Reclaim Your Excellence: The Path To A Meaningful & Joyous Life w/ Brad Stulberg

So you set your big goal. That's step one. And then step two is you want to break down the goal into the component parts that's going to help you get to achieve that big goal. Today I'm joined by Brad Stolberg. Brad is a sustainable excellence expert.

He's a human performance coach, and he's also a best-selling author. Step three is you largely forget about the big goal because it can be overwhelming, it can force you to rush and get impatient and then fall off a cliff, and you focus on those small steps, those component parts, the things that you can do day in and day out, the little victories. And then the final step is when you catch yourself stressing about the time horizon or thinking about the peak that's still thousands of feet away metaphorically, you come back to those small steps in the moment. All right, Brad, so it's the new year. Everybody out there has pondered their goals and their dreams.

They've put pen to paper. I think the best way to launch into the discussion that I want to have would be for you to share some of your best advice on how to set everyone up for sustained success in 2026. I think the biggest trap that people tend to fall into with any fresh start, but perhaps particularly at the beginning of a new year, is you've got all this motivation right off the bat and you set this big, audacious goal. And the idea of the goal is great. It's really fluid in your head.

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