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1. Welcome & What To Expect: [MUSIC] Hello, welcome
fellow creative. If you are anything like me, then you probably want to feel fulfillment, not
just achievement. You may have so many
creative ideas, so many potential ideas,
areas of interests, things that you're
passionate about, but maybe you have
no idea how to turn those passions into
a plan for this year, let alone the next 5-10. You deserve clarity and
you deserve to feel like your efforts are actually
helping you make progress, helping you gain traction, not just leaving you feeling scattered and burned
out and overwhelmed. So many goal-setting
systems feel tedious or maybe even too airy-fairy because they weren't
built for us. They weren't built
for people that were ambitious,
multi-creative people. But this one is. I'm Jazmine. I am a holistic counselor and a business owner and a planning and
goal-setting enthusiast. Five years ago, I built a successful mental health non-profit while running
a private practice, while also teaching area
lights on the side. I really get what it's like
to be stressed beyond belief and making a millimeter of progress in a million
different directions. At that time, even
though I was working on things that were deeply
meaningful to me, I really didn't
have a good grasp on the future that I wanted, and I was really unclear
about what would help me get to where I thought I was going or what
my priorities were. This class will give you an
ultra clear sense of what really matters to you in the
short and the long-term. After a few short fun exercises, you'll know your 10, your three, and your one-year goals all
with beautiful clarity as well as the path for how to
get there, actionable steps. This is the big picture
planning that lays the groundwork for all
your other personal, professional, and other
project planning systems. The class project for
this class is a map of your personal and professional
goals for 10, three, and one years, using
easy written exercises that actually help
you prioritize and layout a broad plan. You don't need any
extra materials, you don't need anything fancy, just a pen and paper. This class is for creative, ambitious, multi-passionate
entrepreneurs, visionary students. Anyone really who feels totally disillusioned with the
goal-setting process and anyone who wants more clarity on how
to get to their big dreams. If that's you, grab
a pen and paper, head to the next
lesson right now, because your work
in this world has absolutely no time to waste. I will see you there. [MUSIC]
2. Class Project: Goal Maps: Before we get into
our first lesson, I want to prepare you
for our class project, which is completing what
I like to call goals map. This is not complicated
and it's really just a combination of all of the exercises we
do in this class. Through these written exercises, you will have your 10, 3, and 1 year goals
mapped out for you. You'll know how all the
pieces fit together in creative ways and how your one year goals help you get to your
three-year goals, which help you get to your
10-year goals and so on. You'll know what to focus
on this year to make the most progress and have clear action steps
on how to get there, but not too many so that you can actually
move at a human pace. Before diving in, I want
you to know that if you have no idea
what your goals are, that's absolutely fantastic. That is absolutely okay.
You don't need to. It's better to have
something messy written down on paper rather than something so perfectly refined that there is absolutely
no breathing room. These goals will change
so let yourself be messy. Please, don't feel like you have to accomplish every single goal. The purpose of
goal-setting is really who you get to become
in the process, not what you actually
accomplish or not. Also throughout this process, try to go in order
of these exercises. There is a flow to them and they really build on each other. Most importantly,
please share with us, give us some inspiration. Your goals might be personal, but post a small portion
of it, at least, of each exercise to the project gallery
so that you can share your inspiration and gain
some inspiration from other people's goals because that's how we help
each other learn. Maybe you'll see
some that really light you up and inspire you or you'll get to be that inspiration
for other people. Don't stop here.
Click the next lesson because that is where
we're going to dive into our 10-year goals.
