My Problem with Goal-Setting

[tuesday_morning]

I was going through some of my older posts here on Dreamwidth and I made a realization. I do a lot of goal-setting and writing about how I want things to change, but when it comes to actually making change happen, that's another story. It's not that I'm not motivated, but more that there's too many goals to focus on at once for me. It overwhelms me and, in the flurry of all these ideas, I end up losing sight of half the goals I wanted to achieve. It's a bit annoying, in all honesty, but I think I've got a solution for this issue. I think what I need is a planner; perhaps a pen and paper planner that I can write entries in on the daily. I could write my overall goal for the week at the top, then for each day I can write a task list for ordinary things I do, but also include tasks that would help me to achieve the overall goal of the week.

I've never been able to keep a paper planner because I usually got the ones from the Dollar Tree, and those don't exactly have the most space to write in. Not only that, but I never had a plan on how to write entries in them. Hopefully this time will be different. I'm going to look at entry examples online and see if a paper planner would be best for me. If so, that's great. If not, however, I could try to do it digitally instead. I just want to give the paper version another chance because anything that helps me to separate from my phone overuse is worth trying.

Comments

[rafiwinters]

Ah, the dreamy possibilities of planning how to plan your plans... who, me? Same problem? Nah...

Yeah. Me. Very same problem.

Sounds like you have a good plan for moving forward, though.

[tuesday_morning]

No judgement here! Even as we speak, I'm not sure if my plan to plan my goals will work, but it's all about trying. And if I fail, I can always try again! :)