Kevin Guest, Chairman & CEO of USANA Health Sciences and author of All the Right Reasons, appeared on The Daily Flash show on Jan. 12, 2023. In the interview, he outlined a seven-step roadmap to successful goal setting. Doing so helps you create a personal success plan.
“It all begins with loving yourself,” Guest says. “If you do, you’ll have a much better chance at accomplishing your goals. I think love is a very, very powerful tool in achieving our goals. It starts with us individually and sometimes we forget about that.”
🎥 Watch the full interview on The Daily Flash YouTube channel.
A Seven-Step Goal-Setting Roadmap
The start of a new year is the perfect opportunity to create a personal success plan. To help others create such a plan, Guest outlines seven steps one should take:
Defining your goals
Breaking them down
Taking action
Staying motivated
Going all in
Loving yourself
Celebrating wins
Daily Flash: Additional Information
Previously, Kevin Guest appeared on The Daily Flash show in November 2021. In that appearance, he talked about principles contained within All the Right Reasons book. Daily Flash is a nationally distributed news and entertainment program. Its hosts aim to inform and entertain while helping viewers jumpstart their day.
https://www.kevinguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kevin-Guest-Logo-White.svg00Tim Haranhttps://www.kevinguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kevin-Guest-Logo-White.svgTim Haran2023-01-13 09:00:072025-10-03 16:06:56The Daily Flash: A Roadmap for Successful Goal-Setting
To kickstart the year, I’m encouraging others to start something during January’s National Rising Star Month.
In All the Right Reasons: 12 Timeless Principles for Living a Life in Harmony, I share lessons describing how taking risks and starting a worthy habit can elevate a person to success in personal and professional efforts.
Accepting the challenge to start something—new or old—is invigorating and a bit scary because it gets us out of our comfort zone and focused on new discoveries. Starting a habit earnestly helps us discover inner strength and brings untold rewards.
January is an ideal time to start something new because it is National Rising Star Month, which encourages all individuals to step up and share their talents.
From my experience, everyone has talents to share, even those who feel hopeless or invisible. When they reveal those, the benefits are immeasurable.
Start Something to Unlock 5 Key Rewards
Beyond energizing one’s days with purpose, starting a new habit brings five key rewards:
Increased self-confidence
Beneficial physical changes
Positive thought patterns
An improved ability to handle stress
A firmer resolve to live according to one’s core values
When I’m true to my values, my life is in harmony and an inner balance strengthens me to face challenges. When I’m inconsistent with what I know is right for me, I’m living a life in dissonance, and nothing good happens.
In one inspiring story in my book, I introduce readers to Rwandan Immaculee Ilibagiza. I call it the Cardboard Keyboard principle. After Rwanda’s genocide in 1994, Hutu fighters hunted Ilibagiza, who fled for protection. Even with soldiers outside her window taunting and calling her name, Ilibagiza stayed positive, was rescued, traveled to Rwanda’s capital, and applied for a United Nations job for weeks with no luck.
Telling herself she could master English, which would improve employment opportunities, Immaculee drew a computer keyboard on a cardboard scrap and spent hours learning how to type. With determination to learn English, countless attempts to get that job, and positive self-talk, she was eventually hired.
Watch The Cardboard Keyboard principle on my YouTube channel
That level of persistence and positive self-talk has the power to carry us to higher ground and plow through any obstacle. Immaculee never told herself she couldn’t do it, even though everything she had to learn was difficult.
To inspire others to start something now, risk can produce great rewards. The only strategy guaranteed to fail is to not take risks. Taking a risk—a leap of faith—is an essential part of progress.
I shared these thoughts and more in a news release that went out on Jan. 3, 2023, in honor of National Rising Star Month. All the Right Reasons: 12 Timeless Principles for Living a Life in Harmony is available on Amazon. All proceeds feed hungry children, with each book purchase providing 40 meals.
https://www.kevinguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kevin-Guest-Logo-White.svg00Kevin Guesthttps://www.kevinguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kevin-Guest-Logo-White.svgKevin Guest2023-01-09 07:00:052023-12-16 11:05:19Start Something in the New Year
We’re well into what I consider to be the most wonderful time of the year. The holiday season provides an opportunity to gather with loved ones, give back to our communities, and truly appreciate the blessings in our lives.
Yet, for so many, the holidays also present countless opportunities for added stress and discomfort. As I’ve written before, I strongly believe that it’s critical for each of us to implement a self-care routine that helps us stay balanced all year long.
For me, I’m focused on living in the moment and, whenever possible, exuding positive energy.
As I mentioned during USANA’s 30th Anniversary Global Convention in August, together we can bring a positive change in the world and those around us.
It’s all about putting ourselves in the right mindset. As we wrap up another year, let’s try to push out the bad and direct all our energy to that which is good, especially during the holidays.
If we open our minds to see what’s possible, rather than dwell on obstacles, we can expand our belief and confidence in who we are and what we can be.
Above all, I wish you peace and joy during this special time of year.
https://www.kevinguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kevin-Guest-Logo-White.svg00Kevin Guesthttps://www.kevinguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kevin-Guest-Logo-White.svgKevin Guest2022-12-23 10:06:412022-12-23 10:06:41Mindset Shift: Bring a Positive Change to the World
The start of a new year is the perfect opportunity to create a personal success plan. To help others create such a plan, Guest outlines seven steps one should take:
