by Karen Kohler<\/p>\n
As the semester starts just a couple weeks into the new year, it\u2019s easy to want to aim high and finally do all the things you\u2019ve been telling yourself you\u2019ll do.\u00a0 These are noble ambitions but setting a lot of big, broad goals almost never works.\u00a0 Setting smaller goals that can eventually help you reach your overarching goal is wholly more effective.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to set goals for different aspects of your life.\u00a0 For instance, you may have an academic goal of generally wanting to do better in your classes.\u00a0 How are you going to achieve that?\u00a0 You may want to set a period of time aside to do homework and study or have better organized notes.\u00a0 Something that has been surprisingly effective is a priority pyramid.\u00a0 This is just a to-do list drawn as a pyramid and sorted by how important each task is or how soon it needs to be done.\u00a0 An assignment due tomorrow for instance, may need to be at the top of the pyramid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is important also to set \u201cfun\u201d goals or just things for your own enjoyment.\u00a0 It may seem like finally watching that movie you\u2019ve been meaning to see for who knows how long or finishing a television series is a distraction from the goal, but it\u2019s still important.\u00a0 Of course, finishing the assignment that is almost due should be completed first but perhaps this could be lower in the pyramid, serve as a reward, a break, and provide a balance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Make it fun for yourself! If a goal is to read more books, get on Goodreads and see what everyone else is reading.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to start journaling, start by setting a goal of just once or twice a week, as opposed to immediately jumping to everyday, maybe get yourself some colorful stickers and pens to make it an arts and crafts activity.\u00a0 Working out more could start by just going on walks or to the gym once a week, making a playlist to accompany you or finding a friend to go with could make it more enjoyable.\u00a0 If you want a fun routine that you can change to match your pace, check out @benntheredonethat on Tik Tok.\u00a0 She posts treadmill struts to different themed playlists of songs, including Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, ABBA, Disney songs, and many more.\u00a0 The idea of these is to find your pace to the first song then slightly up your pace with each song and help make a workout enjoyable!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Karen Kohler As the semester starts just a couple weeks into the new year, it\u2019s easy to want to aim high and finally do all the things you\u2019ve been telling yourself you\u2019ll do.\u00a0 These are noble ambitions but setting a lot of big, broad goals almost never works.\u00a0 Setting smaller goals that can eventually…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-wellness","category-lifestyle","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Photo-for-Karens-article.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}