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One of life's most motivating and cherished things is the unbridled expression of joy. As you work toward your goals, make time to restore joy in your daily life, whether engaging in your hobbies or special interests or admiring the beauty and fun around you.

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Despite what society tells us, sometimes self-care doesn't look like bubble baths and Netflix. Sometimes it looks like solitude, setting boundaries, and hard conversations. Self-preservation is just as much an important part of our self-care as anything else.

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It's important to understand that goal progress happens when you are in full alignment with your values. Do you know your values? Have you taken a step back to figure the things out that matter to you the most? It will make such a difference in finding the motivation to keep working on those steps toward your goal.

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Our emotions can be incredibly powerful tools that help us understand if we're headed down the right path. Sometimes they can steer us in a different direction than what we ever anticipated. It's important to take each emotion and process each one as a message, giving us signals about the journey we are on.

As we make progress, the underlying connection between our goals and our values should remain in tact. If feelings of resentment, guilt, and boredom creep in, what are those emotions trying to tell you? By having regular check-ins with your emotions on your path to goal achievement, it gives you and your nervous system a chance to read more deeply into the work you are doing.

Many times we can get feelings of fear and nervousness, but fear isn't always a bad thing. What is the root of that fear? Is it fear of failure? Fear of success? Fear of judgment? What about the fear of anticipating something exciting?

It's perfectly normal to have waves of emotions, and have different emotions at different times during your goal progress. I can feel both scared and excited, happy and nostalgic, worried and hopeful. And so can you. Stay curious. Listen.

Take each emotion and respond thoughtfully. They are trying to tell you something.

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