2020 Goal Setting

Hi lovely,

It's that time of year again when we look back at the year ending and plan for the year ahead, so I wanted to share with you a few ways to do goal setting that I have used in the past.

1. Be / Do / Have list: it's a simple list with 3 columns as as many rows as you need to list how you want to be, what you want to do, and what you want to have.

2. Keep doing / Stop doing / Start doing: That's a mind map I used last year when I was hoping to simplify my life (and specially all my work-related activities)

3. 10 years / 5 years / 1 year / (further breakdown if wanted): this one is generally used in big companies, but if we have a vision of where we want to be in 10 years time, why not decline it and get concrete steps we want for next years (and we can break it down even further by month)

4. Mood board for the year: I used to do one a year and keep a box with pics and words I cut from magazines. Always a very nice activity, good if you plan to look at it every day, would work a bit like affirmations. Less concrete than words and deadlines but definitely more visual, and inspiring

5. Small movie for the year: I did that once, and I used my Mac video editing software to group pics together, add music and make it a very nice "animated mood board". My problem with that is that I did not take the time to watch it regularly as I think I should have, so a mood board is definitely easier in that respect.

Have you already tried them all? Which one do you prefer? 
Or do you have another idea?
Let me know!

With love,
Madeleine

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Start a Gratitude Jar

Hello lovely,

I prepared this for you (and me) to print and start a gratitude jar for the new year.

The process is very simple: for each family member having a happy moment, they need to think of writing this memory on a small (coloured if possible) piece of paper, fold it and put it in the jar. 

At the end of the year, for Christmas or New Year, open the jar together and read all those memories to relive those moments together!

With love,
Madeleine

P.S. I also uploaded it here for you to download.

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Hello lovelies,

I wanted to let you know about a book I read recently, that helped me become more focussed and more efficient in my daily life: Eat that frog! from Brian Tracy.

The main message is that, if you eat a living frog at the beginning of your day, everything else that you do that day is going to be (a lot) easier than that! Although I found it a weird metaphor to start with, but it does work. I since started my following days with the task that I was tempted to procrastinate on, and it made me feel good, as well as more efficient for the rest of the day!

Here after are a few other gold nuggets from his 21 methods and techniques that I particularly liked:

- A new habit will work for you if you use the 3 Ds of habit formation: Decision / Discipline / Determination..
- To focus on completing your most important tasks, ask yourself: what are my highest-value activities? What can I and only I do, that if done well, will make a real difference? What is the most valuable use of my time right now?
- If you must procrastinate, as you can't get everything done, procrastinate on the low-value activities!

Let me know what your own gold nuggets are from this book!

With love,
Madeleine

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