As the year comes to an end, we set ourselves new goals to
achieve as soon as the new year enters: Start healthy eating, a new
exercise routine, find true love. In my case it usually included:
Drawing more, Blogging more, Travel more.
As
I sat down to give a quite taught full review of 2015 I just notice how
little of my 2015 goals I actually achieved. I did travel, got a
beautiful chance to be part of a musical theater course over NY. (Which
is an amazing city). But, besides that, I did not blog more, draw or
painted more. I started comparing all my goals, and setting myself full
F on my school board for each and every one of them, leaving me feeling down
and setting my 2015 as a "boring" year. How sad is it to say your year
is "boring"? (It was good, but wasn't spectacular, it wasn't hard
either).
Setting
goals to the year (and yourself) sets expectations of whats to come,
setting expectations allows for the next year to compare your
expectations against reality. According to my logic the best way to stop
comparing year against year and goals and expectations is simply having
NONE.
My only
goal I set to myself this year was having ZERO expectations of it, no
goals to obtain and no scores to get. That way, everything that happens
will be a total surprise. Of course, I made myself some guide: If I do
enjoy drawing, I'll just make sure I have a notebook and a pen right
beside me at all time (which I already did!). See? I already made
progress to make this year a better than 2015 and actually didn't took
much. Goals should be measurable in order to be obtainable, the problem
is we usually set measures way too high way too fast (losing 20pounds during
January, pfff nobody has time for that), but setting small measures along the way may lead to habits,
even better than just yearly goals.
