• How’s Your New Year’s Resolutions Coming Along?

    I knew that I didn’t want to create another list like the ones that I’d been making for the last few years. I wanted to try something new and, hopefully, in the process learn more about myself. I wanted to spend more time working toward what was important to me and less time checking things off of some arbitrary list that really means nothing to me in the long run. I wanted to reach farther and do more than I ever thought I could without forcing myself into things that I could care less about.

    For 2015, I took an entirely different approach. I made a list of what I wanted to accomplish throughout the year. I didn’t specify exactly how or when. I made it a point to leave things as open-ended as possible. This year’s list consisted of accomplishing some personal goals including redoing my website and getting some things organized as well as sticking with my personal projects, for example, my art and writing.

    The ironic part is that I’ve managed to accomplish more thus far this year than any year prior. It could quite possibly have something to do with not putting the same type of pressure on myself. Because I’m not making any definite goals, there’s room for things to evolve a little more as life changes and therefore less of a possibility of getting frustrated.

    Have you ever noticed that you’re more productive when you think outside the box and structure your goals differently? It never occurred to me before this year that the issue wasn’t my resolutions themselves, but the way that I was setting them up.

    How’s your resolve? Are you accomplishing more or less this year than you typically do? Leave a comment and share your resolutions and where you stand with them.

    Written by: Cristi Wuenschel



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