174: How to Rethink & Reclaim Goal Setting this Year
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Feel Good Effect, we're rethinking and reclaiming the way we approach goal setting. We’ll dive into new year’s resolutions (and why they often don’t work), January Syndrome, “new year, new you”, and some simple feel good practices you can use instead.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the feel good effect. |
| 0:03.8 | Imagine it is January 1st, 2020. |
| 0:08.1 | You sit down to do a little self-reflection, maybe set a few goals or a few intentions, |
| 0:18.0 | maybe even set a few resolutions. |
| 0:24.8 | You go about your day and your week and your month, |
| 0:33.5 | and then we know what happens. Hindsight is 2020 in 2020. And if anything, the year has shown us why traditional goal setting doesn't work particularly well and why it doesn't work at all when |
| 0:40.8 | things go off the rails or unpredictable things happen. Look, 2020 was as predictable as it gets, |
| 0:49.3 | but I don't think that it's really that unusual in a year in a 12-month period for things to not go |
| 0:55.8 | the way we think they're going to, for people to get sick, for us to get sick, for plans to |
| 1:01.6 | get canceled, for plans to change. And so when we don't know what's going to happen in the future, |
| 1:06.9 | when we don't have control over it, because p.S. we never did. How do you get grounded and |
| 1:14.9 | clear and focused on what really matters? How do you get results without getting stuck when |
| 1:23.2 | things don't go as planned? That is exactly what we're talking about today. Let's make it happen. |
| 1:32.7 | Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel-good effect will help you redefine wellness on |
| 1:37.8 | your terms. Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about |
| 1:43.4 | achieving another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you. |
| 1:49.2 | Drawing from cutting edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, this podcast offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life and allows you to embrace the idea |
| 2:02.6 | that gentle is the new perfect. I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter and find |
| 2:08.3 | the small shifts that create huge changes in your life, thus striving, more ease. It's time to feel good. |
| 2:27.7 | Well, hey, feel good, fam. I am so glad you're here. If you are listening in real time, welcome to the last episode of 2020. And if you're listening in the future, I'm really glad you're here as well, |
| 2:35.5 | because this conversation about goal setting and focusing on what matters and working toward |
| 2:41.6 | results is relevant whether it is the end of the year, the beginning of the year, or any |
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