Introduction to the Seven Spheres, Self-Control, and Health Goals

• 00:04 The piecemeal approach does not work.
• 00:07 Now, I differ from some experts who talk about and write about goals and
• 00:11 goal setting.
• 00:12 I think that you need to really give thought to all of your big goals in life,
• 00:18 and not just have a siloed approach of working on one goal.
• 00:22 Because the idea of saying, I'm going to be a millionaire by the time I'm 25,
• 00:28 and you completely neglect your health, your relationships.
• 00:32 Well, you may end up at a hospital and be poorer than ever.
• 00:35 So it doesn't work to fixate on just one goal.
• 00:40 You may spend more time during the day going after one specific goal, but
• 00:44 you need to have clear-cut goals set for every sphere of life,
• 00:49 because they complement each other, they go together.
• 00:52 So in this course, I'm going to ask you to really give tremendous thought and
• 00:59 reflection and to write down your goals and the seven major spheres of life,
• 01:07 as I see it, when it comes to goal setting.
• 01:11 The first sphere of life, self-control.
• 01:14 Self-agency, you have got to establish goals for
• 01:20 yourself in this realm.
• 01:23 Now, you may think, well, of course I want to be in control of myself, but
• 01:26 what does this really mean?
• 01:27 You've got to decide in advance who is in charge of your life.
• 01:31 Is it going to be you?
• 01:33 Is it going to be fate?
• 01:34 Is it going to be your parents, society, the opinions of your peers?
• 01:39 Who is really going to decide your life?
• 01:44 And how are you going to do it on a daily basis?
• 01:47 If you want to weigh a healthy weight, are you going to take charge of that?
• 01:53 Are you going to personally own that?
• 01:55 Or are you going to say, well, it's fate, it's genes, it's this, it's that?
• 02:01 Are you going to take control over your career,
• 02:04 your personal relationship, all these other spheres?
• 02:08 Or are you going to take the attitude that life happens, what's meant to be will be?
• 02:15 There are very different visions you can have about this issue of self-control.
• 02:20 You've got to give real thought to it and
• 02:24 decide how much control you want to exert over your life.
• 02:29 Once you've made that, then we can fill it in with all different
• 02:34 levels of habits to help you achieve your long term goals,
• 02:40 short term goals, tiny goals, and everything in between.
• 02:45 The next big sphere of life where you've got to decide your goals, your health.
• 02:51 What is your vision for health, your own personal health?
• 02:57 Again, you can take a fixed mindset, a closed mindset that says,
• 03:03 well, whatever is, is, my genes are this.
• 03:06 My parents died at 57, so I'm going to die at 57.
• 03:11 Or you can have a more expansive, more open view of your health that you
• 03:15 want to live to be 100 and healthy or live forever.
• 03:19 That you can be physically active, that you deserve a good night's sleep.
• 03:24 Your vision of how much sleep you deserve is so huge, most people don't realize it.
• 03:31 Those people who think of themselves as highly ambitious,
• 03:35 they want to treat themselves like a pauper when it comes to their own sleep.
• 03:40 Throughout most of human history, even the poorest of poor people got 8,
• 03:46 9, 10, sometimes 11 hours of sleep a night.
• 03:51 And yet people who think of themselves as ambitious,
• 03:55 of deserving the best these days, want to scrimp and get by on five or six hours.
• 04:01 You have to give real thought to what you want to do in the realm of health for
• 04:06 your life.
• 04:07 Because wealth isn't just about money,
• 04:11 wealth is about how richly you live life in all seven of these spheres.
• 04:17 And if you're rich and you have the nicest car and the biggest mansion but
• 04:22 your health is in shambles, it's not going to be worth much.

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