#143: It Starts with Me: Agency and Goal Achievement
May 30, 2022
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Discover the power of personal agency in achieving your goals. Learn how recognizing what you can't control can lead to greater success. Embrace the clarity that comes from a full schedule and the importance of rituals. Explore the concept of celebrating progress over perfection, and understand how adjusting expectations can foster personal growth. Get inspired to take accountability for your actions and maintain momentum with creative strategies that keep you engaged in your goal journey.
Personal agency is vital for goal achievement, allowing individuals to navigate challenges and transform them into empowering opportunities.
Embracing constraints and holding oneself accountable are essential strategies for leveraging agency to achieve personal and professional goals.
Deep dives
Introduction to the Full Focus Wellness Planner
The Full Focus Wellness Planner is introduced as a comprehensive tool designed to enhance individual wellness and self-care. It incorporates features from the original Full Focus Planner while adding new elements like tracking sleep, hydration, nutrition, joy, stress levels, and self-care priorities. This integration helps users focus on their overall well-being and encourages gratitude as a daily practice. The planner is viewed as a valuable new edition that can replace or supplement the existing planner to improve health and productivity.
Understanding Agency in Achievement
Agency is emphasized as a critical concept in personal achievement, referring to the ability to influence one's life rather than letting it happen passively. It encapsulates ownership and personal responsibility, which can often feel diminished during chaotic times. Recognizing and cultivating agency allows individuals to pursue goals despite obstacles, effectively transforming challenges into opportunities for empowerment. The discussion highlights that every person, regardless of their past understanding of agency, possesses this as a personal superpower.
Strategies for Exercising Agency
Two primary strategies for leveraging agency in goal achievement are presented: embracing constraints and holding oneself accountable. Embracing constraints involves identifying perceived limitations and rethinking how to work within them to find solutions, ultimately fostering a sense of empowerment. The second strategy, holding oneself accountable, emphasizes the importance of personal ownership in achieving goals and recognizing when adjustments are needed. These strategies enable individuals to take proactive steps, allowing them to overcome challenges and stay on track with their personal and professional objectives.
Goal achievement always starts at the same place - with you. No matter how intuitive or inventive a system might be, all goal achievement is built on the concept of agency. With that in mind, the best way to achieve our goals would be to leverage our personal agency so that we can use the things we can control to influence the things that we don't control.
Today, Courtney and Verbs define agency and provide two helpful strategies to leverage your agency to achieve your goals. They also answer a question from the Full Focus Planner Community about how to reward a habit goal when it seems like you're going to fall just a little short.
In today's episode, you will learn:
How identifying what you do not have control of is critical to success
How a full schedule can actually provide clarity for what's most important to you
Why rituals are a key ingredient to goal achievement
Why having both Daily Big 3s and Weekly Big 3s are so important
Make sure to visit out Full Focus Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ffpthinktank.
Watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/X0YIALWoC_M.