Austin Scholar #97: Creating New Year’s resolutions for you and your kid (that you’ll actually achieve)
& my 2024 resolutions and goals
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Creating New Year’s resolutions for you and your kid (that you’ll actually achieve)
Austin’s Anecdote: My 2024 resolutions and goals
Scholar’s Sources: Miscellaneous collection of 2024 things
Welcome to 2024!! I can’t believe it’s my graduation year. I’ve always felt like 2024 was so far away – that it would be ages before I had to think about graduating high school, leaving Alpha, and moving away.
But now it’s here, so be ready for me to explore all of my hopes, fears, dreams, and anxieties as I navigate this crazy time – and share all of my learnings (so you can be prepared to help your kid, too).
Creating New Year’s resolutions for you and your kid (that you’ll actually achieve)
Goal setting: the most talked about topic of the first week of January. We all like to start off strong – setting goals to read four books every month and go to the gym five times per week. It’s good to set ambitious goals, right?
But as we start to fall behind on the number of books read and number of gym visits made, those resolutions start to slip our minds, never to be thought of again (until January 1st of 2025, of course).
Except, we set New Year’s resolutions because we want to start actually making changes in our lives – and I’m sure y’all also want to show your kids how to set and meet goals of their own.
So the challenge emerges: how do you create New Year’s resolutions you will actually keep up with?
Well, when you think of having a New Year’s resolution to “work out more” or “read more books”, what is it that you really want? Probably not to spend hours in the gym or your weekends at the library. What you really want is to “be the healthiest version of yourself” or “become more well-spoken” (or something along those lines).
But those values are too hard to quantify to be actual goals, right?
That’s where this goal setting system comes in.
Let me break it down.