By the time that the end of the year comes, you’ve probably already made some progress on achieving your yearly goals. And it’s still possible that a few of them slipped your mind. So, if you find yourself wanting to clear your list before the end of the year, you have some work to do. 2025 will be here before we know it so you’ll need to make a game plan for achieving your yearly goals within the next 10 weeks. Have you met your yearly goals? Here’s how to make progress in three months.
Determine If They’re Still Goals You Want
Revisit those goals. Determine if they’re goals that can allow you to pivot or get focused. Changing your mind or adjusting in a way that’s best for you is your prerogative. And it’s not failure if you’re learning from your mistakes. Maybe your life is moving in a different direction and now your goals need to reflect that. Maybe you want to remove goals from the list because they know longer align with your priorities. In either case, revisiting them and determining if they’re still goals would put you that much closer to your own personal version of success.
Setting Goals By Year-End And The Future
An article from LinkedIn recommends that goal setters adapt the SMART method once they’re ready to make a plan toward making progress. Set specific, measurable, achievable and realistic goals that are time-bound for your remaining goals. Being specific allows you to have a clear idea of what you need to achieve. Making sure that they’re measurable will allow you to determine how much time you’ll need to achieve them.
Are your remaining goals actually achievable according to your capacity or the amount of time you have left in the year? If not, maybe move them to the new year. If they are feasible, create detailed steps to put them into action and start today.
Be proud of setting your goals and figuring out how to achieve them. Sometimes life can get in the way of goals at work or in your personal life. Realigning and adjusting will ensure success.
Ashley Nash is a SEO Writer at Blavity. A lover of storytelling, she started off as a freelance writer covering local news for newspapers throughout Los Angeles. She then went on to pursue her masters in journalism from the USC Annenberg School. During the summer of her first year, she interned at Cape Community Newspapers in South Africa where she covered breaking news, art and culture. She returned home, graduated and found herself wanting to travel more, leading her to take on a role in the Bay Area. There, she worked in tech and marketing while continuing to freelance as a writer and photographer covering social justice. She desired a full-time role that would allow her to continue exploring her interests in social justice, identity and beauty while pursuing other avenues of content production.
A stint in copywriting, back home in Los Angeles, only strengthened her desire to produce stories both written and visual. So, she pursued and accepted the opportunity to work as a Story Hunter with Vox Media, where she produced and directed short videos for B2C brands. When the pandemic hit and companies loosened their restrictions around schedule and location, Ashley saw this as another chance to travel. She decided to move to the most coveted of her desired destinations: New York City. The writer-creative and apparent traveler continued to story hunt, producing and directing videos for Okta, Victoria’s Secret and Zoom. She also continued to freelance as a writer and photographer adding makeup artist and model to her budding repertoire.
Her 11-year span of work has appeared in Blavity, Ebony, AFROPUNK, CRWN Magazine, Madame Noire, Carefree, Teen Vogue, Italian Vogue, HuffPost, Access Hollywood and Wear Your Voice Magazine. She now lives in Los Angeles with her fiance’, daughter and family. Ashley is happy to return to the editorial space, viewing it as a homecoming. When she isn’t mothering or spending time with family, Ashley is helping people write, recording podcast episodes, editing her website, TikToking, thrift-shopping, enjoying cute cafes and eateries. Her website is itsashnash.com and her handle on all socials is @itsashnash.
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