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So here we are at the end of January already. Wow!
I can’t actually believe how quickly this month has gone, although I know not everybody feels that way. Speaking to some they always say that January feels like a year!! I have to say I never feel like that because I’m so motivated at this time of year, I’m so driven and so focused on accomplishing my goals that I never have time to feel like that. The reason being is that I look at things in a slightly different way to many and for me it works. I appreciate it may not be like that for everyone but let me see if I can help you change your mindset around that.
Because I run a business which is centred heavily on planning and goal-setting it wouldn’t be right to not plan my year with military precision! This is a process I do slowly over December taking into account the many elements of my business and my life, because as a work from home mum, they tend to merge! Once the year is planned, I like to spend January laying the groundwork down for the year ahead, making sure that I’m setting all the wheels in motion for many of my goals.
So I wanted to ask you all, who remembers feeling all pumped up and excited and for 2022 (it wasn’t that long ago!). The clock struck midnight on December 31st 2021 and we all said, “that’s it! Today everything changes, enough eating badly, enough drinking, enough not exercising, enough doing a job I hate, enough enough enough!” You know what I mean right? You can relate can’t you? Whatever it was for you we probably all had those ‘enough’ type thoughts!
As it stands today at the beginning of February, I’d love to know if you still feel like that and you made some plans to change things and are sticking to them or if the feelings of drive and enthusiasm has left you long ago? Well, if that’s you please be assured you are not alone! In my line of work, I work with many entrepreneurs and individuals who always feel like that. They get super excited about January claiming this year is going to be different, this year is the one, this year I am going to achieve XYZ. However, I also find is that their resolutions have quite often been sent spiralling out of the window by January 14th. It’s so very .
Whilst I believe that that ‘new year new me’ and new years resolutions are a good thing (mainly because they refocus you and get you excited again), there is a part of me that feels that we might besetting ourselves up for disappointment by setting these so-called resolutions.
As I said setting resolutions is no bad thing at all, its the thing we all do, but I’d like to offer a different way of looking at things today. What about instead of resolutions and saying “my New Years resolution is to get fitter, my resolution is to make more money, my resolution is to decorate the whole house or my resolution is to have a better work life balance” why don’t we try a slightly different way?
What about if we altered our language and change the way that we look at things? How about getting intentional instead?What I mean by that is when we set these goals and resolutions they can sometimes feel so far away and so out of reach, that it puts us off and we give up way too easily. The end goal seems just so far away we then lose our enthusiasm. It becomes actually easier just to stay in the comfortable position we were in at the end of last year. But no growth ever came from staying comfortable! Fact!
By saying I intend to go to the gym twice a week (so I can get fitter), I intend to spend two evenings in the week and one day at the weekend tech free so I can focus purely on my family (for a better work life balance) or I intend to spend X amount of hours a week working on my business in order to increase my income (so I can build my business) or I intend to plan my meals weekly (so I can eat a more balanced diet), it suddenly doesn’t seem as daunting or out of reach. The goals are smaller, more achievable, but each intention repeated over time will see those goals actually being accomplished and ticked off (and who doesn’t love ticking things off!).
It’s about the language that we use and the story that we tell ourselves. It’s in our nature when something feels out of reach to want to give up because it feels a little bit too hard! We are creatures of habit and we don’t like hard! But that’s the beauty of goal-setting, when we actually break things down into smaller more manageable tasks, you realise that ‘hang on a moment’, if I chip away at this and do these small things often, I can actually do this! By getting intentional about each and every goal or task you realise they can be achieved!
And when you realise that, that is when the magic happens! And we get intentional about what we actually want and go out there and take intentional action, well let me tell you, you will be unstoppable! Let 2022 be the year you ditch the resolutions (I’m giving you permission here) and let’s get intentional instead! GO FOR IT!!
Read about Monique Sveinsson here
Find out more about the Perfect Planner Company here
So here we are at the end of January already. Wow!
I can’t actually believe how quickly this month has gone, although I know not everybody feels that way. Speaking to some they always say that January feels like a year!! I have to say I never feel like that because I’m so motivated at this time of year, I’m so driven and so focused on accomplishing my goals that I never have time to feel like that. The reason being is that I look at things in a slightly different way to many and for me it works. I appreciate it may not be like that for everyone but let me see if I can help you change your mindset around that.
Because I run a business which is centred heavily on planning and goal-setting it wouldn’t be right to not plan my year with military precision! This is a process I do slowly over December taking into account the many elements of my business and my life, because as a work from home mum, they tend to merge! Once the year is planned, I like to spend January laying the groundwork down for the year ahead, making sure that I’m setting all the wheels in motion for many of my goals.
So I wanted to ask you all, who remembers feeling all pumped up and excited and for 2022 (it wasn’t that long ago!). The clock struck midnight on December 31st 2021 and we all said, “that’s it! Today everything changes, enough eating badly, enough drinking, enough not exercising, enough doing a job I hate, enough enough enough!” You know what I mean right? You can relate can’t you? Whatever it was for you we probably all had those ‘enough’ type thoughts!
As it stands today at the beginning of February, I’d love to know if you still feel like that and you made some plans to change things and are sticking to them or if the feelings of drive and enthusiasm has left you long ago? Well, if that’s you please be assured you are not alone! In my line of work, I work with many entrepreneurs and individuals who always feel like that. They get super excited about January claiming this year is going to be different, this year is the one, this year I am going to achieve XYZ. However, I also find is that their resolutions have quite often been sent spiralling out of the window by January 14th. It’s so very .
Whilst I believe that that ‘new year new me’ and new years resolutions are a good thing (mainly because they refocus you and get you excited again), there is a part of me that feels that we might besetting ourselves up for disappointment by setting these so-called resolutions.
As I said setting resolutions is no bad thing at all, its the thing we all do, but I’d like to offer a different way of looking at things today. What about instead of resolutions and saying “my New Years resolution is to get fitter, my resolution is to make more money, my resolution is to decorate the whole house or my resolution is to have a better work life balance” why don’t we try a slightly different way?
What about if we altered our language and change the way that we look at things? How about getting intentional instead?What I mean by that is when we set these goals and resolutions they can sometimes feel so far away and so out of reach, that it puts us off and we give up way too easily. The end goal seems just so far away we then lose our enthusiasm. It becomes actually easier just to stay in the comfortable position we were in at the end of last year. But no growth ever came from staying comfortable! Fact!
By saying I intend to go to the gym twice a week (so I can get fitter), I intend to spend two evenings in the week and one day at the weekend tech free so I can focus purely on my family (for a better work life balance) or I intend to spend X amount of hours a week working on my business in order to increase my income (so I can build my business) or I intend to plan my meals weekly (so I can eat a more balanced diet), it suddenly doesn’t seem as daunting or out of reach. The goals are smaller, more achievable, but each intention repeated over time will see those goals actually being accomplished and ticked off (and who doesn’t love ticking things off!).
It’s about the language that we use and the story that we tell ourselves. It’s in our nature when something feels out of reach to want to give up because it feels a little bit too hard! We are creatures of habit and we don’t like hard! But that’s the beauty of goal-setting, when we actually break things down into smaller more manageable tasks, you realise that ‘hang on a moment’, if I chip away at this and do these small things often, I can actually do this! By getting intentional about each and every goal or task you realise they can be achieved!
And when you realise that, that is when the magic happens! And we get intentional about what we actually want and go out there and take intentional action, well let me tell you, you will be unstoppable! Let 2022 be the year you ditch the resolutions (I’m giving you permission here) and let’s get intentional instead! GO FOR IT!!
Read about Monique Sveinsson here
Find out more about the Perfect Planner Company here
