Achieving goals doesn’t guarantee happiness, but I can understand why you might think that it does. I mean, that’s what we’re taught. Goals = Success! When we check all the right boxes and make the right moves, we’ll be happy. When we achieve our New Year’s Resolutions, we’ll be happy! When we finally have the perfect career, marriage, family and house, we’ll be happy. And when we’re wealthy and skinny and look like we’re starring in a damn perfume commercial, we’ll be happy[...]
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Are you feeling too pandemic-fried to think about your New Year's Resolutions?My friend, this video is for you!Raise your hand if all the constant changes from the pandemic feel like a freaking rollercoaster and you are READY to get off!I hear you. The last few years have been challenging. I love setting resolutions and goals, but I've felt too overwhelmed and pandemic-fried to think about New Year's resolutions myself.I know people who were able to achieve their new year’s resolutions and goa[...]
If you’ve failed to achieve your resolutions year after year, you know how frustrating it can feel. Not this year, friend! Here are 3 Reasons New Year's Resolutions Don't Work and one thing you can focus on instead. As the end of the year approaches, 'tis the season to start thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. Americans spend a fortune on coaches, exercise equipment, apps, planners and books in the hopes that THIS will be the year they’ll change their lives. But let me ask you a quest[...]
If you feel like you've made all the "right" moves in life, but you aren’t as happy as you thought you’d be, you've probably realized that sometimes checking the "right" boxes doesn't lead to happiness. I work with professional, goal-getter women. I’m one myself. And I think what we all want out of life is more purpose, peace and pleasure. We’re taught from a young age that if we work hard and achieve our goals, we’ll be happy. And as high achievers, we know how to achieve our[...]
Why should you know your WHY before you pick New Year's Resolutions? Did you know that 80% of people who commit to resolutions and goals have given up by the middle of February? That’s a huge number! Who would bet on those odds? Yet year after year, Americans spend a small fortune in the hopes that THIS year will be different. This year those goals will finally be realized. That tells me two things: A lot of people truly care about changing their lives for the better. With such a high f[...]