SMART Goals Update!

A lot can happen in 1 year, 6 months, even 1 month! To recap, earlier this year, I made a SMART goal to save 10k for an emergency fund by December 2020. I had just started my financial independence journey so I gave myself a lot of time; a whole year. I didn't want to set myself for failure. Fast forward to June 2020 when I hit my 10k goal, 6 months early!! Call it my birthday gift to myself. Proving that I could focus, completely change my spending habits and get shit done, I kept pushing, saving 15k by August and 20k by the end of September. 

The thing is, we can achieve such greatness if we have a plan. We can say so many things but without a plan and a way to execute that plan, they're just words flapping in the wind. I will forever talk about SMART goals because they brought me from 0-10, 000 real quick. I encourage you to write down some of your goals, big or small, make them specific, and organize them into categories (financial, personal, fitness, travel etc). Focus on the ones you want to achieve in the next 6 months. Then keep going. Give yourself time, grace and the opportunity to make yourself proud.

Some of my new goals for the rest of the year:

- read 3 book by the end of November (currently reading 2)
- save 25k by December (currently @ 20k)
- 6 collabs by December (completed 3 with 2 more this month!)

It's October which gives us 3 more months til the end of the year. You don't need to wait until January to set new goals. Start now so that in January, you're already moving and shaking and can roll into 2021 smoothly.


All love, always, Shay.💛

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  1. TransientDecember 11, 2020 at 2:32 PM

    Yes LCCP do your thang home slice! So proud of you and inspired 💙

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