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In this episode, David Bayer, host of the A Changed Mind podcast, delves into the science of goal setting, particularly focusing on financial goals. David challenges conventional methods, emphasizing that money is a form of energy and should be aligned with growth and expansion. He introduces a unique framework that integrates spiritual vision, life vision, and a living income plan to help listeners achieve financial prosperity.

David shares his personal journey from financial insecurity to building a $35 Million coaching business, offering practical steps and insights to help others align their desires and beliefs for consistent and predictable success.

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What We Explored This Episode

02:02 Goal Setting Methodology

10:43 Spiritual Vision for Financial Prosperity

14:47 Pursuing Opportunities vs. Spiritual Vision

20:55 Living Income Plan

26:00 Business Ideas

Memorable Quotes

"Money is a form of energy. If you look at the universe, it's always expanding, always diversifying. It's looking to put energy to good use, for growth, for expansion."

"Your brain is a goal-achieving machine. If your beliefs are in alignment with your desires, you will, 100% of the time, produce the results."

"Aligning yourself with what you're meant to do in the world and who you've become as a result of your life's challenges is going to determine your success."

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Hey, it's David. Welcome to A Changed Mind, a sanctuary for your spirit, a place where each and every episode I remind you of the certainty of the good future. I'm your friend, your host, your guide, David Bayer. In today's episode, we're going to talk about how to set goals properly. And I am 100% certain that the way that I'm going to explain goal setting and goal achieving is like nothing you've ever heard for. And I'm going to be talking about a framework that can not only help you achieve any goal that you want, whether it's health goals, relationship goals, clarity that you want around your purpose, business goals, but in particular, it's going to help you with your financial. And there are a lot of different kind of advices or structures or frameworks out there for goal setting. And none of them work. How do we know that? Well, because most people don't achieve their goal. Maybe a handful of them provide assistance, but the vast majority of people out there are not losing the weight, they're not finding the relationship, they're not getting clarity on their purpose, they're not growing their business, and they're certainly not experiencing more abundance and prosperity. And that's where I was about a decade ago. If you've heard my story, you'll hear it again real quick. But I had a business that was going bankrupt, two homes in foreclosure, a bunch of credit card debt, almost no money in my bank account, and now 10 years later, as a result of applying this goal setting structure that I'm going to share with you, I've been able to create a life I love, been able to create one of the fastest growing coaching consulting companies in America, $35 million transformational coaching business. And more importantly, not only do I have the financial prosperity and abundance, but I'm happier. Am I happy all the time? No, I don't think that's the goal. But I'm a hell of a lot happier than I used to be. And I'm married to the woman of my dreams. I'm living in my dream home. I'm doing what I love and I'm making an impact in people's lives. And so I want to show you how you can make more money, meaning achieve your financial through intention, meaning goal setting, but a scientific process for goal setting that will materialize more wealth. Whether you're a business owner and you're looking to generate more income, right? You have a coaching business, real estate business, a digital marketing agency, extraction company, and you want to generate more revenue, you can apply this frame. Whether you have a career and you want to make more money, right? You want to get a raise. You want to participate in a stock option or equity plan or generate some bonus, you can apply this frame. Whether you're an investor and you want to make more money out of your investments, you can apply this frame because this is a scientific based structure based off of an understanding of how we achieve goals, human behavioral psychology, neuroscience. And as we talk about this today, I'm going to give you three really powerful distinctions. Number one, what you're doing in traditional goal setting that not only fails to produce the results, but it's creating a blockage. Number two, how you can use a new framework to achieve goals 100% of the time consistently and predictably and how through this framework, you'll actually be able to start uncovering the how because that's where a lot of people get stuck. That through this actual specific goal setting methodology, it'll unpack for you the steps that you need to take in order to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be, right? Give you a clear plan to produce said desired income. Now again, you can apply this to any type of goal you want to set, but we're going to be talking about it through the lens of financial prosperity and abundance because you guys are telling me that's a lot of what you ... But if we can get you out of financial insecurity, now you can relax your nervous system. You start operating