Day 6 of journaling every day! I usually like to journal in the morning, but today I didn't get a chance to until now. Still holding myself accountable and proud I got it done! So far this year, we’ve thought about our values, our ideal life, and what we are and aren’t willing to sacrifice in order to achieve our goals. I hope that this framing and scaffolding will make it easier to identify the goals that truly resonate with what is important to you and joyful for you. Over the next few days, my prompts will dive deeper into the specifics of our goals, why they matter to us, and what might stand in our way. Today though, I want to just list out all of our various goals. They might be repetitive or build on each other or utterly unrelated to each other. They could be big and momentous like buying a house or going back to school or they can be small and mundane like going grocery shopping or cleaning your kitchen later this week. So I was trying to find some citations in peer reviewed journals on whether writing down your goals is helpful or not and if it is, to what degree. I can find a lot of blog posts, linkedin articles, consultants, etc. that claim that it is and very little peer reviewed evidence, at least in my cursory search this evening. So, take the claim that writing down your goals will help you achieve them with a grain of salt. I figure it can’t hurt though. Take 5-15 minutes and write about Make a list of your goals (both big and small) My list is completely out of order and full of both big and small goals, some related to and building off of each other, some utterly unrelated. In the next few days, I am definitely going to go back to this list and structure it more, but for today, this gives me an idea of some of what I want to work on and think about this year. There is mixed evidence on whether or not sharing your goals is helpful or harmful. To summarize though, it really depends on whether the people you share them with are supportive and encouraging or not. I’d love to hear what your goals are this year! #timetosoar24 You can subscribe to my emailed prompts and read my reflections here: https://allthejoyfulthings.beehiiv.com/

Posted by laurawaltje at 2024-01-07 01:58:04 UTC