Yes, it’s #Blogmas2021 day three! Let’s talk about your dreams. Dear Readers, do you know how to choose your top goals for 2022? After all, don’t you have things you want to accomplish in your life or dreams you’d give everything to achieve? Are there decisions you regret making in the last two years? Great, Dear Readers! These bad decisions are the starting point for you to tease out areas in your life that need improvement. Keep reading to find out how to choose your top goals for 2022 to improve your quality of life.
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As the brainchild of JMStrategy LLC (JMS), a boutique consulting firm that offers strategic solutions to strengthen your brand, this blog is the place to find the answers to your most burning branding questions. Now let’s go over the best strategy to choose your top goals to crush 2022 like a boss!
How this 12-Day productivity framework gets you started to choose the top goals most feasible for you (and your family).
Dear Readers, success begins with a healthy dose of organization. That’s why you are here. You probably have many ideas floating in your head as you read this publication. You are perhaps excited to put behind you the calamity that has been the global pandemic. But do you know where to start?
As always, Dear Readers, this blog is not here to give you orders! Instead, the JMS team is sharing a condensed two-pronged exercise derived from the work we do with clients in the hopes of inspiring you to walk into 2022 like a boss! However, for the highest return on this exercise, you must first do the introspective work this blog discussed on day one of the #Blogmas2021 series. Do not be too hard on yourself, though. The last two years have been quite challenging. You want to do this necessary yet uncomfortable exercise without harsh judgment. So be compassionate with yourself, accept the shortcomings, and have the courage to move forward.
Once you’ve acknowledged the decisions that brought you to this point of utter dissatisfaction with your life or career, Dear Readers, you are ready to move to the first prong:
Write out the vision that you have for 2022.
While obvious, let us discuss the underlying philosophy anyway. You see, Dear Readers, we often underestimate the level of sustained effort we need to invest if we want to achieve the goals we set for ourselves. Furthermore, we are always unaware of the underlying clashes of the very goals we are actively pursuing.
For example, at this stage, JMS clients will often say that they want to nail a highly desirable promotion and, at the same time, enjoy the highest level of work-life balance. Usually, however, hitting a professional milestone requires tons of hours of extra work, regardless of the profession or industry. You cannot want to make partner at your law firm and, at the same time, want to attend family dinners every night. There will be many nights when you won’t even be able to tuck your children to bed due to the intensity of the grind.
Thus, Dear Readers, you want to make sure to create an alignment between professional endeavors and personal priorities (including keeping a sacred space for your family). Alrighty, let’s move to the second prong:
Getting a handle on time management will help you choose your top goals for 2022.
Hopefully, Dear Readers, you realize that this second prong goes hand in hand with the first one. Effectively, choosing your top goals for 2022 is not a decision you take lightly. You’ll need to investigate how much time your ambitions are likely to cost you ASAP to determine whether they are feasible for 2022. This blog is not yet addressing the matter of daily or weekly scheduling. The JMS team wants to stress that, at this stage of the #Blogmas2021, you should not be making any commitment yet. For this part of the two-prong exercise, you are simply exploring and determining whether some of your dreams can become top goals for 2022.
For example, if you think that 2022 is the year to open your small business, you’ll need a reality check, Dear Readers. You will want to talk to successful owners now to figure out what it took to get their businesses off the ground. This blog does not want you to imagine that you can get such a labor-intensive project going with just a few hours of work weekly.
That is not true. It takes a tremendous amount of sweat equity to get any small business going. Mainly because finding leads and turning them into clients is a lengthy process. It is impossible to estimate how long it will take for your small business to be solvent. But, in erring on the side of caution, it is a good bet to expect that you’ll have to invest an insane number of hours. Hence, getting a handle on time management now will help you choose what ought to be your top goals for 2022.
Final thoughts!
There you have it, Dear Readers! The JMS team thanks you, Dear Readers, for taking the time to read today’s publication. The branding24seven community is here to inspire and encourage you. Now is the time to fight for the career of your dreams, Dear Readers!
Dear Readers, we want to hear from you! How are you deciding which top goals you want to pursue in 2022? Will you do a vision board for the new year? Do you find this #Blogmas2021 helpful so far? Now that yet another new variant is threatening to delay the return to our “normal” lives, do you feel that today’s publication is helping you maintain a positive outlook for 2022? What did we miss? What else can this blog cover that will motivate you and help you be as successful as possible in 2022, Dear Readers?
Let us know by email at jms@branding24seven.com or by mail at JMStrategy LLC
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Catch up with the FIRST and SECOND installments of this walk into 2022 like a boss series for #Blogmas2021 in case you missed it.
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