Aligning Your Actions with Your True Goals
Episode Overview
Set clear and genuine goals that truly reflect your aspirations. Understand the conditions and requirements necessary to achieve your goals. Align your actions with your goals by making mature, emotionally sober choices. Recognise how substances like alcohol can derail your progress. Commit fully to your goals by eliminating all other distractions.
If my intention and my goal is to get along with my partner, nothing else can happen.
In this episode of Levelheaded Talk, Dr. Andrea Vitz and Jon Leon Guerrero dive into the concept of emotional sobriety and how it can transform your personal and professional relationships. They discuss the importance of setting clear, genuine goals and the commitment required to achieve them. Dr.
Vitz uses relatable examples to illustrate her points, such as comparing goal-setting to choosing between two pictures on your fridge – one that represents your true aspirations and one that shows what you're actually doing. This episode is packed with practical advice on how to align your actions with your goals, emphasising the need for maturity and emotional sobriety in making those choices. Dr. Vitz stresses that achieving any goal requires understanding the conditions and requirements necessary to reach it.
She uses the metaphor of buying a pair of shoes to explain that you can't expect to get what you want without paying the full price – whether it's in effort, time, or commitment. The episode also touches on how substances like alcohol can derail your progress by bringing out your 'intoxicated identity', leading to behaviours that contradict your true goals.
Listeners will find this episode both eye-opening and practical, offering a straightforward approach to identifying and sticking to their actual goals. By the end, you'll be inspired to reassess your own goals and make the necessary changes to achieve them. So, are you ready to find out if you're truly committed to your goals or just fooling yourself?