The Power Of Goals | Imp And Skizz Podcast (Ep20) 

Guest Suggestion: Tango. His background as a game designer is interesting. His professional background that helped him. General game theory and tips and tricks.

Skizz’s distinction between vision and goal was a light-bulb moment for me. I love how I learn something about myself with every podcast. You guys are amazing ❤❤❤

Zoom call in Good Times with Scar for a guest spot! It would be interesting hearing how his challenges parallel yours and his unique ways he's overcome them.

Each podcast has helped me in ways but this one will help me when set goals and not setting them to high. I’m bad for setting goals to high and feeling like I’m not going to accomplish them but watching/listening to this podcast has me in a good mindset for setting goals healthier now! Thank you 🙏

I haven't finished watching the podcast yet but I wanted to comment before I chickened out. I love Skizz's brother's idea of at least showing up. I use VR as my main exercise routine and when I do it, it's great. But being a homeschooling mom, it's easy to skip it by just saying, I'm really gonna put play before my family? But I'm about to turn 45 and, like y'all have noticed, exercise is more important than ever. It's *how* I'm gonna be able to be here for my family. So, I'm writing it down to make it "official." After Christmas gatherings are over, every morning that I don't have an actual appt, I'm gonna grab the VR set and walk to the basement. If *then* I decided that whatever else I think of is more important, then I can just go do that. If not, I can punch air for half an hour or so. 🙂 Also, congrats on reaching your goal of 20 episodes. I loved every one. Looking forward to 20 more and 20 more and 20 more. 💖 Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you both and your families. 💝

Wow it’s been 20 episodes already. I’m ready for 20 more. Thanks guys.

Regardless of the topic, I’ll be around for the next 20. I am a school services officer/teacher’s assistant and I would love to hear from Mrs Skizz. I had fitness goals that have been a constant failure this year.. grief, illness and a back injury has set me down a dark path but this podcast is inspiring. Thanks Skizz, I think I will adopt your brother’s goal of just showing up. Thank you

10 minutes into this podcast and I set a more reasonable goal for something I've been meaning to do. I reach my goal for the day and I think it will help me get through it, 10 push ups at a time, not 50. Thank you

I like skizz’s brothers attitude about the gym. When life is overwhelming sometimes the only thing you can do is focus on one thing at a time. 1. just show up 2. Now that I’m here, let’s do one set 3. I feel ok so let’s do another …. Helps me move from feeling bad to feeling better

"Don't write it right, just write it then make it right." - Stephen King 👻 I'm a writer and I love it. It's easy to get caught up in what you have to do like, "Oh no! I have to write between 300-400 pages to write this story!", "Double oh no! I will have to edit that and proof read that like three times!", and "Triple oh no! Then I have query letters and publisher searching." But if I just open my word document and say "Let me write this one scene." "Let me just put this scene here for now and I'll move it later.", and "Just write and fall in love with this story!" One step at a time 🥰

Impulse humming the waiting song just cracked me up so much

I prefer the abbreviated version, SMRT

First thought for guests are the JIST crew and/or other Hermits. I imagine most would be a long distance thing though. I would suggest you think about what kind of guests you want. Do you want other content creators? Motivational speakers? Business owners, investors, etc? Politicians? Music artists or performers? Figure that out and the list starts making itself.

Wow. I needed this podcast. I'm in the middle of writing and illustrating a children's book, while homeschooling a 12 year old, and maintaining a 2 acre hobby farm. I've gotten to the point where my goals are too lofty and even if I do complete them, all I feel is relief but no satisfaction. We will be using the SMART goals idea from now on. My 12 year old is just as bad as I am at reaching for the unattainable. I think we'll be trying to celebrate each smaller success so that we can actually feel joy in what we accomplish instead of just rushing through everything like it's an obligation. Thanks for another amazing episode and we're so glad you're here for the long run!!

Guest ideas: People who stream, people who work your "real" jobs, other podcasters, someone from your past who can tell those funny stories (McBean). Change of scenery idea, do the podcast from poolside. Natural lighting is great from a photography perspective. Use the golden hours if you can, sunset or sunrise. Oh, I have another favorite content creator in the Pheonix general area, they raise a small farm. It would be very cool to see you guys meet up with them and try to milk the goats. They are called Weed Em & Reap.

