This episode focuses on the importance of setting and achieving SMART goals—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound—to make the most of 2025. It emphasizes that successful goal achievement requires breaking objectives into actionable steps, scheduling them on a calendar, and prioritizing one key goal to maintain focus and momentum. Time management is highlighted as crucial, with the reminder that everyone faces competing demands for their time. The session encourages listeners to stop merely dreaming and start taking consistent action, framing 2025 as an opportunity to create their best year yet.
Ken Brown, introduces an episode focused on strategies for building influence. He emphasizes three key points:
Increase Your Skill Level: Develop expertise in your passion or career, combining technical skills with effective communication to inspire confidence and serve others well.
Master Storytelling: Use relatable stories to connect with and engage your audience. Great storytelling boosts influence and credibility, even for those with less expertise.
Add Value to Others: Focus on helping others, including influencers, through genuine appreciation and constructive leadership.
Ken references Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, sharing principles such as praising others, addressing mistakes tactfully, and fostering collaboration through powerful questions. These steps, combined with passion and communication, are essential for growing influence and leadership.
In this video Jackie discusses the challenges of financial independence, focusing on the dangers of debt and the misconceptions surrounding wealth. He emphasizes the importance of managing and eliminating debt as a critical step toward achieving financial freedom.
Jackie shares strategies for staying focused on long-term goals despite daily challenges. Here are the main points:
Get Clear on Your Goal: Define what you want to achieve with crystal clarity. Reflect on your life’s end goal and ensure your current actions align with this vision.
Focus on Immediate Next Steps: Break down your long-term goal into manageable, immediate tasks. Concentrate on completing the next step rather than becoming overwhelmed by the entire journey.
Handle Overwhelm by Refocusing: When feeling overwhelmed, revisit your goals and motivations. Use tools like a vision board to remind yourself of your purpose and keep moving forward despite frustrations.
Build a Support Network: Surround yourself with positive, goal-oriented individuals who can offer encouragement and share their experiences. This network will help you stay motivated and on track.
This segment is a powerful journey of personal growth and empowerment. It recounts struggles with broken promises, financial hardships, and societal judgment, all while advocating for forgiveness and accountability. The speaker urges listeners to reject excuses, embrace responsibility, and pursue their goals with determination.
Jackie, in this exclusive LifeMap lesson, addresses the often fearful perception of risk, emphasizing that humans are designed to take risks and that fear often magnifies the actual risk involved. He uses relatable examples such as driving, education, and relationships to illustrate how risks are inherently a part of life. Stressing the link between risk and potential reward, they highlight the importance of understanding one’s risk tolerance and considering the time it would take to replace lost money from investments. Jackie advocates for a more balanced approach to risk by evaluating worst-case scenarios and diversifying investments, aiming to empower individuals to manage risk rather than solely avoiding it.
In this course by Carmen O’Quinn we take your goals further. From what a goal is to strategies that will help guarantee you’ll reach them.
So much of how we experience life is based in our beliefs, so it is important that we manage them.
Your beliefs about yourself, your circumstances, and the people around you have a powerful effect on how you relate to them, especially if you allow them to form excuses that limit your actions.
In this powerful teaching from a live First Steps To Success seminar, Dani Johnson demonstrates the power of belief to shape your life.
