Managing Life Goals to Enjoy Balance

This week’s contribution comes with a huge THANK-YOU from me to a great friend of mine Barney Worfolk Smith ?? the MD of creative agency legends DAIVID. In addition to having successfully built and sold a number of creative ventures throughout his career, Barney has always been aware of and maintained a level of balance in life.

** As he describes brilliantly in this 7 minute video **...

Over the last few years, he has found it particularly valuable to be more specific and intentional with his goals, especially as he joins me (just a few days apart) and our peer group, in our journey to Flow through 50.?We all have so much going on, so being aware of and considering the blend of our energy across the various areas of our life, is critical. Barney looks at: career, finances, education, family, art, attitude, physical, pleasure and public service. Check out the video where Barney unpacks all the goodies and refer to the article in the link below this article, to the framework he uses, for translating big life goals in to weekly areas of focus.

In my Flowing through 50 framework (for which I’ll share a downloadable link next week in case you'd like to use it), Barney's video covers off two core elements:

• Goal setting is a huge “HOW” to guide your “WHATS” (practices), giving them meaning (“WHY”) and increasing the likelihood of them happening, as you have direction, focus and clarity of context.
• The process of reflection, thinking and planning associated with this kind of goal setting aligns closely to your PURPOSE: - Your Passions: (things you care about, believe in, are good at, energized by and enjoy);- Your Impact: (the meaningful difference you want to make for yourself (“Me”), those you surround yourself with the most (“We”) and anything bigger and beyond that (“World”); and - Your Application: what you want to do about it. In our approach at PurposeFused that starts with your life ambitions (ie goals Barney is talking about), and is followed up by an action plan to get there, and support in getting started (building your support team, having conversations, taking on new learning and experiences, etc).

I’m excited to share some other ‘friends and family’ contributions throughout this weekend wellbeing series on our shared Flow through 50. If you have one you’d like to share, hit me up via DM.

Barney, mate, thank-you for sharing this thoughtful, holistic and practical approach for our overall wellbeing, through the power of managing life goals for balance.

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Link to article with goal setting framework from mindtools here .