Are Your Goals on Track for the Year?

I have an important question for you: How are your goals going for the year so far? Are your goals on track for the year?

Are you on track with your milestones and targets? Do you feel in control when it comes to achieving your goals, or are you feeling overwhelmed?

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Here are some things to consider when it comes to working out if your goals are on track for the year.

Monthly goals

If your first thought was – what monthly goals? – well, there’s your problem right there.

Hopefully you set yourself goals for the year. I’m also hoping you wrote them down. If you haven’t, I highly recommend you write them down.

But did you take the next step? Did you break your big kick-ass goals down into monthly tasks? Did you know exactly what you had to get done each month to reach your yearly goal? If you didn’t, now is the time to do the work, put on your thinking cap, and get those goals sorted.

Stop reading this right now (make sure you come back though!) and write down your monthly goals.

If you don’t have time right now to work out your goals for a full year, start small and write down your goals for this month.

A book that can help you with your goals is All It Takes Is A Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and Tap into Your Massive Potential by Jon Acuff.

Take a deep breath and de-stress

If, like me, you wrote down your monthly goals and yet for reasons out of your control they didn’t happen, it’s time to take a deep, long breath in and out.

It’s time to chill out, take a step back, and realize that stressing about what you haven’t achieved yet doesn’t help you.

Stressing out about what you haven’t done yet will only make you feel anxious, and too much anxiety and overwhelm could kill your goals completely.

Try not to beat yourself up about what you haven’t achieved yet.

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Make a new plan

Before I wrote this post, I had a clear set of goals I wanted to achieve. I had big plans for this blog. I had it all worked out. I knew exactly what I wanted and how I was going to achieve it.

I sat down one morning filled with enthusiasm and inspiration. I was ready. I was pumped.  I was up for the challenge! As I went to touch the keyboard, my phone rang.

It was a family member calling with terrible news. My stepdad had passed away overnight. I went into a spiral of shock and grief.

It goes without saying I suddenly had other priorities that were much more important.

Sometimes we have no other choice but to set our plans aside temporarily while we deal with whatever life throws at us. The important thing is that we eventually get back to our goals and get back on track.

I need to point out that if you do suffer a big loss or go through a traumatic event, your goals may dramatically change.

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The truth about goals

I am starting to understand something important. Achieving goals isn’t about life being perfect or stable so that we can get things done. It’s not about the right time or having enough time.

Achieving our goals is about getting the important stuff done amid all the everyday chaos that is life.

Life can be chaotic. Achieving our goals despite everything that is going on is hard. That’s what makes it so special when our plans and dreams come to fruition.

To those of you who have achieved your monthly goals to date, congratulations! I’m proud of you, and you should be immensely proud of yourself as well. Keep up the great work!

What’s your big goal for this month? Are your goals on track for the year?

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