Why you’re going about your goals all wrong
And how to do it better
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Goals are not about motivation or tactics.
Happy Sunday, Soothers. One of my biggest focuses with clients and community is to help them set and achieve authentic goals (this is a huge part of my course that will open in December, an Introduction to Intentional Living). And in doing this over the past years, for them and for myself, I’ve learned a lot about achieving goals and what really matters when you do it.
I think like most things in life, we’re taught a method for achieving goals that works for a small percentage, and doesn’t work for most of us, and instead of thinking, “Huh, maybe there is something wrong with this approach,” we figure that we’re wrong, lazy, bad, we just don’t get it.
This is especially strong in setting goals. So here are some methods and myths I want to dispel for you…
