Episode 171: Next Steps

It's September and that often gives accomplishing projects more urgency. The week, Shannon and Janine discuss some strategies for taking next steps toward your goals. (Spoiler alert: Getting in touch with what's important to you is a big part of it!)

Discussion topics include:

• How September makes us want to get busy and focused

• Revisiting the goals for the year in an effort to restart working toward them

• Thinking about goals in smaller chunks and bigger chunks

• How it's so easy to feel overwhelmed when you're trying to get back into the swing of things after the summer

• Assessing how you want to spend your time and identifying the next small step you can take

• The value of breaking projects down into little tiny steps

•How the unstructured nature of time after kids are back in school might feel overwhelming

• Getting strict with yourself about what is important to you

• Editing out the shoulds

• Start as you want to continue

• Mindfully creating habits to help you finish the year on track

• The value of taking the time to write down all the tiny tasks that comprise a project

• How perfectionism can get in the way of taking next steps and getting stuff done

• Measuring progress (as opposed to quality) when you're working on a project

• Differentiating the different types of tasks in a project

• Shannon's free quiz to help you identify why you procrastinate (and how to work through it)

• Shannon and Janine's snort-worthy Walla Walla "party girl" story

• Letting next steps be easy