Both of my girls, in the last week or so, have been asked to consider their goals or resolutions for the new year. No surprise there, right?
I remember tackling the same tasks as a kid and coming up with some pretty standard stuff — make an A in math, be nicer to my sister, that sort of thing.
The piece of this that is new, though, is that they were both asked a follow up question:
How are you going to achieve your goals?
How.
Isn’t that dynamite?
I mean, how many of us still put grandiose goals on our to-do lists, things like Publish six books by next August without ever really considering the steps we need to take to get there?
Y’know, steps like write, revise, revise, revise, share, absorb critique, revise, revise, revise, submit, write something new while waiting, revise, revise, revise…
Instead, there is an inordinate amount of time spent bemoaning the fact that nothing has happened!
Well.
Um… duh.
By the time my daughters have creative/professional/academic/familial lives of their own, this whole process will be old hat. Lucky them.
I love watching evolution happen.
HOW is an excellent question. Makes one realize that a goal of “publishing 6 books” isn’t doable unless one is self-publishing, because it relies on the decisions and actions of others, for instance.
What great training for their lives ahead. We all need to remember to ask ourselves HOW.
making it happen
What a great idea Liz. I’ve been wondering when the Abraham Hicks folks will do something for kids as their work has been really helpful for me in terms of focus on what you want, not what you don’t want, attraction plans, etc.
Oh yeah — and I loved your last column about the lady at REI. yeah! for standing up for your kids. Sometimes they can really show us the way and give all of us growth opportunities@
have you done vision boards
I would like to do a kids group around this one…the last post was from me too — but I’m not logged in to this group but took your link from Facebook.
xo,
laura alexander roberts
Best year yet
Ah yes! It’s the Your Best Year Yet version for kids. What are your goals? How will you achieve them. Carrie Contey leading me through that process has altered my years for sure. That is so awesome. I love watching my own kids learn at 6, 9 and 11 what I had to wait until my 40s to learn!
They are on their way sister!