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3-Steps that can help you achieve your goals and how I used them to make an award-winning short film.

Mark Hampton
7 min readJun 8, 2023
Photo: Julian Peters

I believe in setting huge goals. Goals that others might see as unattainable or at least unrealistic. And I strongly believe in designing your own future — visualizing the life you want, the house you live in, the way you spend your time. It’s powerful. In the moments when you’re repeating your huge goal, manifesting it through positive reinforcement and imagining already having it, you can actually feel like you’ve achieved it and in that moment, you’re unstoppable.

But when you’re trying to balance your current life and your imagined future life one of the biggest issues with huge goals is how to decide what actions will get you there. What actual steps will move you closer to your goal? This is especially hard when your current life only gives you small packages of time to execute those steps.

If you have a job, kids, caring responsibilities or other dependents, those slices of time become super-valuable.

You’re desperate to avoid wasting time doing the wrong thing, but working out how to use your time can lead to overwhelm — so you do nothing.

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Mark Hampton

Award-winning actor & filmmaker. Movie-lover. Future Oscar winner. Aggressive fantasist. http://www.imdb.me/markhampton