12: Easing Into a Productive New Year

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re now a week into 2020 and odds are that you, like yours truly, have been bombarded by no shortage of “New Year, New You” advertising, marketing and social media. If you’re feeling guilty about not having immediately started in on your 2020 goals, drop the shame sis! Acclimating yourself to your goals rather than throwing yourself at them from the get-go means you will find a balance that works well for you without quickly burning yourself out.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To explain how this can work for you, I’m expanding on last week’s discussion about New Year’s resolutions and relating my own current process for pursuing and achieving my goals. In this short and sweet episode, I reveal what I uncovered during my own reflections on 2019, remind you that this goal-oriented process is gradual and more than a little bit messy, and describe the kind of equilibrium I want to build for myself this year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ready to take your work a bit deeper? Schedule a call with me to discuss ways we can work together. <a href= "http://www.kellytravis.net/ascend10">www.kellytravis.net/ascend10</a><br /> <br /></span></p> <p><strong>The Finer Details of This Episode:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Accepting that you won’t find clarity until you start in on your goals—and even then, it’s going to be messy!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Why I feel at ease with the very concept of “ease.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Which values do I still hold very near and dear to my heart?<br /></span></p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You don’t have to push right away!”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m trying to balance the effort with the ease.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s okay to not wanna go hard at the beginning of the year.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t want you to place your worth i