Welcome

Welcome to the 2021 edition of the Human Performance Project’s Goal Setting program. I’m your host, Tyrell Mara.

I am a former NCAA Division 1 Basketball captain & Track & Field National Discus champion, now turned corpoate executive and human performance coach. I’m passionate about my family, peak human performance, pursuing fulfillment and building world class teams.

But my true magnificent obsession?

Understanding the equation and ingredients that allow us to wake up everyday with an abundance of energy & purpose, clear about who we are and what fires us up in life and willing to embrace fear & adversity to chase our dreams.

Having gone through every goal setting process & exercise in the book over the last 25 years - I always come back to the same questions. What is the purpose here? Why do we go through this process? Where is the value?

And ultimately, I’ve come to realize...

The way we are taught to set GOALS is BROKEN.

What I see is goal setting being taught in isolation. A simple tool that facilitates the process of looking up on the horizon, defining a target direction and outcome in the future, and making a more firm commitment to striving towards this desird future state.

And while this is a valuable skillset to develop - it misses the bigger opportunity.

To continuously LEARN about ourseLves.

Afterall, how do you know the goal you’re setting in the future is what will actually see you thriving and fulfilled between here and there? What knowledge is this bet grounded upon? I hope you have thought about this before, because this bet, or goal, will determine where and how you invest your most precious resources

on this planet (time & energy) over the coming days, weeks, months, years, even decades.

And so, what we are about to go through together is not simply “goal-setting” - it is a deep inquiry into who you are, what you believe in and how to fully own your decisions when thinking about that investment of time, energy, focus and` attention for your future decisions and endeavors.

Orientation

I encrouage you to go through this process with a curious mind and open heart. My greatest hope is that this will help you find and peel back layers to yourself you did not know existed. Through your own personal inquiry you will uncover a new bedrock to the foundation of who you are, what you beleive in, and what you know as most important in life.

BECAUSE.

I believe ‘traditional’ goal-setting is only the very small capstone of entire process we must go through in order to learn, grow, and thrive in life. Through goal-setting we determine where we look on the horizon, which High Dive we choose to climb and Deep End we (hopefully) jump into.

But WHERE you look and WHY is the real work that needs to be done. The work that so many of us miss, neglect or don’t even know exists until it’s too late.