3. Your 10 Year Goals: Let's dive in. We start
with the big picture. Why? Because we can't
really know what to focus on right now if we don't
know where we're headed. That's why 10-year goals
are super important. Now, I know you might be saying, "How the heck am I supposed to know where I'm going to
be in 10 years, Jasmine?" Or, "I don't even know what
I am going to do tomorrow, let alone 10 years from
now," and I say to you, you do not have to. That is the purpose
of this exercise. It's going to really tap into your creative potential
and your creative brain. The trick in this exercise is to get out of your mental games, your belief systems, all of those things
that feel like they're holding you back
and go right for the playful childlike part of you that has no problem
saying when you were young, "I want to be a
doctor" or "I want to be a singing,
dancing ice skater." That was mine. I basically
invented Disney On Ice. We are painting a
broad stroke image of who you want to be within
the next 10 years. This is going to
change and more, of course, as you grow, but this is going to serve as crucial information for you, an inspiration for you
for years to come. When you sit down on
your daily work tasks, you know, "Why am I doing this? So that I get to be
or have or become or feel this in 10 years." We're going to be
doing a brainstorm of all of the things
that you may want to do or be or have in
the next 10 years and your goal is four-fold. Here's some tips
for this exercise. One, write as fast
as you can so that you don't have time to think or edit or even ask yourself, "Do I really want to do this?" or, "How do I do this?"
That's number two. Don't let the
question "But how?" ever seep into your
mind in this exercise. The how is not
important right now. We will get to the how,
but we'll get there later. Also, know that you have full permission to never
accomplish any of these things. We really have to get used to the idea that we're
not obligated to complete or achieve or check off every single thing
that we write down. We are creative people. We're going to have way
more ideas than we can ever potentially do
in this lifetime. We've got to get used to that. Number four, give
yourself permission to actually be absurd and
to think abstractly. Use your imagination
to get you out of this box of a
limited reality. Use your heart. What pulls on your heartstrings? What did you want to be
when you were a kid? What lights you up? What would be
absolutely hilarious? Do you want to be
a snake charmer or a witch and tarot artist? Do you want to be, I don't know, anything that comes
to your mind. Write it down on paper. Your desires truly are
the roadmap to your soul. Let yourself dream,
let yourself want, let yourself yearn.
It's crucial. Here's the exercise. Get out a notebook
and dedicate one to two full pages for each
of the four life areas. Write the life area
at the top and the fourth one is your choice. You're going to be
using these prompts. I would absolutely love it if, how cool would it be if my
inner child really wants to? I've always wanted to try. I think I'd love to try. If nothing stood in
my way, I would. These are your prompts.
You're going to start with one life area, set a timer for 10 minutes. Use the prompts to
generate a brainstorm. Don't pause, keep writing. Don't judge your
underlying desires. Write for 10 minutes on
each life area, no less. You want to feel like
you've really emptied your brain of ideas
and possibilities. Start with personal, then
move to professional, then relationships, and then the life
area of your choice. You should be going for
a total of 40 minutes. Pause the video here. We're going to do a couple of finishing touches at the end, but complete these
brainstorming exercises while you're paused and then
come back and press play. Now that you're back,
how did that feel? You may already be noticing
themes or patterns, generating or activating
that sense of creativity. If you feel stuck, you can always go back to what
you wanted to do as a kid. Let yourself go really, really crazy with it. You can always add to this
if you have ideas later. But next, we are
going to go back and reread some of them and underline the ones that feel really
captivating to you, that you actually feel like you have a deep connection to, that generates or lights
up a spark in you, and when you underline it, you're going to
write either a 10, 3 or 1 next to it. This is going to
indicate whether you believe that it would be best for you to complete
it within 10 years, three years, or one year. This is a little bit
of the time frame that you might want to
achieve that goal with. Then you're going to look
at all of the ones that you wrote 10 next to, across all life areas, and pick 3-10 of
these that are the most compelling to you and
turn them into a list. They do not have to be specific, they do not have
to be actionable, they do not have to
be quote-unquote "smart goals" or
quantitative yet. They should only be written in a way that really activates you, that really motivates you. To inspire others to dream
big just like you are, post at least three
of your goals in the class project section so that we can all cheer you on. Next step, we're
going to hone in on our three-year goals and we're
going to get super clear and crisp and gather a path
to help us get to those big, juicy visions of ours. I will see you in
the next lesson.