from a powerful state. You're more creative. Your health returns. You're present for your relationship and you can start swinging, right? So an important part of this is to understand right off the bat that your brain is a goal achieving machine, okay? So your brain can produce any outcome 100% of the time that you put your mind to if you have two things in alignment. Number one is the desire. So you have to know what you want. That kind of makes sense, right? You have to know how much money you want to make. You have to know that you want to live in financial prosperity and abundance and that your beliefs are not in contraindication to your desire, right? That your beliefs are in alignment with what you desire. You can't desire to have more money and believe money's hard to make. You can't desire to get a promotion in your career and believe that you're not worthy of good things happening, right? You can't desire to grow your business and acquire more customers while also believing that nobody wants to hear your message or nobody would want to enroll in your product service. So if you have those two things in alignment, desire and your belief systems, you will 100% of the time produce the result. And I have other episodes where I talk about this. There's two mechanisms by which you produce the result. One is called the internal mechanism and that's based off of this idea that's been now established in the psychological sciences that whatever you believe, you will think on a moment by moment basis. So if you have a desire to create more wealth and more abundance and your beliefs are that you are worthy and money and prosperity flow to you and that money is easy to make, then you'll have thoughts in alignment with that belief. As you have these thoughts, you'll experience emotions. You'll start to experience feelings that are in alignment with those thoughts, feelings of curiosity, feelings of excitement, feelings of inspiration, feelings of motivation. Your thoughts or emotions determine what actions you do or do not take. And so again, if your beliefs are in alignment with the desire, you're going to be taking motivated inspired action, both at a conscious level. You'll be aware of the decisions that you're making. You decide to do some research on YouTube or you decide to really give it your all on a project work or you decide to take a course that helps you discover what type of business that you want to start, but also at an unconscious. So your unconscious mind also aligns with your belief systems and your desires. So what time you log on to Facebook or what time you decide to go get a coffee at Starbucks and the person you end up running into at line who offers you a job or creates an investment opportunity. So your beliefs create your thoughts. Your thoughts create your emotions. Your emotions determine at a conscious and unconscious level what action that you do or do not take. And your actions over time determine your result. And when you produce a result, it'll 100% of the time reinforce the belief. So this is a wonderful thing that your brain is a goal achieving machine when you're clear on your desires and when your beliefs are in alignment with the outcomes that you want to produce. This is problematic when you're either not clear on your nerves or you've got a bunch of limiting beliefs that produce thoughts that aren't congruent with generating the outcome that you want. In this case, your financial goals that create what we call a primal state or low vibrational emotions that move you into fight or flight and the sympathetic expression of your nervous system like stress, anxiety, overwhelm, worry, fear. That then starts to dictate unproductive behavior because you're not taking action from an empowered state or you're not taking action at all because it's moving you into indecision or procrastination or self-sabotage. And that then produces results that you don't want. But in fact, it produces the results that are 100% predictable based on the input. Because if your beliefs are that money is hard to make or that you're not worthy of financial abundance or it's hard to achieve your goals, then it'll produce that result and you'll go, see, I knew it. The problem is not actually that money is hard to make or goals are hard to achieve. Problem is that you believe it. The problem is not that you're not worthy of financial prosperity. Problem is leave. And so again, your brain is a goal-achieving machine. Your beliefs will produce the result in your life. So that's important to understand right off the bat. The second thing that's important to understand and where most people really go wrong in goal setting, in particular financial goal setting, is that most people decide on an amount of money that they want to make to get out of financial insecurity. So you decide that you want to make more money so that you don't have to experience being broke. And that's not really how money works. In fact, it's not how money works at all. Money is a form of energy. And we can look at the natural world as an example of how energy functions. If you look at the universe, it's always expanding. It's always diversifying. It's looking to put energy to good use, growth, expansion. And so money is a form of energy. That's actually why it was referred to as currency. It's like an elect current. And so it flows to you in the form of thoughts, ideas, coincidences, and synchronicity that produce a net effect called wealth or more money or achieving