Congrats on 20. I’ll be here for the next 20. I would love to hear from both your wives. I’m in education, so Mrs. Skizz would be right up my alley. I also love being creative, so Mrs. Impulse would be great too. I also get being shy- but it would be great if we could still see a bit of what she does: artist and business owner, while being a mother and wife.

a goal should only be things you can control, i.e. how much you exercise and what you eat, rather than how much weight you loose in a given time frame, weight loss is the vision and excercise 3x a week is the goal

I'd love to see Mumbo come in as a guest. His knowledge of videography and Minecraft both would be a super interesting dynamic with the two of you. Plus, Mumbo's just awesome!

Thank you for this podcast. I have never set a life goal and that's probably why I'm still trying to figure out what I'm gonna be when I grow up (I'm 45). I've only ever set small goals that never really fed into a larger scheme. I'm a little worried that if I have a vision, like Skizz's dream to make a living off content creation, that I will achieve it. The problem with that is that I am super short attention spanned and I don't know if I'll be happy doing my dream for several years to come. So instead of risking being dissatisfied I just loaf around with my career/education. It's such a silly attitude to have and after watching your podcast I think I will try and find a career goal and stick with it, without obsessing what the future me might feel. Because like Skizz's brother, If I promise myself that I'll at least show up knowing I can leave at any time, I may just end up doing something amazing. Thanks guys!

My goal for this yeah is "get back to being independent and finish my healing and healthy journey." 2022 hit me hard. I lost pretty much everything and had to move back into my mom's. Now I'm recovering mentally. Relearning good habits. And I'm seeing my motivation for life slowly returning. So 2023 I will get back to who I was a decade ago. Before human toxicity poisoned me.

Finally catching up on these and boy... This was exactly what I needed to hear right now. I just started a new position at my academic librarin job that I'm incredibly excited about but there is a LOT that needs to be taken on. Differentiating between vision and goals is just the contextualization my brain was looking for to start breaking down some of the overwhelming distant ideas with more bite-sized projects for the here and now. The vision is an academic library that's relevant, inviting, attractive, and utilized. The goals to get there are things like weeding the collection, replacing broken furniture, evaluating student needs, getting faculty feedback, cleaning out decades of garbage (...there was food in the freezer from 2008. Batteries in storage that expired in 2015. Help.), and updating our tech. That's WAY more manageable in the day-to-day, and helps with the constant feeling over overwhelm that I've been struggling with. I think I'll be returning to this episode as the year goes on. Thank you guys so much!

The best goals aren't necessarily SMART, they're flexible. SMART goals don't give any allowances for emergencies, illness, or life changes. I love the goal setting taught in "Elastic Habits." It's similar to the brother-in-law "I have to enter the gym." You set 3 different levels of goals, and 3 different ways to achieve the goal. So are you going to do 5 sit-ups, 15, or 30? Or maybe walk 5 minutes outdoors, or 15, or 30? Or go to the gym, work out for 15 minutes at the gym, or workout for 30 at the gym? They're all exercise and movement based, but when there's a blizzard, you can still do your sit-ups, while when you want to get away from people entirely the walk might be nice.

There is a quote from a song in the musical, Hades Town that has featured in a Last Life animatic sung by BDubs. The line is, “I used to see the way the world could be. But now the way it is is all I see.” When you were talking about setting your goals high and failing and having to set them lower. That’s what I thought of. And I’ve felt that, there is one particular goal I’ve been aiming for for the last 8 years. And I’m not even 10% of the way towards that goal. And that sucks. If I continue at the same pace I’ll be 92 before I’m happy. And I might not even live to that age. So I’ve been trying to set small more manageable goals I can actually see in front of me instead of this lofty ideal I can barely imagine. But it’s hard to do. Because I just want to run straight forwards to my big goal. But I know I can’t. Because I know right now I won’t succeed. So much like BDubs in that one Last Life animatic, “I used to see the way the world could be. But now the way it is is all I see.”

My respect go's to Skizz's brother for the hardest goal, and this is what I took from this podcast because goals are super hard for Me being handicapped. Just showing up is a fantastic goal and I am going to try and use that mind set of just making the basic goal. TY Skizz's Brother!

Merry Christmas to you and your families and friends. For context, “Merry Christmas” = “I hope you and yours are healthy, happy, get to enjoy time together, have all your needs met, and have the opportunity to share joy.”

