Tips for goal-setting obsessives
plus, an exciting announcement tonight!!!
Like everybody else, I’ve been panicking about when to review and set some goals over the last few weeks. I’ve been wanting to find the right time, set the mood, and think deeply about what I want 2025 to bring.
Then it hit me… 2025 doesn’t have to do, or be, anything. How 2025 will go is down to what I want to bring to the world.
What energy, what excuses, what determination, and what focus.
So, in the last few days of the 100 day sprint… I started a new challenge on top. Project 60. 🤭
ICYMI: I’m hosting a free goal + action setting workshop tomorrow (Monday 30th) at 7pm. We’re focussing on how to set goals and identify the actions to build discipline—it’s the highest leverage goal you can build.
In this issue:
Don’t worry about finding new goals
I was reviewing my goals, and I’ll be honest—I’ve only achieved 1 of the 4 goals I set myself in early 2024. That’s because I didn’t think I was going to quit my job this year, so some of my goals ended up needing a little adjustment.
However when I was reflecting on the progress of those 4 goals, I thought to myself… I’d love to try and hit these goals this year. The one goal I did achieve provided me with a lot of self-discipline and accountability, and I can now leverage that into the other 3 that I missed.
They obviously meant a lot to me to set these goals in the first place, and while I definitely have new milestones and adjusted goals based on being a self-employed creative, there’s nothing wrong with using the end of the year as a reflection point and changing only what needs to be changed.
Have a think about whether you’re pulling new goals out of a magician’s hat just because it’s the end of the year, or if they’re actually tied to 2025.
Are there goals that you can readjust and try again with next year?
Software development strikes again
In her episode, she talks about the 7 questions she and her husband go through every year, to reflect, readjust and restart. I thought it was really similar to having a retrospective, with the ‘stop, start, continue’ framework.
In software development, a retrospective is defined as:
A retrospective is a meeting held after a product ships to discuss what happened during the product development and release process, with the goal of improving things in the future based on those learnings and conversations.
You can use different frameworks to pull out the things to improve, what went well, what didn’t etc—but I love the stop, start, continue method.
Doing this for your personal goals is simply a more emotional and insightful retrospective that allows you to highlight the good as well as what could be improved.
What can you stop, start and continue in 2025?
What in the… Project 60?!
Completing 75 hard has simply taught me that the confines of a challenge, and using a trip as an accountability anchor really works for me to hold myself accountable.
A few days before Christmas, I layered another challenge onto the last few days of the 100 day sprint. I’m heading to South America in a couple of months and will be working from out there, celebrating friends getting married and travelling.
So with this trip being 60 days away from when I started, I decided to call it project 60. I made myself a tracker, I’m prioritising the daily tasks, and I’m practising the self-discipline I started to build in 2024.
My goal is to really square up my physical fitness, read and stay disciplined with my business so that I have a system to lean on whilst travelling.
You’re the first to know that I’ve committed myself to this, so if you see any vlogs coming out soon… comment with a 🌎 (globe showing the Americas 🤣) and let me know you’re from the newsletter gang!!!
100 Day Sprint is ending on Tuesday!
I simply cannot believe the challenge is coming to a close. Personally, I have some big wins:
I’ve read way more in Q4
I wrote daily, resulting in you getting this newsletter consistently
Movement is a daily practice for me
Daily planning has become a very peaceful evening ritual
Plus, I’m so much more aware of the excuses that I come up with when things get hard, and how I productively procrastinate. I’ve got so much data to take into 2025 to really ramp up my goals.
We’re having the final reflection session of the challenge this evening where I’ll also be announcing the winner, their prize and details about cohort 2!!! Please RSVP if you’re coming along.
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Have a great New Year’s Eve!
Devamsha xo
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