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Today I chat about how I am reapproaching my goals and my thought process for 2022.
Colorful words may be used. don't be alarmed.
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TRANSCRIPTION Well, hi, everybody. Welcome back to the uncurated life podcast. It is one of my favorite times of year, the, uh, the new year, because even though the holidays and I have a very complicated relationship, the, the start of a new year is always exciting, both because I love paper planners and it's like the paper planner Olympics.
And also because it's just it's, it feels like a fresh start. Lots of birthdays in my family, everything else. So one of the things I do love to talk about this time of years is goal setting. And while I won't be going deep into my personal goals or my work goals on this podcast, if you'd like to see more about that, you can check out my YouTube channel.
Those videos will be coming out. They probably, most of them are out already at this point, by the time I'm recording this, I've still in the middle of setting them. So. Uh, let's just say that, uh, this is past Cindy telling future Cindy to get your shit together. The point is, if you want to see those check out my YouTube channel.
In the meantime though, one of the things I want to talk about is how I'm thinking about my goals this year, because I'm trying really hard to really reframe the way I am looking at them. And before. I get into it though. I also want to give you a reminder that if you have not joined my newsletter yet now is a great time because the first Monday in January, I will be putting out a little printable.
You can use to display your word of the year and I'm excited about it. So you can find the link for that in the description below yada yada, yada, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, marketing, marketing, marketing. Let's get going on this. One of the things I'm doing this year is really rethinking my relationship with goal-setting because in some ways it was starting to feel a little rote and in some ways I think it was starting to feel a little less effective for me.
Part of it is because I think. Uh, there's a big theme in my life of setting better boundaries around my work and my personal life. And that includes with goal setting. So I'm separating them. Part of it is I think that my shit was starting to turn into a to-do list instead of really having like something that was meant to be fulfilling for me.
I just, I feel like I needed to sit and reassess not only the goals I would be setting for this next year. The reasons for, and the method behind why I'm doing it in the first place. And one of the things I wanted to do was talk through this with you here on the podcast, just in case you find any of it helpful.
That's kind of, one of the reasons I like making this podcast is by getting my thoughts out there because a lot of the times that's what this is. I'm sort of rambling my thoughts at you rather than. Giving you like some sort of like a curriculum or whatever. Sometimes it can be helpful. I know sometimes it's not, but in this case, I'm hoping that at least some of you get something out of this and I'm hoping I do too.
So if you're, like I said, if you're interested in the nuts and bolts of my goal setting for next year, the planners I'm using the process, et cetera, just check out my YouTube channel. You'll get all of that there because we are balls deep in 2022 prep over on my YouTube channel when it comes to goal setting.
The first thing that came to my mind when I was really trying to assess how and why and everything like that, the whole way this was going to go in this next year was why am I even bothering. Why am I doing this? What is it that I want out of these goals? Like what is the purpose? I have limited time.
And as I've said, multiple times, I'm having a lot of trouble setting boundaries around my time and deciding how I'm going to spend my time. And so if I'm going to devote a large amount of my time to setting some goals now, What is the purpose of it? Why do I want to do it? Am I doing it because I think I have to, am I doing it for the gram?
Am I approaching all of my goals in the same way? Or should I reassess how I'm looking at them and how some of them might be different from. Others like, and some of this may be obvious to you, but to me, it, actually, I had to sit and really think about this for a few minutes, because like I said, sometimes it feels a little wrote to me and I noticed, and I think I mentioned this in a recent power sheets video, but like even when it came to setting my goals and trying to separate work and personal goals, My personal goals did not go very well unless they had some aspect of them connected to my work.
So it seems like trying to do things for myself, have really just been pushed to the side. So if I want to do this and I could tell that I really want to, because I want to reclaim some of my personal energy back and my personal time back. And I guess that is why. But how do I do that in a way where I can respect the time I need for the different aspects of my life.
So I need to improve upon this is basically what I'm coming out of this with, because I came out of this, knowing that I really want. To both progress in my, my work life, progressing my career progress in the income I bring in progress in the skills that I acquire progress in the, both the depth and the breadth of the things that I do freelance wise.
Expand my community, all those things for work, but that I also want to restore some sort of harmony in my personal life, knowing that I have health issues and that I have kids with mental and physical health issues, knowing that there's a lot going on and that my time and my strength and my energy are so limited, but being able to bring some more of that peace and some more of that.
Into my personal life without exhausting myself. That's a very tricky balance to find, but it's an, and I'm definitely going to want to strive towards this next year. And I think in order to do that, when I set sort of the foundation of it by goal setting, I need to be extremely clear that I want both of these things, but that in order for them both to happen, there needs to be some give and take.
No, I love me some woo woo. As much as I hate to admit it, like I may just about it. I may joke about the woo, but I also have a certain level of the Wu that I, I enjoy. Right. But what I have discovered in this last year, especially in the last like chunk of the year, and I've talked about this in multiple goals, videos is that.
I, I tend to lean too far into the Wu when it comes to work goal setting, it makes it real easy for me to set some squishy touchy-feely goals when it comes to work setting. When goal setting, when what I also really need to do is be thinking about revenue goals to be thinking about like KPIs. I don't even know what KPI stands for.
