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Make 3 Goals For 2020 — No More, No Less!

Aubree Russell • Jan 02, 2020

There’s a principle that I like to live by, and it is this: if you cannot explain your work in a sentence, you are not clear about what you do.

It’s not because your job is so complicated you couldn’t possibly explain it, or that you're doing so much you couldn’t possibly sum it up in just a few words. If you cannot distill the essence of what you do into a single line that anybody could understand, you either are not clear about what you’re doing, or feel insecure enough about it that you have to create complexity and mystery.

The same is true for setting goals.

If you think you are going to change your entire life in 2020, you are already wrong.

We are not only incapable of altering every single aspect of our lives at once, we also don't want to. We simply do not have enough energy in the day, nor enough care.

The truth is that nobody really wants to accomplish more than a few goals, but outside influences like social pressure make us keep reaching far beyond what’s within our bandwidth.

You should set 3 goals for 2020, and to achieve them, try to limit your daily objectives to 1-5 items as well.

This is why:

Doing less accomplishes more

When your goals are so spread out into different areas of your life, you simply do not have enough time or energy to reach them all. You halfheartedly accomplish a few, but the momentum doesn’t pick up because you’re not making real progress.

Radical reinvention shocks the system

You change your life one piece at a time. Anything less thrusts you so far from your comfort zone, you start to panic. I call this “adjustment shock.” Anything new — no matter how good — is uncomfortable until it is also familiar. That is why we have to lean into new ambitions slowly, until they become a natural part of our everyday lives.

You’ll figure out what you really care about

Despite what culture would have you believe, you’re not here to be everything. You do not have to master every single aspect of your life, and feeling pressured to even pretend that you want to is robbing you of your energy to affect change where it really matters. Get crystal clear on exactly what you want and what you care enough about — that passion will help motivate you in the months to come.

Your goals need a hint of realism

A list of huge goals that are so far off from where you are right now seems intimidating. Three goals, even if they are big ones, seems more fathomable.

You can always make adjustments

Your 2020 goals might be accomplished by March. That is a totally possible thing to have happen. It’s not that you’re only aspiring to do 3 things total this year, it’s that you’re focusing on these 3 until they are mastered, and you can be onto the next thing.

Growth is not an isolated event

When you improve one part of your life, it tends to touch everything else. When you raise your standards in one way, everything else has to rise to meet it. Growth is interesting in this way: often when we focus completely on changing one thing, we inadvertently create a ripple effect in which we are naturally motivated to change others, too.

Choosing less than a handful of goals for the new decade doesn’t mean you’re diluting your ambition. In fact, quite the opposite. You’re getting focused and crystal clear on what you want to do, and funneling your energy toward creating real, and lasting, impact.

Editor: Aubree Russell

Resource: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briannawiest/2019/12/03/make-3-goals-for-2020--no-more-no-less/#44d89da2372a

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