Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to put your goals where you can see them.
Speaker 1: If you want to stick with your goals, it will
Speaker 1: be helpful not to forget your goals, so do what
Speaker 1: you can to make that less of a possibility. Every year,
Speaker 1: on my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds, we do
Speaker 1: an annual goals episode. We share our goals for the
Speaker 1: upcoming year and what we will do to make them happen.
Speaker 1: We also do a midyear check in, and then we
Speaker 1: do a year in review episode that we tend to
Speaker 1: record in late November. The upside of this is that
Speaker 1: I wind up checking in on my goals multiple times
Speaker 1: per year. I remind myself of what they were, and
Speaker 1: then I see how I am doing on them. Some
Speaker 1: of them are daily practices, so I kind of know
Speaker 1: whether I'm doing them or not, but some are more
Speaker 1: nebulous or take longer to do, and so the reminder
Speaker 1: is really helpful. Of Course, as I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 1: I realized that two to three times per year isn't
Speaker 1: really all that often. It might be helpful to be
Speaker 1: reminded even more frequently to that end. If you've got
Speaker 1: goals for the year, too, it might be helpful to
Speaker 1: put them somewhere that you will see them. This doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be fancy. You could write them on a
Speaker 1: sheet of paper and tape that paper to the wall
Speaker 1: in your home office. You could write them at the
Speaker 1: start of your planner and then copy them onto the
Speaker 1: monthly page for each new month. If they are concise enough,
Speaker 1: you could put them on a sticky note and put
Speaker 1: the note on your bathroom mirror. You could make your
Speaker 1: goals the home screen, on your lap top or your smartphone.
Speaker 1: In the excitement of January, we often think we will
Speaker 1: remember exactly what we want to do in the new year.
Speaker 1: But life will get busy, things will happen, maybe there
Speaker 1: will be big life changes, and we'll forget about something
Speaker 1: more vague, like going to a sporting event when the
Speaker 1: season doesn't start until fall. Then come the new year,
Speaker 1: you may have a vague feeling like there was something
Speaker 1: you wanted to do, or you might forget it completely.
Speaker 1: If you want to stick with the plan, you need
Speaker 1: to remind yourself of the plan. So if you have
Speaker 1: goals for the new year, go ahead and put them
Speaker 1: somewhere visible. I wrote them on a page in a
Speaker 1: pretty little notebook, and I will put a reminder on
Speaker 1: my calendar to look at that notebook at the start
Speaker 1: of each month. That will help remind me that I
Speaker 1: want to go to a Phillies game. Given that it
Speaker 1: is winter and the Phillies won't start playing for several months,
Speaker 1: I probably need the reminder. Your plans don't need to
Speaker 1: be carved on stone tablets. Goals can change many times
Speaker 1: they should. But if you don't do something ideally, it
Speaker 1: is because you decided not to do something, not just
Speaker 1: because you forgot putting your goals somewhere you can see them.
Speaker 1: Make sure it's the former and not the latter. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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