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Every goal-setting system you've ever learned is broken. I am a leading expert in behavior, and I'm going to show you how to reprogram your mind to finally get what you want. So, let's be honest, most people suck at setting goals, and it's not your fault. The entire system that you've been taught about goal setting, it's broken. And it's broken because it doesn't use the part of your brain that literally makes all of the decisions and runs your entire life: the limbic system. And our brain system, this is the neurocognitive intelligence or NCI goal-setting system. Let me show you why this is the most powerful thing that you're going to ever do to reach your goals.
Step one: Describe the ideal and perfect outcome with vivid details and measurable elements that allow you to know when you have arrived. So, this is like plotting a desired arrival point on a GPS. It's the address. It is the latitude and longitude of your destination.
Then, we move over to the right here. Write out your least desired outcome if nothing changes, if you just keep doing exactly what you've been doing all along. So, we're going to describe in very vivid detail where you're going to arrive if you continue with your current habits, your behaviors, the mindsets, and worldview. So, imagine 2025 if you don't change a thing. Harsh? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely. So, write it out. Your brain needs contrast: the dream versus the nightmare. And this is where your mind starts to crave the ideal because staying the same becomes unbearable.
Next, we're going to write down milestones, habits, and new beliefs that are going to make accomplishing this goal a byproduct of all of these new traits. The goal accomplishment should always be looked at as, "What can I do to make my goals a natural byproduct of how I'm choosing to live my life? How can I make my goals a byproduct?" So, don't focus on the goal here. Focus on the habits and beliefs that make the goal a natural byproduct of who you are going to become. So, goals are destinations. Habits and behaviors are the vehicle to the goal.
Next, we're going to write out a detailed and very, maybe painful, list of all the habits, beliefs, and behaviors that you might currently be doing that's going to make your least desired outcome come true. So, this outcome will be a byproduct of these maybe negative or neutral traits and worldviews. Here's the truth, though: your habits today are building one of two futures. Write down all of those beliefs, those behaviors, or habits that could just drag you toward the nightmare that you wrote down earlier. Make it painful because you need to feel the cost of your inaction.
Next, we have mammalian brain programming. So, how will you use the FATE model to brainwash yourself into getting into new habits, beliefs, worldviews, and mindset? So, the FATE model is a system I developed to understand and use the four elements that make the mammalian brain start taking action on stuff. It's the most powerful tool to understand how to shape human behavior. And there's the most detailed tutorial in the world inside of the NCI textbook, and that's called the Behavior Operations Manual. It's on Amazon if you want to learn how to use it on other people and conversations.
Let's get back to the goal-setting part. This is about Focus, Authority, Tribe, and Emotion. So, let's start with Focus right here. We're going to write, "How will I maintain focus on my goals at an animal level, at the mammalian level?" Words don't work at this level. So, imagery, massive amounts of novelty, and changes in your environment and repetition are very important to the mammalian brain because of the reticular formation in the brain. Other people call this the reticular activating system. Whatever we repeat, the brain says, "Chase wants more of this," or "I want more of this. I'm going to search for it." And search for it in life. And the questions our brain is asking about the environment determine what we see.
So, this is where the non-stop exposure to vision boards start to come in. And a vision board is a collection of visual images which are understandable to the mammalian brain since there are no words there. And these things represent your desires and goals. If you're in your office, get a big-ass TV and just go buy an iPad or something that you could just duct tape to the back of the TV and put a slideshow of all of these. This is like 8, maybe 900 images, just on repeat forever, that just goes on and on and on. Even while you're sleeping, you're not even in the office, it's on there. When you walk in, it's on. When you walk out, you leave that on. To maximize that level of exposure, getting that done really well, there's a million videos on how to make vision boards and stuff like that.
Next on the list is Authority. How are you going to leverage authority figures and social proof to ensure that your mammalian brain knows what you're doing is good, it's allowed, and it's very powerful?
Now, we move into Tribe. This is about, "How can I involve my circle of friends in the achievement of all these new habits and beliefs?" Get your friends, your social circle, very much involved. Make deals with them to keep you in check. Bring some accountability into the picture.