your financial goals. But it's important that you align your own thoughts and ideas with how money works. And so money doesn't work to get you out of financial insecurity because money doesn't look at you as not having enough. Life sort of looks at you as saying, hey, you have enough. You're here. You've always had enough. You have enough right now. You will always have enough. Granted, you want to make more money. But to get out of financial insecurity or not having enough, which isn't even a real thing from the perspective of life, doesn't allow you to align yourself with money. And so there are three really important mechanisms that allow you to align yourself with money. And again, money is energy. Energy is looking to grow and to expand and to evolve. So when we think about setting goals, financial prosperity and abundance, we have to think about aligning ourselves with growth and expansion. And so there are three mechanisms that we can align ourselves with growth to give you those three right now. The first is what we call spiritual vision. Some people call this a purpose, but we call it spiritual vision. And there's a distinction. So there's a vision for your spirit in the world. There's something that you're meant to do. You're on a hero's journey and you're meant for great, right? And one of my last few episodes, I talk about how to unlock your genius and how to unlock greatness. Every single person is destined for greatness, especially if you're listening to these episodes because your greatness is calling you to get access to the information so that it can become unlocked. And so you have a spiritual vision. There's a vision for your spirit. My spiritual vision is to end all human suffering. And so as a result of that, I've built a business that helps people end their personal suffering. And as we help enough people end their personal suffering, we start to end collective suffering. Our goal is to end all suffering in the world. And so you have a spiritual vision and your spiritual vision, meaning who you're meant to be in the world, whether you're working a career or whether you're working a business, your life has been training you, guiding you, helping you build a character and skill sets, qualities. Through the challenges that you've experienced, you've been in this training program called your life, which has been preparing you for your spiritual vision. My spiritual vision is to end all human suffering. I'm only able to do that through this vehicle of my business because of all of the suffering that I went through and what I was able to overcome, my drug addiction, my alcohol addiction, my pornography. So in order for you to align yourself with prosperity and abundance currency and to move towards the structure of proper goal set, it's worth an inquiry of what am I here to do? And the answer to what am I here to do? You may be already clear on it. You may be like, Hey, I get it, Dave. Like this is my passion in the world. You know, I've got my purpose. I'm building it into a business. I'm living it in my career. Or you may be in a place right now where you're like, I don't know. And that's okay. Just being clear on the fact that the spiritual vision is an important part of this goal setting framework and creating financial prosperity and abundance for yourself is a win. You're now clear on it. Now you can start asking clarity around your spiritual vision. There's a powerful law that exists, which is articulated in scripture that says, ask and you shall receive. So if you get that you're here for a reason and that is your spiritual vision, even if you're not clear on it, you can start asking clarity and that clarity will unfold over time. But it's important because whatever you're doing in your career, your business, you're investing, aligning it with your spiritual vision, meaning the change that you'd like to see in the world is critically important because oftentimes in order to achieve our next level financial goals, we have to stay committed to actions and behaviors and activities that come with challenges and we have to be able to persevere through them. And in order to persevere through them, it has to be almost like a hill that we're willing to die on. And I'm not talking about it needs to be hard, but what I'm saying is, is that when things don't work out in my business and they haven't so many times in the journey to a $30 million, you know, Inc number 171 company, it didn't start out that there were all kinds of challenges along the way, but because it was aligned with my spiritual vision and who I was meant to be in the world, there was really no giving up and there was no going because in the journey of achieving our financial goals, they're going to be challenged and we have to be willing to stick with it. And the best way to stick with it is to burn the bridges behind you. And the best way to burn the bridges is to get clear on what you're meant to do in the world and who you've become through the course of your life and how you're now looking to express that into the world as change, how you're rendering or taking you and transforming it into a product, a service, a role you play in an organization, a business that you're starting or that you're already running or investments that you make in order to further the vision you have for both yourself and the world. That's your spiritual vision. The mistake a lot of people make as they're looking to create more wealth, especially as they move into