Here’s a sobering thought:
Only 8% of people achieve the goals they set for the New Year.
The reason?
They don’t have a clue if their goals are actually achievable by the deadline that they set and they are hoping by sheer will power things will work out.
This post explains what you’re doing wrong and what you need to do now to achieve your goals this year.
I can’t believe it’s already time for my 2017 year in review. Christmas music starts playing in my home as early as November. The voices of Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Michael Buble – they instantly get me in the mood to decorate, bake ginger cookies and wear ugly Christmas sweaters. This is also the time when I review my 2017. I’ve never done a year in review post but had always enjoyed reading other people’s year in review post.
Have you been seeing the words “life coaching” in various different online resources and wondered what exactly is that? What does a life coach do? What don’t a life coach do and what happens when someone invest in a life coaching series?
What is life coaching?
According to the ICF (International Coach Federation), coaching is defined as:
… partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential,
Speaking of feeling overwhelmed…Not long ago, I experienced my “hit-bottom” days. My kids had been sick, my husband had just gotten better and gotten sick again. Being the only one who had been healthy and making sure the household is running smoothly, I finally cracked from being incredibly overwhelmed.
Has this happened to you?
When my life becomes overwhelming like that, I lean on the following practices that never fail to make me feel better.
Have you ever been on Facebook groups and read others’ successes, 6-figure income, the seemingly overnight success story and immediately feel a pain in your chest? You’re ashamed that you’re jealous of others’ success but you don’t know how to get over it. You want to immediately scroll past that post (+ eye rolls) so you never see it again but you can’t stop reading because you want to know their secret. What is it that they know that you don’t?
After your 9 to 5, you still have to make dinner, clean up and put the kids to bed. After all that, you’re probably too exhausted to work on your blog. If your day is already so full just trying to juggle everything, how on earth do you find the time or energy to even build anything online?
I’ve been asked this question a lot and here are some of the things I practice that really help me stretch time and get traction on things that matter to me.
When you’re a mom with a day job, there’s never enough time. The hours left behind each day after the kids are in bed are tired hours. All you want to do at that point is a) clean up so that you’ll be ready for battle tomorrow, b) watch tv/eat/drink so you can forget about the day and the restlessness that is brewing inside you.
After all, you deserve it.
Paint/write/work on your passion project?
I wish I had started blogging in 2009. Why 2009? That’s the year I first thought of trying out blogging. If I had, I wonder how my life will be different. Would my online business be further ahead because I’ve been consistently sharing my content? Would I have developed relationships with people who share the same interests as me?
So why blog? There are so many blogs being created every day. Many of these blogs are very successful.