Bonus: Planning Workshop

Dec 14, 2023

Discover how to set meaningful intentions for the new year, focusing on feelings rather than traditional goals. Explore personal stories about prioritizing happiness through nature and relationships. Reflect on what makes you feel good and brainstorm potential intentions. Learn about identifying supports and recognizing patterns in your life that contribute to your desired feelings. Get insights on handling new emotions, seeking help, and letting your ideas develop over time to create an enriching and fulfilling year.

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INSIGHT

Start Goals With Feeling

Traditional goal-setting often prioritizes career outcomes over personal well-being and bodily needs.
Mattia reframes goals to start with how you want to feel, not where you want to arrive.

ANECDOTE

Interruptions Revealed A Shifted Priority

Mattia recounts getting annoyed at their partner interrupting work after switching to preferred work, which revealed changing goals.
They reframed the issue as shifting priorities and added a personal goal about vibrant love.

ADVICE

Name Desired Feeling States

Identify the specific feeling states you enjoy (e.g., engaged, content, creative, in flow).
Use those feeling words as the foundation for brainstorming intentions or goals.

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Bonus workshop from Like Your Brain (with client speaking cut out for privacy) on setting a personal intention or three for the new year that feels motivating and interesting to you. Of course you can use this method for any area of your life such as career.

Traditional goal-setting starts with where you want to "arrive." We start with how you want to FEEL, and what helps you feel that way.

The reason I'm focusing on feelings and personal aims is that we often put our best energy into professional life, relationships, other people, and generally things we think we're supposed to do. If there's something that makes you feel REALLY REALLY GOOD, I want that to be elevated to the status of Annual Goal ;) (if you want that... we'll talk about ways to approach this without the goal word also)

The questions if you want to write about them:

What makes you happy, feel good, etc (or however else you want to feel)? Or what kinds of experiences do you enjoy (what brings you pleasure or is interesting to you)? When you think about times you feel good, or like the way you're feeling, how might you describe that?
What activities, situations, people etc support you in experiencing or feeling that way? Are there any patterns you notice when you think about the times that you've felt this way?
What are some potential goals that might move you toward that?
Is there one that stands out that you'd like to work with? What might this look like for next year? What's feeling like something you could feasibly start moving toward soonish?
What do you need to support this? What do you already have at your disposal that might support it? What would you need to add to your life in terms of people, resources, learning, time, actual physical objects, etc to support this potential intention or desire?

New Year: Map Your Intention session

Bonus: for folks who check out by Dec 25th, I'll also be providing a bonus follow-up email with suggested resources that I'll research for you after our call.

Full call including everyone's comments over on the Like Your Brain community

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