In 2023 I felt really stuck. I’d been doing the same kind of content in my career and I was on the road to recovery after a mental breakdown but still struggling. Here’s what helped me stay positive and make progress when I could have just sailed off my crypto winnings 👇

Lady. Crypto & NFT HODLer. Not a maxi. Enjoying life in NYC mostly with a partner and puppy. My job is making movies

But how do you isolate 10 goals? Well, I also like to do a presentation to myself in canva for each quarter. These have a recap of my proudest moments/achievements and gratitude from the quarter before and then builds on them. 

It lets you say “by April I want to x” and then you can break that down to smaller tasks that become a top 10 goal. 

So if you want to lose 10 lbs by April, then your goal is to calorie track and get steps in with a goal of 1 lbs a week.

My quarterly presentation breaks my life into different spheres: professional, relationships, and self.  Professional is about work, finances, and how I want to grow in this regard. Relationships are around family, partnership, and friends. Self is mental and physical health, as well as my home, appearance, and travel

I tend to do 4 professional goals, 3 relationship goals, 3 self goals. You can do more or less. 

So…now the planner. I have a daily planner for the month. I take my 10 goals and then figure out how to make daily progress. I schedule because planning lets me be flexible.

I also keep pages free to log wins. It’s so easy to not celebrate the progress. It’s so easy to just move on, but the truth is it’s important to log these so if/when you don’t get a goal done you can see all that did. 

At the end of the quarter I reevaluate and if there’s a goal consistently not getting achieved I have to ask myself how badly I want it.

All this has made it so when the year ends and I feel bad about myself I can check in with the reality…which is that a lot actually got accomplished. 

This system has helped me so much over two very hard years and I hope it helps you. Esp in a world that feels chaotic, it’s nice to exercise control

I start each year calling out 3 very achievable goals. This could be weight lifting, reading goal, travel goal, or savings goal. 

I have a white board that is on my front door and I write those there so I see them daily. Then in the other space I write the month and top 10 goals.