Third Eye

Setting Achievable Goals
Life has a way of making you take notice of things and situations you've been trying to ignore or hope they'd go away.
 I spent many years taking my physical health for granted but as I got older I could no longer ignore the messages my physical body was sending me that it needed some attention, particularly my knees which had started to protest at the extra weight they were carrying (i.e. me!).
 I'm finally listening to my body and doing something about the aches and pains. I saw my GP and a Homeopathic Practitioner and have started to eat more healthily in a bid to  lose some weight and feel fitter and less creaky. In the last 4 weeks I've been exercising as well and have lost 8lbs (or whatever that is in metric).
I feel good because I set myself a goal of losing 2lbs a week for 3 months and one month in I'm on target!
Small rewards are an excellent way of celebrating your achievements.
I've rewarded myself for this 4 week achievement with a trip to the cinema and I'm already planning my reward for my 3 month achievement (not food related but doing something I love to do)

Setting goals is important when you want to make changes in life and it can be used in any area of your life.
If you have a big goal, for example a complete career or lifestyle change, then breaking it down into a series of smaller goals is more manageable and achievable. Small steps.
Also prioritising is useful-deciding what you need to do first, something small to get things moving and that is achievable. 
A client of mine was bored with his lifestyle and his career-he felt it was dull and repetetive and it was!
When he did an audit of his lifestyle he realised that he was in a rut: going to the same restaurants on the same days every week, ordering the same meal every time and eating it without noticing the flavours and textures of his food.
That's just one example from his routine and rather than try to change his whole life at once his first step was to set himself the small goal of choosing something different from the menu.
His larger goal was to try different restaurants and his main goal was to learn to cook!
So, where there's a change you want to make in your life, whether big or small, what small steps can you take towards an achievable goal?