Halfway Through the Year: Refocusing Goals and Optimizing Time
It may be hard to believe that is nearly the midpoint of another year. Time can fly by sometimes. But finding ourselves at the halftime of the year presents an opportunity to evaluate progress on the year’s goals and how things are doing. This should be an exciting time, not one to fret over what has or hasn’t been accomplished.
There is no use in lamenting what hasn’t been completed yet. We cannot turn back time.
Instead, use this to see the possibilities of what lies ahead and can be accomplished in the remaining half of the year. Six months is still a long time.
Hopefully, you have your goals handy, the ones you wrote down at the start of the year. Yes, writing down your goals remains a key point of achieving them. It is hard (I struggle with it sometimes also). Are you checking your goals regularly? Do you have them someplace easily accessible, or in plain sight every day? If not, try it. Maybe that will help. It doesn’t hurt to try new things, or give old ideas and fresh chance at success.
Are you building in time for your goal achievement? Perhaps that is why some of your goals are behind the schedule you had hoped for. Now may be a perfect time to review your schedule, lay out your ideal week, and do a time blocking exercise.
If you are unsure of where your time is going each day, each week, or each month, experiment with a time tracking exercise to get a more in-depth understanding of where your time is going. I know I am always surprised at how much time I still end up spending on email or random downtime that could be put to better use.
At this point in the year, you can reset any or all of your goals. Never forget these are your goals. And, for the most part, you are only accountable to yourself when it comes to your goal accomplishments. There could be numerous reasons why actions you wanted to take in January (or whenever you set your goals) haven’t happened yet. Life goals may get interrupted by unexpected complications or work changes. Fitness activities can get sidelined by an injury. Diet expectations can be influenced by, well, read the news on any given day. The point is, things happen that we did not foresee previously. The action now is to make adjustments based on what you know today and commit to what you will begin doing tomorrow. You are in control of what you want to accomplish. Don’t let what has happened disturb or prevent you from beginning what can happen. You got this.
What steps will you take to update your goals for the second half of this year?
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