Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. I'm talking to you today about why you need to be

relentlessly committed to your goals and your happiness. So we are all humans. That means we

tend to follow the human pattern of descending into chaos. That is part of this earthly existence.

But when we set goals and when we are relentlessly committed, things can start to rise from that

chaos. We can start to improve and we love that feeling of achievement. So let me ask you a question. What helps you feel

the greatest sense of achievement? What helps you feel the biggest sense of accomplishment?

For me, actually, I've narrowed it down. I feel the greatest sense of accomplishment from two things. First of all,

completing my morning routine with the critical ones of exercise, green juice, meditation, prayer.

Those are my big ones in the morning. And then second of all, spending time with each of my

family members, really listening. But I've started kind of a new thing

with them, and that is helping them focus on and achieve their goals. So I have a sheet of paper,

and it has, let me count how many squares across the top. Okay, 13 squares across the top.

Now you might be rolling your eyes and saying, oh, Jen, such an overachiever. Well, not really. I've been through six kids and I have one graduating in a year from now. And I'm just now figuring out that I need this. So I'm passing on this tip. This is a sheet and across the top are things that help to remind me

to have a conversation with my kids about their goals because it feels so good to accomplish and

achieve and it helps us with fighting that chaos that we're all prone to as human beings.

I like to fill out this sheet with each of my kids every week or so.

So across the top, imagining these 13 cells, here's how I made it. I opened a doc, a document.

I said, insert table, and I made the table be 13 by, I don't know, how many ever squares fit.

And I made it in landscape mode. So across the top,

I have date, the date, then social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, exercise, food, financial.

And I'll tell you the other five in a minute. I want to check in with my kids

on their goals and their achievements in each of these areas, social, emotional, spiritual,

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