Today is day thirteen of the new year and I am thirteen for thirteen on reaching my goal. Let me tell you, that's crazy. To be completely honest, I suck at reaching goals. Like 0% success rate kind of suck. I kid you not every year in elementary school my goal would be 'read nonfiction.' And guess who never read nonfiction in elementary school. Me. And now all of a sudden 2017 has a 100% success rate. Yeah, it's only been thirteen days, but that's twelve days more than I've ever been able to do before. Maybe that's not that impressive, but just roll with it and let me tell you how I did it. MotivateIf you don't really truly believe in something, there's no way you're going to stay motivated. I've noticed that I only lack motivation when I'm trying to do something I don't actually want to do or don't see as necessary. This is why it is so important to be mindful and selective with your goals, making sure each and every one of them is important to you and necessary to your success. Set ReaSonable GoalsIntitally it feels good to set large goals. Spending three hours a day doing yoga, eliminating sugar, waking up at six o'clock every morning, and getting perfect grades are a few things I'd like to achieve. But these goals aren't realistic. Maybe I'd meet my daily goal once, and feel great, but when I didn't meet a goal, and if I'm consistently not meeting a goal, I'd be likely to give up and feel like I can't accomplish anything. Your goal must be something that you want to accomplish, but also something that you can accomplish. Otherwise it's worthless. The goal must also be specific. "Work on my fitness" is vague. You could exercise for ten minutes the whole year and count it as "working on your fitness." If you really want to work on your fitness, set a specific goal. Maybe "once a week I'll go to the gym for an hour." Pace YourSelfYou aren't going to build thirty new habits in a month. There just isn't time in a day and with too many goals you can't focus on the ones that are most important. This year I plan to set one goal a month. That way I can completely focus on completing just one task a day, and acclimate to doing new things habitually. Each new month I will keep the old goal, and add a new one. A month should give me enough time to get used to accomplishing the goal, and by the time the new month and new goal come around, the former goals won't take attention away from the new one. I'm going to start with simple goals, and progressively move towards more difficult ones. My GoalsJanuary: eat breakfast
Febuary: drink eight glasses of water March: exercise for fifteen minutes April: go to bed by 10:30 May: read for fifteen minutes June: meditate for ten minutes July: wake up at 7:30 August: learn to cook fifteen simple meals September: miracle morning October: no chips, no ice cream November: do fifteen simple DIYs December: journal every day
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H E L L OI'm a college freshman at the University of Iowa, a Kappa Alpha Theta, and a philosophy major. I'm in love with holidays, sparkles, black clothes, J. Crew, and anything white. ArchivesCategories |