Some questions to reflect on as we close out the third quarter of 2024 and enter the final quarter…
Start by bringing to mind your goals/resolutions/intentions for 2024.
1. In what ways have you succeeded? What do these successes reveal to you about yourself?
2. In what ways have you failed/deviated? What does this reveal to you about yourself?
3. With this insight in mind, how will you either modify those original goals/resolutions/intentions or change them so you can better align your actions with your direction and close out 2024 strong?
For me, writing new long-form articles each week and creating two new Art of Forward Guides were two of my big goals.
I succeeded in drafting one guide and creating maybe five new articles. I failed at producing as much as I aimed simply because I didn’t budget dedicated times to those tasks.
My thought was I would do the long form writing and guide creating AFTER I finished my daily writing and quote curating. But, this rarely left me with any decent chunks of time at all. It takes at least an hour of dedicated time to work on longer form projects like the ones I wanted to create and I was mostly left with twenty minutes (if that…!) on a regular basis.
And so the adjustment I’m making is precisely that: adding in a dedicated hour on Thursdays and Saturdays to get this done. It almost sounds silly sharing this because of how obvious this is… but, oftentimes, it’s the simple—almost silly—adjustments that make the biggest difference.
…How about you?