It’s September and that often gives accomplishing projects more urgency. The week, Shannon and Janine discuss some strategies for taking next steps toward your goals. (Spoiler alert: Getting in touch with what’s important to you is a big part of it!)
Discussion topics include:
- How September makes us want to get busy and focused
- Revisiting the goals for the year in an effort to restart working toward them
- Thinking about goals in smaller chunks and bigger chunks
- How it’s so easy to feel overwhelmed when you’re trying to get back into the swing of things after the summer
- Assessing how you want to spend your time and identifying the next small step you can take
- The value of breaking projects down into little tiny steps
- How the unstructured nature of time after kids are back in school might feel overwhelming
- Getting strict with yourself about what is important to you
- Editing out the shoulds
- Start as you want to continue
- Mindfully creating habits to help you finish the year on track
- The value of taking the time to write down all the tiny tasks that comprise a project
- How perfectionism can get in the way of taking next steps and getting stuff done
- Measuring progress (as opposed to quality) when you’re working on a project
- Differentiating the different types of tasks in a project
- Shannon’s free quiz to help you identify why you procrastinate (and how to work through it)
- Shannon and Janine’s snort-worthy Walla Walla “party girl” story
- Letting next steps be easy
Links:
- Shannon’s quiz to help you figure out why you procrastinate
- Episode 98: Stop With the Shoulds
- Anne Lamott’s classic book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
