Setting goals is so important.  Especially when we are going through a difficult season.  Focusing on positive things that we have control over is so empowering and helps take our attention away from the negative things in our life that more often than not we can't control.

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Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast, Working on Amazing.

This is a podcast where we talk about the work that it takes to rebuild an amazing life.

And I say rebuild because we're specifically designed and targeted towards women who feel like they're rebuilding their life.

Maybe you went through a divorce, you're going through a big breakup, a loss even.

And it feels like all your plans for the future have gone up in smoke.

And everything in your daily life is kind of topsy-turvy.

It wasn't where it was before.

Everything has changed, and the rug has been pulled out from underneath your feet.

If that's you, you're in the right place.

Welcome.

I am so glad that you are here.

So today's episode, we're going to talk about goals.

If you'll remember, in the beginning, in the intro, I talked about rebuilding my life, and I focused on five key areas.

And that was spiritual health, mental health, physical health, financial health.

And then I focused on growth and goals.

So today, that's what we're going to talk about, goals.

I understand if you're pulling back a little bit, you've already heard about goals.

I know.

You talk about goals at work and the types of goals and smart goals.

And in school, you probably talked about goals back then.

My whole life, I've heard about the importance of setting goals.

I know this isn't new to you.

I'm not here to share brand new information with you.

I'm here to encourage you in a dark season that this is what you need to do, that this is important.

When you set a goal, you're doing a forward motion.

You're going forward, you're looking ahead.

And that is positive, because we've got to get through it.

We've got to get through the dark night of the soul, through the rough season, through the dark time.

And we've got to move forward to do that, and a goal keeps us moving forward.

The other thing goals do is, especially when we're in this dark season, instead of focusing on all the negativity around us and all the things we're not able to change and we don't have control over, we're focusing on a goal that is positive and not negative, and it's something we do have control over.

So it helps our mental health.

It helps give us confidence and encourage us because we're taking positive action where we can in our life.

So that's a reason why goals are important, specifically when you're going through a hard time and a lot of changes are going on and maybe things that you didn't want to happen have happened.

This is why goals are important in this season.

So what kind of goals to set?

Well, I'm going to give you some goal topics, and then you get to pick your exact goal.

You choose how you want to rebuild your life.

But as we're rebuilding our life, we had some focus areas.

So having a goal for each of those focus areas makes sense.

And then I've got a couple extra that aren't focus areas, but we can add goals for, okay?

So our first focus area was spiritual health.

So what kind of goals are spiritual health goals?

That's kind of odd.

Maybe.

I don't know.

So I would suggest some ideas for spiritual health.

Maybe you say, I want to read my Bible every day.

Or maybe you say, I want to start a devotional.

I want to start reading of devotion every day.

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