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Ep 58: What Motivates Our Goals (aka the What and Why behind goals)

Mike Krause & Helena Fowler Episode 58

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When was the last time you thought about WHY you’re choosing to make something your goal?

The motivation behind a goal can be more powerful than the tips and techniques to stay motivated to achieve a goal. Understanding your driving force, whether you want to call it a WHY, can help ensure your goals connect with a deeper drive and can be a powerful force in maintaining that motivation when the going gets tough … or as it often happens: boring.

In the is Episode
🎙️Mike and Helena share the clarity they got to help define their 2025 goals
🎙️Looking to the past to understand previous sources of joy, greater life satisfaction and wellbeing, successful approaches to habits and goals, and how those previous actions and behaviors may help you in the present
🎙️Take what works and leave what doesn’t; using the wisdom of past reflection and history to help us avoid from falling into the same harmful patterns of behavior, giving us the ability to course-correct faster 
🎙️Helena’s love of how Past-Helena helps set up Present- and Future-Helena for success; the key to not living in the past but being ground in the present for the benefit of future-self 
🎙️How our sense of identity impacts our personal lives, relationships, and businesses; the challenges this can hold especially for Founders and solopreneurs 🎙️Creating goals, making decisions and taking actions that aligned with your key values 
🎙️Helena’s Radical (Optimistic) Realism approach, which has NOTHING to do with the political philosophy called “radical realism” (she used the term “radical realism” before knowing it had anything to do with political philosophy); here’s where you’ll find an article she wrote all about it
🎙️Excitement vs dread/fear for the goals you make
🎙️The value in a test-and-learn mindset


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