The month of June is very special to me. Not only because it is my birthday month (wink wink), or because I have beautiful childhood memories of June bringing the much-awaited rains to cool down the summer heat. June in fact brings back unforgettable memories of going to sleep with the nonstop pitter-patter of raindrops on the rooftop. I love June also because we are halfway through the year and it is the right time to take stock of what we have achieved vis-a-vis what we set out to do at the beginning of the year. There is still room for course correction and we can still aim at achieving our goals. It is halfway through 2021 and let us get into some stocktaking.

As a freelancer, volunteer, and blogger, my life is all about self-motivation. I have always swung from one activity to another with sheer self-motivation and self pep talks. I keep my To-Do list close to my heart and that helps me immensely in ensuring a productive day.
Is it easy to keep self-motivating? Heck No!
But is it possible? Of course, it is!
Activities like these help me in staying focused and on track.

Quite often, work-related goals get achieved because there are incentives and repercussions for accomplishing/ not accomplishing them. People tend to focus more on them. But we bury the personal goals in the pages of that new journal that we buy every year. We lock them within the frames of the xl sheet that we create on the first of January. This is the right time, my friend, to get them out of there and give them a fresh look.

If you are a stay-at-home parent or have retired from work I highly recommend you pull out those goals and take stock. If you did not make any during the beginning of the year, for whatever reasons, make fresh ones. Work towards achieving them for the rest of the year and finish the year on a high note.

It is halfway through 2021 and we have lived through a very different phase of our lives in the last one and a half years. A lot of plans, goals, and aspirations had to be shifted and changed. I have had to do them too. These changing circumstances make this activity of stock-taking halfway through the year even more necessary.

Do you want to do it along with me?

If yes, pull out the list of goals that you have set for the year. I had broadly mentioned mine in the first blog post of this year. Click HERE to read that article.

Read through each category and the goals that you have set.
Write down where you stand with regard to those goals.
If some of the goals do not make sense under the new circumstances that you are in, strike them off.
If some goals do not excite you as much as they did when you wrote them, strike them off.
Take action steps towards the goal if you have not yet done it. It could a registration for a class you wanted to attend, ordering the books that were in your To-Be-Read list and you forgot to order, etc. Do it now!
Add new goals to the list. Even if you have already started working on them, add them here.
List your achievements in bright bold colors.

This is a very rewarding activity. When you do this you realize that you did not fare as bad as you thought you did. If some areas maybe if you have not fared as well as you thought you did, this activity presents the perfect opportunity for any course correction. It helps in creating a more achievable goal for a perfect imbalance in life. (According to Dr. Todd Dewett, a perfect imbalance is a challenging but achievable goal as compared to a perfect balance.)

After the process of stocktaking halfway through 2021, I am left with a colorful xl sheet, with some achievements, some strikethroughs, some on-track projects, and some new projects added to it. There is a lot more to be done, but I am definitely not where I started the new year. I am proud of that momentum and that effort.

Happy stock-taking friends!

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