Write down your Goals!

Question: When is the last time you sat down and gave yourself a good 30 minutes to write down your goals?

Follow-up Question: If you did write down your goals, how big were they?

Alex and I wrote down our top ten goals for our lives last September and I’m happy to say that we’ve already marked off a few of our big milestones! Of course these goals are forever-changing and always being altering themselves a little bit, but it’s the actions towards achieving the goals that matter.

Right now, making goals is kind of redundant because we’re all still on standby with life at the moment BUT regardless of this next year or current job/industry situations, I know there are some things in life you want to accomplish- need to accomplish no matter what.

I urge you to spend some time and think about where you’re at in your life, relationship, and self-health. Picture your life 6 months from now, and then 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. What are you doing and who are you surrounding yourself with?

The only way to know what you want is to think about what you want. Writing goals down by hand is one of the best methods for keeping them in your thoughts constantly because it is much more visceral than typing them in your phone notes. Some people even suggest writing your top ten goals down every morning before you start your day. I prefer to write them all in a list once and then choose a few to work toward and transfer them over to my planner with 2 or 3 goals a month to focus on, not to necessarily achieve in a month. It’s the baby steps that count, especially since these goals are big, they need more work and effort than just a one-time task.

By adding all of the small tasks together that you take action on each day, you’ll be rewarded with the success of achieving a large goal. We’ll call these “life goals”.

I should be receiving my Push Journal any day now! In this journal, I’ll be able to layout my “push goals” which are the tiny goals that push me toward my big goal. So if my big goal is to pay off my car one year early, then my push goals could be transferring extra bits of money to my credit union account as I save money on groceries/discounts, or putting away 20% of my weekly net income to pay extra toward my car, or selling things in my apartment that I no longer need whether it be clothing, decor, or random unnecessary items. The Push Journal also has a health/habit page, gratitude section, daily schedule and is made in a 30-day books that don’t have specific dates so if you decide Sunday is your rest day, then you won’t waste a page. This weekend, there’s a deal for 25% off- so if you’re interested and want to know more, click here.

But really, having any kind of journal is beneficial and life-changing. At night before bed, I use a little $3 notebook from Target just to write in my sleep hours, exercise, meditation, and 5 memories from that day to savor. Tracking is the best way to improve and stay accountable for yourself AND I get to feel that sense of accomplishment again when I actually write down what I did each day. And years from now, I can look back and relive those moments that may otherwise have been forgotten with all of my other little memories.

I also use my planner daily to write down my tasks and schedule for the week/month just to have a timeline. This was major during the quarantine because there were days I felt like I accomplished nothing, and since I’m unable to fire my pottery right now, I’ve had this sense of feeling as if I haven’t actually finished anything because I haven’t! BUT I am halfway through the process of clay with only firings and glazing left to do.

Being able to go back and look through my planner at the several months leading up to now, I’m able to physically see the goals I’m working toward because I have them written down!

So now, do you think you would benefit from writing down your ten big goals? And how big should they be? That’s a blogger question for another day.

Talk to you soon!

Britni