entrepreneurship, is that they're looking for an opportunity, an opportunity base. There are a lot of opportunities to make money, but there's only one spiritual vision. And there may be a lot of different ways to transform that spiritual vision into a business in the world or into a career, but it's important that you're not pursuing opportunities to make money for the sake of making money. You're pursuing opportunities because you know that it's a natural extension of how you believe the world should be and the change that you think would benefit others and the natural leveraging of who you've become in the process of the challenges of your life and your natural gifts and talents. That's when you know that you're on the right track.That's when you know that you're aligned with your spiritual vision. So when we're teaching entrepreneurs how to make more money, we're not getting into tactics and strategies until we're clear on spiritual vision. And oftentimes when we do that, people have a real awakening. They're like, oh my gosh, like I'm doing something that's not in alignment with what's most important to me. And that's why during times of struggle, I'm not willing to do the, you know, the extraordinary because I don't really care about it. It's just about making money. We need to make sure that you're aligned with your spiritual vision, not with an opportunity to make money. We need to make sure, as I said before, that you're not looking to generate next level financial goals to get you out of financial insecurity. I got it. Things may feel tight, but that's not how energy works. Energy is looking to grow, to expand, and it's looking to align with you and your spiritual vision. So first understand that your brain is a goal achieving machine and you can achieve any financial goal. Then understand before we even get into goal setting, what are you up to in the world? Because aligning yourself with what you're up to in the world and who you've become in the world as a result of the intelligent shaping of your life, again, through who you naturally are and your skills and talents, but also the challenges that you've overcome, that's going to determine success, that alignment. And so most people just set goals looking to make more money out of a fear of financial insecurity that have nothing to do with their spiritual vision. And we can see now that we understand this, why most goal setting frameworks don't produce desire. The second piece after the spiritual vision is your life. So in the process of transforming who you've become into products, services, positions in an organization, you know, a role in a company and impact in the world, which is what then allows us to make more money. When it's aligned with your spiritual vision, now there's an opportunity for you to have a vision for your life because you get to have the dream home, you get to have the education for your children, you get to have a debt free life, you get to have investments, you get to travel the world, you get to order whatever you want to order at any restaurant in the world. That was one of the important decisions that I made even when I didn't have very much money and I stopped calling myself broke and I stopped telling myself that I couldn't afford things. I started moving towards a life vision. I knew that I was entitled to prosperity and abundance. I started helping more people with their mindset and with their business growth. It was the early stages of business that I have today. So I was aligned with my spiritual vision and then I started saying, what do I want? One of the earliest things that I said I wanted was freedom with my food. I remember going out to dinner with Carol, who's now my wife and at the time was my girlfriend and somewhere in between was my fiancee and we'd go to restaurants and I would just pray that like she wouldn't order the filet mignon. I would just hope she wouldn't want to have a bottle of wine or a glass of wine and that's because I was living in financial insecurity and I didn't want to live that way anymore. But rather than focusing on what I didn't have, I started focusing on what I wanted because I knew that my desires plus empowered beliefs would produce the result because I was literally a goal achieving machine and I decided I wanted freedom with my food. I wanted to be able to eat whatever I wanted, wherever I wanted at any restaurant and today I can do that. Several years ago, we went and had a dinner at this place called The Ritz, which is not The Ritz Carlton. It's one of the fanciest hotels in London and we spent like $1,000 on it and I did that just to acknowledge really an appreciation, the universe or life and myself for what it had created for us in terms of financial abundance and prosperity. So step two of this is to start listing out all the things that you want in the next level of your life and I would say it's probably 18 to 36 months. This doesn't have to be your forever thing, your biggest thing and what you want, a private jet, this or that. If that's the next level for you, fine, put it down. But for most people, it's I want to live in a slightly better home, I want to have a slightly better car, I want to have $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 in savings, I want to be debt free, I want to be able to go out to a nice restaurant every other week, date my partner or my spouse, I want to be able to do nice things for my friend, I want to be able to have a cold plant or a sauna, I