4. Your 3 Year Plan: Welcome back. We've made
it to what I like to call the in-between time in
the three year goals. Now that we have
a compelling and adaptive big picture vision, now we can think about
the in-between about how we actually get to
this 10-year goals. Three-year goals are
really important. In fact, I think
that they're more important than the
five-year goals because they act as a bridge between the short-term
and the long-term. They feel close enough
to start thinking about right now as
opposed to five years, but far enough away that we
don't feel like we have to be pressured to start working on them right
away or right now. Your three-year goals give
you a sense of structure. They give you an adaptable
plan to work with. As we do this exercise,
I want you to keep two things in mind that
are really important. One is consider your
unanswerable questions. What are the things in
your life that you cannot or are not ready to make
a decision about yet. Maybe you haven't decided whether or not you and
have another baby, or go back to grad school, or get married, or you're not ready
to even start thinking about healing that
chronic illness of yours, or you don't have answers
in these areas yet, you can't possibly think
about them at the moment. You're going to put
these things aside, cast them out of
your mind and tell yourself that you're going to
reconsider at a later date. Because these things are, it's not helpful to create
a whole three-year plan around something that you're not ready to decide about yet. Have a list if our
brain really likes it, when we can take something, pluck something out of the brain and put
it down on paper, so have a list of your
unanswerable questions. The things that you have decided you are not
going to decide on yet. Number 2 is to build what I like to call
the lookout shoulder. This is a term from
Hillary [inaudible] and I love it because it's
project ideas or plans that you are inspired
to get down on paper. But you know, you
really know that you're not fully ready to
commit to this project. It's a much bigger commitment
than you have time for or you haven't decided
if this is a priority, but you still want
to kind of get some ideas out on paper and you still want
to flush it out. Before you add something
to your lookout shoulder, the thing to ask yourself is really make sure that you're not putting it aside in the lookout shoulder and not
prioritizing it out of fear. You want to really
just know and make sure that this is
really just you saying, I'm going to be an essentialist. I am going to acknowledge that I am so creative that I cannot possibly do all of
the things that my brain comes up with
so I'm going to keep them in a list
somewhere else so that I can then focus
on my priorities. Save yourself brain space,
save yourself frustration. Build up that lookout shoulder. I want you to have a safe
place to keep these ideas. Now when we brainstorm
further so write down any ideas for
brainstorms you have for your personal or professional
three-year goals. Remember that you already have some ideas that you already brainstormed and wrote
down in the last exercise. So go back and look
at anything on your list that you added
a number three next to. Ask yourself as well, what do I have to do
in three years to be on my way to my 10-year goals. Remember, please, this is
truly a creative process. You cannot know
what will happen, but you can focus your energy and make
prioritized decisions here. Use your gut and trust it. Pause the video here and
we're going to come back, re-evaluate and finalize some of these goals and I'm
going to show you how. Welcome back after
your brainstorm. Now, we are going to
take that brainstorm and underline some of the things
that stood out to you most. You already probably
have a sense in your gut of what feels
most compelling to you. Look back and underline
some of those ones, then see if there
are any groupings, any goals that relate
to each other. For example, if you want to buy a house in the
next three years, is something like increasing your credit score or
starting a savings account, is that on your three-year
goals list as well? Are they related to each other? Or if you want to write and publish a novel and that's on your
three-year goals list, do you have something
like go on a book tour throughout Europe or something that naturally
follows that goal. If you do just start
to take notice of this because this is
going to be really crucial for the next
piece that we do, and this next piece is
truly the hallmark, like the coolest thing
[LAUGHTER] that I think I've ever discovered about goal-setting so you
don't want to miss it. But to finalize this one, I want you to write down 3 - 10 of your most compelling
three year goals. Now the way that you write these goals is really important. I'm going to give
you a tip here. I want you to write
these goals in a way that really
motivates and drives you. Think about what drives
you if the number of people at your book launch
really matters to you, then write that down. Be specific about that number. If you know, in your heart
that money doesn't drive you, then it doesn't make sense
to have a goal that's all centered around finances or gives an exact
amount that you want to make like a
yearly salary goal. Instead, you can
consider something that's a little bit more
in your control and that motivates you a little bit
more perhaps how much you save or invest per month or how
many clients you want. Get those goals down on paper. Don't think about it too hard. This can always change. Post those in the Project
Gallery because this is really where people can start to
see like what inspires you, what drives you,
what motivates you. Then head to the
next video because this next one truly is my best
tip that I could ever give you and change the way that
I think about goals entirely so don't miss this next video
and I will see you there.
