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When we set a goal, most of us never follow through on it, let alone achieve it. Failing our goals is so common that New Year’s resolutions are almost seen as a joke: “Let’s see if I can stick to this one – bad track record so far, haha”. Despite
Habits are the key to automating your goals. When I set goals with coaching clients, we turn each of them into 1–3 tiny habits. Habits are the HOW that will get us to the end result the client wants. The beauty of habits is that once they’re established, they require
As I’m tyipng this early in the morning, I have a cup of strong black tea to my right and a bowl of cream puffs to my left. My desk looks like it’s just another ordinary day (minus the cream puffs, maybe), but if you were to look behind me
Goals usually fizzle out. By the end of the year, we don’t even remember them. What were your goals for 2017? I’ve never really had set goals and when I did, I didn’t know what to do with them once they were written down. The problem with goals is not
In the thrill of starting a new year and the dutiful goal setting that can come with it, it’s easy to reach for things that are entirely absent in our lives right now: Big beautiful resolutions are fun and they make us dream of possibility. And while we’re all excited
If you are in your twenties or find yourself in some other form of confusion you might be pondering the question of who you want to be. It doesn’t have to be a drastic feeling of “I need to change EVERYTHING about my life”, it might just be realizing that
I’ve had this thought recently how every big change, any big vision we have for the person we want to be is really all about building habits. So for example, if I want to be a strong, fit person, then I need to work out in some form regularly. I would argue
I used to feel this glaring gap between where I was and where I wanted to be with my life. When we discover the self-improvement track, I guess we all start out with some sort of vision board and a determination to “create your ideal life”. All over sudden you realize that you really do have
Let’s say you want to move in with your boyfriend. You’re on a budget and maybe you have a dog too. Your options are limited, or so it seems. Having a home is really important to you, and you’d love for it to be cozy and maybe have hardwood floors.
