How Do You Know If You’re Chasing The Right Goals? (2568)

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What if the goal you are working so hard to achieve is quietly building a life you will not want to maintain? In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan elucidate the difference between chasing an outcome and choosing a direction that still fits once the sacrifice, responsibility, and repetition become real. Drawing from years of coaching, business building, leadership, and more than 2,500 episodes of personal development conversations, they examine how goals shape identity, habits, environment, and long-term behavior.

They also discuss the hidden costs behind success, how to recognize whether a goal is genuinely aligned, and why studying the full life behind an achievement matters before committing years to it. Before you climb another mountain, make sure you actually want the view, and the hike back down.

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Episode Reference:
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Show notes:
(2:14) The hidden cost of success
(6:34) Choosing the right goal
(9:45) When success looks different than expected
(12:27) What are you genuinely obsessed with?
(14:49) The downsides of the life you wanted
(16:14) Study the life behind the goal
(21:57) Questions that reveal your True North
(24:10) Raise your standards through your environment
(27:33) Outro

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