5. Goal Types: The Path To Clarity: Welcome back. We have our
three-year goals now, and I hope that they feel
really compelling to you. However, they might also
feel a little bit muddled at this moment that is normal
and that's totally fine. Maybe you know that
they are related, or interconnected
in some capacity, but it's still just feels
like a big web of ideas. My biggest mistake and
goal-setting honestly, was thinking that all goals are created equal,
and they are not. I would literally,
make just like this big spider web map all over my notebook page
that looked so messy, and tried to draw links between different goals
and how they were related, but I had no clear path
to actually follow. Anyone looking at
it would be like, "Oh my goodness Jasmine, you are such a mess,
what even is this?" I was so interested in so many things that
I would feel so scattered and overwhelmed after goal-setting rather than feel
like I have more clarity, then it really hit me. Different goals serve
different functions. We have to be able to assess
what goal each one is. I want to introduce it to you, the concept of goal types. I use this concept to turn my web of ideas into
a clear path ahead. Like I said, this is the
concept that every client I've taught this too has
just [NOISE] mind blown. This concept, the only
person I've ever heard of, who really talks about this
concept is Hilary Rushford, she uses different names for it, but still has this
concept that each goal, you can start to see a
trajectory of where you're going when you get clear on what type of goal each one is. There are five gold types that I would like to
highlight for you. Your target goal. This is the type of
goal that you will want to prioritize
above any other. If you hit this goal, everything else
falls into place. This might be the big one, the one that's scary to
you, but the one that, you know, if you hit this one, oh my goodness, you
are just going to feel like life is
going your way. Maybe it's writing the
book, running the marathon, starting your own business, whatever it is, that
one takes priority. Then there are
stepping stone goals. This is a goal that
might help you achieve any target
goal that you have. This can be across personal
or professional domains, but stepping stones are perhaps smaller goals that are going
to help you get there. If you're a writer, maybe this is acquiring an agent or finishing
a book proposal. A process goal is a habit that you want
to build as part of your routine that
really sustains you as you reach
your other goals. Process goals are
habits essentially, they are things that
happen repeatedly, either daily,
weekly, or monthly. These don't have to be related to your target
or stepping stone, but they can just help you
feel like a healthier person. Maybe it's meal
planning every week, or maybe it actually is
related to your target goal. If you're a writer, maybe
that's right every single day. Then we have visions. I consider a vision to be
something that we might desire, but it's not necessarily
really in our power. This is a difficult
one to assess, to see how much something
is in your power. But this might be something like starting a family, having a kid. We can say that we
want that and we can certainly do things
to achieve that. But it's not a guarantee. It could also be
aspirations that you have, like this bigger
picture vision that really is your reason for why you want all
these other things. Maybe it's just
spend more time with your family or these can
be a little more elusive, like feeling this sense of
spaciousness and ease in life. Lastly, you have
an impact goals. Think of this as a goal
that will be achieved at least partially due to or naturally following
your target goal. Going back to the
writer example, you have your stepping stones, you have your target of
publishing this book, but then your impact goal might be something like going on a book tour or creating an
online course after that book. I want you to know that there's no actual right concrete
way to do this. Treat this like a
creative process. I'll give you some examples in personal and
professional domains. Let's say you have a vision in your personal life
to be in a happy, healthy, romantic
relationship or to have a baby,
to have a family. Maybe your target goal is
to buy a house in X city. Something that's going to help sustain that target
goal is you're stepping stone which might be decluttering
your current space, giving away a certain
amount of your possessions. Another stepping stone might be joining a community
organizing group, that all leads to
this impact goal after you buy a house in X city. That makes you feel
grounded and rooted. Maybe then impact of that will be that you make
friends in X city. All the while you you feeling sustained by the process goals of having X amount per month for a down-payment of your
house that you're saving, or going running every morning. In your professional life, like I said, you could maybe want to write
