Happy Monday!!!
This weekend I attended the Women in Media Event that took place at my alma mater, Temple University. It was a great event. I’m glad I discovered it on Eventbrite. I planned to go alone and make some new friends. However I was pleasantly surprised see a few people I already knew, including Melissa Lopez, one of the speakers at the Chasing Joy Brunch &Learn. The event was a great mix of nourishing established connections and making new ones.
From my perspective the Women in Media Event’s purpose was to educate women who are in or planning to enter any of the media industries about the demographics of the industry and to encourage and offer career advice. The panel was awesome and included women from the radio, TV, and blog media industries. There was a lot of knowledge in the room and my notebook got filled with many perils of wisdom. Since its #MakeitHappenMonday I’m going to share with you the info the panel shared about goals.
Living a goal oriented life is an important component of having a Joyful life. Goals give you something to work for. They give you a purpose and a reason to push forward when times are rough. Goals allow you to experience a boost in self-esteem and confidence when they are accomplished. We all have goals. Goals are simply the things you want to do or accomplish. They can be as straight forward finishing the book you have been reading or as complicated as reaching your ideal job by age 40. Write your goals down. This is a way of holding yourself accountable. It also makes you focus and specify exactly what the goal is. Writing out your goals enables you to see ways to break them down into smaller easier to obtain goals. A goal that is written out creates a stronger commitment with yourself to accomplish the goal.
Give yourself deadlines for accomplishing your goals. This is another way to hold yourself accountable. Meeting your deadlines gives you an incentive to stay focused on your goals. It is easy to say my goal is to do such and such but never start working towards it. Adding the deadline prevents goals from reaming goals forever.
Writing goals down and setting deadlines were not band new ideas for me, but this last bit of advice was. Identify people who can help you achieve your goals. I am not a person who often asks people (not counting my mother) for help. So it never occurred to me to identify people who could help me accomplish my goals. The people in our lives can be great resources. I don’t know about you but I have some smart and talented people in my life. There are many ways in which they could help me with my goals including encouragement, advice, and accountability.
Do you write out your goals, set deadlines, and get help from others to accomplish them?
Since it is #MakeitHappenMonday share your goals with other Joy Chasers by posting them on the Chasing Joy Facebook Page or tweeting them with the hashtag #MakeitHappenMonday
