On my rainy commute home, I try to get you to:

• Stop fighting on social media and avoid toxic people.
  
  
• Limit your news intake and reduce entertaining (or reacting to) your negative or obsessive thoughts.
  
  
• Stop letting people (including you) waste your time. Minimize distractions that take you off course or make you upset.
  
  
• Stay on this planet with us even if you are depressed or in agonizing, relentless daily pain. There's help and support.
  
  
• Reduce TV but if you don't, make sure it's fuckin' funny.
  
  
• Know how to set hard and serious boundaries with people who consistently suck the energy and time out of your day by venting their many problems to you (and that includes following their negative, ranting social media posts). You can do it politely.
  
  Do not give your time freely unless it is to your kids (who depend on you) or your boss or customers (who you depend on). Fuck everyone else.
  
  Seriously, dude...let these attention-seeking drama queens go suck the life and time out of someone else so you can get your goals planned and accomplished. I mean it.
  
  Stop saying yes to every social invitation, too. Focus on getting your shit done. Make it a goal to focus on your goal setting. FOMO is real but, oh well. It was probably not going to be that fun, and you would rather be at home anyway. You know I am right.
  
  
• Increase laughter in your day somehow. Find it or create it. It's healing and positive and fun and playful and joyous. 

Oh yeah, btw....I also occasionally talk about very personal, sometimes intimate subjects because I don't filter myself, so you have been warned (teased)?

Thanks for being part of my journey to improve and find happiness and success in this short and precious life. I know I am often negative, so this seems hypocritical, but I’m trying to grow. We are in this together, you fuckin' asshole. ;-)

Topics include:

• My friend unexpectedly had her baby one month early yesterday, and without notice, and my other friend helped deliver it because they had no time to get help!
• Pondering then writing down your ideal, dream life
• Backwards planning from the end of your life 
• Planning and habit tracking apps for your phone
• Believing in yourself and thinking BIG
• Setting measurable goals (not unclear/open-ended ones)
• Recommended audio books for habits, goals, and finance

Thank you for being sexy and wild.

Love,
Susan

Join me as I summarize the habits and principles discussed in this well-known personal development book by Stephen Covey. 

What does this have to do with goal setting?

Just listen and find out, will ya? This is one of my more serious podcasts but you need to hear this shit.

These are the fundamentals of how to become even better and more effective than you already are. Let's figure out how to get to the next level. Employing these habits can help.

What is the next level for you in life?

Don't be a tool...  get your planning tools in order. Having the right tools makes goal planning not only easier, but more enjoyable and fun.

We'll go over:

• Planners
• Bullet journals (BuJos) 
• Habit tracker journals
• Dashboards 
• Guiding words (to focus on)
• Wall calendars (dry erase)
• How to make a digital vision board

I did forget to mention using Google Calendar and/or MS Outlook in addition to any of these tools/systems because getting automatic alerts on your phone is really useful. It's just not as fun (and visually stimulating) as using actual hard-copy planners.

I will try to work on not moving my mic cord around while I talk next time. You can hear it sometimes and it's fuckin' irritating. My bad.

Next time we will talk about the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Steven Covey. I will summarize the habits and main principles for ya.

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Warning: I sound like an uptight bitch in this episode (because I am). Hey, sometimes I am! We all are!

Also I was in a huge rush and wanted to cover a lot of material. So I may sound a bit harsher, and a bit more abrupt in this one, but I carry a good message if you want to trudge through the mud of my grumpy personality today.

Topics include:

• Making marginal (small, bite-sized) changes to our habits and behaviors
• Thinking about the bigger picture (what do we want in life and who do we want to become to get there)
• Planning regularly and not just at the end of the year
• Visualizing our outcomes, i.e., the end results of our goals that we are planning
• Using a 12-month, erasable wall calendar to visualize the year daily on the wall as a visual reminder

On the next podcast, we will talk about planning mechanisms such as planners, bullet journals, dashboard pages, and vision boards.

Let's keep the progress going towards planning our wonderfully successful and happy lives ahead.

