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What Needs Attention in Your Life?
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What Needs Attention in Your Life?

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Jill Reid
Mar 29, 2024
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I’ll go out on a limb and assume we all have a few goals in our lives, whether short-range or long-term.

The differences tend to be in how we perceive, prioritize, and pursue our lofty ambitions.

Defining and meeting those benchmarks is often considered one of the necessary tasks we engage in at the beginning of a new year. But when our lives and directions change — and they do — our “plans” become a less-than-reliable checklist in need of a few alterations.

The solution? I’ve found that taking short breaks every few months helps to evaluate how things are moving along in my life — where I am personally and professionally, what I’m doing to improve myself and my career, and the general direction I’m headed.

Typically, I use the time to design a goal-setting list to keep on track with my constantly evolving plans. Yet even with the benefit of having a written blueprint to guide me, I occasionally drift off-center.

I’m pretty sure you can relate.

The truth is this type of structured, linear process doesn’t always work.


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