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Goals Progress Update to September 2023

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Goals Progress Update to September 2023

It’s important for me to write my goals progress updates not only keep me accountable, but also to be transparent about my progress and any success, as well as facing up to the challenges and disappointments that arise.

This particular update has indeed been a mixed bag with both successes and some disappointments where I haven’t progressed my goals as I would have liked.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
-Confucius

Since we are almost three quarters on the way through the year, with a little over three months left of 2023. That’s both a blessing and a curse.

It seems like there is so little time left in 2023 that it can feel compelling to want to give up at this point and wait until the start of 2024, but, in reality there are a full three months left of the year, which is ample time to turn around those goals that are in danger of failing. [Read more…] about Goals Progress Update to September 2023

Are Your Goals Ongoing or Projects?

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Are Your Goals Ongoing or Projects?

…and why it matters!

Do your goals feel like they’re never ending?  That no matter how much you do, you never seem to feel like you’ve succeeded?

I know that feeling.

As I was reviewing my goals recently, it suddenly occurred to me that nearly all of my goals are what I think of as “ongoing goals”. In other words, the need for improvement or maintenance of the goal will never end.

For me, ‘ongoing goals’ are the kind of goals that over time you would expect to become habits, like eating fruit every day, walking 3 miles ever day or perhaps learning 10 new words of a foreign language every day.  In other words, ongoing goals are goals that will just keep on going unless and until you call a halt to them.

While clearly, there will be times when I’ll consider the progress that I’ve made on these types of goals as sufficient or adequate at that point in my life, with some things, such as fitness, health etc, these will slip back without continued maintenance of some sort. [Read more…] about Are Your Goals Ongoing or Projects?

Half Year Goals Progress Update

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Half Year Goals Progress Update

I felt it was time to let you have a goals progress update!  Now that we are at the half-way point of the year, it feels like a good time to step back, reflect and maybe put in some plans for the rest of the year.

I often find that when I’m faced with doing a progress review that I feel some resistance to the task because it often feels like I haven’t made enough progress. And I guess that might be true (we’ll find out more below), but, if I don’t take the time to figure out where I’ve reached so far, I’m in danger of not achieving any of my goals by the end of the year!

So here we go, whether good or not so good, let’s find out what’s been going on. [Read more…] about Half Year Goals Progress Update