Another Way with Selina Barker
Monday Pep-Talk
The journey matters more than the goal
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The journey matters more than the goal

On how it can be easy to get so fixated on where we want to get to, that we forget about making the journey there enjoyable

Hello lovelies,

This week is a big week for me - the ‘Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025’ journal is out THIS WEDNESDAY! Which means my quarterly ‘Let’s Make It Happen’ game will really begin.

If you don’t already know, my Q4 project is to sell out all 2000 journals by 7th Jan.

And it is that that has inspired this week’s Pep-Talk, because as I was writing out my Project Plan about ten days ago, I suddenly realised that there wasn’t much about the journey that I was actually excited about 😬

I was so excited about the destination and hitting that 2K goal, that I’d forgotten to think about whether I’d actually enjoy the journey getting there.

And when I looked at the list of things I knew I needed to do to achieve that goal, I realised I didn’t really want to do any of them. The big problem being that I don’t actually like marketing, selling, cold calling or putting myself out there.

And this is a trap I see so many people fall into. And I couldn’t let myself go down that path. So I knew I had to d…

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Another Way with Selina Barker
Monday Pep-Talk
Get bite-sized doses of guidance, inspiration and practical tips to help you design a life you love, one week at a time, with Career and Life Design Coach, Selina Barker