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Choosing 23 Goals for 2023
Four years later, I’m still making my list
Do you make New Year’s goals?
Are you still working towards these goals by January 14? February 1?
Gretchen Rubin — you may know her as the author of The Happiness Project — makes a list of goals using the last two numbers of the year: 22 goals for 2022, 23 goals for 2023.
Rubin has plenty of quotes surrounding goals and habits circulating the internets, and this is one of them:
Studies show that hitting a goal releases chemicals in the brain that give you pleasure. No delay is the best way.
Since 2019, I have been creating my yearly list of goals prior to the New Year and working through them. The photo above is one of my goals in 2022 — to travel to the Linville Gorge in North Carolina. I can attest to this system. It works!
Writing your goals is the first step — and I’ve discovered this is how I can be consistent.
Currently, my list is a Word document saved on a thumb drive that I update whenever I’m working on my budget. I’m thinking of hand-writing the list and posting to the side of my fridge, too — because for me, out of sight, out of…
