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The Goal-Setting Tip That Will Change Your Life

Time is a precious commodity.

And, regardless of your life station, time is the great equalizer.

Whether you’re a billionaire or a college kid scraping to get by, we all have the same number of hours, minutes, and seconds of a day.

When we waste time, we can never get it back.

When you really think about it, time is our most precious commodity.

There are a plethora of resources available to help plan your day. Some even go so far as to help you set goals. So what’s missing?

We’re missing the forest for the trees. We’ve got it all backward. We seem to focus on so heavily on our day that we miss our lives.

While it’s great to have goals and plans, we have to be cautious.

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’” James 4:13-15

We can have the best-laid plans, but ultimately God decides.

Am I advocating we plan nothing? Of course not. I just think we need a different approach.

So what is the goal-setting tip that changed my life?

Creating legacy goals

Rather than planning my day and setting a few arbitrary goals, I spent time figuring out what really matters to me.

We’ve been doing it backwards…. planning our day, reaching a short term goal, and maybe reaching a long term goal. And if we really thought about it, we’d realize what we’ve been doing doesn’t even matter in the grander scheme of life.

Organize Your Time, Legacy Goal SettingAbby RikeDecember 3, 2019goal setting, setting goals, productivity, legacy, legacy goals, time, time management, utilizing time, worksheet, planning, planning and worksheet, productivity and worksheet, smart goal setting, smart goals, Smart goals Comments

Getting Organized- Why Is It Even Worth the Trouble?

Closets full of color-coordinated separates hanging, equally spaced, on matching hangers.

Spices, lined up alphabetically, each jar equidistant from the cabinet’s edge. Each label reflecting the overhead kitchen light just so.

Sigh.

That right there is the sound of contentment as it passes through your lips.

Those ARE things of beauty; there is NO doubt.

As a matter of fact, I firmly believe you’d be hard-pressed to find a person who would willingly choose shirts dangling willy-nilly from hangers left askew or spices teetering devil-may-care out of overstuffed cupboards. Can you say midnight tripping hazards?!

A girl’s gotta be careful though. That beautiful imagery up there? It can be dangerous.
See, it’s super easy to get caught up in the trappings of an outwardly organized life. Trappings that, instead of freeing you from the soul-crushing C.R.A.P. (chaos, resentment, anxiety, and panic) of everyday-ness, serve as just another prison in which we find ourselves locked. Just another failure we find ourselves guilty of.

Gorgeously patterned bins filled just shy of the brim.

Closets full of color-coordinated separates hanging, equally spaced, on matching hangers.
Spices, lined up alphabetically, each jar equidistant from the cabinet’s edge. Each label reflecting the overhead kitchen light just so.

Sigh.

Organize Your Space, Organize Your TimeBrenna PeytonJanuary 25, 2018organizing, getting organized, being organized, your big why, why get organized, legacy goals, reasons to get organized, the purpose of organization, goal settingComment