How to Get Back on Track with Lapsed Goals and Turn Your Year Around

As we reach the mid-point in the year, it’s a good time to assess where you are with your yearly goals. But what if you do that and find that some of them have fallen by the wayside? The good news is it’s not too late to turn it back around and get back on track with your goals.

Follow the steps below to give yourself a mid-year ass kicking and get back into working on your goals.

Assess Your Goals

Take a look back over the goals you have set yourself for this year and split them into three sections:

• Section One: Ahead or on target
• Section Two: Started but a little bit behind
• Section Three: Not started

Re-Strategise

The next thing you need to do is re-strategise for the rest of the year. For this step, you can mostly ignore the goals that you are ahead of or on target to achieve – they’re working and probably don’t need a new strategy.

For the goals you have started on but fallen a little behind with, look at ways you can fit in the extra work you’ll need to do to make sure you hit the goal by the end of the year.

And finally, for the goals you haven’t started on yet (unless they’re time sensitive – like one of my goals is to complete #NaNoWriMo and obviously I can’t do that until November) work out whether they’re still important to you.

If they’re not, then it’s easy – let them go. No one wants to be spend time and energy working towards a goal they don’t care about. Either replace it with a new goal that is important to you, or dedicate that extra time to pushing on with your other goals.

If the goal is still important to you, then you will need to change the desired outcome.

So for example, if the goal was to write a blog post every day for the whole year, change it to writing a blog post every day from June-December. This will still get you into the habit of writing daily and waiting until next year to try again just means you’ve wasted six months.

This logic can be applied to any of your goals – it might be too late to get the full goal completed, but we’re only half way through the year, so there’s no reason you can’t get half of it completed.

Forgive Yourself and Move On

It can be tempting to start berating yourself for the goals that you haven’t yet started working on. That isn’t even a little bit helpful. Instead forgive yourself and use that anger at yourself to motivate you to make sure you do stick to your goals going forward.

Instead of focusing on what you didn’t do, focus on what you did do and take a moment to appreciate the work that has gone into your on track goals.

Have any of your goals fallen by the wayside? What do you plan to do to get back on track? Let me know in the comments 🙂

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