolutions as an extra tip here
is I focused on the inputs, not the outputs,
because my original outputs were a lot more focused
on other people taking action
based off of the action that I'm taking.
And that's not really something
that you can control, generally speaking.
It's not, let me move on to my next one,
then it'll be a clear indicator.
So my second goal for the year is to publish
100 episodes of the NeverPeak Project Podcast.
My original goal for this was 10,000 downloads.
Now, the reason that I switched from 10,000 downloads
to 100 episodes is I felt like it would be
fairly unreasonable that if I actually publish
100 episodes throughout the year,
increasing quality as time goes on,
understanding how to use these programs,
getting better and better and better,
by the time 2026 hits,
I will have published over 150 episodes total.
For me, it seems fairly unreasonable
that I wouldn't hit 10,000.
I've already published about 50
and I'm around 2,000 downloads,
so I would assume that eventually
it kinda hits that hockey stick
to reach the number of downloads that I want.
That really is just being impatient with the inputs,
but patient with the outputs.
I think that that's a decent way to put what that goal is.
So for this one, it helped me outline
what types of episodes I want,
it helped me come up with specific metrics to look for,
and ways to verify areas to improve
in order to hit that overall goal,
I guess that side goal of 10,000 downloads.
Another way to put what I just said is
set a goal that would make it to where
achieving the outcome you want is unreasonable.
The other one that I have is to
give 100 free coaching sessions.
Now, this one was taken a little bit back
from one of my other goals,
which was a revenue specific goal
for the coaching business as a whole.
I want to hit a certain amount by the end of the year,
and I felt like if I was actively shaking hands
and talking to 100 different people
in a coaching conversation,
there's a very good chance that the amount of people
that I would need to convert from that would convert.
So that is why I wanna focus on 100 free coaching calls,
because if I am having those conversations
and looking for clients
and really just talking about it,
I think that it would be unreasonable
for me to not hit the income goal,
at least the lower level of what it is
that I wanna hit throughout the year.
So that's another goal that I have for myself.
Another one is sticking true to my adventurous spirit
and kind of giving me a way to still connect
to the mission of the walk,
but in a slightly different way.
And that is to visit three new states in 2025.
I just booked my first one, which is to Seattle, Washington,
and I'm already making connections with some people
from the BNI group that I'm a part of,
as well as a few other organizations.
And really my main mission there is to connect
with people that are making a difference over there.
I want to meet other nonprofit leaders,
business owners, entrepreneurs,
that are doing cool things in the area
and figure out ways to highlight them,
whether it's on my podcast, social media,
but just really connect with people
in more areas across the country,
just like I did on my walk across America.
So that's another fun one that I'm looking forward to.
I wanna try to get a podcast interview
with somebody from every single state.
So stay tuned, that'll be something that I work on
over the next few years for sure.
The other thing is some writing goals.
Same thing for these ones.
I had some goals that were focused on the number
of purchases that I have for my book,
and I feel like that may not be the best metric
for me to actually finish writing them.
So as you may know, I'm working on two books currently.
The first one is my Walk Across America journal,
and all that one is is a day-by-day update
of every single day of my walk across America.
It's gonna be all the notes about all the notes that I took,
all of the pictures and photos,
conversations that I had that I can find,
but just really detailing what I went through
every single day of my walk.
I'm trying to give some more highlights and attention
to what I was thinking internally,
things that I didn't share on social media
or with anybody else, so that you can really understand
what it was like going through my head.
So I think that'll be a very interesting book
to go through once it's done.
And my goal here is to have it done by the end of March.
So just a few months, but I am about 63 days
out of 175 written.
Once I finish the 175, I wanna go back
and do some proofreading and editing myself,
and then maybe see if I can get somebody else
to do a proofread as well.
Maybe one or two, I don't know.
I don't know how it works to publish a book.
We'll figure it out though.
And I will be giving updates in my weekly journey
of self-employment update that I give every Friday.
