SETTING 2021 INTENTIONS, NOT JUST GOALS

Dec 29

I am currently sitting down at the end of 2020 to reflect on this past year and thinking how the year has seemed to fly by. I feel like we were just celebrating New Years… yes, I am very proud of this year, very happy to have made it through this horrible year, and very grateful for the health of my family + friends. I still have a feeling that I did not do enough + I think a lot of people are feeling this way.

I would like to reflect on this year and the highlights, here are some of the things I am grateful for from 2020:

The 150 amazing clients I worked with this year
The time spentwith family during quarantine
My new doggo Sadie and all the happiness she brings into our lives
The copious time my partner and I had together while in our apartment in NYC
I cultivated a good meditation practice that I plan to continue in 2021
Our new president and the progress made in the country -- still a long way to go here
All the books read and podcasts discovered

I learned, I grew, and I did my best. That is what matters.

Now, looking forward -- I want to set myself up for success during the next year. In 2021 I am committing to setting intentions, not just goals. I am setting intentions for the whole year and along with quarterly focuses.

My intentional statement for 2021 is:

Live with intention. Find Balance

Listen hard. Practice wellness.

Choose with no regret.

Continue to learn.

Appreciate your people.

Do what you love and live as if

this is all there is.

For goals, I plan on setting goals in the following categories: mind, body, soul, business, and finance. For mind, I focus on things like working through training courses, masterclass lessons, reading, or other learning activities. For body, I set goals related to working out, stretching, drinking more water, and nutrition. For soul, I set donation + community service goals, journaling, mediation, yoga, and relationships. Then business and financal are straightforward, all the biz things.

I set all of these as SMART goals, so they have a set deadline. SMART stands for:

Specific (simple, sensible, significant).

Measurable (meaningful, motivating).

Achievable (agreed, attainable).

Relevant (reasonable, realistic, and resourced, results-based).

Time-bound (time-based, time-limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).

Next, I created an action plan to stick with these intentions and goals by breaking up the larger goals into smaller bits. This is where weekly or monthly goals come into play. These quarterly goals are broke up into chunks that are not so scary.

Lastly, the hardest part, sticking with it -- goal setting is an ongoing activity, not just a means to an end. I am setting reminders in my calendar to keep on track and make regular time-slots available to review my goals. During this time I also plan to check-in on the relevance, value, and necessity of my goal. If I learned anything from this year, it is to check my priorities and balance.

Here is a FREE worksheet to work through your quarter one goals!