#429 Skills Sprint: Goal setting

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 19 of 20 in the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint. Today, Helen and Sarah talk about goal setting and how knowing what matters to you and what change to make it happen helps you focus and achieve more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the penultimate episode of the Squiggly Career Skill Sprint.
0:06.5	Are you excited?
0:07.5	Yes.
0:07.8	It's like we're nearly there.
0:08.9	Everyone's, everyone's sprinting for quite a long time.
0:10.9	19.
0:11.5	This is 19 skills that you have invested in learning as part of this sprint.
0:15.6	So I'm proud of our listeners.
0:18.7	Good.
0:19.1	Great.
0:19.5	I mean, she's proud too.
0:20.4	It's like in, it's too. It's like in.
0:20.9	It's deep.
0:21.3	It's deep in her.
0:22.3	So for this skill, we're going to talk about goal setting.
0:26.6	And I think goal setting can feel a bit intimidating.
0:30.1	You know, when you think of goals, you like I feel like they should be like these massive achievements that we should all be aiming for. But I think if you don't have goals, the risk is,
0:39.4	A, you can kind of be a bit aimless and perhaps maybe spreading your attention across too many
0:44.4	things. There's always lots of demands on our days. We're always very busy. And I think when you
0:49.6	don't have goals, often the signal that it's not working is you know you get to an end of a week
0:54.4	or often maybe an end of a quarter or a year and you don't really feel like you've moved forward
1:00.3	in a way that you feel proud of. So you've sort of not made the progress that you were hoping to make.
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