Motivation for the year ahead

In this blog I share my tips to setting goals and staying motivated to actually achieve them

Motivation for the year ahead

Set Realistic Goals – there nothing worse than setting goals that you know you won’t stick too.

Make sure the goals you set are things that you can achieve in 2022 and can be broken down into smaller monthly or even weekly goals that are achievable.

Make sure their your goals – It’s easy to set goals that everyone else wants too, such as to lose weight, make more money, travel more etc. etc. But you will only stick to your goal if it’s something you really want, so dig deep and figure out what that is.

Picture yourself at the end of 2022 – it’s good motivation to visualize yourself at the end of the year once you’ve achieved your goals. How will your life look? How will it be better? Think of this as mental hygiene, just like brushing your teeth everyday, sit down and give yourself 5 mins over coffee and visualize yourself in the future, keep coming back to your goals and what it will look like once you’ve achieved them.

This vision of ourselves can be very powerful motivation to stay connected to your why

Concentrate on one or two needle shifters that will get us to where we want to be.

Break your goal down into smaller bite sized achievable actions.

Set up systems - to achieve them, for example: if you wanted to save more money this year, then a good system would be to set up an auto transfer with your bank that will take an amount straight out of your pay check before you even see it. And before you know it you’ve reached your money saving goal.

A good art example is you want to be more creative this year, well make sure you have all your art supplies, line art, reference image etc. all set up and ready to go once you have time to draw or paint. Procrastination is easy to take over if you have to get supplies ready, or clean brushes or find a reference image etc. If you have all of this done prior to your free drawing time then there’s nothing stopping you from actually getting some actual drawing done. And the feeling after you’ve been productive in your art is very inspiring to keep creating.

I know myself, when I was working full time, when I did get a couple of hours to create, I used to waste them on setting up and trying to figure out what to draw etc. But now I have all of that planned out, with folders of reference images ready to go. I know that I can pick one and just get started. I always have plenty of pastel paper on hand so there’s no excuses. This is also why I changed from oil paints to pastel, so I didn’t have the hassle of cleaning brushes and mixing colours before I could get started.

So essentially make sure to plan and prepare and keep connected to why you want to achieve your goal.

Book recommendation – Let it be easy by Susie Moore

I've made up a little worksheet for writing down your steps to achieving your goal.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD WORKSHEET

I've set the date for the first Coaching Week of the year and that is March 7th, so make sure if you want to join in the fun of drawing animals in pastel and charcoal to get on the waitlist so your first to know when registrations open. CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE WAITLIST and I'll send you a FREE online lesson.

Kerri xx

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