[OLD THREAD] Project Achieve Your Goals - 18+
Setting goals is the easy part...reaching them can be more challenging!
Having someone support you in reaching your personal goals can be incredibly helpful. Today, wed like to announce a new community program aimed at helping you reach your goals.
Well need both listeners & members to make this happen! Here is how you can get involved in this project:
Members:
Step 1: Post a goal youd like to work towards in this thread. Be specific! Goals work great when you can make them measurable. Usually that involves a time period and a number of times. Additionally, you want to start by making goals achievable. Do not make your goals too hard or you will grow frustrated and not be able to reach them. Much better to make them easy to accomplish to build your confidence right from the start.
examples:
I want to cook dinner for myself 3 nights per week
I want to go to the gym 1 time per week
Take 3 growth path steps every day
Step 2: Specify if you'd like a listener to check in on you 1 or 2x/week.
Step 3: Wait for a listener to reply to you! They will reply and let you know they will support you reach this goal.
Step 4: PM this listener to get going! They will not be able to support you by checking in on you if you do not first PM them. If you find that a listener has not followed up, then please post again and request another listener.
Step 5: Post your progress each week in this thread and also on your feed so more people can support you in achieving your goals.
Step 6: Once you have achieved your goal and the new behavior or habit has been consistent for 21 days, then apply for the Goal 1 Badge. We'll likely have several goals, so there will be Goal 2, Goal 3 etc. (Feel free to help us come up with better names!)
Listeners:
Step 1: Wait for members to share their goals in this thread! When you see a goal/member youd like to support, reply to their forum post and let them know!
Step 2: Once this member has messaged you and established connection over PM, its your job to better understand the members goal, why its important and what you can do to best support them.
Step 3: Make a commitment! Check-in with this member twice per week and enquire about the goal!
Step 4: Let us know how you and your member are doing! In this thread, we will track your progress as team. Post here to let us know how it's going!
Step 5: After your member has reached their goal, let us know and apply for the Coach badge. More details on this soon!
My goals are: sleeping earlier at night and do more housework.
@DarkCoffee hello! i feel you for that. i've started to sleep earlier at night this year, and increased the frequency and amount of housework done. goodluck! feel free to PM me if you need some help and support in achieving your goals! i have absolute faith in you to get the things done! ^~^
Goal for the day: Do as many tasks as possible related to internship :) Go out later and see the sun :)
@Soldrew2015 i hope that you'll be able to do as many tasks as possible related to internship!! :D good luck ^~^
Goal is to be the best I can be.
@Mike30400
Hello! I'm here as a friend and listener to help you with your goals if you want :)
I want to be able to stop self-harming and being able to get back on track with school and all my schoolwork. It might be a little hard but I'm willing to try!
Hi @clearskies88. You are strong to set your goals. Love your inner and external self. You are doing your best to help yourself. Change is never easy but keep trying and keep moving forward.
As cliche as this may sound, my current goal is simply independence. I'm living with my parents, working part-time in retail with a four-year degree from a good university, with no real direction for what I want to do next. All I know is that I want to start a real career, not just get a job, and start a family with my loving girlfriend sometime relatively soon. It just feels like I'm stuck in one big, seven month long rut, and there's no real exit strategy for it.
@azureBlackberry4929 I hope you achieve your goals and that things turn out differently for you :)
I want to love myself enough to speak up.
@considerateTriangle4081 it's an upward battle, and sometimes we refuse to speak up about stuff that hurt us significantly. but i believe that we'll be able to achieve this together! have you considered what has been hindering you in doing so? maybe you can PM me about it and we can explore the options in ways to love yourself more and to speak up. 
My goal is to b Art teacher in abroad, especially with elementary children. I dont have any qualification in Art but I've commerce bachelor degree.
I was good at drawing but I never consider it. But when I actually start working I realise if u r not interested in ur work, u wont feel satisfaction from it. Its been 6 years I havent done job out of frustration. But after talking with people here I m changing myself step by step. I was hopeless but now Im optimistic.
Right now, I m working on my skill drawing n painting. n also trying to improve my English.
I really wanted to do something in my life so I can feel proud of myself. Thatswhy I set this goal. I dont know what have to do n how to, I m just doing whatever I feel like. But If you want to help me or advise me just drop me msg.
Thank you :)
@SmallDot
Better late than never:)
I can't really draw, but I can probably help you with English. I am not a native speaker but it's one of my favorite languages. best of luck with the goal :)
Ps: only members can msg listeners.
I want to have something to live for, I want to be happy, and I want to be passionate about something, anything. Sometimes I feel like it's hopeless, and it will never happen.😢
@Schenkm18 hello! this is a really puzzling dilemna as time passes by. we tend to not be able to find things that we like, and we find that life is a mundane bore. i understand how you feel, and sometimes it's really so draining on us when nothing sparks our interests! but i strongly believe that all of us have got something that we are passionate for, even if it doesn't sustain for long periods of time. (like for me, i'm passionate for my gunpla projects, but i have a short attention span and so i don't do them regularly, only when the interests strikes) have you considered trying to branch out and take on new activities? maybe we can have a chat via PM to see what we can try out to make you feel passionate about ^~^
I have a hard time sticking with things and following through. I want to make a goal to really work with something whether it be practicing my violin daily or exercising.
@Schenkm18 hello again! 
have you considered maybe doing up a to-do list, and set a timetable that you *should* follow strictly? i can be your accountability partner in this situation, and i hope that when we work together, we'll be able to achieve the goal of you practicing your violin daily or exercising! ^~^
I want to stick up for myself and improve my self-esteem.
@affectionateLychee7498 hello! sometimes our self esteem does inhibit us in getting what we truly deserve, and sometimes because of that, we fail to protect ourselves and allow people to step all over us. i hope that maybe through the PMs that we get (if you're willing, of course!) we can ascertain the reasons why we fail to stick up for ourselves and also to explore various ways to improve on our self esteem!
