Find More Balance In Your Life With Goal Setting

Setting goals in your life is more than just the feeling of accomplishment that comes with achieving what you set out to do.  It’s about creating a life that fulfills you, challenges you, excites you, and creates some form of balance.  But, usually when you work towards one goal, another area of your life ends up falling out of balance.  Learn how to set the right goal that helps you to find more balance in your life.

Reassess

A balanced life looks different for everyone.  It’s up to you to decide what that looks and feels like for you.  Take time to reassess where you are in your life.  Give a score to each area of your life.  This includes finances, relationships, hobbies, career, physical health, surrounding environment, and mental wellbeing.  Think about which of these areas feels off and needs improvement.  Then, refocus your energy to set a goal to improve that area of your life.

Set A Goal

Goal setting does not need to be complicated.  Take an area of your life that you want to improve and set a goal for yourself.  Think about how you want to feel in this area of your life and what goal will help you to accomplish that.  Begin getting clear what this goal will help you to achieve in your life.  Visualize your life in the future at the point when you’ve achieved your goal and imagine how balanced your life is.  Fully take this image in and picture what sort of life balance you will have.

The Right Goal

In order to ensure that you’ve set the right goal, consider what achieving this goal will do for you and what it will require of you.  If this goal effects other areas of your life negatively, then this is not the right goal for you.  However, if working towards this goal also positively impacts other areas of your life, then this may be the right next goal for you.  Think about how your goal touches all the other areas of your life.  Determine in what way your goal has a positive or negative effect to make sure that you’ve set the right goal for yourself.

Example

For example, say you want to focus on sprucing up your environment with some home improvements but you don’t necessarily have the finances to complete a full renovation.  Instead of throwing your finances out of balance, choose a different goal that still aligns with improving this area of your life and does not have a detrimental impact on your finances.  Perhaps that means decluttering, doing some diy projects, adding new paint or carpet, etc.  Find ways to still make this area better, but not at the expense of creating imbalance with the other areas of your life.

Continue to use this method to keep your life as balanced as possible.  When you work on one area of your life, another area often becomes out of balance.  This is especially true as you work to achieve bigger and better things.  Find some balance in your life with what area of your life currently feels off.  Set a goal to improve this area but make sure working towards that goal doesn’t directly throw off the balance of the areas in your life.  Be cognizant of what impact this goal will have on the other areas of your life and make sure it aligns with how you decide a balanced life looks and feels for you.