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The Anti-Goal Setting Method For Planning Your New Year
How To Plan A Successful Year Without Setting Useless Goals
I might look driven, but I’ve never set a new year’s goal in my life. Instead I’ve developed a set of practices that I use to slide on into the new year with intention. These things get me excited to live in the new year, not just accomplish stuff.
So as 2022 approaches, I thought I’d share my updated planning practices, to help spark some inspiration as you plan your own new year.
WORD OF THE YEAR
Each year I choose a word of the year. A word to define my year and act as a compass for everything that I do. It frames my year, my actions, my goals, my habits. I’ve been doing this for about 5 years now. Some years I’m fully focused and other years it sits in the periphery, but it’s always interesting to get to the end of the year and see the thread that has weaved it’s way through all along.
In 2021 my word is High Vibe. I wanted everything I did this year to raise my vibration and…
