How to Have Your Best Year: Choosing Goals and Quality Questions with Justin Gary

Award-winning game designer, author, and speaker Justin Gary, returns to discuss goal setting, plans for 2021, and our new project together, Quality Questions.

Episode notes

In this episode we discuss:

Reviewing 2020 and setting goals for 2021
What do you do with goals you set for 2020 but couldn't accomplish?
How Justin conducts past year reviews (and why it takes him a lot less time than it used to)
"Aggressive but achievable" goals
What it means and what to do if you have a goal that just doesn't get done
Why you should beware of chasing "Laser pointer goals"
How to make difficult things like going to the gym more fun.
The lesson from reading Neil Strauss's interviews with hundreds of rock stars and other celebrities, and how it changes the goals you should set.
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” — Zen Kōan
Unveiling your next goal or the next "layer of your karma"
Combatting "shiny object syndrome"
Justin's superpower "Rule of 3" for goal setting
My "master goal" that makes all of my other goals possible
How to build an audience.
My goals for 2021 - Creating value for others and creating consistently
How to use Leading indicators instead of Lagging indicators when setting goals
Replacing SMART goals with a PACT
Designing your ideal day
How to actually get the benefit from self improvement books and lectures
A Great Question Can Change Your Life - Get One in Your Inbox Every Day
Quality Questions (https://qualityquestions.co/)
Closing the year in gratitude

Links to People, Articles, and Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Tim Ferriss - Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead (https://tim.blog/2018/12/28/past-year-review/)
Everyone Loves you When You're Dead (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MAU4SO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
Chris Bailey (https://alifeofproductivity.com/)
Billy Broas (https://www.billybroas.com/)
James Clear's 3-2-1 Newsletter (https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1)
SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs (https://nesslabs.com/smart-goals-pact)
Quality Questions (https://qualityquestions.co/)