I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Eniagram and coffee.

Hello friends, happy Tuesday.

I hope your day is treating you well. Today we are continuing on with the New

Year's Extravaganza with an episode on goal setting and why I don't do it anymore.

And I know you might be thinking Sarah Jane,'t you doing a no spendier this year?

Isn't that a goal? And to that I say no, it's not. That is a commitment I made to myself. It is a plan. Now let's talk for a minute about the difference between goals and plans. So a goal is the desired outcome or a result that I would receive from the plan, from doing the thing I said I was going to do.

It's often metric-based, you know, I'm going to make a certain amount of money, I'm going to gain a certain

amount of followers, I'm going to lose a certain amount of weight. It's often expressed in terms of what you will

accomplish, what will be given to you, what the result will be.

Am I going to get a promotion?

Am I going to start a business?

I'm going to learn a new skill.

Now goals are typically broad right and they're focused on an end result the

outcome of the behavior I'm going to be fluent in French by the end of the year.

And I like to think of it as these are goals are often actually out of your control.

You can do everything that you can do to meet a goal, right? I can take all the

behaviors that I intend to take this year to make a million dollars, and I still may not make a million dollars.

I cannot guarantee that that will be the outcome, right?

So to me, that is the major difference between a goal and a plan is what you can and cannot control.

So I don't set goals because I actually have very little to do with those goals.

I make plans. A plan is a detailed strategy.

It's a series of actions designed to accomplish what you intend to accomplish.

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