want to be able to get a massage once a month, I want to have a private chef or somebody to do meal plan for me. These are the things, list them out. This is your life vision. What does the next level of your life look like as you're living in the next level of financial prosperity and abundance 18 months from now, 36 months from now? The amount of time isn't important. Give yourself enough time so that you can start to expand and envision. If I say tomorrow, it's probably going to limit your imagination, right? But start listing out all these things. That's the second step, a living, a life vision, right? And so you'll hear already, wow, this is an untraditional approach to goal setting. We haven't even gotten into goals. It's like, no, because you need a strong foundation before you get into goals. You have to understand that your brain is a goal achieving machine. You have to understand that you should have desires. You have to understand that you have to align your psychology. We've got a ton of episodes on this channel about how to do that, identify your resistance or limiting beliefs and how to transform it. So you got to understand those things, but you also got to understand that your next level financial goals and your goal setting framework are dependent upon you being aligned with who you're meant to be in the world, your spiritual vision. And then also know that you're entitled to have material abundance. And so that's your life vision. And so you start listing these things out. This is part of our goal setting frame. What's really cool is then you get to the third step, which is what we call your living income plan. This is your goal setting for your next level financial goals. And you take a look at that life vision and you say, well, how much would it cost to finance this life? How much would it cost to finance this? And so some of the things that you're looking to do in your life vision might have an annual cost. Some of them might have a monthly cost, come up with an average monthly cost. And what you'll probably see as well, right now, you know, it costs $5,000 a month to be me, but 18 months from now, it costs $25,000 a month to be me. I need to start making $20,000 more a month. Or you might see that right now it costs me $30,000 a month to be me, but man, 18 months from now, 36 months from now with this big life vision, it's going to cost me $100,000 a month. Okay, got it. Now we're starting to understand what your next level financial goal looks. And we're doing it in a way that is not just some number created to get you out of financial insecurity. What we've done is we've started to create a vision of what your life is going to look and all of the beautiful, wonderful things that you would have at that next level. We're creating a new emotional habit as you're writing these things out, or as you start to imagine them, we're imprinting it on your nervous system. We're programming it into your brain. And these are all things of expansion. So they're perfectly in alignment with how currency works. See money wants to flow to you in order to become a boat. Money wants to flow to you in order to become five more employees on your team. Money wants to flow through you in order to create a business. Money's not looking to flow through you so that you can stop feeling like you don't have money. That's not a noble use of that energy. You picking up what I'm laying down, but this stack that we've created like know who you are and what you're meant to do in the world, because all of the energy is going to start to organize around that. Get clear on the life you want at the next level. And now step three, what I call your living income plan, know how much that life would cost on an average monthly basis. Now you have a real reason and aligned reason for money to start to flow through to you. Now you can then take a look at, well, how does this break down into my career? Okay. In my career, I'd need to be making, you know, $5,000 more a month. That's $60,000 more, more a year. Career is a really simple calculation, but the challenge with career is you may go, well, there's no way they're going to pay me $60,000. That's why I'm a big believer in entrepreneurship. That's why I'm a big believer in having a side hustle. But I'm also a big believer that if you're performing at the highest level within your organization, because it's aligned with your spiritual vision and what you're passionate about. So you're putting in the energy and the effort and you're bringing the intelligence. You could probably go to your employer and say, Hey, this is the vision I have. How do we create a plan to work towards? But a lot of times there's a challenge within career that there's a cap. You can get a promotion, you can jump to another job, right? Again, understand the universe. There's a reason why we call it infinite intelligence. It's got a lot of tools that it can leverage in order for you to materialize the desire that you have. The one of the tools that it may give you if you've got a career right now, and I talked about this in an episode, I don't know, four or five episodes ago where I talked about your million dollar idea is that it can bring to you an idea for you to, again, build as a side hustle or side gig to the career that you have or launch into full time in order for you to achieve this financial prosperity and abundance that you're looking for that would support your life vision. So it can help you figure out your million