For instance, my children’s book is something I never thought I would do. The exploration during the journey was almost even better than accomplishing each of these goals. Wish me luck.Įach year, my impossible goal has opened a new world for me. 2019: Write a nonfiction book, which I will publish in 2020.Alicia and Bunnie Paint a Mural will be published in early 2019 in English and Spanish. In the final months of the year, I hired an illustrator, and the book is now finished. I wrote three different stories until I was finally satisfied. I had a hard time getting it off the ground, but with the help of my peer coaching group, I launched it in September 2017. If I hadn’t set the goal to read 50 books, I would have never been able to change my habits. I combined contemporary books with some of the classics, and I have continued reading 50 books or more a year. I’ve been setting and completing impossible goals for myself since 2016: If you don’t seize the moment, time will keep on moving, and you might never try. Impossible goals help you reach higher for something new and which otherwise might never happen. Set an impossible goal for yourself: do something you have never done before. I also have reminders for the different actions I defined for myself, which help me ensure I am working on the goals during the year. A tactic that has worked for me is setting reminders for myself throughout the year that prompt me to review my goals and see how I’m doing. Deadlines make you more accountable and will make it more likely to reach all your goals.Ī key component is then making sure these milestones and actions are present in your everyday schedule or planner. Divide the year into quarters and months, if necessary, and define what milestones need to be accomplished at different points of the year. Work backward from the result, and see what actions you need to take to get there. Make a Planįrom here, you can plan your year to ensure you will reach your goals. Even if an intention is to be kinder or more spontaneous, how would that look? The goal could be to do one small, even invisible, act of kindness a day. When setting your goals, make sure they are measurable and attainable. The categories will help you create a more balanced future. You may find you are setting too many goals in one given class and not giving enough attention to another one. Separate your goals into categories: personal, work, health, and community. Where do you want to be? What have you accomplished? The future may not just include achievements, such as buying a home or getting a promotion the future you envision can also contain enhanced character traits, such as being kinder, or even lifestyle changes, like spending more time doing fun activities with your children. Where do you see yourself by the end of the year? The next step is to visualize the future and set your goals for the following year. Once you are ready, it is time to move on to creating goals for the next year. Give yourself ample time to review and analyze. Even if your year was one that you would rather forget, there is always something you can be thankful for within.
What can you appreciate from the prior year? What would you like to leave behind?Īre there patterns, relationships, or activities that have outgrown their usefulness? The transition from the prior year to the new year is an excellent time to release things that were maybe good for you in the past but are no longer relevant. Also, acknowledge how you grew and how you handled the events of the past year differently than you did in the past. Take a moment to review what worked and what didn’t work. All these events had an impact on you, and you may find underlying patterns or connections just from setting these down on paper. Sometimes we focus only on achievements and failures, but circumstances that were out of our control are also important to recognize. Include accomplishments as well as events that weren’t necessarily positive yet shaped you. Reflect, and list everything that happened during the last 12 months. Schedule a time in your calendar to sit in a quiet place and reflect on the previous year.
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