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Goal Setting 2020

I am writing this blog post at the end of June 2020. Wow! We are already half-way through the year. Time flies! This is an opportune time to reflect on goal setting 2020. Especially since this is no ordinary year and everything has changed drastically in the last 6 months. If you think back to January 2020 and your new year’s resolutions and plans. That seems like a decade ago by now! No matter where you are reading this in the world our lives have all been affected by Covid 19. The effects of the pandemic really took off in March when much of the world went into lock-down including in Ireland, where I live. Schools, colleges, businesses etc. shut and we were told to stay at home. We all learned new skills such as how to use Zoom!

Goal setting 2020 and Covid 19

Nature is in control

By the end of June the lock-down has eased considerably here and businesses are starting to reopen. Our infection rates are now low and the virus has been largely suppressed for the moment. However as we are seeing now in other parts of the world there is an ever present danger of a resurgence of the virus. We have all learned that the futures is uncertain. The best made plans from the new year and goal setting 2020 in January went out the window. Nature is really in control after-all. Therefore we have no option but to re-plan and go with the flow. Nobody knows what the next 6 months will bring. Will schools and colleges reopen in the autumn? How many businesses will never re-open? How many people will have no jobs to go back to? So many questions and so much uncertainty.

Impacts in poorer countries

In poorer countries I am especially conscious of the impact of the pandemic where there are little in the way of government supports. Livelihoods have been badly impacted. People are suffering. To take one specific example the Malala Fund estimates that 10 million girls might never go back to school after the crisis. Out of school they are vulnerable to teenage pregnancy, child marriage, abuse, child labour etc. The Malala fund made this calculation based on what happened in countries like Sierra Leone when schools closed due to Ebola. Ten million girls losing an education and all the negative consequences of that into the future. The sad part will be that the resultant poverty will be passed on to a new generation – their children. These are some of the real long-lasting and very negative consequences of this crisis.

The second half of 2020?

This is a good time to start thinking of goal setting 2020 and the remaining 6 months. What do you want to have achieved by the end of the year? Six months is a long time (especially the last 6 months!) and you can transform your life is so many ways by December 2020. However its hard to know what the world will look like by December. We are in uncertain times. However you can decide how each of your days will look like. You can set input goals. For example you can set an input goal to learn the guitar or learn Spanish (two of mine :-)). At this uncertain time we don’t have to focus so much on results (Output and Outcome goals). I cover all these types of goals in my new goal setting course.

Mind Movie

One of the things I am working on right now is to transform my own life’s purpose, vision and key goals into a mind movie which I watch at least once per day. A mind movie is a fun way to keep your goals front and centre in both your concious and sub-concious minds. I have included the current version of my own mind movie below. Perhaps it will inspire you to make your own! In the next two weeks I am actually working through my own Goal Setting 101 course as a student to plan the next 6 months of the year. The course contains some wonderful exercises to help me get clear on what I am about and what I want to achieve. I am proud of my own course when I take it from the student perspective! Goal setting and planning are topics we must constantly come back to throughout our lives. As we have seen the world will change around us whether we want change or not. It’s better to be in the driving seat of your own change rather than have change just happen to/be forced on you.

Best wishes, Tom

PS Check out my Goal Setting 101 Course for more ideas. You can watch the free preview video and there is a 30 day money back guarantee so you cannot lose!

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Planning Resources 2020

Happy New Year! In this article I want to give you some planning tips and free planning resources. It’s time to plan the new year ahead and create a new you for 2020!

The new year period of early January is an exciting time of the year. There is a wonderful sense of newness. Last year is done and dusted. It’s over. Last year’s diary can now be consigned to the bookshelf (I find a physical diary much more satisfying than and a digital one!). You have a new diary in front of you with a lot of blank spaces. What will you do and where will you go? What will you achieve in the year ahead? This time next year you will be reflecting back on 2020 – what do you want to have done and how do you want to feel this time next year?

Reflection

Look back at 2019. How did it start out? Probably with a lot of enthusiasm just like you are feeling now. But how did the year go? What went right? What didn’t go according to plan? How can you avoid the mistakes of 2019 and improve things in 2020? What can you do differently and better in 2020? These are important questions as we set out to avoid the mistakes of the past and make improvements for the year ahead.

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
Dale Carnegie

Free Planning Resources

For my new year gift to you I want to give you FREE access to my course ‘Experiments in Personal Change’. The course deals with important issues such as goal setting, creating a vision for your life and how to build habits for success. There are 30 experiments that you can try practically in your life. Adopting even one of these experiments as a new behaviour can transform your life for the better in 2020. Have a look at the video below for further details on the course:

The coupon to access the course for FREE is limited to the first 10 people only so act fast (Expires 02/02/2020 23:02). Use the link below to access the course for FREE: https://www.udemy.com/course/transform-your-life-experiments-in-personal-change/?couponCode=34076ECA90A46825ED32

My own plans

As for my own plans I am still working away each morning on my new course ‘Goal Setting 101: How to Set and Achieve Goals‘. I had wanted the course to be ready for the new year but it will not be. I am working away on the course on a daily basis and it will be ready when it is ready. There is quite a lot of work involved in course creation but I am enjoying every minute. It will be well worth the effort when completed. I would much rather produce an excellent course than keep to an unrealistic deadline I had set for myself!

Best wishes for 2020 to you and your loved ones,

Tom Carroll