We’ve coached 25,000 Navy SEALs, athletes and Google employeeswhat makes them highly successful [Video]

The best performers in the world are not born excellent — they learn excellence. 

In our careers as a clinical and performance psychologist, and an executive coach who spent 16 years at Google, we’ve worked with more than 25,000 top business leaders, athletes, military operators, first responders, tech employees, and more.

We’ve found that the No. 1 thing these stars do to become the best is set big goals across six aspects of their lives:

1. Work: Your job and career
2. Relationships: Romantic partners, family, friends, and colleagues
3. Health: Exercise, nutrition, and other aspects of physical well-being
4. Spirituality: Belief and practice that there is something purposeful beyond our physical and mental selves (this can encompass religion, but nonreligious people have spirituality, too)
5. Hobbies: Things we do for fun, education, or community
6. Legacy: What you’ll leave behind

Here are three steps elite performers take to set and achieve their goals:

We give our clients …