hello, my loves!
welcome back to lavendaire
happy new year
i hope you guys are enjoying 2022 so far
today i thought i would share
what i wrote for my 2022 goals
i wanted to share not just my goals
but my process of tracking my goals
and how i plan to achieve them
if you haven't watched my new year
planning series yet i'll link the videos here
and down below there's a reflect on 2021 video
and there is one on planning your 2022 goals
and those videos are interactive
i just share the prompt to give you
time to plan but today
i wanted to just get a little more personal
share what i actually wrote down
for my goals this year and where i'm at in life
let's start with my theme for 2022.
last year, my theme for 2021 was peace
because i just felt so stressed and frazzled
and burnt out with life that i just wanted
to come to a sense of inner peace
and last year really was a lot of
healing, letting go of internal baggage,
and letting go of this burnout cycle
that i was in for a long time and
learning to slow down and do less
as i was deciding what i wanted
my theme to be this year
i gave it a lot of thoughts and
this word just kept coming back
the word was nourish
my theme this year is nourish
and what that means is i want to
prioritize nourishing myself
my well-being
my health and
putting myself first before
my work and my career
because i think for so long
for as long as i can remember
i always put work or school
above myself like i would overwork myself
and be stressed and knowing that
oh i'm not being healthy today
i'm not working out today
and kind of like putting a lot of
the health and wellness on the back burner
because i was trying to make
deadlines or things like that
and i've come to a point where i realized
i don't really need to do that anymore
any extra stress is unnecessary
what if i just put myself first
put myself first before work and my career
if things don't get done
they don't get done because
i have to put my wellness first and
i really am curious what it feels like and
looks like if i truly put myself first
above everything
if i truly put everything i can into my health
my happiness
my mental health
and i know from the outside
it might seem like i've been doing that
because i have
you know i've been juggling a lot of things but
sometimes i do get out of balance
2020
2021
i was burnt out
tired
and really slow
i allowed myself to slow down a lot
to the point where i stopped having
an exercise routine
i felt a little like dull
i just felt like i really needed to hibernate
and go into comfort zone and
just allow myself to be in a blanket
and watch netflix
i really needed that for myself
and i think that's also balance, right?
you want
you need rest
but i want to question how much
can i show up in life
how much can i shine
how much can i thrive
and i'm curious what it looks like
if i were to put all my efforts into thriving
as my brightest self
when you have a theme
it's good to ask yourself
how can i embody this
theme throughout the year?
what are the things that i can do
to live my theme more fully and
you'll write down maybe a few ideas
okay focus on the joy
take care of my health
all these little things but
what i found is after you write all those notes
it's a lot to remember, right?
you're not gonna look at that every day
instead, boil it down to
one daily guiding question
and i kind of created
a daily guiding question
for me related to my theme
because that's my yearly intention
my daily guiding question that
i want to ask myself
at the start of every single day is
how do i want to be nourished today?
it's really simple but it is related to my theme
because every day nourishment
will look different sometimes
it means more sleep
sometimes it means eat fruits and vegetables
i don't know essentially the purpose of
your daily guiding question
is that it reminds you to stay aligned
to your theme but allows enough flexibility
that you can take it into your everyday
moving on
i will share my top three goals for 2022
a tip i have as i share my goals is that
i actually wrote my goals this year
in present or past tense
in sentence form and that is just to add
a little bit of manifestation oomph
because i'm writing the goal
as if it's already happening right now
or as if it already happened in the past
that is just to kind of like trick my brain
into believing like it's closer than it really is
i encourage you guys to do that with your goals
as well write them in sentence form
in present and or past tense
as if it's happening or as it already happened
my first goal is related to health
i wrote my body is healthy, fit, and beautiful
i put my health and wellness above all else
i have a health routine and
i am consistent with it
my second goal is
related to travel
i wrote i've had many fulfilling trips
this year that nourished my mind and my soul
i am inspired by all the travels
i had this year
my third main goal is
related to my team
i wrote i've built a strong foundational
team for lavendaire to thrive on its own
with little stress from me
i trust everyone on my team fully
we are strong and we are capable
another tip when you're setting your goals is
to remember why this goal is
so important to you in the first place
for each goal that you set make sure
you know your reason
why it's so important and for me,
my overarching theme and
main goal of the year
really is to thrive as my brightest self
and the top three goals that i set for the year
are really under that overarching theme
now that we have the theme and
the top three goals for the year
the next thing i do is break it down
even further
in the workbook,
there is a year at a glance layouts
and for now. i kind of put some notes
from astrology things to remember for myself
personally throughout the year
and i only have the first two months
really planned the rest of the year
i don't really have plans for yet
then i have a quarterly layout where i lay out
the focus for the first quarter
and for me it is rebuilding my team
and i have my goals and projects
for the first quarter and then i kind of
break it down into
how am i going to try to achieve
these goals in the first quarter by month
what i can get done in
january
february
and march
then there's the monthly layout
where you actually plan your
goals for the month and
then there's a weekly breakdown
where again you break it down even further
okay, how am i going to achieve
these monthly goals by the week
for january i do have a couple goals
that are related to my team building
and just creating new products for lavendaire
and then my main mini goal is getting
into an exercise routine because
health was my number one
most important goal for the year
i kind of break down weekly
just my work goals
but on the next page
i have a habit tracker and
a daily tracker and that is where
i'm really tracking my wellness journey
and my wellness goals
the habits that i listed in my habit tracker
these are all habits that i had to reflect
and ask myself,
okay, if i am thriving as my best self
what am i doing or what habits
do i do that make me feel at my best?
