Hallo! So, recently, Leonie Dawson raised her rates on the Goddess Circle community that she runs, so I dove in and got my membership before the rates changed. And I have been meeting some of the most amazing women ever! One of them, the fabulous Jane of Ardis, is here to show how she created her List of goals for the rest of the year. I’ve created one, too, following her example, and I’ll even share a few of the items with you!
Recently I’ve been talking with Fae about the art of getting what you want, and doing so with joy and ease.
One of the best techniques I’ve found to help go from ‘wouldn’t that be nice?’ idea to it actually happening is the old school list. Inspired by Leonie Dawson, I’ve written a list of 50 things I want to do in the last half of 2012, and have been flying through it.
Here’s how I do it:
Does it resonate?
When you write your goal down or speak it aloud how do you feel? Do you feel good? Do you feel a shimmy of fizzy delight or anticipation, even if it’s tinged with nerves about how you’re going to pull it of?
Or do you feel bored or heavy? Is your reaction even tinged with dread?
Pay very close attention to this, because this is the key to a goal list that you fly through with delight + joy, and one that you slog through, or stays hidden in a neglected notebook.
Try writing down a couple of your goals, and notice how you feel. How do you feel when you goal is deeply aligned with your heart and soul?
Tune into this and let it be your guide. This is your ideal goal resonance.
The more your practice this, the easy it will become.
Now, discard as many of things things as possible that don’t resonate with you. It might be that they were right for you ten years ago or ten days ago, but not now, or that they are ‘shoulds’ you’ve absorbed from other people and the general culture.
Yes, sometimes this process can be a little scary. It’s OK to take your time with this and ask for help and support if you need it.
Is it obvious when you’ve done it?
You don’t need to write your list out in SMART goal format, but it’s so, so much easier to get things done when you actually know, very clearly, what you’re trying to achieve.
For example, one of the big themes for me this half-year is diving into the study and practice of shamanism. However, if I’d written my goal as ‘Learn more about shamanism’, how would I know when I’ve achieved it?
So instead of writing down the lifetime journey, I’ve broken it down into smaller parts that I can do right now, like reading 5 books about shamanism, journeying at least 10 times for other people, going to another Sacred Trust workshop and obtaining a shamanic rattle.
And because it’s easy to know when I’ve done them, they’re all either completed or well under way.
Include things that are relatively easy
Include those things that are simple. That you can do relatively cheaply, that aren’t hugely time-comsuming, and that you are almost 100% sure that you can do.
You know, those ‘little things’ you’ve been meaning to do.
Because once you get into the swing of setting the intention to do something, and soon after doing it, and have all the satisfaction of crossing it off your list, you’re building momentum that suddenly makes doing the things that are harder seem much, much more possible.
You start to see yourself as the person who can, rather than the person who can’t.
Using these three strategies, I’ve turned my to-do lists, whether it’s for a day or a year, from things of dread and doom into things that I love and that support me living a beautiful, radiance-filled life. I hope so much that they will be helpful to you too.
Jane of Ardis is an intuitive alchemist + sorceress of stuck. She blogs about radiant soulful living, loves tea, tattoos + Tarot, and is undertaking a shamanic adventure. She is also a cat concierge to two spoilt felines.
