Hey, hey, hey, this is Jennifer Allwood, and this is the Jennifer Allwood show where we talk about creating a beautiful home and building a creative business. Well, hello everyone.

Welcome back to the podcast.

I'm so glad to be with you again here today and be able to chat just a little bit about kind of a

well this isn't what you hear most of the time after you start the new year.

This isn't what most people are

podcasting about in January or blogging about in January or talking about in

January, but I want to talk today about not setting any goals for the year,

about the art of anti-goal setting, actually, and how some years I think that we're called to just be more gentle with our self and less

pushing, pushing, pushing.

And so that's what I want to chat with you about today. I know that when I did a

Facebook live on this topic a few weeks ago I was shocked at the response that I got from people

who are just so tired of seeing all the setting your goal posts for January

and pushing posts in January and the posts that kind of make them feel lesser than because they know they probably

should be setting goals and yet they just can't and that's actually exactly how I

feel this year I'm going into 2018, way different from any other year.

And most of the time, I am just such a goal setter

and I love having big goals and I love pushing myself I mean this is the

girl who bought her first home at 21 you don't do that unless you're someone who

pushes herself you know this is the girl who has did 10 triathlons in five years and will be doing

another one again this year and, you know, didn't swim. So I love a good goal, you guys.

I'm here to tell you, I love not only setting goals but the real high the real

sexy part for me comes in the attainment of the goals and so love goals but we've rolled around know, this year to the end of 2017 and it was just

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