Hello Everyone!
Happy Saturday! How has your day been?? Well the holiday’s are officially over and I am a tad sad about this, but also super excited for this year.
Goal Talk!
You all know that I have my goals set for 2010 and I have received a whack of emails and questions asking me how someone who has never set goals before should go about doing this. Setting goals are a must for you to get from A to B – without goals I find I just flounder around without a purpose.
Here is how you can start on setting Goals:
Sit quietly in a place that you find comforting – for myself this is either Starbucks on my Living Room.
I always have a book dedicated to the year and the Goals. At the top of the first page I will write out “Goals For 2010″, on the next sheet will be “Goals for the next 3-5 years”.
Your goals should always be simple, clear, measurable, challenging, and in writing.
The goals should always have a realistic time frame and dates set to achieve each goal.
Once your goals are set on paper it is important to beak the goals down with action items.
This means for example if one of your goals is to Become Healthier this year you can set action items such as these:
“I will only drink 3 cups of coffee per week” (lol, one of mine!)
“I will start working out 3 times a week for 45 minutes”
Now you have set an action item to actually get you to achieving your goal.
I know many people who have a goal to “lose weight” this year. Remember to be specific with your goals and resolutions because when you say “lose weight” what does that mean? You don’t want to lose anything because when you lose something you find it. You don’t want to FIND your weight again, you want to keep it off.
What happens when you lose your keys? You find them! Make sure you state your ideal weight for your goal. “I will weight 140 pounds by April 3oth, 2010″. And make an action item for this goal -”I will be at the gym 4 times a week”.
Now that your goals and the appropriate action items are written down it is critical to revisit these goals everyday (I do mine first thing in the morning and again before bed) and visualize yourself reaching your goals.
On a side note - I find it very beneficial to eliminate the words: try, should, and can’t out of my vocabulary especially when writing my goals. I will not write “I will try to exercise more”. I know try is not a powerful word to me and is non motivational, so I don’t use it when setting goals!
Like I stated above, it is majorly important to set dates when goal setting – this allows yourself to know by February the 16th 2010 I WILL have 105 followers on my blog. I am a firm believe that what you think about you bring about and when you KNOW that by February 16th you will have 105 followers on your blog this will happen.
Food Talk!
Because yesterday was still a holiday I decided I would bake another batch of cookies that we could enjoy this weekend. I adjusted my own Kitchen Cupboard Cookie recipe and used Pecan flour instead of Almond Flour.
OH.MY.GOODNESS!!! Pecan flour makes these cookies a tad sweeter and puffier. I loved these cookies so much and highly recommend placing some pecans in the food processor and whirling them up for flour for you next cookies. Pecans go hand in hand with chocolate so it is very nice with the chocolate chips in these cookies.
Take a look!
I am setting my coffee limit to Friday, Saturday and Sunday – My little weekend treat.Over the holiday season I seem to have been taken back to my love of coffee and well….I need to stop it! So I have my good ol’ substitute out – Krakus. I added a smidge of almond milk to it so I could take the “edge” off. Normally I like my coffee black but this stuff is not as tasty as coffee to me….so in went the milk!
My questions to you today are kind of all over the map -
Have you Written your Goals down for this year? Do you know a good Coffee Substitute?
XXOO
Kris
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A great coffee substitute is dandelion root. It's usually referred to as dandelion tea, but it's not like a tea at all. Buy it from health food places whole and then grind it in a grinder (like coffee beans) or buy it already ground. Don't buy it in tea bags, that won't work!
All you need is to put half a teaspoon (it's very strong!) of the ground root in hot water (like you would instant coffee) you don't need to filter it or anything. You can add milk or sugar if you like ( I have mine with milk – cow, sow or rice – no sugar). Some of the ground bits float around the top, but it's fine – still yummy! It's a great caffeine free coffee substitute, and it's really good for your liver, too!
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haha I would NOT be able to give up coffee
I don't really have a “yearly” goal but I do have a fitness bucket list! It's written down & posted near my desk
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This was very helpful. I am definitely one of those people who felt lost trying to set up my goals. I think it's incredible that you revisit them daily.
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““I will only drink 3 cups of coffee per week” (lol, one of mine!)”
I need to change that to per DAY!
I applaud the weekend treat mentaility re coffee but I have found that due to being vegan, GF, SF, etc on account of food allergies (which i know you have to be too) the coffee is my little splurge and i just dont care anymore that i drink it…so i do
LMK how it goes for you cutting back so much!
Love the specificity of the goals, too. Imp to be specific i believe, too.
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what a great post!
have you read the book The Secret.. to SET a goal and DO it.. no matter what.. power of positive thinking. when you have a goal set for yourself.. dont ever stop beleiving in it, because then it WILl happen <3
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Yep! I heard about Dandelion coffee/tea before. It's very good for you. I have friends who swear by it (I haven't tried it myself yet), but then I believe that a little bit of something you love goes a long way… so I'm sticking with a cup of coffee per day (if that's what my body tells me I want)
Thanks for this post… it really helps to have that info to set my goals more firmly.
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Hey Kris, great post as usual. You always write things that get people thinking and thinking. Great post and have a sweet day
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I LOVE this post. I am ashamed to admit that it is Jan 3 and I still have not sat down to write my goals for 2010. This post definintely motivated me to do so – Hubby is playing 2 games of hockey tonight so I will have a nice quiet house – perfect for goal setting!
Thanks for the tips – I will definintely keep them in mind while writing my 2010 goals
xoxo Love you girlie!
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great post! I wish I could help you out with the coffee subsitute but it runs in my veins as averie would say!
pecan flour cookies sound AMAZING and look darn good too! I am ready for a bite
great post about attainable goal setting, this is SUPER important to do becuase its so hard to set goals that are just not reachable!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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i really like this advice on goal setting
and giving up coffee would be impossible for me!!
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