How to set work/life goals that are both exciting and doable

A guide from special guest Annie Ridout

Annie Ridout is a writer and life coach whose book, Raise Your SQ, is all about using spiritual intelligence to transform everything from your career to your health and relationships. Her Substack can help you work out what you want in life, and how to get it - through practical business tips and self-development tools.
To celebrate the start of a new year, she has written this guest post for Well Well Well, all about setting goals that are not only exciting but also achievable…

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There are two obvious junctures in the year for setting goals: September, with that back-to-school energy - and January, as we step into a new year.

However, it seems the resolutions we set in January often don’t come to fruition and so, at the end of 2023, only 19% of people bothered to create a New Year’s resolution at all.

I’d argue that we often set the bar too high, and don’t think about the logistics and timings in the way that we need to in order to keep focused on - and believing in - our goals.

For instanc…