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Do Not Set Personal Goals for 2024!
Calling Out the Gold In You
The Shire, Nr Oxford, UK
Thursday, 3pm-ish
Hello Reader,
I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year.
If you don't want to read this email, I have made a video for you instead:
Although we are now into the second week of the New Year, for many, our thoughts are still with the year ahead and how we should prepare for it.
Well, allow me to suggest two ways not to do so.
First, let me address the weakest of these two: we make New Year’s Resolutions.
These are often no more than aspirations, loose commitments that last no more than a few days. A New Year’s Resolution is easy to make, and just as easily evaporates for most people, it seems. One study by Norcross and Vangarelli found that only 9% of Americans who make resolutions actually complete them, with 23% quitting by the end of the first week and 43% by the end of January. Clearly, we all face challenges. Just making a resolution for most of us, it seems, is not enough. And if we give them too much weight and fail, doing all this can just discourage us.
The second is what I came across on YouTube in force at the turn of the year. This is to make Personal Goals.
Now, making goals is usually rather more intentional. And goal-setting is good, right?
It would seem so, until we look at the time span of a whole year.
Let me ask, how many personal goals, which should be finite, intrinsically need exactly 12 months to complete for their desired outcome? Add to that the unusually chaotic times we are likely to live through in 2024, and predicting where we will be in a year’s time seems unlikely.
Plus, a goal involves imagining a new outcome. For most of these outcomes, why wait 12 months? Some of the most potent personal goals you or I will set—and possibly achieve—are likely to be achieved in a much shorter timescale.
No, I believe that at the beginning of the year, focusing goal-setting is a dead end.
So, what can we do at this time of the year? Do we do nothing?
I don't believe so. This is an opportunity at the turn of the calendar year.
Well, I will share that in my new programme that I am about to launch. It is an approach that is both simple and powerful. And it can last the next 12 months and beyond.
Interested? I will share more next week.
If you cannot wait, Reader, book a session with me using the button below and we can discuss your goals. I will talk you through my practice at the turn of the year, as well as tailor it to your situation.
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Wishing you a Powerfully Positive 2024,
Your Positive Coach,
Patrick
Changing the World through Living our Best Lives!
Patrick Mayfield
I am not sure how you found me here, but welcome anyway! I am a writer, coach, change leader, and Christian, helping you and others to live your fullest life, and to change the world in the process! If you are not interested in one of these things, that's OK...what I offer is not for you and you should close this page. However, I am interested in serving that small community of people who are interested in all these things. You are my world changers! If you know me and my work and want more, then please check out the resources I offer below and sign up for my newsletter! We can then begin a conversation where we can explore what my experience has taught me in leading change, both in organisations and in myself(!), in my faith journey with Christ, in my writing, and in my coaching. and how all this can benefit you.
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