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3 Lessons I Learned Setting Holistic Goals
It is never too late to set intentions for the New Year.
Not everybody is able to set amazing goals and actually follow through on them. In fact, most people don’t maintain their New Year’s resolutions more than two weeks into the year. Even right now, after almost a year of groundhog-day pandemic living where days merge into nights and then repeat in a seemingly endless conveyor belt of repetition, it can be hard to even make goals as so much in the future seems uncertain.
How can we set goals when we do not live in a somewhat stable situation? Without something solid to build our goals upon, it can be really challenging to build habits upon which our goals so often rest.
That is the beauty of setting goals holistically. In this way, goals are not out there standing alone like the myth of rugged individualism, somehow connecting with only one fragment of our lives and seemingly do it perfectly. I have found just the opposite — when personal goals stand alone, they tend to fall apart that way as well, as they are literally . . . isolated from our lives.
Take the sorts of goals people commonly make:
- Eat more healthily
- Work out more
- Pay off my debt
