Mediocre Goals for the New Year: My plan to do less and achieve more
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Hey and Happy New Year!
If you've been a long time listener of this podcast you will know I love James Clear and his book 'Atomic Habits'. It's been my bible of habit change for such a long time now.
James Clear suggests that the most effective way to create lasting change and form new habits is to shift our identity and focus on becoming the type of person who embodies the habits we want to cultivate, as apposed to focusing on outcomes.
Lately I've realized I have been extremely focused on outcome goals and whilst thinking about my new year goals I've decided that I need to be OK with being mediocre, so I can do less but achieve more.
In this episode I'll be discussing 5 reasons mediocrity can help combat perfectionism and why setting mediocre goals for myself is helping me to fight all or nothing thinking and behavior and help me achieve success.
Podcast Resources
A lot of these concepts were also inspired by James Clear and Greg Mckeown and you can find the links to their books below👇
Essentialism - Greg Mckeown
https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown/dp/0804137382
Atomic Habits - James Clear
https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
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How to break bad habits once and for all 👇
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea and if you are struggling to lose weight on a plant-based diet, then this podcast is for you. While there are thousands of books, podcasts and resources about the benefits of a plant-based diet, the reality is that being vegan does not |
| 0:21.9 | guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start, |
| 0:28.6 | or you know exactly what you should be doing, but you just can't seem to rustle up enough |
| 0:34.1 | willpower to do it, then keep listening. In this podcast, you'll learn the truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly, |
| 0:42.0 | how to use proven methods of behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits |
| 0:48.0 | that lead to getting and staying lean. |
| 0:51.2 | Can't wait to get started. |
| 0:53.1 | Let's do this. |
| 1:07.7 | Music lean. Can't wait to get started. Let's do this. Hello and welcome to the Lena Plants podcast. I'm really nervous and excited to bring this episode to you because it's a little bit, I don't know if controversial is the right word, but it's kind of different to what I would normally want to be bringing into the new year. |
| 1:26.5 | And you probably figured out from the title that I'm going to be talking into the new year. And you probably figured out from the title |
| 1:28.3 | that I'm going to be talking about having mediocre goals, which pretty much every year of my |
| 1:33.9 | life I'm setting big goals. I'm wanting to make huge changes. And I realized at the end of 2020, that some of the things I thought were going to happen this year. |
| 1:50.5 | Like I was like, I was so sure that I would be in a different place than what I was at the end of 2021. |
| 1:58.2 | And it was a wake up call because I had this realization that I'm waiting to feel |
| 2:05.9 | happier, less stressed and have more time and be there, whatever there looks like, |
| 2:15.9 | until all of these things happen and I'm I'm |
| 2:20.6 | bottlenecking or I'm allowing my my happiness and my sense of calm to be tied to a goal |
| 2:30.7 | that I don't feel like I'm getting closer to or that I didn't achieve. |
| 2:35.5 | And it's funny when you look back on pictures and videos of your children when they're younger |
| 2:41.4 | and you'd kind of do anything to go back in time and hold your little babies and, you know, |
| 2:48.2 | deal with the mess of having a toddler and all that stuff. But then |
| 2:53.0 | and so hard in the moment in the day to day to appreciate where you are. Like it's so easy |
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