Until next time.... think about what outcomes you want this year and next year.

(Some of those outcomes should include some wild times. Otherwise why do we work all day? Work hard, play hard.)

Love ya, darlin'. 

Thanks for comin' around.

Topics include:

- Your mom's atrophied, prolapsed vagina

- Goal setting (including the goal of not having a vag like your mom's)

- Visualization (visualizing yourself having a better vag than your mom's)

- Plans for the rest of 2019 and into 2020 (plan kegels)

I drop some knowledge on how to visualize yourself succeeding and exceeding the goals that you've set. I drop it like your mom's expansive vagina dropped you when you were born.

Join me as we continue learning how to set goals. And of course I talk about my personal life off and on throughout.

Here is a template I created that I've been using in the mornings to plan my time and goals in the short-term, mid-term, and long-term. This is just a start. We will add on longer-term goals later.

Morning planning and goals check-in:

 (You can modify this to fit your life.)

Today/Tomorrow:

What meetings/appointments do you have today and tomorrow?

What are your three highest priority tasks today at work?

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

What are your three highest priority tasks today at home (personal life)?

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

What are the low-hanging fruit (easy or fast tasks) that you can get over-with today?

(List them and add checkboxes to check them off as you complete them.)

This week:

What are your 3 highest priorities this week at work?

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

What are your 3 highest priorities this week (non-work/personal)?

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority: 

This month at work:

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

This month personally: 

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority: 

This quarter at work: 

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

This quarter personally: 

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

This year at work: 

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

This year personally: 

1. Highest priority:
2. Second highest priority:
3. Third highest priority:

What can you be grateful for? (Make a list.)

How can you exceed expectations for yourself? (Make a list.) 

How can you exceed expectations at your job?  (Make a list.)

How can you exceed expectations in your fitness/health routine?  (Make a list.)

How can you exceed expectations with friends/family?  (Make a list.)

Other Priorities/Action Items with Milestones & Target Dates:  (Make a complete list with milestones and due dates.)

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Just copy and paste this whole section of lists into your e-mail calendar as a recurring appointment "Daily planning" at some half hour time slot that works for you every morning.

And modify it to fit your life and what you want to focus on, and how you want to focus on it. This is just what has been working for me.

As long as you do SOME type of planning in the morning before distractions take you...you are on the right track.

I have my slot allocated in my calendar daily, Monday through Friday, from 9 - 9:30 am, which is right after I've gotten to work and had my coffee and can think clearly about how I want to navigate my day for success.

Setting goals gives you purpose, which is good for managing/fighting depression. 

Add value to yourself and someone else by focusing on goal setting.

In this podcast I read an article that is poorly written by a doctor, and it really annoys me. But the content is good.

In this episode I check in with you after my absence and talk about whatever comes to mind, including:

• Ending our organization and decluttering challenge with some closing tips on purse and wallet organization
  • I forgot to mention it, but buy a purse organizer insert. They sell them in any size and color on Amazon.
• An overview on the next challenge (goal setting)
• Roller derby and what I am doing next
• Tidbits related to my personal life

Join me!

I complain about the challenge, tell you about my sectional couch, and blab about random shit.

I also admit defeat in this challenge, but I am not giving up.

I still am getting *some* stuff done. Just not as much as I had hoped. Not nearly. And not consistently. And it's weighing me down.

It's the albatross around my neck. Not a good look.

I must conquer this overwhelmed feeling with progress.

Why is it that every time I attempt to get organized and master this closet, I all of a sudden feel SUPER tired and just want to lay down and watch movies?! UGH!

Our minds sure are powerful, aren't they? I make myself tired and sap my own energy from dreading simple tasks that would make life easier.

Let's push through the feelings that weigh us down and force ourselves to get the boring tasks and errands overwith. My paperwork is not done and I know I have nice nuggets of jokes in there. There is tax-related stuff I need. Insurance documents. I need everything to be online and it's not.

Join me or not. This one isn't really helpful in any way.