There’s a reason someone invented the concept of accountability. It’s to ensure we are making progress on projects and goals. I’ve been pretty terrible at holding myself accountable this year. I haven’t been checking in with myself on a monthly…
Category: Reflection & Goal Setting
I’m going to start this post the same way a high schooler starts an essay: with a definition. The dictionary defines ‘tomorrow’ as the ‘day after today’. My vocabulary sure seems to disagree. I said I would wash my dishes…
When we create goals, we always have this pretty image of what success will look like. In my mind, someone, success always turns things that are hard into things that are easy- an image that is anything but reality. We’re…
This post was originally written for the Student Leader Collective, a community of student leaders sharing ideas on how to become more awesome, in May 2014. The Student Leader Collective no longer exists, so I am reposting this here. It’s…
I’ve been trying to write separate posts for my accountability newsletter, Up a Notch, and my blog, but admittedly, this month has a fair bit of overlap. But… cookies. I may have a thing for cookies. In university, I managed…
If you’ve read more than one post on my blog, you’ve probably realized that I’m a goal setter. You may have also realized that I’m not always a goal-achiever, but I don’t care, and instead embrace the process. I’m always…
January was a month where time couldn’t seem to figure itself out. One minute it seemed like time was flying by, the next I was asking “how is it still January?”. And now it’s halfway through February, and I’m only…
Sometimes, I get tired of myself. I get tired of having ideas, and then never doing anything to put them into motion. I get tired of transferring items from one to-do list to another to another. I get tired of…
I often wonder why it’s so hard to be the person I want to be. I want to be a writer, but don’t pick up my pen. I want to be a runner, but don’t lace up my shoes. I…
At the end of every year, I always take some time to reflect on the year just past, and plan for the year ahead. Some years, it feels easy to make a list of a million awesome things I did….