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This week on the podcast, we're doing a mini series on goal setting. Each day we'll be focusing on a topic surrounding setting goals as

married couples. Today's topic is how to set goals as a married couple. So Dr. Kim,

what does this look like? How do you and Nancy practically set goals? One of the things that we

we've done a lot of the time in our marriage, almost all our marriage, and that's kind of the end of the

year. Our anniversary is on January 2nd, so it's kind of a celebration time, and we always kind of

look forward. We always kind of use that as an evaluation. What did we do good the last year? What do we celebrate from the last year? And then what are we going to work on for the new year?

So that's one of the things that we do.

And so we kind of said overall girls, maybe we feel like we haven't been fighting really well.

And so we're not really resolving conflict well.

And so, okay, this is something we're going to work on.

And then we decide, okay, when we were resolving conflict, well, in the past, how'd we do that and try to get back to something we did with?

It may be that we want to, the goal is that we really want to get away a little more. We want to,

we didn't take a vacation last year together and that's something we've always said we're going to do. And so we say, okay, this year we're going to be intentional. We're going to plan a vacation.

We're going to do that.

So we'll do that kind of an overlooking and broad thing.

And then I think as life goes on during the year, things come up that we set goals about.

You know, there's been times when finances.

We got tight with finances.

And we knew we need to buckle down and really stay close to the budget. So we kind of would revisit that.

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