GOAL SETTING 2025! You "DO” List!
Look back—a year in review.
· What did you accomplish that you can feel good about?
· What did you aim for but missed, and what was in your way?
· What would you be passionate and excited about achieving in the coming year?
Visualize your life over the next year.
· Creating a vision board is an enlightening and enjoyable first step to goal setting.
Decide on goals you want to accomplish in 2025—be specific and write them down.
· Once you decide on goals, ask yourself if your life and career goals are in sync. Don’t sacrifice one for the other.
· Do your goals make you excited and eager or anxious and stressed? If it’s the latter, you may need to rethink the goals you decided on.
· Are your goals truly yours, or what do you think others want you to achieve?
Map out a strategy, stay focused, and track your progress. Take action.
· Make a list of the actions you need to take—daily, weekly, monthly.
· Incorporate weekly or monthly milestones to track your progress and keep you motivated.
· Keep your list where you can see it or incorporate it into your daily planner or bullet journal.
Surround yourself with people who will support and encourage you.
· Find your champions and cheerleaders.
· Minimize time with people that diminish you and your dreams.
Be flexible and prepared to make adjustments.
· Consider things that might derail your progress and try to avoid them. Be proactive.
· When encountering an obstacle or setback, simply regroup and begin where you left off.
*** Every month, look at your vision board to remind yourself what you’re aiming for.
*** Don’t focus on the end but on the incremental successes supporting your motivation. Celebrate small victories.