197. Goal Setting Challenges + Solutions: Listener QA
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you believe that goals are only worthwhile if they seem extremely challenging? Do you worry about what will happen if you set a goal that is literally impossible to achieve? Do you start out eager to create a new habit and then do a complete 180 and want to rebel against the new “rule” you’ve created for yourself?
In this Listener QA episode, I’m working through common challenges that listeners face when setting and working toward their goals. Tune in to learn how to use coaching tools to set great goals and then overcome all your brain’s drama in order to achieve them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.1 | All right, my chicken. |
| 0:29.0 | So if you are in the clutch, you know that we are about to open up registration for our next |
| 0:36.8 | clutch college live which is all about goal setting how to set goals how to |
| 0:42.3 | make sure you achieve your goals how to set goals, how to make sure you achieve your goals, how to deal with the kind of normal |
| 0:45.8 | challenges and obstacles that come up, right? |
| 0:48.7 | Because what happens with most of us is we make a goal, we just |
| 0:53.0 | the goal. We feel great about the goal when it's all abstract. And then once we |
| 0:58.2 | start trying to actually achieve the goal, doubt and fear and |
| 1:01.6 | confusion come up and we just give up. |
| 1:04.0 | And so we are devoting an entire three-day clutch college |
| 1:07.5 | to setting big goals and learning how to actually achieve them |
| 1:11.5 | and take action on them. |
| 1:13.0 | And that is what we're talking about in the podcast today too, |
| 1:16.1 | because obviously if you're in the clutch, |
| 1:18.2 | I absolutely encourage you to come to clutch college. |
| 1:21.6 | It is a totally transformative life-changing event, |
| 1:25.5 | but not everybody can come. It is very seat limited because we want everyone to get lots of personal attention. |
| 1:32.3 | So I want everyone to learn about how to set goals, how to achieve their goals, even if you |
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