If You Haven't Written Your Goals Down, Do This Tonight | Matthew McConaughey

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0:44How important is it to write down our visions, our dreams, our goals in order to manifest what we want in our lives? I think it's a lot more important than we give it credit for. Look, writing things down, it seems like this old-fashioned sort of archaic things. type it it's on the screen put it on put it on word doc save it put in a folder it it can be lost back there to actually write it with the hand does is a different kind of objectivity you get because it's come out if you've put it down now you're looking at it's outside of you it's freed up now it's alive it's moving now more so than having that goal by your bedside every night Which can be good.

1:32But to write it down, if you're writing down true goals, they become written in your lineage. They become written in your body. Whether you know it or not. In your subconscious. It's a way to get it into your subconscious. To write it down. Now it's out of me. It's on a page. I'm objectifying it now. I'm looking at it. So now I'm having a dialogue where before it was just Socratic. But now I'm having a dialogue and it starts to reciprocate. Those 10 goals, I wrote those down in the top bunk in the Dell house, University of Texas, 1992. My roommate was Monty Wills. I remember the night I wrote them down.

2:07Wow. I never looked at them again. I found those in writing this book and found out that, oh my gosh, all 10 you actually did and four you're still doing. That's crazy. I never looked at them again. 30 years later you found them. Yeah. That's crazy. But they all happened. They all happened. I don't think they happen if I don't write them down. I don't think they do.

2:35So that practice of writing something down that you into or that you want or that you yearn for and to add to it or subtract from it along the way if you want to or just write it down, fold it up, tuck it away so you can find it 30 years later when you go want to share a journal or write something about it like I did um I don't think it happens but then just go back and see the invisible contract I made with myself gosh I love that because obviously I did because I mean I those 10 people go you've done all 10 I said well no I'm in the middle I'm still I have to maintain still maintaining for but I have engaged some of I'm just done.

3:15But I am in full engagement with all of them. And... Well, it's an invisible contract until it becomes a physical written contract. Right. But it's with yourself, I guess. Yeah, yeah, of course. There's an invisible way it becomes subconsciously non-negotiable with yourself. And here's the interesting thing. On this, is this the exact image or is this a recreated image? No, that's it. This is a photo of it? Yeah. You signed it. Yeah. And that's what I think is actually really important because you did create a contract with self. Right. You signed the goals at the bottom. You have 10 goals in life, 9-1-92.

3:49And at the bottom, you signed it. And I think that's really important in creating this contract with self is putting your name on something that you write down from the ideas in your mind into paper so that you can actualize this in life. And I think that's what's beautiful. You were like, what, 20 years old when you did this? 20, 21. And folks, anyone who thinks so, that sounds like, you know, Mike Tyson talking about Mike Tyson when he's himself talking to the third person. Do it. Don't worry. Sign your stuff to yourself. You know what I mean? Write to yourself and sign it. It's a great practice to do.

4:23You know, you are then you are then getting a third person objective view of yourself where so you will have a better chance of subjectively creating those and activating those things and having them happen.

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6:28What should you invest in and how often? Making investing decisions is easier with Fidelity. With their step-by-step experience, you can find investments based on your goals and comfort level. And if you'd like, you can decide how much and how often to invest with recurring investments that happen automatically. Ready to make your next investing decision? Head to fidelity.com slash trading. Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC. Member NYSE SIPC.