Chunking your goals down into measurable pieces is helpful. Sometimes a task or a goal seems so overwhelming as a whole that it will be impossible to attain. Asking yourself how much time can you devote to this goal each month, each week, and each day makes the task/goal seem manageable. The point is movement, just move and the rest will follow. It was a cloudy, cool fall day. Alex and I spent lunch time going back and forth about what we want to accomplish in the next 6-8 weeks. I realized that chunking my goals down into 2 months intervals keeps me accountable and I can breathe easier. I really pushed us to get everything down: What Else, and What Else…Let’s assign a date! How can we group projects? When do we NOT have any of the girls so we can maximize our time? Which goals get put to that free time?
Once our goals were down in front of me, I could map it out better. Usually I do use a mind map, but today we really just needed to d
o the basics. When it is time to tackle the problem, we will revisit and expand our map. Yesterday, I mentioned that it was difficult to assign dates to future endeavors. This was one reason I kept my plan to 2 months. If I had an empty day, I wanted to fill it, making my brainstorming a bit easier. I can’t imagine at this point mapping out a whole year of goals. That is an on going process that can be rolled into your goals: each day write a bigger goal, details and a date. Right now we need to just move and maintain momentum. This is my potion of our goals. I wrote out Alex’s and my goal list into a word document by month, then separated the goals by week, then by day. Printing it and looking at it each day will help keep the focus.
One week of the challenge done…