Life Planning for People Who Hate Goal Setting (The Scribble)

About this episode

This episode discusses alternative approaches to life planning for those who struggle with traditional goal setting.

If you’d rather eat broken glass than set new year’s goals, I’ve got a podcast episode for you! So many of us have PTSD around goals. We feel shame about all the times we’ve gone for something in the past … only to fall on our faces. Every time we see a successful person, we assume they did it “right.” (Set goal. Followed up with disciplined action. Got result.) But what if the opposite was actually true? What if creating your dreams is always supposed to look and feel like a shit show? It’s ...

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Maurer

Topics covered

• goal setting
• life planning
• self improvement
• mental health
• overcoming shame

Keywords

• goal setting
• life planning
• self improvement
• mental health
• shame
• success
• dreams

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