Better Together: Involve People to Boost Goal Achievement
Feb 13, 2023
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Achieving goals doesn't have to be a solo journey. The hosts discuss the power of community support, emphasizing how friends and mentors can provide motivation during tough times. Vulnerability and honesty are key when seeking help from others. They also explore the importance of a supportive mindset and share personal stories about overcoming challenges through connection. Engaging in hobbies and forming intentional goals across life areas can further enhance personal growth and well-being.
Engaging with friends and a supportive community is crucial for motivation and accountability in achieving personal goals.
Admitting feelings of being stuck or discouraged enables honest conversations that foster encouragement and enhance goal achievement.
Deep dives
Introducing the Full Focus Wellness Planner
The Full Focus Wellness Planner serves as an enhanced tool for tracking personal well-being alongside traditional planning features. In addition to regular goal-setting tasks like daily rituals and weekly priorities, it allows users to monitor essential aspects like sleep, nutrition, hydration, and self-care. This new planner aims to facilitate a holistic approach to wellness, helping individuals focus on their overall health while still maintaining productivity. The planner includes valuable resources such as a self-care planner, heart check, and vision sketches, making self-improvement more accessible.
The Role of Community in Goal Achievement
Engagement with friends and a supportive community plays a crucial role in achieving personal goals. Participants are encouraged to vocalize feelings of being stuck, discouraged, or behind, as seeking support can significantly enhance motivation and accountability. The podcast emphasizes the importance of friendships, particularly around Galentine's Day, to celebrate and lean on each other during tough times. By discussing struggles and successes openly, individuals can foster connections that lead to shared encouragement and understanding in their respective goal pursuits.
Three Key Confessions for Accountability
Three confessions are highlighted as essential steps towards effective accountability in achieving goals: admitting to being stuck, discouraged, and falling behind. Recognizing when to ask for help and encouragement is emphasized as a vital component of personal development. The approach to accountability is reframed; it's not just about performance metrics but includes an element of encouragement and belief in one's potential. Admitting these feelings can create a supportive framework, allowing for constructive conversations that motivate individuals to remain on track with their goals.
Because goals are something that we often set for ourselves, we forget that we don't have to achieve them alone. Reaching out to family, friends, colleagues, or mentors can provide you with valuable feedback and motivation that can push you through the messy middle and get to the finish line. But, in order to get that support, you have to be honest with others about the help you need.
Blake, Courtney, and Verbs offer three common confessions that you can share with your community to help you achieve your goals. Also, Courtney answers a question from the Full Focus Planner Community.
To talk with other Full Focus Planner users (and find a FFP Certified Pros), then make sure to join the Full Focus Planner Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ffpthinktank