I just know that it's like the thing that my husband talks about with like, these are the things. You measure when you're seeing how your performances, so that kind of shit, as much as I don't tend to think that way in order for me to progress as someone who is working as a freelancer and bringing in multiple streams of revenue from different aspects of being self-employed, I need to really.
I need to like step aside from some of the woo, keep some of the woo cause that's who I am, but also bring in some of the more concrete, analytical shit. And that's, that's something I really need to focus on in this next year.
It's important to me when I say, why am I setting goals when it comes to work that I need to both. Have concrete things to work towards with measurable results to prove the value of what I'm doing to myself. So I can make some steps, but I also need to still continue to work with my gut and go with my intuition and what feels right.
Because that's what I've done thus far. And I, I really, that's a big part of who I am. So. Work-wise I think I'm kind of moving in that direction, but with home stuff, I need to be in the opposite direction. I feel like all I've been doing for personal life goals saying is just making a to-do list and calling them goals.
I because of that, it feels just like, it's just another thing I need to check off my list. And what I really think I need to do is hone in on the areas of my life that need more attention, more fulfillment, and think about ways to elevate that and elevate those areas of my life rather than worrying so much about checking all this shit off of a list.
So it's almost like I need to go in complete opposite directions with both my work and my personal. And really, really, uh, really hone in on that. So I kind of sat down to think about like, okay, well, if I've kind of come up with sort of the overall picture of how I need to reassess my goals for this next year, How do I, how do I really, how do I really work my way through to decide what planner to use, how to decide, how to set my goals and all of those other things.
And I, I kind of came back to the old grammar, the old grammar situation from elementary school, right? The who, what, when, where that situation. So think about it this way. If you're thinking about your goals and this is the thing I'm going to be doing, what am I working towards? What am I working towards and why is it important?
And once you answer those questions, then you could say, well, how am I going to get there? When, once you know how you're going to get there, you start coming up with ideas of how then when are you going to work on those things? Where are you going to fit them into your life? And then where are you tracking them?
It seems super simple. But I swear as a planner person and I can't speak for any of you, but if you agree with me, make sure to post this in your stories and tag me at Lama letters so I can see it and respond to it. But as a planner person, I think the first thing I think about is where I'm going to be tracking all of those things.
That's the question? What planner am I Kenny's where am I going to be working on tracking these things instead of. The other way around in reality, the, where you're going to be tracking things probably should come last because it's not the place you're tracking them in. That's the most important, it's why you're doing it in the first place and why it's important to you.
That's the big thing I'm struggling with right now. And I'm kind of working my way through. I will also add the final kind of aspect to all of this when it comes to reassessing. How I kind of work on my goals is that I really don't like the phrasing work on my goals. I don't like the idea of, well, I need to set aside time to work on my goals because what I think.
Is going to be important to me in this next year, especially personal goals wise. My S my non-work-related stuff is that it needs to be holistic. There's the woo in my life. It needs to be part of my life. I don't want to just set aside time to work on my goals. I want it to be integrated into the time I spend every day that it's not a question of like blocking off time to work on my goals every day, but that it just becomes part of my daily life.
I don't know how that's going to work. I don't know if that's possible, but the idea of like quote, working on my goals has really led me to that path of a to-do list of things I want to check off. Whereas I would really like to see it more as how do I take these things? I say I want and really integrate them and elevate them in my life as a whole so that they just feel natural and part of my life, as opposed to something I'm trying to shoe horn.
Again, this may not be how it is for you, but for me this whole, this whole goal setting as to-do list situation is not. In my personal life for work, it actually has been helping me using a Kanban board to track projects to get me towards those measurable goals has really helped me solidify the way I am working.
And I am excited and I should have a review already up of the system, which has helped me with that for work. And I'm going to continue to use it in the next year, but like personal goals wise, it turns my life into a series of, to do's on a list that need to be checked out. And I need it to be more than that.
I need it to have a higher purpose than that. Doesn't have to be a fancy, like religious, higher purpose, but it needs to be, I keep coming back to the word elevate, but that's kind of what it feels like. So that is how I am reassessing and reframing goals as a concept for 2020. I hope that this might've helped you a little bit.
I'm still a little confused by all the things I just said, but it's really something that is it's important to me this next year, because as I feel crappier and descend further into kidney failure, it's just a reminder that like our time is so limited. It's so finite and spending all of my time trying to be productive or trying to accomplish things.
It doesn't bring me joy the way that just feeling like my life has purpose does. And it's a, it's a subtle shift for me, but I think it's one that might serve me well in the next year. And it's something I hope to bring you along for the ride width. Now I mentioned at the beginning of this episode, that if you sign up for my newsletter, you're going to get a printable for.
To be able to print out and put your word of the year on it. However, if you are a patron, I'm going to be doing my annual word of the year lettering session in January. So if you are interested again, a principle, a PNG file that you can use to actually print out a hand lettered version of your word of the year.
Check out my page. www.patreon.com/cindyguentertbaldo. It's all linked in the description. My patrons are also the sponsors of all of my podcast episodes, and they're fucking amazing. And I cannot wait to hang out with them more in the upcoming year. Anyway, I hope that this was helpful for you. Please let me know if it was, and until next time, my friends peace out.
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