2019 Goal Planning – Moving from Resolutions to Priorities & Actionable Steps

It took me a while to get the guts to start setting goals for myself. Something has always kept me from doing more than just envisioning a whole new life and writing down lofty goals at the end of a year and then not sparing it a second glance until 12 months later, when I realised I achieved some of the things I set out to do by sheer coincidence. The rest I looked back on, and -surprise- had completely forgotten.
And, side note here – it’s not like I didn’t achieve anything this past year. I did a lot that I’m very proud of. But some of the things that were near and dear to me got lost and I never got round to doing them – and that’s a real bummer.

The reason why I did this is no mystery, and it’s not unique to myself. After all, if you never try, you can never fail, and you never have to deal with the realisation that you

a) really suck and don’t deserve to be successful because you really can’t get your shit together (hello, self-hatred) or
b) need to seriously work on yourself, which will require hard work and some painful self-reflection.