Even though checking up on your goals is ideal to practice on a regular basis; the new year is a great time to take a step back and look at your life and ask yourself if you’re getting the most out of it. Personally, the phrase “new year, new me” doesn’t really sit well. You’re the same person you were in the year before. However, you can have better intentions moving forward!
Categories of Life
7 basic categories in your life that most everything breaks down into:
- Health and wellness
This category covers your physical and mental health. How are you taking care of yourself and how good of a job are you doing? - Finance
This is your money #duh. Are you able to pay for everything you need, hitting savings goals, paying down your loans on a good schedule or looking for investments? - Spirituality
Do you believe in a higher power or karma or maybe rock n’ roll, how satisfied are you? - Relationships
Taking a look at relationships with family, friends and romance. What does the quality of that look like in your day to day life - Physical environment
This includes your home and other places you spend a lot of time. Maybe that’s your home but maybe it’s your car or your office,. Think about where you spend your time. Does it have everything you need? Or maybe needs a purge or a fresh coat of paint? - Career or Education
Working on something you’re passionate about and love to do that doesn’t feel like work is the dream. Are you doing something fulfilling? Or do you have strides you need to take to get there? - Recreation
What do you do for fun? This could be a hobby or sport or something you do to relax.
Ranking Categories of Life
Now that you’ve had a look at all the areas of your life, it’s time to decide which ones are you satisfied in and which ones you would like to see some growth or changes in. Without over thinking it, rank these areas on a 1-10 sale with 1 being bottom of the barrel; things are not good, and 10 being things here are great and you’re very happy with it.
The areas with lower scores could use some extra attention in the new year. Maybe there are multiple goals you could look at in this area or one big one. It’s up to you!
Achievable Goals
For your goals to be achievable you need to have specificity and measurability over time. For simplicity sake, let’s use what feels like a fairly common goal: I want to make more money.
If we take a closer look at “I want to make more money”, there is nothing specific about it. There is no duration, no amount and no plan to make it happen. Without that, how do you actually know if you hit that goal or not. Say you got a $50 bonus check from your boss. Did that just fulfill your resolution of making more money? Maybe, but probably not.
An achievable goal would say, “in the year 2021 (or whenever you’re reading this) I want to make $5,000 more than last year by furthering my education and getting a raise at work”.
This statement has all the criteria you need, duration: in the year 2021, specificity/measurability: I want to make $5,000 more than last year, plan: by furthering my education and getting a raise at work.
Write it Down
The first, simple thing you can do to start your goals is to write them down! This sounds too easy but truly, putting them out into the universe and making it concrete so they aren’t just floating around in your head really helps. Not only that but you are able to look back to see if you’re actually following through. And you can have the satisfaction of checking it off once you have reached that goal!
Reminder
Something that could get a little out of hand would be if you’re creating huge, life changing goals in every area of your life. Certainly you can do that, and who would I be to stop you? But really, you might be setting yourself up for failure if there is too much you’re striving for. Have you heard the saying “rank your top 5 values, now you can only pick the top 3”. We’re not super human, so be realistic about your time and resources. But make them challenging enough that you have to work towards greatness.
Also, don’t beat yourself up if your goal was $5,000 and you only really made $4,500. That is still improvement and you have time to grow. Remember, slow progress is better than no progress!
Examples of Goals for the New Year:
- Health and wellness:
- Workout in the mornings before work at least 4 days per week, track on a calendar
- Take a self defense class with a friend (COVID-19 Depending)
- Finance:
- Hit a personal set benchmark on auto loan and student loan
- Hit a personal set benchmark in savings account
- Spirituality:
- Practice a mindfulness meditation in the morning before work at least 4 times / week track on a calendar
- Relationships:
- Call, text or see (as COVID-19 permits) family / friends at least 1 time per week
- Physical Environment
- Make the bed everyday this year before I leave the room
- Career / Education
- Become NCIDQ certified by taking the IDPX and PRAC exams and passing!
- Post on The Michaela Method and related social media accounts at least 2 times / month
- Recreation
- Read 30 books this year, track on goodreads.com
- Draw 3 frameable artworks
Notice that each goal is specific enough that I will be able to tell if it has been done it or not. Unlike, “Drink more water.” which would be vague and difficult to track how much would even be beneficial. Also, they are challenging enough to keep me busy without completely crushing all hopes of them being achievable.
What stands out for you in this post? Do you have any specific goals you’re trying to reach? Or do you want to talk to me about how to set your goals up for success for the new year?
Let me know in the comments below, I’d love to hear from you!
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