Next, we get into Emotion. How will I create the emotional attachments to this future self, my future self? One amazing way is to download one of those apps that makes you look really old and print those photos out. Hang them around your office, hang them around your house, put them on your bathroom mirror. Even you can set the photo as your phone or computer wallpaper. And this is done so that you develop a very visual and mammalian understanding and relationship with your future self. Because one of the huge problems is that people don't prioritize their future selves because it's hard to imagine. They can't see their future self. So, we make this happen. This is also another entry point for your vision board. So, the more imagery you have on there, the more powerful the emotion is going to start to seep into the mammalian brain, which is going to start changing your worldview and your life. The mammalian brain is where it's at, not the words and all the stuff with the human brain that we always hear about.
So, the three highest leverage new habits to adopt is the next step here. Right here, we're going to develop a deeply powerful list of the most impactful and meaningful new habits that can start and enable all the other things to happen, just like dominoes. Remember that starting a habit only requires discipline for a short period of time. Once it's a new habit, you don't need daily discipline anymore. So, keep in mind that it's okay to start small on these habits, and there doesn't need to be some massive shift right away. It might be waking up early, maybe an hour early, to get things done, or buying more healthy food, or going on walks more often, practicing mindfulness, meditating, therapy, making more content, building better calendars and plans for yourself, or anything else that you think is going to be a linchpin to get you going in the right direction.
Now, we move into the actual brainwashing formula, and this is literally a formula for brainwashing, but we're going to use it on ourselves to make some badass changes happen in our lives. So, we're going to develop new habits using this brainwashing formula, and this formula spells out the word FEAR: F-E-A-R. And this stands for Focus, Emotion, Agitation, and Repetition.
So, in the Focus part, "How am I going to keep these habits in my daily focus where there is no way that I can possibly ignore them?" Then, we get into Emotion. "How am I going to bring these habits into an emotional realm where I'm deeply emotionally connected to all of them?" Then, we get into Agitation. This is very important. "How will I disrupt my environment enough so that my mammalian brain has no script to fall back on? It doesn't look normal. It doesn't look like the regular everyday stuff, and the novelty is forcing my brain to pay attention." We did a whole another YouTube video on this. What can I do to disrupt my brain's prediction centers? I might rearrange furniture in my house. For some clients, they repainted the inside of their house. They maybe bought a new car. They changed up their wardrobe, etc., etc. How can I disrupt my brain's ability to predict the future? Does it look like what it looks like every single day? If it does, my brain's going to go off of scripts, and the scripts that I've always operated on.
So, the final part of this is Repetition, and this is about daily monitoring. Every, every single day. It might only take 30 seconds, but how am I going to ensure there is a non-stop exposure to all of these things until the discipline is no longer needed and the habit finally gets formed?
The next step is one of the most important, and this is the dopamine map. So, what we're going to do here is develop a map of where my dopamine sources are coming from in life, and we're going to assign each item a point value that once it's totaled all up, is going to equal 100 points. This is likely not where you want to be at the end of this.
So, under this, we're going to develop a more desired dopamine map, and this is the map of where we would like the majority of our new sources of dopamine to come from, and this is going to help us to live the life that we want. So, if, for example, alcohol and video games are taking up 60 of my dopamine points and time with my kids is taking up 20 points, something is wrong. So, it's important to be very brutally honest with yourself here. There's a negative and a positive side on these dopamine maps. So, where is my dopamine coming from? Is it video games, or YouTube, or TikTok, or Instagram? Or is it family time, and working, and doing creative work, spending time with kids, or whatever is important to you? This is about figuring out what do I want my sources of dopamine to be and consciously choosing those sources of dopamine. That is so critically important to this coming year when you're setting these goals.
So, whatever you want to do this year to change your life, remember that everything in your life will come down to habits, beliefs, worldview, and discipline. Beliefs are the most difficult to change for a lot of people. So, if you're a subscriber, the next video that I have coming out will be the most advanced and most comprehensive video about changing your beliefs that has ever been made, and I can guarantee you that. Thank you for watching. You can download this brainwashing goal sheet right here. I'm going to put a link down in the description, and I want to remind you that you don't need anybody's permission to change your life. There is a completely different destination that's waiting for you over the horizon, and now is the time to set that new waypoint on the map. No more drifting, no more waiting.
If confidence is one of your goals, there is a complete mental reboot program called Confidence Reboot, and I have made a hypnosis audio program that you can listen to absolutely free every night that's going to start this transformation off in the right way for you. It's in the link in the description down below as well. I want this to be the best year of your life because this year, it's about the journey to your destination being amazing, not just the destination. This year is the journey, and I want you to appreciate that journey, and I want you to use this system to make it fun. Thanks for joining me. One love.