A year of authentic intentionality can meaningfully transform the relationships in your life.
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If you are determined to read more in the new year, I’d suggest a flight of books.
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Do you have an ambitious goal for the coming year but don’t know where to find time to make progress on it in your already full calendar? The following calendar color coding exercise may be a good place to start.
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Many of us, including me, spend more time than we like on social media. If one of your goals for the new year is to waste less time on social media, here are some ideas for how to get started.
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When we’re tired, many of us reach for low-energy ways to pass our time. And often, those low-energy pastimes are doomscrolling on our phones or mindlessly watching TV. If you feel there may be better ways to spend that time with a little more intentionality, then having a list of low energy activities that maybe be more in line with your goals for the year would be handy.
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We’ve decided to make progress on a goal this year. Great! A decision has been made. But now what? How do we take ideas of our goals from theory to reality?
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Goals don’t have to be bummers. Goals often feel like they need to be difficult and activities we would prefer not to do. Objectives like exercise more, eat better, clean out the garage can feel like chores. If your goal list feels like a bunch of chores, consider infusing it with some joy.
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Sometimes setting ourselves up for success with our goals means changing some of our outcome goals to process goals.
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Once you’ve established your goals, what is your process for keeping your eyes on them? How do you make sure you don’t set and forget them?
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Many of us see goals as things we need to add to our lives – more exercise, more reading, more learning, more hobbies, more travel, more, more, more. However, sometimes the most needed goals are goals of subtraction.
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Readers of this blog may have noticed that I reference the Before Breakfast podcast with Laura Vanderkam quite often. Laura Vanderkam is a successful author, speaker, and podcaster who looks at time logs for successful professionals and analyzes how people actually spend their time. In a recent episode of her podcast, Laura said that, generally speaking, performing a habit three times a week is a habit in her opinion.
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Do you ever set goals that seem too big to start? If so, you may need to Swiss cheese the goal.
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On a recent episode of the Before Breakfast podcast, Laura Vanderkam was giving some tips on how to actually make your goals happen. Her first tip was to figure out if your goal is something you actually want to do.
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Do you have any of the following New Year’s resolutions?
Be more productive.
Get my to-do list in order.
Feel like I am controlling my email instead of it controlling me.
Finding time to live my best life.
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As we head into the last few days of the year, we want to send you our very best energy and wishes.
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We did it Focus to Evolve readers! We finished an entire year of no.
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The holidays are often a time for gathering. And in these gatherings, there may be people that we feel uncomfortable being around for one reason or another. If that discomfort grows to the point where we would rather not be around that person at all, but we still value that relationship, then perhaps it’s time to say no to that dynamic and have a conversation about the unease.
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Has the holiday season gone from fun and joyful to chaotic and stressful in your family? If so, give this exercise a try…
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Happy Thanksgiving Week Focus to Evolve blog readers!
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Making no a routine can make it easier to utilize the word. We can make no a routine by identifying the points of pain in our lives and making a rule to avoid those pains.
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