Your Life Eventually Reflects What You’re Willing to Accept

Episode Summary

What are you willing to accept from yourself?

Not what do you want.

Not what goals have you written down.

But what are you actually willing to accept from yourself every single day?

In this Mindset Monday episode of the Over 40 Alpha Podcast, Funk Roberts breaks down the powerful difference between goals and standards—and why simply setting bigger goals may not be what changes your life.

You can have a goal to lose 20 pounds, but if your standards allow you to continually eat poorly, skip workouts whenever you’re tired and ignore your health, your daily actions are telling a very different story.

You can have a goal to build muscle while making missed workouts normal.

You can say your health is your number-one priority while continuing to put off your bloodwork, ignore your sleep and avoid the habits you know need to change.

And this doesn’t stop with fitness.

The same principle applies to your marriage, business, finances, relationships, time and character.

The central lesson of this episode is simple:

Your goals describe the life you want. Your standards describe the life you’re actually willing to live.

Goals give you direction.

Standards determine how you live along the way.

What You’ll Learn

The difference between a goal and a standard
Why bigger goals don’t necessarily create better results
How your daily actions reveal your real standards
Why what you’ve allowed to become “normal” may be holding you back
How keeping promises to yourself raises your standards
Why standards eventually become part of your identity
How standards reduce the daily negotiation inside your head
Why raising your standards does not mean expecting perfection
Why how quickly you reset matters when you fall below your standards
How your standards for health, marriage, business, finances and character shape your future
The two questions Funk wants every man to answer this week