DAMNNN, it’s already mid-March 2023!

I know I haven’t posted for four months since November 2022! Coincidentally, it’s also when I started working near full-time again. Now that Q1 of 2023 is nearly over, it’s the perfect time to revisit progress towards this year’s goals.

Do you set New Year Resolutions? What goals do you have for 2023? Do you use any frameworks or tools to provide structure to create and review goals?

Over the years, I’ve liked the following:

• for annual introspection and next-year planning: Year Compass (and other year-in-review frameworks and visualization prompts)
• for daily gratitude/logs: 5-min Journal from Intelligent Change
• for daily/weekly action steps: Productivity Journal from Intelligent Change
• for short-term projects: 12-Week Year
• for review on areas of life you care about: Wheel of Life
• for breaks: Pomodoro Technique (work for 25-30 mins, then take 5 min break)
• for motivation: create rewards, write things down, share with others (and report completion, with photos too if that helps), do together virtually (‘body doubles’ or ‘integrity hours’)

I haven’t kept up with using bullet journals, the SELF journal, or to-do managers.

Moment of reflection: My goals for this year are somewhat straightforward (and dictated for me) in the area of career/wealth generation and romantic partnership/family planning – but it seems weird and ‘real’ to be posting them in more specificity, even though no one knows about this blog and I have not publicly associated with real name with this blog. There’s certainly power in being specific and public about one’s goals, which I haven’t been yet, but will be soon!

I feel like I’m figuring out where I’m headed, as I take one action, one step forward each and every day. While it’s nice to have lofty goals, I’m realizing it’s nearly impossible to have everything figured out. Instead of trying to map out the future beyond broad strokes, I can focus on (1) taking consistent action, (2) identifying the most important action to take, and (3) staying encouraged and patient, while being rigorous about revisiting where I’m at in the process.