Episode 133: Getting Clear on Your Goals

It's the last month of the year and we have some goal-setting resources for you! This week, Shannon and Janine discuss the importance getting clear on your goals, especially after a year like 2020. And we talk about the workshop Shannon is teaching on Saturday, as well as our Good Enough Goal Setting kit.

Discussion topics include:

• We’re looking forward to turning the page on a new year!

• How the challenges of 2020 might affect our planning for 2021

• The (virtual) class Shannon is leading on December 12: New Year Reset

• How some goals (like Shannon’s goals to travel more) were negatively affected by the pandemic

• The benefit of thinking about what you want, rather than about what you don’t want

• Tricky goals like “quit smoking” and “lose weight"

• How knowing what you want guides you in the direction you want to go

• The perils of creating SMART goals that you don’t have any control over 

• Our Good Enough Goal Setting kit

• Getting clear on what you want: the secret ingredient to goal setting 

• The lessons of 2020 and the pandemic

• One of Janine’s goals: preparing for the worst 

• Some details on how LastPass helps you share passwords in an emergency

• Some of the simple pleasures that 2020 brought us

• Thinking about goals as pointing yourself in the right direction

• Being kind to yourself when you evaluate progress on your goals

• Paying attention to what ended up not mattering to you