Figure Out When

#5 in a New Year's Resolutions Series

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It’s all well and good to have reviewed the past, set manageable goals that work for you, with a method that incorporates proven success from your life. But if you never make time to actually do the things, or check-in on your progress, December will roll around and you’ll be scrambling to get it all done.

Habit gurus will tell you that it’s important to set aside regular time to achieve your goals: do the same thing at the same time every day. These gurus, however, often seem to live lives that are free of interruptions. They aren’t dealing with small children, elderly parents, friends with needs, chronic health issues, or fluctuating energy levels due to shifting hormones which are actually part of the design of being a healthy woman in childbearing years (bearing children or not.) 

So, if you can do the same thing at the same time every day, and it works for you, great! Do that.

But if you’re living a life that has any form of community or responsibility for others built into it, that’s probably not realistic. It doesn’t mean you’re destined to fail; it just means you need a different method, and even more importantly, a different mindset. 

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Shifting Mindsets: “Village Hustle” vs. Monadic Hermit

If you embrace what stand-up comedian, best-selling author and mother of six Jen Fulwiler calls “the village hustle,”¹  then you know that getting interrupted by other people is actually part of the plan, because your goals fit into a bigger picture of caring about and for other people, and letting them care about and for you.