take control, feel better
I know goals and I know goal setting and I know how I’m supposed to make them SMART* (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely) and I’m supposed to have checkpoints and so on and so on. I completely understand all of that, and the reasoning behind the structure. The problem is, of course, putting it into [...]
I have been reading and working through MJ Ryan’s This Year I Will… and I’ve gotten really into one aspect of her approach. Ryan suggests that asking yourself why you do a particular self-sabotaging thing repeatedly is not always useful. Asking ‘Why?’ gets your left brain analyzing the problem but it won’t necessarily trigger any [...]
