The Goal Wall
November 3rd, 2007November is hard month to get by for a lot of people. If you live in Vancouver, November is often known as The Month of Rain. For students, the ‘new school year’ feel is wearing off and a sedated routine is likely to have set in. For everyone else, November is just ‘that month before Christmas’ - that month where you get bombarded with Christmas carols (’but Halloween just finished!’) and inevitably end up loosing your Christmas cheer before December even rolls around.
This month, I’ve decided to get the whole family involved in something that will make November a whole lot more exciting and a lot less blah. I’ve set up a goal wall.
What is a goal wall, you ask? Well, basically put, the goal wall is where we’ll put our goals for that month. For example, my brother wants to save $250 dollars this month. He’s put that goal up on the wall. I want to make promotion by next Saturday and loose five pounds by the end of the month. I’ve put those two goals up on the wall.
We’ll each write our goals down and put them on the wall where we’ll see them every day. No “out of sight, out of mind” business here! Nobody can skip out and the entire family has to work together to help strategize ways we can meet our goals. This way, we’re all moving forward as a connected unit.
Feeling the November blues? Want to participate in NaNoWriMo or NaBloPoMo but don’t have the time? Instead of joining a challenge you don’t think you can swallow upfront, consider setting up your own goal wall and sharing the challenge with a roommate, family member or friend. Your goals can be as small or as big as you want, but regardless of the size, you will see results if you’re committed to them. You’ve got nothing to loose!
I love November… and I’m going to possibly love it even more come next year. But being down here in the Southern Hemisphere is probably what makes all the difference.
Not only is it the last month of Spring, it’s also the end of the university year (which is why I’m going to love it next year) and despite the over exposure of all things Christmas, a month of relaxation.
I like the idea of a goal wall, but I’d be more inclined to start it in late December as a ‘New Years resolution’ type thing. Setting goals and subsequently failing them because of everything else I have going on this month, I’d feel pretty bad about myself.
Well, there’s a goal right there! Work on my defeatist attitude! Heh.
Reply: November, last month of spring? That sounds to foreign to me! Definitely try out the goal wall whenever.. Even if you’re worried about failing them. Fear of failure will always be there! The goals can be as small (”talk to a stranger today”) or as big (”retire a millionaire”) as you’d like. Thats what I love about them. :)
November 4th, 2007 at 12:21 amI love things like these! Not that I really need much more motivation but I do love the sense of accomplishment that comes a long with achieving one of your goals. :)
November 4th, 2007 at 4:01 amNovember is such a stressful month. I really don’t like it. Nanowrimo and its little reincarnations only reiterate that fact that November = writing, research papers, that is!
And that is no picnic.
Goal Wall is such cute idea. I’d probably have to do one myself as I’m sure everyone around will think of it as another one of my ideas… let alone even humor me. I said this year was going to be the year, but you know, there still is some time!
November 4th, 2007 at 8:24 amThat’s a great idea, especially since I do want to fight the November blues!
November 4th, 2007 at 9:46 amThe goal wall is a great idea, Chanel. I’m going to put a goal of starting a goal wall on my wall right now!
Reply: Hahaha. How productive! ;)
November 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pmNovember’s looking out to be pretty dry. I hope it stays that way, even though the news just said it was going to rain from Tuesday to Friday. Ick.
I like that idea of a goal wall :D I often feel like I need motivation and someone to nag at me (although I don’t like getting nagged at? O_o) to do my work. So this goal wall idea sounds pretty great. I just need to make it huge so I can’t ignore it…
November reminds me that I should be starting to save up money for the holidays.
November 4th, 2007 at 3:44 pmI like the goal wall idea. It makes November a productive month (given that people actually commit themselves to achieving their goals, of course). November in America isn’t completely boring. At the end of the month, we have our Thanksgiving. Woot…another excuse to stuff ourselves!
November 4th, 2007 at 3:47 pmI’m not sure if my parents will be in on it, but I’ll definitely use one of my blank bulletin boards to start my own!
November 4th, 2007 at 5:23 pmAlas, I’m one of those unfortunate people living in Raincouver during the miserable month of November. But wow, that goal wall is really great, and it’s awesome your whole family can follow it!
November 4th, 2007 at 8:22 pmAhhh, that’s such a great idea. I’ve been all about goals lately, I love them. It all started when I decided to use the task manager thing on my blackberry before I went to the states because I had to remember to look into hotel and different stores we wanted to check out and get maps, and then once I added those I was like ‘oooh I need to add this!’ and it got out of control and I’m still using it.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:55 pm[…] that goal I set in the beginning of November? I did it! As of November 30th, I’m officially a 5K; I made promotion - and as a very lovely […]
December 4th, 2007 at 1:01 amYou write very well.
Reply: Thank you! :)
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