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Rethinking And Rightsizing Our Goal Setting

By Kathy Gottberg
Filed under: Aware, Meaningful, Rightsized

This week I’m happy to introduce you to Michele Vosberg as my guest blogger while Thom and I are traveling.  Michele is one of the most recent bloggers I began following in 2018, but when I began reading her posts I knew without a doubt that she fits into the SMART Living lifestyle.  With a strong intention to help people become all they are meant to be, her blog  Life Redesign101 is sure to help any of us who appreciate self-awareness and personal growth. Thank you, Michele, for filling in for me and sharing some of your ideas about rethinking (and rightsizing!) our goal setting for the future.


This is the time of year that many of us are focused on goal setting for the new year.  At this stage of life, we are likely accomplished goal setters.  We have successfully navigated the demands of the working world.   We’ve also successfully juggled the responsibilities of caring for homes, children, pets and even parents.

We have manipulated our Day Planners and multi-tasked our way through many projects and life challenges. We don’t need another lesson on S.M.A.R.T. goals (not to be confused with SMART Living!)  We don’t need a bigger planner with more hours in the day. We want to get off the hamster wheel, live in the moment and enjoy our lives without checking off our accomplishments on an endless to-do list. [Read more…]

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Kathy Gottberg is an author with seven published books and hundreds of articles covering dozens of topics in the last 35 years. Along with her books, her passion today is SMART Living 365 where she explores ideas and experiences that help to create a meaningful, sustainable, compassionate and rewarding life for herself and others. Beyond that, she lives with Thom, her best friend and soul mate in Tucson, AZ.

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