Four Ideas to Help You Meet Your Personal Goals

Goals give you something to strive for in your journey through life. They can help you to see when you’re on target and when you’re veering off course. They also help you to feel like you’re doing more than just crossing things off your task list every day.

Drill Down into Smaller Chunks

Look at your biggest goal and you might start to notice that it’s a rather large goal. In fact, it might even be two or more goals that you’ve lumped into one. If you can break down your goal at all, do so. Some goals, like improving your physical health, are vague and general. You can become healthier in a variety of ways and because of a variety of changes. You might want to pick one or two aspects to improve your health overall.

Keep Your Goals as Realistic as Possible

If you’re not making goals that you can reasonably achieve, you’re going to become disenchanted with them and probably with yourself. You can always set bigger and better goals when you start to achieve your first few goals, but if you’re shooting for the moon too early, you’ll wind up discouraged when you didn’t have to be.

You Don’t Have to Hold onto Goals that Don’t Fit

Just because you’ve set a goal, that doesn’t mean you have to keep it. For instance, maybe you read up on Paleo and you decide to change your entire way of eating to fit the Paleo diet. But you realize that you don’t enjoy it or there are other reasons, especially ones related to your health, that keep you from being strict with your diet in those ways. You don’t have to keep that goal now that you’ve found it doesn’t work for you. It’s okay to change or to abandon goals when they don’t fit.

Some Should Be Caregiving Goals

You do need to have some goals as a caregiver. You might not be sure what those goals should be, though. Look at what you need and what your senior needs from you. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, one of your priority goals might be finding home care providers you can rely on. Or another goal might be setting aside some time for you every single week. Those are goals that benefit you as a caregiver and as a person.

Setting goals doesn’t have to be difficult. Look at what you want to accomplish and where you want to be, and you’ll start to see how you can get there.

Excerpt: Goals help you to continue to make progress, both personally and as a caregiver.

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