I will achieve my goals – clipboard from Decoylab
I’m sure you’re tired of resolution talk by now. For a few weeks at the beginning of each year, we beat ourselves to death with talk of change — and by February, we’re tired of working so damn hard on improving ourselves.
What if we just had a single goal?
I don’t mean a single goal like, “This year I’m going to lose twenty pounds, double my business income, travel at least three weeks of the year, go vegan, and be a better wife to my husband.”
Just because it fits into a single sentence doesn’t mean it’s a single goal!
I mean, what if you just had a single goal for the entire year? Just one.
And then, you can measure each day by whether you got further or closer to your goal. If your goal is to lose twenty pounds and you worked out, you’ve had a successful day. Regardless of whether the toilet is clean or the dinner is cooked or the kids have started enjoying their etiquette lessons at the dinner table.
My single goal for this year is to run a half marathon.
Currently, I can run a pretty solid 5k. (Okay, you caught me — I have run a single 5k in my life.) But I want to focus on this one goal, so any day that I’ve worked out is a success. Period.
I’ve got a training schedule, I’ve got friends to run with me, and I’m on my way to running 13.1 miles in Pittsburgh this May. (And if I don’t make it, there are plenty of Fall options that look appealing.)
This single goal makes my year so much simpler, and I’m so much happier as a result! Instead of measuring myself against five measuring sticks — weight loss, business, travel, vegan, wife — there’s just one. Fitness.
If this strikes you as a decent way of living in 2013, go ahead and join me.
Tell me your one — single, uno — goal for this year, and let’s get to meeting it.
Kristen Kalp — Brand Camp
Kristen Kalp is a (ghost)writer who believes people should have fun being in business. She blogs at Brand Camp for like-minded folks.
I would say my one goal this year is to ….. Enjoy !
Enjoy life a little more, enjoy my family a little more, enjoy each day a little more……
The past couple years have been very stressful, lot’s to do, lot’s to accomplish, lot’s accomplised !
But, somehow the part of enjoying it all has been a little lost…. so that is truly my one wish/goal for this year.
To Enjoy this year !
I like this idea of one goal. After last month though, I chose one word of intention instead. At the end of each day, I check in to see if I have done anything towards improving my health or learned anything about my health. I think this will lead to mini goals throughout the year.
@Virginie I love your goal to Enjoy! I am right there with you!
My one goal for this year is to try something new each month, which you can read about here: http://christinadesignsart.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/make-something-365-or-a-year-of-something-new/
Love this idea going to start asap
My one goal is to….do more stuff for me! I spend so much time doing for everyone else, (kid, hubby, dogs, work, business, family, friends, church…) by the end of the year I felt lost in the shuffle. So if I take a nap, read a book, relax in front of the tv, go for a walk, sew something just for me, redecorate the corner of the living room cause I just feel like it, then bingo! I win!