How to not f*** up your goals!
As promised I have reviewed some research about how to set obtainable goals and actually reach them. January always gets me riled up both at work and personally to set goals to work on for the year.
Since becoming a mom a couple years ago, I have really focused in on this path of “finding myself” in hopes it will help me to be the best mom I can possibly be for my son. I’m hoping to break generational repeats of f***ing people up.
At the end of 2021 I set measurable goals, as mentioned in my last post, to work toward this year, at work. I’ve been brainstorming my personal goals but haven’t committed or manifested on any yet (more on manifesting in a later post!!). SO I wanted to set myself (and tumblr world) up for success this year in setting our personal goals for 2022.
First off, according to some older research Schneiderman (1988), we should have very specific goals with timelines and measurable objectives that we can meet along the way that help us reach our ultimate goal.
Secondly, it helps if we make a plan for obstacles we expect to hit while trying to reach the goal! We should label any consequences we expect from reaching the goal. Reminder: Consequences can be good and bad, the actual definition of consequences are just actions that happen after something occurs (double click on the heart if you are a behavior analyst and love that I just touched on this LOL).
Before we can meet the above mentioned specificity of our goals; how do we pick and narrow down our goals??!!
I found Michael Hyatt’s book, “Your Best Year Ever”, where he declares that there are 10 parts of life that make our lives whole. I will present those below. If you are looking for ideas for goals or where to start maybe selecting from one of these categories (or a few) to focus on for 2022??? That’s my game plan!!
spiritual: your connection to god
intellectual: your engagement with significant ideas
emotional: your psychological health
physical: your bodily health
marital: your spouse of significant other
parental: your children if you have any
social: your friends and associates
vocational: your profession
avocational: our hobbies and pastime
financial: your personal and family finances
If you are STILL READING AND HERE WITH ME let’s set our goals!!!!!
My Goals for 2022:
1. Explore my writing (measurable objectives will include: write at least 3 posts monthly on my blog and read one book/masterpiece every 6 weeks (because reading=good writing).
2. Work on my manifestations (measurable objectives will include: decide on which manifestations I will say to myself every night before I fall asleep and actually do it each night, tell myself what I am grateful for each morning.)
3. Professionally develop my leadership skills (measurable objectives will include: reading leadership resources, find a couple leaders to follow on social media, listen to a leadership podcast once per month during my commute).
4. Work on my physical health (measurable objectives will include: do any form of activity that requires my body to move 3 times per week, try to eat at least one vegetable almost every day- hopefully this will help my son eat more veggies too!!).
There you have it folks! Hopefully this post helped you out- if so, list your goals below we can keep each other pumped up and motivated to do this in 2022 !!!!
Hope you stick around!
FakeRedSauce