And the next one is what I just called The Book for Now,
and that one is gonna be a little bit more
of a self-help slash life coaching based, I guess,
novelization of the walk across America,
kinda highlighting and detailing the mental models
and tools that I learned throughout the walk,
before the walk to make it happen,
and just really just repackaging some other techniques
that you may have heard of in other ways
that worked for me on the walk.
For example, there's things like Trust Your Horse,
Pick Up the Cat, Leapfrogs and Lily Pads.
There's just a whole bunch of different models
that I'm gonna be discussing in that book.
And if you want to kinda get a little bit of a sneak peek
of some of those mental models,
I have a bunch of different blog posts
that go over some of them
in a very quick few minute read format.
But the book is gonna be going into a lot further detail
about those, why they work, the science behind it,
as well as some tools, tips and tricks that you can use
to influence them and put them into your life.
And the goal for that one is to have that written
and at least proofread once by the end of 2026.
So if I have that other book done by April, May, June-ish,
like by the end, like mid of the year, published and out,
that should give me about six to eight months
to get the other book done.
So that would be exciting as well.
And the other thing that I wanna do for the year
is to hike Mount Whitney with a couple friends.
And this one I'm kinda putting in that same category
as the walk across the country,
because what I really like about that goal is
it's a goal that makes all of these other goals make sense.
It's like by achieving that goal,
I will have to have done a lot of the other goals
that I have for myself.
A lot of them are around, you know, self-mastery,
self-discipline, working out, physical fitness, et cetera,
but they are a goal that connects to a lot of other goals
and values in my life.
That is what I have.
Again, I plugged all of those into my rangefinder GPT
that I created.
You can get it below for free in the link in the description.
Just fill out the Google form
and you'll get in some access to it.
And I would really say that in terms of
what it takes to set a goal, a goal that works,
is to one, be very clear on what it is
and where you wanna go.
If you don't have clarity,
if you don't know what path you're gonna go down,
you'll never get there.
The other thing is to have a very clearly defined
why and purpose behind it.
Whether it is a higher purpose,
an overarching vision for yourself,
or just something, a few sentences long,
something deeper that really connects you to the goal
based off of your own personal values, desires, and dreams,
set a purpose statement for that goal
or your overarching goals.
Third is to set goals that are within your own control.
Focus on the inputs that you're gonna be putting
into the actual goal itself.
For example, like my goal for the podcast,
instead of focusing on 10,000 downloads,
focus on publishing 100 episodes throughout the year.
Focus on what you can actively control
and what you can take steps towards actually achieving
in that timeframe.
And the last one is to set goals
that will change who you are as a person,
that will really focus you on something bigger
than yourself, that will help you clean up things
in your mindset, your personal life,
your professional life,
and really make you be a more effective person
that aligns with your values and your purpose statement.
And if you have any questions,
if you have any concerns, my normal thing,
if you have any questions, comments, concerns,
emotional outbursts, please let me know.
I'm more than happy to help you out.
One of my goals, again,
is to give away 100 free coaching sessions.
So if you're listening to this podcast right now
and you want some help with your New Year's resolutions,
please feel free to send me a DM or a email
at ranger at within rangecoaching.com.
And I'd be more than happy to help you get solidified
and ready to go for the new year.
And if you would like to take a stab at the Rangefinder GPT,
that will be in the show notes as well.
So if you want to start off with the GPT,
get the initial setup going,
and then come to me for the accountability
and getting that ready for yourself
and see how you can actually make that work for you,
feel free to take advantage of both.
But that's pretty much all that I have for this episode.
I just wanted to focus on some tips
that I have for setting goals,
things that have worked for me and that I'm doing this year.
So again, thank you for your time.
If you have a moment,
feel free to give a rating and review
and whatever podcast platform you're listening to this to.
And until next week,
remember that the best is yet to come
as long as you're willing to make the decision
to never settle, never quit, and never peak.
I'll see you guys in the next one.