2020 GOAL SETTING, Part 3: The Intentional Goal Setting Checklist
Welcome to the 9th annual Intentional Goal Setting Series! Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 to get you started living your best year!
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Let’s dig in!
Remember how you felt when you started this series just a few posts ago? Many of you expressed feeling equal parts nervous and excited!
What would you uncover in this process? Would it be hard? Would you be able to follow-through? Would you be adding to your plate instead of simplifying things?
But, you felt the fear and dove in anyway. You stepped outside of your comfort zone and that says a lot about you!
Look where you are NOW.
You are doing goal setting differently than you’ve done it before.
You are NOT choosing goals out of thin air or because of comparison or fear or trying to keep up.
You, my friend, are uncovering what matters.
That changes everything!
You’ve blown me away in this series and you’re getting ready to choose your best goals for 2020—goals you can’t wait to get started on. I’m so excited for you!
REFRESH YOUR MIND
First, let’s refresh our minds as we begin! Review everything you’ve written so far. Like we talked about in Part 2, look for the threads or themes in what you’ve uncovered as we’ve done this series together.
I can’t believe what I would have missed had I not reviewed everything again with fresh eyes. Here’s what I found…
— The biggest thing that keeps popping up—my clearest thread—is spending time with my physical Bible and growing a richer faith.
— I also circled and highlighted many things that have to do with solitude, moving my body, and helping our children delight in good things. (See my word of the year popping up??)
WRITE GOAL IDEAS FOR 2020
Now that our minds are refreshed, let’s write out some goal ideas! Make a list of “goal ideas” for the year that help you live out what matters in the big picture. Your goal ideas don’t have to be perfectly written—just write what comes to mind first when you think about the big picture. Feel free to share some of your goal ideas in the comments, too!
Check your goal ideas to make sure they’re worth spending your time on. Let’s sort through the goal ideas and see if we can find any weeds. It’s easy to make goals that sound good or goals that look like other people’s. Let’s not do that
