Goal Setting with Feelings Did you make resolutions last year? How did it work for you? Here’s cold hard truth about resolutions: 40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year. Top new year's resolutions for 2017: - Save money - Lose weight / get in shape - Have more sex The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on: - not even 1 month: 43% - one month: 66% - less than 3 months: 80% Is that you? That was me for years.... until I decided to ditch resolutions all together 5 years ago. Once I’ve done that, I’ve achieved all of my goals. Now, I don’t chase regular goals... I chase desired feeling. Yes, goal setting with feelings. You can too! This is what we talk about in today’s episode. How to flip the resolutions model on its head and chase what really sits under traditional goals: a desire to feel a certain way. Chasing feelings is the key to staying motivated all year and confident! In this episode I discuss Why you should ditch SMART goal setting  How to set goals that will stimulate your right brain: your feelings, emotions, creation and possibilities Goal setting with feelings: step-by-step process Last episode was all about how to get results when desiring to change some things in our lives.  Some women go on to achieve their goal and others don’t. Why? To be honest, it has nothing to do with your capacity as much as your mindset. Your ability to have an honest discussion with yourself and accepting what will need to change in your life in order to achieve your goals. And likely what needs to change isn’t what you think... because the truth is if you knew you’d already done, right? The secret to achieving your goals resides in what you don’t know or what you don’t want to see or accept about yourself. Click here and I’ll share with you the 5 obstacles that women face when desiring change in their lives. Leave me a review, if you enjoy the show and would love to encourage and support my work, leave me an honest review using this link, click here. For a podcaster like me, reviews are like a fuel... and I would appreciate hearing from you more than I could possibly say!  Here's a quick tutorial on How to leave a review.      Links mentioned in the episode Food Freedom Challenge - January 1, 2019: Podcast listener can use coupon code 50OFF until Dec 25th to get $50 off the registration price Register to the Academy waitlist Get your Academy Gift Card - until December 24, 2018 Get your Food Freedom Score   Undiet Series 165-Body Acceptance: The Must-Have to Make Peace with Food  166-Strategies to Maintain Motivation and Consistency 167-How to Get Results: 5 Obstacles to Avoid     Submit a question for the next episode If you want to submit a question for Stephanie's next episode, click here and join our free and private community.   Reach Stephanie  Website Facebook Instagram YouTube Email ***For your information - some links above may be my affiliate links, which means I get a small commission if you click on it and make a purchase. Doing so is no additional cost to you, but helps me tremendously. Your support is SO greatly appreciated, so thank you in advance if you choose to do so***