#GOALS

One of my most difficult skills to grasp is effective goal setting.

Honestly, I didn’t realize how much of problem I had with creating concrete goals until now. It’s nearing the end of March and looking back on my To-Do lists, I haven’t completed many critical tasks, and though I completed others, they did not exactly turn out how I envisioned. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve started working on majority of them, but the issue I run into is crossing that finish line. Yes, I’ll admit I’m not the best with committing to my goals without critiquing them along the way, and this greatly stifles my opportunity to check said goals off of my list.

Now, let’s be real, goal-setting isn’t always easy. Many of us may have creative minds that circle around so many ideas throughout the day, which makes it hard for us to hone in on just a few of those ideas and give them all of our attention. Personally, I love being a creative. It is one of the most amazing gifts I’ve been blessed with. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with my ideas though, so to combat this, I capture them in my phone, my planner, or my journal. Keeping these tools with me helps organize my thoughts and visualize my future goals. Over the years I’ve learned it’s much healthier to write things down rather than storing them in our minds.

The next thing I learned is that goal-setting requires much more from us than generating an idea and writing it down, and this is a skill I’m slowly learning to master. We live in a generation where everything and anything we want is right at our fingertips. Groceries are ordered on apps and delivered right to our door, our Lyft ride is instantly paid for and just two minutes away, music is portable and accessible on our digital devices, we can text our friend thousands of miles across the world and they’ll receive it within seconds–there’s no waiting for much of anything anymore. In a way, this is spoiling us especially when it comes to things that we desperately want, but cannot access as effortlessly.

When it comes to our personal goals, we have to remember that they take take time to master, patience to come to fruition, grit to remain dedicated, faith to believe in ourselves, and a whole lot of commitment to prove that we want it as much as we say we do.

Words by Jenny K.