Hello, lovelies!



Every year, at the end of December, I sit down and really think about the past year and the one that is ahead of me. I love planning and organizing, although I am not that good at sticking with my goal lists. It was so tricky and hard for me to follow my plans and lists and I always thought that I was simply lazy and unmotivated. After doing more research about this topic I realized that the problem wasn't in me, it was in my notes and how I wrote them down. I would usually just open up a random notebook, write my goals in it and toss it in a drawer to be never seen again. Or I would do something that most of us do and that is writing unspecific goals.

My lists roughly looked like this:
- Get fit
- Read more
- Experience more
- Try something new
- Be happy
- Go out more
- Drink more water
- Study more...
All of these are missing one word and that is - how?
How am I going to get fit? How can I read more? How? How? How?
That is something I never thought of. Or, I would simply leave my future self to deal with that stuff. Even the lists themselves don't visually look good.

Instead of just listing a few inspirational sentences one under the other, try to think how you can accomplish all those goals and how to keep yourself motivated throughout the whole year.
For example,
1. Don't write "Get fit" or "Lose weight" or anything similar. Make yourself a little challenge.
Write "exercise 2 - 3 times per week". Don't make something too hard, otherwise, you might give up sooner than you thought. Start slowly. When you finish the January challenge, start one for the February. Make February a bit harder, but not too extreme. You will get used to exercising and you will reach your goal by the end of the year. Just try it, you won't regret a thing!
2. Don't write "Experience more" or "Travel more", be specific! There is such a large field around these goals, I wouldn't even know where to start!
Write "Visit (name a specific city in a country you want to visit) in March" instead. It doesn't have to be March, it can be any other month, week, day, it just depends on how far away the city is or how you will financially cover that trip. Dream big, but be realistic with your dream.

Use the techniques above for everything you are writing down. I have already made an updated list of my goals for 2019. It is still in development and probably would need some changes here and there, but I am happy with how it turned out.


Hugss~