and publish a book. A stepping stone for
that might be finding an agent, publishing
five articles. A good process for that might
be reading three books a month or establishing
morning writing practice. All of that leading
to the impact of eventually after
you publish a book, getting ready to speak at a conference or apply to
a writer's residency. With the vision of
getting your book on Oprah Winfrey's
book club list, or getting promoted in
whatever field you're in. If you're not solely a
writer or a freelancer, maybe you also have
another job on the side. Your goal is with more
establishment and authority of having written a
book then you get promoted. I want you to also
notice here that some of these may
feel like an outlier, and it may or may
not be true for you. Notice how join a community organizing
group, for example, in the personal domain
under stepping stones, might feel like an outlier. Maybe it directly
impacts your book writing in the
sense that joining this group can help give you research or help you meet
people that can support you. Maybe you're writing a book
about a particular topic, or maybe it's not an
outlier because it's also the way that you
choose to make friends, and one of your impact goals is making friends in that new city. Notice that it's okay to
have goals that may not directly relate to everything. It might not feel like
one linear progress. But you have to know what
feels right right you. Also notice that it's
totally okay to have goals that are feeling focused. These might be
your vision goals, but it's also totally okay if
your target goal is to feel more alive or to feel a sense of spaciousness or to not feel
stressed or scattered. Although I propose that you write some of these feelings centered goals in the positive. That is okay, as long as
you back it up with ideas, strategies, goals that you believe are going to help
you get to that feeling. I am not the person
that's going to tell you, you have to write them in
this smart goals formatting, they have to be ultra specific, or they have to have
quantitative aspects to it. No. As a visionary and creative, I know what inspires me and
feeling states inspire me. Go forth and feel free to make those goals really
feel delicious to you. Let them really feel
like you're using the language that really
ignites and inspires you. Now, let's get into it. Look back at your three-year
goals and organize them into goal types. Just start to sort them around, move them around, to see
what feels right to you. You can always go back
and change this later. You can always change
your target goal. Then write your
plan and say it out loud to yourself according
to this framework. You're going to
start at the bottom of your process goals. I ground and sustain myself
by your process goals. I begin by, then I, these are your
stepping stone goals. Say them out loud to yourself. Then this leads me to
my Number 1 one goal. These are your impact goals. All of this is leading me
to the vision that I have, and this is your vision. Following that
trajectory, you now have a much clearer path, even if that path is not linear, even if there are some outliers, that is absolutely okay. I also wanted to address
some common questions that people have
about this process. The Number 1 question
I always get is, I'm doing this right? Is this the target goal or is
this a stepping stone goal? I don't know. My answer for
you is that, only you know. I can't answer that for you. Really treat this as
a creative process. You can rearrange them later, but only you are going to know how these pieces fit
together in your life. I give you full
creative agency here. Number 2 is, do they
all have to connect? I hope I got the
point across that, no, they absolutely do
not all have to connect. Your multi passionate person. You can have multiple things that you are working
on and dreaming of. Think about you're
stepping stones and have stepping stones that help
you reach other goals. But don't pressure
yourself to make it all align or fit into
this neat little path. Number 3 is, do I have to have impact
goal or a vision? My response about needing to have any of these
types of goals is, no. This is your process. There's a way that you get to
do what makes sense to you. But I will give you some
suggestions that I think it is most helpful if you are
able to have a target goal, an impact goal or several, and in stepping stone
goal or several. This is really the part that
helps you see this path. If you don't have a vision, or if you don't have some process goals
because you're not really working on daily, weekly, or monthly
habits right now. That is totally okay. Do this now and add your
three-year goals maps to the project gallery
so that you can be cheered on in your process. I'm so excited to see
these goals maps of yours. Next up, we're going to
get into the nitty-gritty. This is the
foundation of it all, your one-year goal and strategy.
