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The Lazy Genius Podcast

#90 - Set the Right Goals Without Fizzling Out

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Goal setting can be a dangerous game. We can go overboard and try to do all the things, but when we don’t, we feel like complete failures. This week’s episode, I share three steps to help you move from goal-setting that doesn’t work to a mindset that does so that January starts feeling more exciting than terrifying. Links You May Find Helpful: Listen to last year’s New Year’s episode The Lazy Genius Sets Goals and read How to Set Goals Like a Normal Person. Here’s Emily P. Freeman’s The Next Right Thing podcast (p.s. she’s coming out with a book by the same name in April!). If you feel inspired in the new year to try something new, there’s a Lazy Genius way to do that. Sign up for a free PDF of questions to guide your intentions each month. Download a transcript of this episode! This podcast is hosted by Kendra Adachi and executive produced by Kendra Adachi, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, happy new year.

0:04.3

Welcome to the lazy genius podcast.

0:06.4

I'm Kendra and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy

0:09.9

about the things that don't.

0:11.5

Today is episode number 90.

0:14.2

Set the right goals without fizzling out.

0:16.8

Okay, so I like new years.

0:18.9

I like January's and new calendars and fresh starts.

0:22.8

It feels very hopeful and exciting.

0:25.1

Like the whole world's in front of me.

0:27.9

Something assaturated and possibility.

0:30.7

But we know the story.

0:32.0

We set a lot of goals and then we fail pretty much all of them.

0:35.8

Things don't go the way we want.

0:36.8

We have bad days.

0:38.1

We forget to track the right things and then we get so behind in our daily gratitude journal

0:44.0

that it just fizzles out.

0:45.7

And then when we find that mostly empty journal in July, we are reminded of our failure yet

0:52.7

again.

0:53.7

And enough January's like that will often lead us to finding a new way, trying to figure

0:58.2

out how to improve as people without falling into a shame spiral every winter.

1:04.1

That might have been you last year.

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