i sat down with my good friend matt today and he helped me with some goal setting. i had written down some goals for the next few months: practice meditation every day, eat salad four times a week, make this much money by this time, and he challenged me to think differently about the way i was setting my goals. rather than doing something to achieve the goal, why don’t i set my goal around the way i want to feel. (i.e. i meditate every day to achieve balance and confidence, and be more creative.
it’s so easy to let a goal fly out the window. i mean just look at our 40 day yoga challenge. while it was very rewarding, the thought of practicing every day became a burden at times rather than something i was doing to just feel better.
think of how you want to feel in ten years when you’ve achieved that laundry list of goals. think of who you want to be. and then be that person now.
i am joyful, creative, grounded, successful, loving, and laid back.
today.
because i said so.
This was a post on the ananda blog http://marybethlarue.tumblr.com/
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