6. Your 1 Year Strategy: Welcome back. How is
that feeling so far? I hope that this gave you the
big aha that you needed to really feel like these goal-setting
processes are actually fun, creative, and leading you
towards some type of clarity. Now we get into what I think is probably the most
important part. What are we going
to do this year? Now that we've refined our goals and we
understand goal types, the next step is figuring out our strategies
for this year. This is where we get concrete. We get down to the action
steps and gets super clear on what we're going
to accomplish this year. The goals that you
set are going to be the foundation of your
project planning, of your monthly and
weekly planning, and of your daily schedule.
This part is crucial. There are a few things
that I want you to think about before we
go into this exercise. One is that you don't actually
need a one-year goal for every single three-year
or 10-year goal that you have or every
single life area. Just ask yourself, "What is most impactful for me to do now?" You don't have to be
starting to work on every single goal that you've written about or
described up until now. Number two is really try hard not to put every single thing
into the one-year bucket. I find that most people
either try to shove everything into one-year or shove everything
off into 10-year. Use the three-year goals
map as your in-between. Maybe now that we've
gotten to one-year, you might reassess
and say," Actually, I want to pull that
down from my three-year goals list and put it
into my one-year." That's totally fine. But don't feel like you
have to meditate every day, work on that novel of yours, run a marathon, read 10 books, and have a kid this year, because that is not
going to happen. [LAUGHTER] It's not
going to happen, don't do that to yourself. We are here to be essentialists, so I really want you to get clear on what's
most important now, not what is everything I wanted to do shoved into one year. Number three is to
really language your goals in a way
that are specific. Now we're getting
into the specifics, and we want to draw on
what motivates us again. Think about goals that can be phrased in a way that
feel easily doable. Remember when I mentioned that if money doesn't
motivate you, don't center a
goal around money, don't put a specific
dollar sign to it. Think about what
actually captivates you. Is it how you're going to feel? Maybe you write out specifics around how that goal is
going to make you feel. Maybe you add more feeling words into the phrase that
you make for this goal. Maybe what's important
to you is actually the audience that you have or the work that you get to do. Add as many specifics
as you have, but don't feel pressured to put anything quantitative there. Then number four
is absolutely key, this is something I wish I
had learned so much earlier, which is along those same lines, consider experimentation
as a goal. For example, if you're starting
a new business and you don't have the data to say
or the experience to say, " I know I want to
launch X products, and have X many clients,
and X revenue." Don't worry about that. If you're in an early
phase of a goal, consider making the
goal experimentation. Maybe it's, "I'm going to test out three
different projects." "I'm going to launch five small courses this year so that I can see
what actually works." "Or I'm going to experiment with different
types of content." All of these are great goals, and they feel so much lighter than trying to
push yourself towards an idea when you
don't really have the data or the experience
to back it up yet. Now, let's get into it. Look back at your
three-year goals or the brainstorming that you
did for the 10-year goals. Look where you wrote down the number one next
to any of those, and also ask yourself, "What do you need to focus
on now to make some of your three or even
10-year goals happen?" We're going to brainstorm
for 10 minutes, pause the video, get cracking, and I will see you back here to refine these goals.
Welcome back. I hope that brainstorming
session went really well. Now we're going to dive in
and create our strategy. I want you to look back
at your one-year goals and organize them again into goal types like we just
did in the last lesson. Notice patterns, start to
put them into this path, start to notice which
one you may want to make a stepping stone to a
target goal, and so on. Make your target goal
something really motivating and
really spectacular. Next, you're going to write out your one-year plan and say
it out loud to yourself. This here I am, "I ground and sustain
myself by, I begin by, and then I, this leads me to note my number one
target goal which is, then I will be able to, and all of this is leading me to the vision that I have of." Get those out and say
them aloud to yourself. Then under each one-year goal, except for your visions, this is the key; write down 3-5 milestones that are needed to make
that thing happen. Strategy is so crucial. It's one thing to
have your goals, it's another thing
to really look at, "What am I going to do to
make these goals happen?" Every goal requires
an action step. Here's some examples of
strategies and milestones. For example, if
your process goal is to save X amount per month, maybe you might try out a cash envelope
system for savings, or create a savings budget. If you also plan to
run every morning, maybe you need some
more running shoes, or maybe you find a running
buddy for accountability. Your stepping stone might
be to declutter space and give away X percent
of your possessions. You're going to
research donation sites and give clothes away there, and then have a yard sale for any furniture
that you don't need. If you want to buy
a house in X city, maybe you research or
apply for a mortgage, research best neighborhoods, apply for a new credit
card to build your credit. If your impact goal
is to feel more grounded and rooted
in that city, maybe you're searching
meetup groups in that city, joining a reading group, or any other ideas that you
might have around this. Make sure that every
one of those goals has strategies and milestones around it because
these are going to become your open
projects for the month. When you sit down with
yourself and you ask, " What am I going to
accomplish this month, or this week, or this day?" You have action steps ready. You have projects that
you're working on that are leading you towards
these one-year goals. Do this right now and add at least one of your one-year goals to
the project gallery, or your whole path
if you want to, and let yourself be cheered on, and receive that praise, and be an inspiration to other people in that
project gallery. Next up, you are almost done. This is going to be
our key takeaways, and how we can actually implement some of
these one-year goals and goals maps into our daily lives and
our project planning.
