Two Paths Forward after Setting Goals
You’ve made your vision board, set your goals, declared your intentions, wrote your commitments down and maybe told your business besties your plans. Cheers! That’s step 1.
But then the path diverges.
Path 1: Perfectionist Culture
You’ve set these great intentions. But then January happens… and you get busy in the day to day.
… thinking you have to sign up for a course or tweak your website “just one more time” before you move forward
… analysis paralysis about social media
… struggling with that “perfect morning routine”
… burdened with overwhelming meetings
… or searching for child care
And you have no time left on your calendar.
Your goals get abandoned, tucked away in your planner, for months.
And you feel frustrated, guilty, exhausted, and alone in the pursuit.
This is what perfectionist culture wants.
It wants you to feel burned out, disembodied, and alone because guess what? There’s big money to be made with “solving” overwhelm.
Teaching you a new hack, selling you a new tool, or simply gaslighting you and telling you that not making progress is your fault.
Spoiler Alert: It is not. It is the way our culture is wired.
But staying true to our commitments doesn’t have to fall down this path.
We can choose another path, a radical path, that centers rest, focus, cyclicality, and inner knowings by leveraging natural rhythms, intentionality, and community.
Path 2: Radically Different
- We dedicate time for tending to our commitments.
- We block out our calendars for planning time that allows us to be present in our bodies and emotions.
- We follow natural rhythms to take our ideas from vision, to strategy, to grounding, and then to execution.
- We share our commitments and receive support and witnessing.
- We take on fewer, better commitments and honor their timing.
- We continually iterate to grow, focused on learning.
We reclaim our rhythms and radically tend to our commitments.
Which path will you choose?
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