2010 is going to be a cracker of a year for me and hopefully if you continue to follow Live It With less I will show you why.
But first, let me explain why I have created a separate page on the blog with the title “The Big 4″
I am someone who really believes in the power of goal setting, and if done correctly and simply you can really unleash your true potential. However, many times I have either set too much for myself or acted compulsively for short bursts of interest and then let the enthusiasm to see out the goal fizzle away.
2009 was a great year for me personally, we bought a new house, I managed to get in a few distinctions in my university course, I finally started seeing a psychologist to help me with changing my thought patterns, my oldest daughter Grace started school, I started this blog and our third child Jesse was born a couple days after Christmas.
Yep I am pretty happy with how 2009 panned out, but how was this different to previous years where I had such glorious plans to conquer the world but had failed by mid January? Well, the secret to this particular year was that I didn’t really set any goals. I pretty much decided to start just doing what I thought was worth doing, keeping it simple and stopping all the over analysing.
So, should I keep going with the flow?
No, and here’s why, 2009 was good but is gone, I want more now and this will take more than just going with the flow. I want to keep building it to the next level and this requires some form of goal setting, but the key here is to keep it simple. I have learn’t from 2009, that if there is something I want, it has to become a daily process that builds slowly. It has to work in with your normal day to day. You must not obsess and let it take over, you just need to get in there a chip away at bit by bit.
So for 2010, this is what is going to happen,
Set Four Major Goals
Four Major Goals have been set. I have only set this amount as I believe that by having four distinct goals, they act as cornerstones for building who you want to become. Sounds a bit airy but I really feel that by trying to accomplish anymore is going to set you up for failure, I know I have been there.
Remind yourself each day
Each morning you remind yourself of these four goals and you try to slot in some time in for the big 4. It doesn’t matter if its 5 minutes or 5 hours. As long you make sure it can fit into your normal day and give it 100% focus for that specified period of time you will get there.
If you constantly chip away at it you will create it.
I am so exited about this method of goal setting, at the end each month I will be providing an analysis of my progress on the separate The Big 4 page as well as regular updates on my weight loss techniques and declutter stages as part of the “Project Less” category.
This is my “Big 4″.
- I will declutter the whole house
- I will write 100 quality posts for Live It With Less
- I will weigh 72kgs (158 lbs)
- I will write an informative ebook
Whats yours?
Enjoy
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I really like the idea of setting four “cornerstone” goals. I’ve never seen that idea before, but I think it’s a good one.
Thank you Caitlan
I think this method looks great. Sometimes I set so many goals that I start feeling overwhelmed and then do nothing.
1. I will move to Florida
2. I will put all my photos in books
3. I will organize all my paperwork
4. I will weigh 118
@jeanswain
Thanks for posting up your Big 4, let me know how they go.
Take some before and after shots and send em to the Live It With Less flikr group.
Cheers
Greg
A little late coming to this but I don’t think it seriously matters:
1. Better, regular Bible study
2. Better praying
3. Better food
4. Bless others with my junk.
I planned this to work first on my relationship with God, next on my body and third, on my house. I personally won’t set a target in pounds. If I eat right, my weight will take care of itself and where ever I end up in December will be fine. (In fact, I’ve already lost 13 pounds following this exact habit so I know it will work well enough.) I am not going to set myself up for failure by planning to declutter my whole house in a year. I don’t live by myself, in the first place, and have no control over much of what is in here. I can only take care of MY things. Everything of mine I remove from the house makes the burden of clutter lighter.
Thank you for the suggestion, Greg.
Hi Carla,
Sounds like a very sensible plan you have here, I like how you have not set any measures and that your using the word “Better” which makes it so much more personal.
Now, some may view that as to vague for goal setting, but they way I look at it, if each day you remind yourself to eat better food, and keep doing this until you are satisfied within yourself that you are eating better and no longer require this as a goal, the weight loss, health and vitality will follow as they are all associated with the benefits of eating better food.
Thanks for your comment
Greg
1 Start college
2 Eating better food
3 Declutter my apartment, and getting rid of the stuff, not just finding other places to hide it (like my parents basement)
4 Save mine and boyfriends economy.
@Miss L
Nice Big 4, good luck with college, best investment you can make, I am also doing part time university at the moment and enjoying learning new stuff.
Greg
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