that make me feel like
i'm taking care of myself
nourishing myself
i wrote down exercise
have fruits and vegetables
meditate
journal
tidy
cook or read and learn
although i have all these habits
written down it doesn't mean
i want to do all of them every single day
i just write them down here because
i want to track how often
i'm doing it because only once you track it
can you recognize
okay, maybe i only read five days
out of the month
oh let me try reading a little bit more
or like you kind of have a gauge of
where you're at and then you can kind of
set your goals from there but really
i'm all about focusing down and
keeping it really simple
that i just start one habit
that i want to focus on each month
this month it is exercise obviously
i talked about health and having
a consistent exercise routine
because i started that one
i will do my best to actually try to exercise
or move my body every single day
and i'm only on day three but
i've been doing it so far
yay, me!
but that's the idea is
i just focus on one habit at a time
the other habits i want to track but
i'm not like stressing out over
doing all of them because that would
be overwhelming myself
for the daily tracker down below
remember when i told you
i had a daily guiding question
based on my theme
so the daily guiding question
was how do i want to nourish myself today?
here i just wrote the question of
how did i nourish myself
and my well-being
it's like a reflection question
at the end of the day
did i actually nourish myself today?
how well did i do and
i basically rate from one to ten
how well i nourished myself that day
and then i can track literally how from
one to ten how much i am living aligned
to the theme that i set for the year and
of course you can track whatever else
you want on the daily tracker
it doesn't always have to be your theme
it could be anything
it could be your level of joy
your level of purpose or success
it could be anything but i found that
this is helpful for me to focus
on my most important goal
which is the theme to nourish myself
and to thrive as my brightest self
because all my goals are really supporting
that overarching theme
those are my goals and
how i plan to achieve them throughout the year
what's great about the workbook is
you plan on a month-to-month basis
and you can always update your goals
you can always update what
you want to focus on
it's very flexible it doesn't mean
you have to stick to the goals you set
at the beginning of the year
because we might change throughout the year
we might change our minds
things might come into our life
allow space for flexibility
i'm all about just
you know,
kind of steering as you go
and being open
a note on planning digitally versus on paper
i know a lot of people have
this whole setup in notion
and it looks very pretty
their top three goals
all their yearly goals
and how they achieve them
i've tried doing that on notion
and i found that i don't know
i just didn't update it as much
as i should have especially for habit tracking
and things like that
personally i am trying to use
the physical workbook more this year because
number one
i don't want to look at a screen too much
i feel like i'm already looking at too many screens
throughout my day i just want some analog time
and also i think what works best for me is
doing big picture planning
habit tracking and stuff on paper
i don't have to check the screen every day
but just to organize my daily
most important tasks and to-do's on notion
digitally because once they're done
you just like throw them away
really you would use this workbook
to remind yourself of your overarching goals
for the month or for the week and
then you would use something else
whether you want another planner or notion
or something digital to plan out the week
and the daily tasks and
of course,
you know at the end of each month
we take the time to reflect on the past month
how we did
what we learned
what we could have done better
and every month
we should be learning something and
fine-tuning and tweaking our process
that it gets better and better over time
let me know down below
how many of you like to plan your goals
on paper versus digitally
i wonder how many are still analog
because i love physical journals and
writing on paper but anyway
that's it for today
i hope you enjoyed this video
and seeing my process on my goals
sending you so much love
i will see you in the next one
bye