7. Implementating A Road Map: I believe that our dreams
and our desires are meant to push us into who
we are meant to become. A couple of key
takeaways before you go. Number 1, your goals are just desires
that you commit to. If these goals change, if our desires change, if they get sidelined, if we don't accomplish them, that is truly okay. The point is to become
who we are meant to be, through the process of
reaching for these goals. All that is expected of you, from me at least, is to get clear on what you
want and to make an effort. The rest is out of our control. Number 2, I believe that courage is more
important than confidence. Rather than focusing
on whether or not you have the confidence to
achieve some of these goals, take action and you'll
gain that confidence. Have the courage,
which courage wouldn't exist if you didn't have
fear inside of you. Have that courage to start taking some of
these action steps, that's all that matters. You don't have to have
the confidence right now, that's going to be
built in the process. Number 3, do these
exercises every year, I promise you, pinky promise. I do these exercises
at least once a year. I'm so naughty that I do them
twice [LAUGHTER] a year, I use my birthday
and the New Year as the times where I
revise these exercises. Use them, stay
current on what you actually want because what
you want is going to change. You're going to have
new information, especially once you start walking down these paths
that you've created. Honor your multi
passionate nature, and don't let these
things be stagnant, keep coming back to them. Number 4, put these
goals maps somewhere where you can see them
every single day, either digitally or on
paper or better yet, both. Reminding yourself of
your dreams is key, it's what motivates us. It's what helps
us understand why we're doing what we're
doing on an everyday basis. Number 5, use the pathway that you created
for your one-year goals, to start to set up some
of your project plans, your milestones,
your daily to-do's. If you need help with this, I have a training on that. If you don't see it
yet, it's coming soon. Take that as a perfect follow-up to this course because that is really all about the implementation process,
which is crucial. Whether you take
that course or not, there are a couple of quick
tips for implementation. Check-in every single
week with yourself. I cannot tell you how important
the weekly check-in is. Ask yourself, what
goals have I worked on? What do I need to work on? Where do I need help or where do I need some further strategy? What project right now is going
to help me reach my goal? Having a weekly check-in
is absolutely vital to move yourself forward in really actionable,
concrete ways.
8. Conclusion: You did it. I'm so proud of you. Even if you just completed
a few of these exercises, honestly, I am so proud. You are so deserving
of your dreams, and if they scare you, good. If you want to keep these
goals and plans all in one place and you want to have a template that's
already made to do it, I made one on Notion for you. It follows this exact process, but it has way more for you in there to
project planning tips, weekly and monthly reflections, and planning processes, so just for you as a
Skillshare student. I am giving you 25 percent off of this and you can find
that in the link below. Go forth, keep dreaming, taking imperfect action, and remember that you are
worthy of all of your desires. They are pointing you
towards the places in your heart that are aching
for the greatest development. I hope that you
are so inspired by your own dreams and I hope
that this was helpful for you. I hope to see you in
an upcoming course.
Jazmine Russell, Holistic Counselor, Goal Setting Nerd
