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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to make space for goal setting.

If you want to succeed in reaching your goals, you should make sure these goals are well chosen

and well thought through.

Figuring all that out requires time, but it is generally time well spent.

So I am writing this a few weeks after I returned from a goal-setting retreat in Florida.

My Best of Both World's podcast co-host, Sarah Hart Unger,

also runs a podcast called Best Laid Plans,

which is about all things planning.

She hosted the retreat where about 20 of us came together to plan out the next year.

Now, I know not everyone can carve out three days of their lives for planning, and I know that the next year will happen whether I set goals or not. Some of my goals might not happen

for reasons I can't control. That said, thinking about how I'd like to spend my time over the next

year vastly increases the chances that what I want to have happen happens. With that, not all goals are created equal.

Sometimes people set goals like lose weight or get in shape.

But what does that mean?

Life is lived in hours.

How do you intend to use your hours to achieve these goals?

What steps will be involved?

What will you be doing on an average Tuesday to work toward these goals?

When I set my goals for the past year, I spent some time thinking through what I would actually

do.

I have long wanted to write a collection of sonnets, but I had never

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