Personal goals are personal

If you're setting yourself a personal goal and you're comparing yourself to creators who get up at 6am, hit the gym, eat three perfect meals a day, you're setting yourself up for failure — and here's why.

A personal goal is personal. And content creators are far from living the life that you're living. Two kids, bills to pay, dysfunctional family. I don't know, and that's the point. Only you know your situation in life, and you need to therefore adjust your goals and your plan to reach those goals.

In order to achieve a goal, it's not one step. It is a series of incremental steps that suit your own individual life.

If your goal, let's take a very example, is to live a healthier life — then the first thing you do is not to eat three perfect meals a day. It's simply to do something that's achievable for your own lifestyle. Like one less takeaway a week. Or just simply get out of the house one extra day in the week that you otherwise wouldn't have achieved.

It's to do a little bit more of something that is probably good for your life — and a little bit less of something that you know is not good for your life. Do that. Continue building off that same principle, that same foundation. And you'll likely be way more effective to achieve whatever it is that you have in mind.

The other thing that you have to do is make sure that you are 100% accountable and responsible and in control of achieving that goal. The moment you tie your goal with dependency on somebody else — say for example, "I'll only go to the gym if another buddy comes with me" — then you're no longer in control.