#145: How to Leverage Time and Accomplish Your Goals
Jun 13, 2022
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Timing is everything when it comes to achieving your goals. Explore how to create urgency in goal-setting and leverage time for better habits. Discover the power of deadlines and how they differentiate between achievement and habit goals. Learn strategies to bounce back from low productivity, emphasizing reflection and resilience. Plus, find out how using a planner can boost your productivity while fostering self-compassion. Dive into the community aspect of planning to enhance accountability and support!
Establishing clear deadlines creates urgency and structured timelines, significantly enhancing productivity in achieving both achievement and habit goals.
Utilizing time triggers allows for strategic scheduling of tasks during the week, aligning them with daily routines and simplifying goal completion.
Deep dives
Introduction of the Full Focus Wellness Planner
The Full Focus Wellness Planner is presented as an innovative tool designed to enhance self-care and overall well-being. Users can continue tracking familiar elements from the original planner, such as weekly and daily goals, while also incorporating new features like monitoring sleep, hydration, nutrition, and stress levels. The introduction of additional tools, such as a self-care planner and heart check, encourages a more holistic approach to wellness. As people begin using the planner, enthusiastic feedback highlights its potential impact on cultivating healthier habits.
Understanding the Power of Goals
The importance of establishing clear deadlines is emphasized as a critical factor in boosting productivity and achieving goals. Deadlines serve as finish lines that create urgency and structured timelines, motivating individuals to meet their objectives effectively. The discussion elaborates on how deadlines can apply not only to achievement goals but also to habit goals, suggesting the use of milestones to mark progress in developing new habits. Each weekly preview acts as a deadline of sorts, allowing individuals to assess their commitment to their habit goals over time.
Implementing Time Triggers
Time triggers are introduced as another key element in successfully achieving goals by designating specific times during the week to complete tasks. This strategic scheduling aligns tasks with daily routines, making them easier to accomplish and significantly reducing mental fatigue associated with indecision about when to work on a goal. Highlighting the benefits of being intentional about costs, it suggests that without a clear time frame, the likelihood of achieving a goal diminishes considerably. Ultimately, integrating time triggers into planning not only sustains engagement with goals but also simplifies the process, allowing individuals to focus on completing tasks rather than when to do them.
Timing is everything. We often talk about the importance of knowing your "why", but when it comes to accomplishing your goals, it's also important to understand the power of "when". When are you going to make the space to accomplish your goals? If you choose poorly, you could find yourself struggling to succeed at goals that are both important to you and attainable.
In this episode, Courtney and Verbs talk about two important ways that you can use time to your advantage. They also answer a Full Focus Planner Community question about what to do when you fall off the goal achievement wagon for a month.
You'll learn-
How to create urgency in your goalsetting
How to leverage time differently for habit and achievement goals
How to use a time trigger to create space and consistency in your life
You can watch this entire episode (and see the first steps of "The Focus" dance) here: https://youtu.be/xKEwBVm0dws