We\u2019re at the end of January and you may be thinking that you didn\u2019t start the year off the way that you had hoped. Trust me, I\u2019ve been there. It can be disheartening to feel like you haven\u2019t started the year the way that you wanted to. The good news is that it\u2019s not too late to start working on your goals!<\/p>\n
The truth is that you don\u2019t need to wait for the start of the year, the start of the month or the start of the week to begin working on your goals. The perfect time to start is whenever you\u2019re ready to. If you\u2019re not ready to start, then you\u2019ve got to ask yourself why. What\u2019s really stopping you from taking action towards your goals?<\/p>\n
If fear is what\u2019s holding you back from doing what needs to be done, you\u2019ve got to ask yourself how bad you really want your goal to become a reality. If it isn\u2019t important enough for you to face your fears, then maybe it\u2019s time to find another goal that is important to you. If you\u2019re not ready to give up on your goal, then you\u2019ve got to find a way to acknowledge your fears and decided that you\u2019re going to take action in spite of them.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m reading Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s Big Magic<\/em> and she talks about taking fear along as a passenger on her way to achieving her goals. I love this concept because denying that fear exists isn\u2019t realistic. She talks about letting her fears now that they can come along for the ride, but they will never be in control of where she\u2019s headed. I think that\u2019s a great way to look at our fears. Acknowledge they exist, but don\u2019t give your power away to them!<\/p>\n If your issue is that you don\u2019t where to start, then it\u2019s time to work on a plan. You know what you want to achieve, so the first step is identifying what you need to do to get you there. Once you know what you need to do, then the next step is to develop a plan to make those things happen. What resources do you need? Do you need help? Where to you need to go or who do you need to talk to? Once you get clear on those things, you can then start to do the work to make your goals happen.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t beat yourself up about the progress you haven\u2019t made. Give yourself credit for being honest about where you are with your goals. Commit to taking action. Ask for help when and where you need it. Know that you are worthy of the goals you want and believe that it\u2019s possible for them to become a reality. Remember that it\u2019s never too late to start and there\u2019s never going to be a perfect time to start, so stop waiting and get started!\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re at the end of January and you may be thinking that you didn\u2019t start the year off the way that you had hoped. Trust me, I\u2019ve been there. It can be disheartening to feel like you haven\u2019t started the year the way that you wanted to. The good news is that it\u2019s not too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[596,597,1239,1128,1240,1241,822,502,1179,308,12,445,537,588,817],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday","tag-accomplishment","tag-achievement","tag-acknowledging-fear","tag-ask-for-help","tag-big-magic","tag-commit","tag-elizabeth-gilbert","tag-embrace-your-destiny","tag-facing-fears","tag-fears","tag-fresh-start","tag-goals","tag-sandra-dawes","tag-success","tag-taking-action"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}