Really twisting my arm here. Fine, I'll start on my goal on beginning a new Minecraft series when I get home! (I work overnights at a gym and listen to you guys while vacuuming and mopping!)

I have a topic suggestion, maybe you guys could talk about working for a corporation, knowing your worth and asking for a raise and knowing when to move on to greener pastures?? I just tried to ask for a raise at work and wasn't even allowed to plead my case for why I thought I deserved to be paid more and now I'm considering dusting off the resume and looking for new work, but its so scary because I do LIKE my current work environment and coworkers and I know how hard it is to find that. But I'm also unable to move out of my terrible apt because I dont get paid enough to afford better. I'd love to hear what advice you two have on tough decisions like that. ALSO PS for skizz: One of my favorite simple salmon recipes is putting salmon and asparagus on a foil lined tray, drizzling olive oil, salt and pepper over everything, putting it all in a 375 degree oven to bake for 20 min, and then pulling it out, drizzling honey over the salmon and then putting it back in the oven on broil for 1 or 2 min. SUPER tasty and super easy. Add some rice on the side and you've got a tasty, quick meal.

My favorite fish recipe ever, if anyone is interested. You can use any mild white fish for this (tilapia, haddock, cod) but the "meatier" the better, which is why I like swai the best. It's also scalable, so you can make as many or as few as you need. The amounts are all to taste. If you like a lot of cheese, add a lot of cheese. Don't want to use breadcrumbs? Don't use them. It's a very adaptable recipe. -Preheat oven to 350 (F) -Put the filet in a baking dish. Non-stick is best, but if you don't have that then put some oil or non-sick spray on the bottom of the pan. -Lay sliced tomatoes on top of the filet. If you can't get really good, ripe tomatoes, use canned whole tomatoes, drained and then sliced. -Top with shredded or grated hard Italian cheese of your choice: Pecorino Romano, Parmesan, Grana Padano, or any kind of mix with another hard-ish cheese is good. Avoid anything "melty" like mozzarella. -Sprinkle any kind of breadcrumb on top. I use home made, because that's what I have, but I think panko would be very good too. -Drizzle some olive oil over the top. Or butter, if you're feeling like it. -Bake for 10 minutes per inch of thickness of the filet. So, your average tilapia filet will take about 10 minutes, but a nice thick piece of cod might take almost 30. -That's it. Serve with whatever you want. I like mixed veggies and brown rice if I'm feeling healthy. Pasta with an alfredo sauce if I'm feeling naughty. Some things I've added to change up the recipe: Chopped Kalamata or black olives, a healthy amount of dried basil, ground up stale croutons instead of breadcrumbs, jarred roasted red peppers.

Thank you, Impluse for taking the time to do the camera work. I enjoy being able to see ya'll's facials expressions.

We do learn about SMART in college, Public Relations; it's a very useful thing to keep in mind

Don't break my door dude. I'm dying of laughter

The perk of working for a school board is snow day means being able to watch this great podcast at time of release and the next 2 if they still happen during the holidays :D

I’m so happy y’all kept going. The topics you’ve continued to touch base on have truly changed my view on life ❤❤❤

Guest Suggestion: Mumbo Jumbo he could help with the lighting and all video help and just some of the other Hermits and what they do.

I hope you 2 continue the podcasts. It has been a way of bonding for me with the men in my life.

Where are you guys measuring your placement in the podcast world? I always watch here because the visual mannerisms are too funny to miss, but I want to make sure I’m supporting your measured goal.

JITS in person guest podcast will be fantastic!

Another great episode. Loved the first, looking forward to the next. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you both and your families.

Guest suggestion. Mumbo , he is a creator and cinematographer. He has lot is experience making short films and commercials . And know lots about cameras . He could consult on your camera system and suggest things you may not have thought of

I appreciate your take on goals. I feel the common misunderstanding of goals is that you need to be perfect at it once you start. That's not the case. Goals are to help you achieve your "long-term" goal, or, as Skizz put it, your Vision. I like that word better than long-term goal. It makes "goals" feel more like those stepping stones they are supposed to be. Congratulations on the 20th episode! Keep going! You guys are doing great things.