dollar idea. Now if you're already in business, already in business, you look at it and you go, okay, I need to generate 20 K a month more in order for me to afford my life vision 18 to 36 months from now, 20 K a month more is now my new financial goal. And we actually teach a framework to incorporate this into your business structure. How do I make $20,000 a month or in my business? This is really easy. If you have what we call your core four dial, your core four are the foundations of your business and these are the levers that you can use in order to grow your business. It has nothing to do with marketing strategies or building online funnels or, you know, writing a book or a podcast or live events or content marketing. Those are strategies. Your core four are the foundation and they consist of knowing who you serve, which is your ideal client or your app having powerful differentiated messaging. So you stand out in the marketplace. So those people who need what you have can actually hear what you have to say because there's so much information that we're being bombarded that we're in an attention deficit environment. So you have to have really powerful differentiated message. The third piece is what we call the client journey, meaning how your offers are structured. And within this is how you price your offer. And the fourth component is enrollment. You have to have enrollment and suasion skills in order to enroll clients. And then we can start talking about marketing strategy. But the important piece relevant to this conversation is the client journey, knowing how much you charge. Because if you know that you charge $5,000 for somebody to work with you for 90 days, because you're a relationship coach, now we're backing into, I need to get four clients more a month. When I can get a consistent four clients more a month, I'm now hitting my next level financial goal of 20 K a month. You might look at that and say, well, I'm only charging a thousand dollars to work with me. So I'd have to get 20 more clients. And that's a great awareness. Wow. Be really hard to get 20 more clients a month. Plus I don't have the bandwidth to work with 20 more clients. Well, maybe it's time now for us to raise your price. So we can, we can start to turn these knobs to figure out as an entrepreneur or a business owner, what this looks like. And then again, in our goal setting methodology, it's a series of questions. We can ask a really product question, which is what would I need to do in order to produce four more $5,000 clients a month? And again, your brain is a goal achieving machine. It's also like a search engine, whatever questions you ask, you'll get the answer if you're patient with it. And so you'll start to have thoughts and ideas and create coincidences and synchronicities to transition your business into consistently producing four or $5,000 client more a month. And that's the structure. That's how you can actually go from I'd like to make more money. And I'm tired of living in financial security to a system or a structure that is scientific based. It leverages how your brain works. It understands the nature of energy and how money works. And you can start to align yourself through the system and the structure to not only set, but achieve your next level financial. The old game that we've been playing doesn't work. Oh, I need to make more money because I feel like I'm broke. Or let me just come up with some big number that's not based on anything. What we're doing here is we're understanding the principles of money and the principles of you, how money operates and how you operate. And we're putting them into a structure that aligns everything from your spiritual vision to your life vision, to what we call your living income plan and how much you would cost you in this next level of your life vision. And then from there we can apply it to career. We can apply it to business, but this is the way that we've been able to help now hundreds, if not thousands of business owners and entrepreneurs achieve next level financial goals and how Carol and I have been able to transform our life. We played the old game for a long time and all it did was keep me broke and keep me frustrated. And then when I really started to understand how the brain is a goal achieving machine and the nature of money and the importance of our spiritual vision and our purpose in the world and to put it into a structure, it's become an extraordinary game changer. And by the way, if you are an entrepreneur or business owner and you want to access some additional business trainings to go deeper on the business part, you can jump over to davidbehr.com. We've got a bunch of free resources over there, but what I want for you today is to understand that there is a way that you can consistently and predictably produce the financial goals that you're looking for and be happy with yourself, with your life and the impact you're making in the world along the way. So I hope this was helpful for you. I hope it was powerful for you. Leave me some comments if you have any questions. I definitely want to be able to answer them. And this is again, just another piece in the puzzle of how you can have a powerful living experience and we can be able to create an extraordinary life and an extraordinary world together. So if you love this episode, do me a favor, subscribe, leave me a comment. If you're on the audio platforms, leave me a rating and review and I will see you in the next episode.