The October Theory (And Life Reset)
So yesterday I had a long drive. After we traveled to Charlotte for the Panthers/Dolphins game Sunday, my Dad took my daughter back with him to the mountains. She spent a few days wit her Grandma and was able to go to Tennessee to get a cowboy hat to wear at the state fair in a couple of weeks. That was super exciting for her, so yesterday I traveled to Asheboro to meet my Mom and bring her back home. I don't really knew how podcasts work, so I decided to switch on the youtube of Cal Newport and listen to one of his youtubes (since he works like a podcaster and doesn't require actually watching the video) while I was driving.
A few days ago a Youtuber that I followed posted that she was spending the rest of this year doing a makeover on her life. October leaves 3 months left in the year, so she stated that was the perfect time to do a life reset. I suppose I had never thought of it that way- but it does seem like a better time than in January. I was really excited and surprised to hear Cal Newport say the same thing. He said that October is "The right time to make changes is not in the New Year, but in the fall." He said the fall is a time that you're going back into routine after a long summer and your mentally in a great place to make new changes.
So today as I sat down to check over my goals, I was super excited to see that the "October Theory" is a real thing! Not just something that a couple of people talk about, but apparently, October is an amazing time of year to set new goals, and that's widely known and studied.
- Update a brain dump every week. (Taking a notebook and literally just dumping everything in your brain weekly- every thought you can come up with, just letting it all out on paper)
- Have a plan for the information that you consume. (Take the information you have from books/podcasts/videos and implement them into an action plan.
- Simplify your goals (separate your vision from the goals that are considered 'next goals')
- Read increasingly smarter and harder books
- Control your time on multiple scales (quarterly or weekly)
- Blog about my journey. This fulfills my creative outlet, my accountability, and I just love it so it makes me happy.
- Write my big goal list (my Vision) on the last page in my journal. These are things I want to have accomplished by the end of the year, not the end of the week. So I will revisit that once I complete my "Next Goal" each time.
- Make a few smaller, weekly goals and accomplish those first!
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