165. The Gift of Goal Constraint
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
If you set lots of goals, but find you’re only making small advances towards each one, or you feel yourself burning out quickly when you go all-in, this episode is for you. Discover why goal restraint is one of the best gifts you can give yourself, and how to start making progress in one primary area at a time to experience the ripple effects that will make working on your other goals easier and quicker.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 165, The Gift of Goal Constraint. |
| 0:07.6 | Are you the type of person who wants to make changes in multiple areas of life and do all the things? |
| 0:14.3 | So you set lots of goals, but then you find yourself either making only small advances toward each goal or going all in, |
| 0:22.6 | but burning out quickly. |
| 0:24.5 | Then you quit, beat yourself up, and make it mean you'll never be able to change in the areas |
| 0:28.9 | that matter to you, or you avoid goal setting entirely. |
| 0:32.8 | If this sounds familiar and you're also dealing with life after losing your spouse, |
| 0:37.0 | I have been where you are and I have a dealing with life after losing your spouse. |
| 0:41.7 | I have been where you are and I have a solution for you in today's episode. |
| 0:42.7 | Let's go. |
| 0:56.9 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to. Here's your host, master certified life coach, grief expert, widow, and mom, |
| 1:04.5 | Krista St. Germain. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. No one asked me, but it's going to be 107 tomorrow. I am not |
| 1:16.9 | interested in 107 and never have I ever been more grateful for air conditioning. My parents are |
| 1:22.9 | having problems with theirs right now. And oh my gosh, I'm just, oh, they might need to come over to my house |
| 1:28.3 | tomorrow. We'll see. So a couple of things before we jump into the podcast episode. One, just a |
| 1:33.9 | reminder, August 1st, the price goes up for mom goes on and it goes up substantially. So if you've |
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| 1:46.0 | You go to coaching with Krista.com and you click on the work with me page and you apply. And that is |
| 1:49.9 | because not everyone is ready for what we offer and we don't make offers until we're confident |
| 1:55.3 | that we can help. If it's not a good fit for you at this time, we'll get you some other resources |
| 2:00.6 | that help meet you |
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