I know that for me personally, I always have a couple goals that I’m working on in a number of different arenas. Career goals, travel goals, family goals, relationship goals. This year I have felt forced to shift a lot of my personal goals. If you’ve found that your goals for 2020 have been forced to adjust, this post is for you.
January 2020: This year was supposed to be big for me. I was going to get a new certification for work, my husband and I were going to go on a couple vacations, and I was going to run a half marathon in California.
March 1, 2020: My husband says we should consider skipping the trip to California because of the news coming out about COVID-19. I naively assume he’s overreacting.
March 13-15, 2020: I attend the first part of my face to face certification for EMDR at UWM. I have conversations with other professionals about the potential impact and how we (again naively assumed) would likely be unaffected due to the nature of our work.
March 20, 2020: I find myself working from home trying to navigate virtual visits, bouncing around “office” space to wherever I’ll be undisturbed for the day in my house, and navigating social isolation from some of my main social supports.
June 3, 2020: After feeling generally down, lonely, and unmotivated, I decide it’s time to step out of the waiting room I had set myself in assuming this would pass within a couple months and work to step into some new goals.
Power can come from noticing that goals aren’t suiting you and your situation anymore. Power can come from shifting goals to fit more appropriately. If you’ve been stuck in your previous goals, I implore you to look at the current state of things, look at the power that you have within your knowledge base, look at the direction you want your life to head and start moving towards that. Six months ago, a blog was the furthest thing from my mind. Now I have been able to reach an audience in a way that I would have never imagined myself doing pre-COVID.
I am not that exceptional of a person. Not that I’m not great, I think I’m pretty cool. But in that I am not an exception. Meaning we can all find our influence, we can all work to feel fulfilled. This is just part of the way that I’m accomplishing that for myself. Do some self-reflection, some self-exploration, and see where your new and improved 2020 goals take you.
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