Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is about one way to make big goals
Speaker 1: seem less overwhelming. You can make elaborate plans, but sometimes
Speaker 1: you just want to start by starting. I've seen the
Speaker 1: advice to start by starting attributed to various people and
Speaker 1: collections of quotes on the internet, but whatever the original source,
Speaker 1: it's good counsel. All too often people invest a lot
Speaker 1: of time and energy developing elaborate plans, and there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with this. I love planning. Developing a thoughtful plan
Speaker 1: for making a change or reaching a goal can be smart.
Speaker 1: When I write books, I set many deadlines for chapter
Speaker 1: drafts and word count targets for each week. If I'm
Speaker 1: training for a race, as schedule in each week's workouts
Speaker 1: and backup slots for anything that has to happen. Trust me,
Speaker 1: I am not anti planning. However, I have noticed in
Speaker 1: life that sometimes we don't implement our plans or we
Speaker 1: abandon them because the idea of making a huge life
Speaker 1: change or doing something every day according to a formal
Speaker 1: schedule forever seems daunting. But the good news is that
Speaker 1: we don't always need a universal lifelong solution. You can
Speaker 1: also just position yourself toward your destination and start walking.
Speaker 1: If you want to exercise more, you don't need to
Speaker 1: buy books on a thirty day Challenger, sign up for
Speaker 1: a ninety day boot camp. You don't even need to
Speaker 1: think about tomorrow. Instead, forget all the expectations of baggage
Speaker 1: and just try going for a walk after work today.
Speaker 1: Whatever happens in the rest of your life, that walk
Speaker 1: will be energizing, and tomorrow can deal with itself. If
Speaker 1: you want to build relationships with your neighbors and you
Speaker 1: know if they've made a standing invitation to join them
Speaker 1: for neighborhood drinks on Friday's, why not show up this Friday.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter if Friday is generally a good
Speaker 1: day for you or not, or if one of your
Speaker 1: kids is about to start an activity that will meet
Speaker 1: on future Fridays or whatever. If this Friday works, go
Speaker 1: see what happens. Some people really enjoy developing five year
Speaker 1: career plans, and it's not a bad idea to talk
Speaker 1: with your manager about your goals. But if you think
Speaker 1: you might like to be in management some day, You
Speaker 1: can also just read some books and articles on management
Speaker 1: and take notes on the major points. You start by
Speaker 1: starting and figure out the rest of the equation later
Speaker 1: as you look ahead to the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: What are your hopes, who do you want to be?
Speaker 1: Rules around, what do you want your life to look like?
Speaker 1: In his book Atomic Habits, author James Clear rights, decide
Speaker 1: the type of person you want to be, and then
Speaker 1: he continues, prove it to yourself with small winds. Those
Speaker 1: small winds are the things like the walk after work today,
Speaker 1: the visit with your neighbors on this Friday, or reading
Speaker 1: a book on management. And yes, the steps are small,
Speaker 1: but there's something and that's almost always better than nothing.
Speaker 1: So start by starting and don't make it any more
Speaker 1: complicated than that. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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