Getting Started with Goals: Simple Steps for Success

Today, Tamekia and Patrick dive into the essentials of goal setting. Whether you're setting daily goals, monthly milestones, or aiming for long-term success, they break down the key strategies for effective goal setting. Patrick shares how he tracks his goals using the task management tool Remember The Milk, offering practical tips on staying organized and motivated. This episode is packed with insights to help you kickstart your goal setting journey and turn your ambitions into reality. 

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Rollin with the Dolans.
I'm Patrick Dolan and I'm TamekaDolan.
Our podcast focuses on the joysand challenges of blending
families, our interracialmarriage, parents and children
of multiple ages, and thejourney of entrepreneurship.
We share our daily lifeexperiences with a positive but

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real perspective.
All right, and today's topic isfocused on goal setting.
Okay.
First of all, why is goalsetting important?
Because if you don't have agoal, you will just be existing.
And existing which way?

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Not in a great positive way.
Okay just to give you a generalidea, like me, and we can both
talk a little bit about, what wedo for goal setting.
I'm very goal oriented, so Ifeel like every day I need to
have micro goals in a way, andthen I need to achieve those.
And then I have the monthlygoals that we've talked about,
plenty of times before when itcomes to exercise and running
and things like that.

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And then we have our businessgoals.
How do you use goals in yourdaily life?
Do I set goals or what?
And this is a goal right herethat we're doing right now.
So I agree that we try to setlike a daily goal.
Goals with an S.
Weekly.

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And monthly and quarterly.
I don't think we really domonthly, but I think we do
quarterly.
I think we do daily, weekly, andquarterly, right?
Yeah, we gotta do better at ourmonthly, I think, or quarterly.
We have our little board that wedid for our quarterly.
Vision board.
Yep, gotta keep a little bitbetter track of it.
And then yeah, do you think it'svery easy to get distracted from

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accomplishing our goals?
Absolutely.
Everybody does.
And what do you do to try tostay motivated?
Yeah, I just rely on Mr.
Doley.
And then you do me.
It depends.
I'm better at some things thanothers, some things, we've

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talked a lot about, she, shegets on me a little bit about my
hundred mile a month runninggoal.
Like I am determined to do it, Ican make sure, but some of Other
goals that seem harder, a littlebit more fuzzy.
The fuzzier it is, the easier itis just to be like, ah, I'll
take care of it next time.
And the other thing that I do isone of my goals is to have,

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really tasks on a regular basis.
And I use a app for that.
It's to, it's remember the milkI use for that.
And it helps me.
Yeah, I've been using that thingfor.
Nearly 15 years.
Thousands and thousands oftasks.
And when I'm on top of that, Inotice it's a lot easier for me
to, stay on top of my goals.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
I definitely need to.
I'm old fashioned, so I write itdown.
And then it's something aboutscratching it off that feels
better to me.
Yeah.
And one of the things that we'venoticed is we've had, multiple
conversations with, differentpeople as far as sometimes it
seems like people are strugglingto figure out what they want to

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do, what's going on.
And I think that we both feelthat a lot of times it's because
they lack clarity and some oftheir goals, they, or they just
don't have it.
And it's hard to.
To really, set your sights onnothing.
Yeah, but don't you feel likethat's probably like a
generational thing, too?
Some of it, yeah, but I've knownpeople, our age as well, that,

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that have a tough time.
Setting goals?
Or just, creating that kind ofvision of what they want to do.
And that's the tough thing is,It gets down to what are the
different types of motivators tobegin with?
So what do you think, if youhave to list out, some of the
motivators of what the endresult is for, a lot of
different people.

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For me, I'm motivated becauseI'm in a, I feel like I'm in a
season in my life where I wantto do more service to others.
So that motivates me.
Obviously like I want to I hateto say money, but money has to
be a motivator in order to dothe things that are bigger for
us, like buying a vacationhouse, or going on vacation, or

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like going to dinner, or likethings that we like to do to
make memories with our family.
Yeah, so I'm very accomplishmentdriven, I do like it gets back
to the daily tasks and thingslike that.
So for me, if I don't dosomething.
I get disappointed with myselfand it's do I want to be
disappointed in myself?

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And so then I know that there'sother people who have, their
vision of, climbing the ladder,the corporate ladder, they want
status and there's nothing wrongwith that, for some people.
Yeah.
That's, especially early on insome people's career.
That's what they feel like isnecessary.
Me, what's necessary is familyand God.
Yeah.
Those things come, beforeanything else and it gets back
to the vacations and the timethat's really what's important

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to me, and, the accomplishmentthing is helpful, because it, it
makes sure that I do make somemoney giving money isn't a big
factor of motivation for me, atleast it's necessary, like you
said, to do some of the otherthings and if you're setting
some of those goals and you'reachieving things, Those things
naturally come as well.

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Oh, I have a trick question.
Can you have a successfulmarriage if your goal, not
really goals, but your reasonfor setting goals are not
aligned?
Because I feel like, okay, I'mgiving an example.
For us, our whole goal is toserve other people and make

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memories for our family, right?
So what happens do you thinkthat you could be in a
successful marriage if yourgoals and visions are different?
I think that, that's a goodconversation, good topic for
conversation.
Maybe another.
Yeah, it could be good becauseit gets pretty philosophical.
I think that's a lot of timeswhere people get divorced.
I think especially when you'reyounger, you have goals that are

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aligned.
And then they go differentdirections.
That's true.
Some people are like, I want tospend time with my family, or I
want to have a family.
Or some people get just soinvolved with their career that
they forget about everythingelse.
And that's where you see people,fall apart.
I think it's easy.
When, you're young and excitedabout your marriage and things
like that you're in thehoneymoon period.
And then you don't have thosegoals that align and then they,

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they separate, your goals, whichends in separation.
And I think that the fact that,we do have very similar goals
that helps us, maintain ourrelationship and grow our
relationship versus havedifferences of opinions as far
as what we want to do andachieve.
And I think that having that.
That even though they're notexact, but the overall common

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idea we want to, we know that welove going on vacation.
We know that we want to spendtime with our family.
We know, the major things arealigned.
It helps us, with ourrelationship as well.
Yeah, we should do anotherpodcast about that.
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
And, the main thing is one, Ithink, just to recap things you,
I think it's important to setgoals.
Yeah.
So whatever it is, you give yousomething to do, reason to get

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up today, whether or not it's,just to make enough money to pay
the light bill or you have, someother purpose of, making money
for vacation, you definitelyneed to just start setting some
of these goals for yourself andwhat do you think the comment
and the most important takeawayis?
Oh, so when you were talkingabout it's important to set
goals cause then you're like,okay, I'm going to get up today

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because my goal is blah, blah,blah.
But I'm a big believer and samefor you too.
It's I believe that you shouldfigure out what you love to do,
what your passion is, and thenfind a way to make money to do
that passion.
So the thing that we talk abouta lot is like mental illness and

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how I want to say thisgeneration, but honestly it's
not just a younger generation.
It could be us too, like yousaid earlier.
But, if you don't have somethingthat you're passionate about,
then it's hard to set goals.
So I would just suggest thatpeople have a passion first,
figure out what that is, andthen set goals that are centered

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around.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think that, that's thetakeaway.
Definitely agree.
So I think that there's a lotmore that I want to cover when
it comes to goals, but we canget a little bit more specific
as far as, what we're trying toachieve in some future
discussions.
Yeah, I agree.

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if you do, okay I hope everyonehas an amazing day I think you
need to have an exceptional dayand a beautiful week.
And I think you need to have amagnificent week.

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And that's it until next time.
All right.
Bye.
Bye.