154: How to Set Goals When the Future is Uncertain with Laura Lee Mattingly
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this episode of the Feel Good Effect, we're talking about setting goals and doing meaningful work when the future is uncertain with Laura Lee Mattingly. We talk about how to find motivation and work on things that matter to you by focusing on the now and on what you can control.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the feel-good effect. Do you ever struggle setting goals when the future is uncertain |
| 0:06.8 | or find yourself in that place where you don't know what's going to happen next, so you're having |
| 0:12.5 | trouble finding that motivation for now? Well, that's exactly what we are talking about today. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's make it happen. |
| 0:27.2 | Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel-good effect will help you redefine wellness on your terms. Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't |
| 0:32.9 | about achieving another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you. |
| 0:38.9 | Drawing from cutting edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, this podcast |
| 0:43.5 | offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in |
| 0:49.4 | everyday life, and allows you to embrace the idea that gentle is the new perfect. I invite you to listen in as |
| 0:56.6 | we cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that create huge changes in your life. |
| 1:01.5 | Thus striving, more ease. It's time to feel good. Well, hey, feel good fam. I am so glad you're here. Today we are talking about how to set goals or |
| 1:16.6 | work on something that matters to you when you have absolutely no control of the future, |
| 1:22.0 | particularly relevant right now as we are living in this global pandemic, but really has always been |
| 1:27.3 | true, right? We've never had |
| 1:29.2 | control of the future. So being able to find a way to focus on what's now is more important |
| 1:35.6 | than ever. And who better to have this conversation with than somebody's whose entire job |
| 1:41.7 | is really about being goal-oriented, working on things that really matter |
| 1:45.9 | long-term, but with having absolutely no control of what's going to happen in the future. |
| 1:51.5 | So today we are speaking with Laura Lee Maddingly. |
| 1:55.5 | Laura Lee is a literary agent and partner at present perfect literary, where she specializes in the categories of |
| 2:02.2 | wellness, self-help, social justice, spirituality, narrative nonfiction, essay collections, and career |
| 2:08.2 | and business. So a lot of things going on for Loreley. Her passion is developing books that help |
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