Want to use September to kickstart a healthy eating plan? Or perhaps you want to take your side hustle into a main hustle? Here are six ways to ensure your goals get going:
Our product partners on the Marketplace are all goal-setting ninjas, so we asked them for their top tips on how they deal with getting side-tracked, making their new habits stick and why colour can be so important…
“I don’t have a problem with setting goals, it’s achieving them in a straight line I struggle with! Like many people I can easily get side-tracked as I’m juggling many hats with work, home, kids, life etc! I’ve tried different ways to keep on track with planners, apps, etc but the best thing for me is just to write everything down where I ca can see them. I’m visual so I write my goals for that week/month/qtr on the wall. Being honest, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t! The trick is not to be hard on yourself. You can only do what you can do and if something else interrupted, then that’s fine.”
Julia Vearncombe, skin:genius
“I tend to start by setting out my intentions rather than use the words goals, so for example my September intentions are:
My goal is to get back on track after the summer into a regular routine by the end of September. It just feels a bit more achievable for me this way and I’ve found clients get really hung up on the word “goal” that it puts too much pressure on already very pressured lives.”
Kate Tilston, Practical Life Coach
“The colour green can really help align your thoughts when you feel overwhelmed – especially when you’re trying to achieve goals. Green allows things to naturally blossom and bloom in the process. Colour in with green, especially at night-time before you go to bed, to help anchor anything that is overwhelming you right now – it balances your brains out and helps you think objectively. By the time you wake up in the morning, you can start to look at things differently – you may even come up with new ideas on how to do something or reach a goal you’ve set.”
Justine, Art Behaviour
“Set small targets, don’t put too much pressure on yourself with huge goals, as often you will miss the small achievements that help you to reach your big goals. It’s far easier to focus solely on the end goal and not appreciate quite how incredible the journey can be!
I also like to make a vision board/diagram/ladder diagram with the end goal at the top and each step you need to take to get there. Having a visual representation helps us see how POSSIBLE things are, and what needs to be done to get there! PIN IT UP, put it somewhere you will look at it every morning to help with motivation. If you’re struggling, then look at it and see how many steps you have ticked off or what your next step is, and BELIEVE YOU CAN DO IT!”
Michelle, Breedon Perfumer