Start With A Theme If You Want To Achieve Your Goals

A different way towards success

Aphinya Dechalert
Black Cat Diaries

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I suck at goals.

They either start off too big and ambitious — or are entirely unachievable.

Yup. That’s me.

If you’re having the same problem, year after year, week after week, goal after goal, then you should give theme setting a try.

What is theme setting?

Theme setting is something I’ve discovered recently for myself.

It’s the idea of setting an overarching idea of what you want to become over the next 12 to 24 months. There are two components to set a theme:

  • the vision
  • the timeframe

Both of these are important because the vision gives you the blank space to figure out your path. The timeframe gives you a deadline.

While the deadline often looks far away, the journey towards the vision is often dotted with events, activities, and mini-goals. The months in between are not idle time. Rather, it’s the time you take to consistently figure out the path towards what you want to achieve.

Why it works

The point of theme setting is that gives you a compass to work with, rather than…

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Aphinya Dechalert
Black Cat Diaries

Where Development Meets Storytelling: Tech Writer, Editor & Dev Advocate. Translating Complexity into Clarity. DM me. linkedin.com/in/dechalert