Im a new mom with a full-time job... my daily goal... great dressed, and fix my hair. (Never really wore makeup)

Congrats on the first 20 episodes, here's to many more! Merry Christmas Guys 🎄

Guest suggestions: Tango and Bdubs 💃💃💃

Congrats on the milestone!!!! 🍺to the next 20

keep up the amazing work, I could listen to you two talk about anything. always enjoy the podcast and I have learned a lot in the past 20! on to the next 20, and 20 more, and 20.........

Awesome episode! I love it when you two talk about your lives and how you overcome its various complications. Also when one or both of you go into storytelling mode. It's so nice getting to hear the nostalgia, enjoyment, and bewilderment over your past experiences. I hope you decide to keep at this, but don't be afraid to give yourselves more wiggle-room between releases. While I look forward to listening to another episode from you two each week, I also know that a lot of time goes into these and a week does not feel like nearly as much time as we get older and carry more responsibilities. If you decide to do 25 more episodes this year, that would easily fit into one episode every-other weak ( with one or two extra for the beginning/end of the year ). Take care of yourselves, don't burn out too quickly, and keep up the great work!

This podcast is exactly what I’ve always wanted! Getting to listen to some of my favorite content creators talk sometimes about random topics or go more in depth with helpful topics! Thanks for making this! You guys are amazing!

In skizz's head he started looking at k-bubs and seeing a bacon sandwich so he's like nope, no more pork.

Brilliant podcast as always! Merry Christmas from South Africa!

24:06 has me wheezing Skizz omfggggg 😂😂😂😂 Gosh ahhh y’all make me so damn happy ahhh my friends ❤❤❤ 24:15 love you guys ❤ Y’all make this feel like home ❤❤❤ I’m glad you didn’t cut that out Skizz 😂

I laughed so much, imp and skizz are doing "SMAT" goals

I rly enjoy this podcast, I’ve been binging for the past few days bc RU-vid didn’t tell me there were new eps after the channel swap and I missed a bunch! Which is annoying but I do enjoy binging so I suppose I’ll just take it :) Thanks for the hard work, guys, keep at it!

Loving the SMART! We use that at our co-op, and I rarely remember the "R" so I was cracking up that you two couldn't recall it either. xD We've got a Pescatarian in the house now, so we've also been eating more fish and less meat, and on top of learning some good fish recipes recently, I'm starting to notice some favorable health changes too. We may need to make this a more focused thing in our household. Hurrah for 2023 goals!

Is Skizz Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Coach, or something? He talks about Product Vision, Product Goal, Intermediate Goals ... that's the diagram in the EBM guide. And he understands it, seeing how he casually talks about the concepts.

I've been thinking about the idea of "friendship goals" ever since listening to this episode. I have things sorted for goals workwise. Why don't I do the same for friendships? So, my 2023 word of the year is "Connections" to remind myself to make time with friends a priority. Goal would be to arrange at least two friend activities per month. Thanks for the inspiration!!

I know yall have alot on your plate but if later down the line yall find yourselves with empty space you dont know what to do with can yall do drumming covers of various songs I feel like that would be interesting due to both of your musical backgrounds

Thank you for the great ideas in every podcast. My goal is to start implementing them. Thanks for the lily pad approach. Have a happy, blessed new year!

You mentioned bringing in a third person as a guest for a podcast... I know of this guy named Tango. You might've heard of him. He's kind of a jerk. But he doesn't live far from you so it's low hanging fruit if you wanna go for it. I'd still watch.

Perhaps you could kill two birds with one stone and have Mumbo as a guest AND recruit his help with the video production quality. His camera and lighting work is amazing.

I would love to see you bring in creators that you haven't worked much with, to get a different perspective on content creation

Full of flu and a bit down thanks for lifting my spirits 👍, keep up the good work and hope you and your family's have a happy Christmas and looking forward to see what you get up to next year. A guest sounds like a great idea and maybe keep the first few guest's close friends to keep conversation flow, flowing you could maybe put a TV/monitor/tablet at the end of the table or on the wall and switch to 3rd cam 1:02:37 when they are talking?. you could test pilot and ask friends opinions or show and ask the viewers?

Interesting. I'm not really a goal person, I'm more wuwei, but I have a lot of goal oriented friends. So I'm smiling thinking about how much this makes me think of them. I do like micro goals though. That's how my laundry gets folded...

