Michelle B (muchelleb)

Oh, absolutely.

And I am someone who used to be terrible with this.

Like when I was in my younger years, I would be looking up New Year's resolution lists of goal ideas and I'd be picking goals off a list and that never pans out.

You need to create goals that come from a place of this is the person that I want to become.

This is the life that I want to create.

And then choose your goals based on those visions for yourself.

I know, I know.

And look, I used to create those lists, so I can't be shading anyone who looks at those lists, appreciates them, creates them, because I used to be that person.

But as I've moved forward on my journey, I've realized how unhelpful those lists can be.

I mean, they can be helpful to a degree, but for the most part, that's really not where you should start when it comes to your goal setting.

Exactly.

Yes.

Yes, definitely.

So when it comes to introducing habits into your life, I'm all about gently introducing those habits.

I think introducing habits on a little more slowly is a more sustainable way to bring them into your life.

And I don't think that that is the way that most people go.

Most people go, okay, I'm going to create a new morning routine.

And it's going to have five steps, 40 minutes of exercise when I've never exercised before.

And I'm going to start journaling, even though that's never a habit that I've enjoyed.

And that's definitely an approach that I've had in the past.