Podcast Episode 84 — Are You Setting the Right Goals for Yourself?

Ask yourself these questions to find out.

Lisa Sealey
4 min readSep 12, 2022
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Today I want to talk about your goals.

There is much more to goal setting than just picking a goal and moving forward. While that is important, it is also essential to ensure that you are setting the right goals at the right time to succeed.

Are you setting specific and realistic goals?

It may take a little time and research to determine whether a goal is realistic. In other words, given your time, ability, and resources, if you are not sure something you want to do is achievable, you have not done enough research. If it’s a worthwhile goal, it’s also worth the time to research what it will take to make it happen.

Once you determine a realistic goal, your description must be specific. This way, you can take the end goal and work backward to create a schedule and timeline of tasks or actions for you to succeed.

Are you learning from your mistakes?

People often give up instead of learning from their mistakes or failures when working on goals and schedules.

For example, if one of your goals was to work out for 30 minutes three times per week, and you scheduled 30 minutes in your day three…

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Lisa Sealey

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