I could talk about chronic illness or mental health (specifically related to military, trauma, or ADHD). Some day, I'll publish my book about the latter now that i have a resolution. (These are all positive stories.) OR i could talk to someone who isn't a stranger about these things!! Otherwise, I'd line to help broaden your topic choices! I guess br0dy knows who i am tangentially 😅

Tango makes sense. I do believe he is close to you guys. Close enough to be there in person.

The irony of them talking about S.M.A.R.T and Skizz always joking about SMRT! lol

It would actually be nice to see the ladies conducting an episode

SMART: Skizz, Mr. Joker, Aye it's Impulse, "R", Tango

You're doing a great job with these. Can Tango join you in one of these? It would be cool to see that.

You don't have to abandon one team to be able to cheer on another one that is getting results from their hard work. My dad watches games not to cheer on one team above all others but if a game is good he had a good time.

I know you guys probably don't want to hear this, but cutting out meat is one of the worst things you can do. I won't go on about it here, but check out the channel What I've Learned for someone that not only does the research, but does the experiments with his own body. Love the podcast, looking forward to what you two get up to in 2023!

Hey guys! Not sure if you guys are still chasing the Veggie diet or not I’m a bit behind on these but I’m catching up! Lol there is an excellent RU-vidr she is a vegan dietician with a background as a chef her channel is called pickuplimes and she has a BUNCH of incredible dishes that are extremely healthy if your interested! Keep up the good work!

Don’t do assisted pull-ups instead do a lateral pull-down and tbar rows also don’t count reps instead do 5 sets to failure and rest has long has necessary between sets

For the thing about bringing your wives onto the podcast, have it strictly audio and have them determine what they want to keep or not,... Same for some other guests depending if their camera shot still record them the video wise but the only audio and send them snippets of their video

AAAAAANNNNDDDD..... TAAAAANNNNGGOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! TOGETHERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😲😲😲😲

100th episode should be a live stream 😁

Cooking with skizz streams?

JITS/ZITS crew as a podcast

GUEST STARRING: JOKER!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Tango and Zedaph

This is a question for your next, you asked, we answered: I have anger issues, have you ever gone through something that you just get so upset about that you fight back? And how do you deal with that?

R is for realistic 🤣

I know I am a year late here but is Skizz worried about his work hearing him say stuff like “I’m not into it any more?” Are you just a good enough worker that they don’t care?

Skizz, can you still spin a book on your finger?

Guests: other Hermits. Perhaps, have a special podcast that is recorded in Minecraft. Just sayin'

Tango?

Maybe set up "Buy me a Coffee" or do an Amazon Affiliate program so you can build the channel faster and we can donate directly to your channel and not pay twitch so much of your donations.

Why don't you guys make reaction content? Be funny to see the both of you reacting to things. It's a huge genre

Do you have an Imp & Skizz patreon/glimpse? If not, that could be a slow steady way to recoup the $3k. I know you both are spread quite thin so if you did go ahead, I wouldn’t necessarily make more than 1 tier so you don’t have to worry about having to promise/provide extras every so often. Instead, you could set a goal to reach 100, 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2225, 2250, 2275, 3000 and have small SMART goals. Like you could have “interview with x person” as stretch goals. To be transparent myself, if you got Etho to do an hour long podcast with you about a topic, that could be your $3k and you would get to that point into no time lol I would love for you to get Iskall as a stretch goal, hearing him talk about developing a popular modpack, about the difficulties of doing something different to what is expected (Hermitcraft) and what his goals are would be an amazing discussion. He’s talked a little but here and there about it but it’s all buried in super long streams. Tango, Brody, MrsT are obvious candidates that I hope to hear on the podcast. Mumbo, JoeHills, Cleo, Cub, Scar - they all have unique life experience that could make for interesting topics. I know all these are hermits, but some of the irl people Skizz know sounds awesome as well! As for MrsImpulse, I know she’s shy. But maybe she would consider coming on the podcast wearing a facemask like Dream lol Or GhostFace hahaha. She could wear a full costume if she wanted. And to make her feel a little more comfortable, the two of you could also wear fun masks/costumes as well! I see great things from this podcast; I’m an avid listener and so I want you guys to succeed. Good luck in 2023 and congratulations on achieving what you set out to do and more!