Episode #348

How to Confidently Identify Your BHAG Even If You’re Not Sure Where to Start

Key Takeaways

Identify your BHAG by reflecting on flow-state moments, aligning with your core values, and allowing yourself to dream without limits.

Start before you're ready by prototyping ideas with small tests and conversations, and accept failure as a near-certain part of the journey.

Turn the vision into a plan with 10-year, 3-year, 1-year, and monthly micro goals, using productive pauses to gain clarity and momentum.

Top Quotes

Your BHAG has to inspire you.

If you're not embarrassed by your first iteration, you've launched too late.

In fact, it's nearly 100% guaranteed that you're going to fail along the way whenever you set a BHAG.

Episode Summary

Does setting BHAGs scare you? Let these 3 easy, actionable tactics give you the confidence to identify your Big Hairy Audacious Goals. Listen now and take action! 

Ever heard of the term BHAG?

If you’re a regular listener, you’ve probably heard me talk about this in previous episodes. (See episode chocolate-salamander-198004.hostingersite.com/302)

BHAG or Big Hairy Audacious Goals is a concept developed by authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their book, “Built to Last.” It is one of the key characteristics and traits of visionary companies— a “powerful mechanism to stimulate progress.”

Setting goals is a familiar territory, but if you want to take it to the next level, a BHAG is the way to go— but where do you start? How do you identify a BHAG?

In this episode, we’re going on a deep dive into how to confidently identify that BHAG, especially for people who are unclear or who feel stuck. Here are the 3 things that you need to do to confidently identify BHAG… Hit play now.

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