How to Get Anything You Want in Life (The Complete Guide)

1) Know What You Want. I Mean Really Know What You Want.

Do you know what the absolute number one, most important thing you must do to get anything you want in life?

It’s pretty simple.

You have to know what you want. Do you?

I mean, do you really know what you want? And not just in a, oh, I want a Ferrari, kind of way.

To truly be able to pursue the goal of having everything you want in life, you need to have an incredibly vivid and detailed vision for what you want in all aspects of your life, including:

• Work and business – What type of work would make you happy and keep you fulfilled for the rest of your life?

• Relationships – What are your goals for a romantic relationship? With your friends and peers? With your family? What does all of that look like?

• Happiness – What activities make you happy?

• Experiences – What experiences would you like to have on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis that will provide fulfillment and happiness in your life?

• Physical items – Let’s be blunt about it, what kind of cool stuff do you want in your life? Maybe you’re a total minimalist, and you need a tiny house. Maybe you want that mansion in the hills? Know what it is, and more importantly, why you want it.

• Health and fitness – What does your body look like? Why do you want it to look that way? What will it help you to feel?

• Community – Where do you fit in? What kind of communities do you want to be a part of? Are they hobby based? Business focused? Spiritual?

Once you begin to have a clear vision for what you want in each of these categories, then you can truly start thinking about how to achieve everything you want in life.

In the words of cricket umpire Bill Copeland “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”

2) Understand You Can Have Anything You Want, But Not Everything You Want. At Least Not Right Away.

Do you want a big house? A fast sports car? To take a 5 star luxury vacation?

All of that is attainable. In fact, with some hard work, every single person reading this can have any of those things.

The problem is, we can’t necessarily have all of those things at the same time.

For instance, right this second, if the only thing I cared about in life was owning a Ferrari, I could go out and buy one, and still not feel like I was making a completely irresponsible decision.

The problem is I still love golf, travel, having savings, etc. So, it isn’t the smart decision.

This guy is a great example. His biggest passion in life is cars, and he recently bought a Lamborghini. Is he incredibly wealthy? No, he just made that his priority.

Update: 4 years later. NOW he is incredibly wealthy. YouTube is a poweful thing.

So not only do you have to understand what it is you want, you need to prioritize what you want and understand where things fall in the hierarchy.

3) Be Willing to Stair Step into Your Biggest Goals

Sticking to what I understand is an extremely materialistic theme of fancy cars, one day I’d love to own an Aston Martin convertible. Even after seeing what this guy has gone through.

Right now, it’s not a top priority – but I’ve always been a car guy and would love to have a fun car to drive.

That Aston Martin is at the top of the stairs.

Everyone tends to want to be at the top step right away, with tons of passive income and a 4 Hour Work Week Lifestyle. The reality is, it’s next to impossible to leap up all of those stairs.

That’s why I’m such an advocate of the process of:

1. Build the relevant skills

2. Freelance those skills to build income and confidence

3. Then begin working on the sexier businesses

So think about your ultimate goal in each of those categories listed in #1 and then break them down into more manageable steps and work on the one that is directly in front of you.

4) Don’t Let Society Judge You

I feel like I should mention this before we go too much further. Society loves to judge. I guarantee right now; there are at least a few of you judging me for wanting to buy a fancy car.

Different strokes.

Especially in this community of location independence, there’s a huge contingent of people whose main goals involve nothing more than a backpack or a tiny house. Stuff is bad! Consumerism is the devil!

While sure, I don’t think luxury items are necessarily making the world a better place – I also think that if you work hard, and they make you happy, then go for it.

This is about what you want, not what about what society wants you to have.

The opposite is true as well if you fall into the minimalism camp – that’s great! Just understand everyone will have different goals and dreams – and one is certainly no better than the other.

5) Create Dozens of Small Milestones to Get Anything You Want

One of the biggest reasons I see people give up on getting everything they want is because they’re focused on the end game. They’re focused on the top of the stairs like we talked about earlier.

If your goal is to make $10k of passive income a month and quit your job in the next six months – then good luck!

It’s not realistic for most people who are just starting out.

And if that’s your only goal, there’s a good chance you’re going to get frustrated really quickly and give up – because even if you’re making progress, it will be tough for you to feel like you are because you don’t have enough milestones.

So instead of having a few big lofty goals for each area of your life, create dozens of little milestones so that three months from now instead of just seeing one big unchecked box, you see 20 checked ones, and another 20 still to go.

At least then, you can visually see you’re making progress, which will keep you going when things get tough.