{"id":608,"date":"2021-01-14T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brighteyedsmiles.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:46:07","slug":"2021_goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brighteyedsmiles.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/14\/2021_goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions & Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Please note today’s post is the first to include a bit of ‘story time’ with background on how I arrived on the self improvement journey. <3<\/em><\/p>\n

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New Year! New me?<\/h1>\n

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Made it to day 14 of the new year! A bit of research on www.statista.com indicated the top 2 most common resolutions surround the topic of health: exercise and eating healthier. Interestingly, resolutions around family time popped up like never before according to forbes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Making resolutions can be fun and hopeful, especially in the first few days of a new year when things feel fresh and we have 12 full beautiful months ahead! Think back on your own resolution-making. Can you pin-point specific years where you accomplished your goals and saw progress within the year of which they were set?<\/p>\n

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Resolution Setting and Goals<\/h1>\n

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So far on BrightEyedSmiles, we have not discussed resolution setting, instead we focused on goal setting. The two are similar but not the same.<\/p>\n

Resolutions are typically\u00a0 broad, something like ‘workout more’ or ‘save more money.’ An increasingly number of people are setting resolutions which is positive as long as they are more than passing thoughts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

My recommendation is to turn resolutions into specific goals with outcomes attached.\u00a0 Eat healthier becomes ‘cook at home 3 times a week, removing cheese from my diet’.\u00a0 Connect with family becomes ‘call my favorite cousin once a week, respond to texts within a day, make plans to social distant see sibling’.<\/p>\n

Making a statement using the goal\u00a0 and it’s purpose results in an even stronger resolution! An example is: Cook 3 times a week and remove cheese so that I save money and my skin clears up.<\/p>\n

That being said, let’s do a mid-month check-in with ourselves to see how we are feeling about the steps we have taken thus far to setup 2021 for success!<\/p>\n

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Mid-month check in!<\/h1>\n

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Hoping you have been following along the blog and perhaps your goals are set.\u00a0 Vision boards<\/a> are in plan sight, and some soul searching is partially complete?\u00a0 Maybe you have even used the intention setting<\/a> post this week!<\/p>\n

Even if you have only just thought of your resolutions or only have your Word of the Year 2021 selected, it is still a good time to check-in on progress!<\/p>\n

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Word of the Year:<\/strong>\u00a0Does it still fit for your 2021 dreams (be real with yourself!)<\/p>\n

Focus Areas:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you want to subtract or add anything?<\/p>\n

Goals<\/strong>: Have you made progress, are you on track toward accomplishing your January goals? Do any adjustments need to be made? Can you schedule anything today to get them moving?<\/p>\n

Timing:\u00a0<\/strong>Is there anything you accomplished sooner than expected and want to rearrange your list?<\/p>\n

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1. MINDFULNESS : Need to check my attitude<\/h4>\n

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