Elevate Your Goals and Eliminate the Excess

Embark on a transformative journey with me, Heather, as we embrace the art of goal setting and personal alignment, inspired by the wisdom of Brett Blumenthal's "52 Small Changes for the Mind." If you've ever felt the itch for change but struggled with where to start, this episode is your roadmap, offering tools for setting goals that resonate with your core. We'll unearth the secrets of the SMART goal framework, providing actionable steps to make your dreams specific, measurable, and, most importantly, attainable. Plus, I'm sharing an exclusive link to worksheets that are your key to unlocking this process. As we navigate the whispers of Saucha from Nikolai Bachman's "The Path of the Yoga Sutras," I'll guide you through decluttering your workspace, transforming it into a sanctuary that supports your aspirations.

As we tackle the chaos of clutter, a familiar foe for many, I delve into personal anecdotes of my own battle for a clutter-free existence. Understanding the profound impact of an organized space, I offer practical advice and simple strategies to maintain a clear environment. By redefining boundaries and embracing a minimalist approach, we're not just cleaning up; we're setting the foundation for success. Join me in this quest for clarity, as we commit to ambitious goals and create a harmonious work haven to empower our productivity. Together, we'll clear the clutter and pave our paths to triumph. Namaste, and I'm excited for you to be a part of this inspiring conversation.

Here is the link for the Book "52 Small Changes for the Mind:
https://www.brettblumenthalstudio.com/brett-blumenthal-books-and-publications

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

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Speaker 2: 0:22

Hey, welcome to Mindset Monday on Mindful Business, business evolution. I am heather, your host. I am so grateful to be here today. It's another wonderful week, um, so this week I am, I get, we're, uh, on the floor of 52 small changes for the mind by Brett Blumenthal, and I am so excited because this is like what I'm doing right now. So it's like perfect. I was like, of course, that's what we're doing right now.

Speaker 2: 0:55

So, being a goal setter, the quote for the week is if you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things, by Albert Einstein. So what are you doing to set goals for yourself? What kinds of goals do you set for yourself? Do you only set career goals? Do you set health goals? Do you set emotional goals, spiritual goals? You could have all kinds of goals. Do you have goals about the kinds of plants you want to have in your life, the kind of home you want to manufacture in your life? Right, what are your goals? What do you want to set goals for?

Speaker 2: 1:36

And then this book is so awesome. It walks you through, like the different things you need to know about walking the path towards your goals. So you got to choose goals that are actually authentic to you because you want to achieve them, if they're not aligned with what you inside want. Think big and small. Sometimes we need a really big goal that we take steps to, but we need some small goals along the way. So, thinking big and small and then, of course, always using the SMART goal technique specific, measurable, actionable, relevant and timely. So, if you want, actually, I can include the link to her Sorry, I'm going to take a breath. In her book, she has in the back an appendix with all of the worksheets for things like goals and everything that she has here, and it's available on her website. So I will go ahead and attach that link that's the word I'm looking for, the link to that so that you can work through this for yourself. And it's really great because, like specific, okay, what does that mean?

Speaker 2: 3:07

And then she breaks down with additional questions to ask yourself so that you can really hone in on the specificity of your goals and your action items and how it does it connect to you and how it's relevant to you you and how it's relevant to you, and then, of course, putting the timeline on it so that you can track it right. You're going to be able to kind of track something. That has to be something trackable. So, yeah, even if it's an emotional goal, there's a physical trackability in it. The result of you doing this other things change. So what does that ripple effect for you? So in there you can find something that you can actually measure. Even if you feel like it's not a tangible thing, there's a ripple effect that's going to happen, right? So if my goal is to love myself more, then what am I going to see in my life that shows me that I'm doing that for myself? So those are the things to think about with that.

Speaker 2: 4:10

So then, this week I also popped over to the paths to the yoga sutras, a practical guide to the core of yoga by Nikolai Bachman, and we've read this before. So I was really connecting with Saucha and I read the whole chapter, so I clicked to the wrong place. So let me, let me get that open. Where did I put you? Where did I put you there? It is All right. So Saucha is cleanliness in Sanskrit. So cleanliness is indeed next to godliness by John Weasley, and I was reading this because there's different ways that we need cleanliness in our lives, and I thought that this went really good with creating goals. So if our goal is to have better mental health, say, then maybe we need to clean up our mental health and our mental well-being, and what would it look like? What is it that we might need to clean out out of there? Are they limiting beliefs? Are there things that we need to connect to? So I thought this was a really they went hand in hand. Of course they. You know, whatever it is that I put together it, always you can see how the parallels of what works together right. Always you can see how the parallels of what works together right. So I really enjoyed the exercises here. So this is pages 175 in the Path of Yoga Sutra, and it goes on to for a couple of pages.

Speaker 2: 5:57

And I really enjoyed this idea, especially for those of us working from home cleaning off your desk at the office which could be our homes right, putting everything neatly in its proper place, so making sure all your pens are put away. Do you have extra makeup on your desk? I kind of have. Like all my vitamins supplements are like all over my desk, like right now I'm looking at my desk going and I got like way too many books on my desk. Like I was like, oh yeah, I could do that, even though it felt cleaner. Like everything has its little spot. I got like baskets for things. It's still too much stuff around, right? Like I could put my markers in their marker spot. They don't need to be on my desk, things like that.

Speaker 2: 6:50

So just taking that moment to really look at you know you're constantly moving around in the space then, uh, you might have more clutter than you realize and taking that time to reset your space and then notice how it feels afterwards when you come to your desk. This is a great thing to do, right For Friday, so that you're ready for Monday morning. But maybe it's Monday and you're listening to this now and you're going to start your week off better by just taking five, 10 minutes for yourself and putting these things away. Set a timer, play a couple songs, you know, set the stage for yourself, make yourself feel good about this. Taking a minute for yourself, because then that space is clear and then your brain becomes more clear and then your thoughts and things flow better. So I want you to experience that. So the only way to do that is to do it for yourself, to practice right. So we're nobody's perfect. We all gotta do our things and we gotta practice these things.

Speaker 2: 8:02

And if anybody has known me for a long time, clutter is something that's followed me in my life and I work on it on a regular basis because I have had to give myself new boundaries and learn how to be less cluttered in my life. So I mean, we just practice. So take that moment, take a few minutes, clean off your desk, clean your area, maybe even vacuum the floor. Don't tell anybody, don't do that. So you know what can you get done in 10 minutes. It probably depends on how much stuff you have on your desk, how many things you have going on in your space, right, that you can bring down. So with that, I hope you have a great week. I hope that you set some incredible goals for yourself, you clear the space so that you can achieve those, and I am looking forward to talking to you soon. Namaste, thank you.