141: Mid-Year Goal Check: Assess Your Progress and Set Micro-Habits for Success - by Teresa Huff

<p>Join me on the Fast Track to Grant Writer: <a href= "https://www.teresahuff.com/vip">www.teresahuff.com/vip</a></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Mid-Year Check-In</strong></span><br /> It’s hard to believe the summer is half over already! Where did the year go? I don’t know about you, but I’m a goal-setter, so mid-year is a good time to check in on my progress. Like most years, I’ve had a lot of unexpected things come up. It’s a process of learning to roll with the changes and adjust as I go.</p> <p>As I evaluate how to move forward for the rest of this year, I thought it would be a good time to share a few tips I’ve learned to help you reach your goals.</p> <p>Make Progress with Micro-Habits</p> <p>One method of goal-setting is to set up micro-habits. Rather than setting ourselves up for failure with a huge goal we likely won’t reach, where can we create micro-habits to set ourselves up for a nearly 100% win? Those have a surprisingly compounding effect.</p> <p>Micro-habits are small actions that help lead us towards our goals. They're easy to accomplish consistently and have a compounding effect.</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">7 Steps for Setting Micro-Habits for Success</span></strong></p> <ol> <li>Assess Your Progress:<br /> Look at your goals from the beginning of the year. Are you on track? Have you accomplished what you hoped for by now? Don’t be too hard on yourself if your progress isn't exactly where you expected it to be. Instead, use this time to evaluate, adjust, and adapt.</li> <li>Be Flexible<br /> Choose to adapt when life throws unexpected things at you. Keep pushing forward and don’t give up.</li> <li>Be Deliberate<br /> When unexpected opportunities or hurdles come, deliberately decide where these things fit in the bigger picture. Be sure to pace yourself and take a rest when you need to.</li> <li>Be Intentional<br /> Be intentional when choosing your micro-habit. Consider the larger goal of who or what you want to become and identify a habit that will help you ge