{"id":179,"date":"2010-11-29T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholeperson.com\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:37:22","slug":"your-goals-and-your-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/your-goals-and-your-stress","title":{"rendered":"Your Goals and Your Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Goals<\/strong> help you decide how to use your time and energy. They are motivators for long or short term plans. Some goals are concrete; get a degree, clean the refrigerator, get an oil change. Others aren\u2019t as clear cut; be a good friend, increase self-esteem, be happy. You may feel distress if you don\u2019t spend time on the goals that matter to you. Maybe you want to get a degree, but you feel trapped by your full time job. Your goal of getting your degree is making you feel pinched at work and panicked that you\u2019ll never have time.<\/p>\n

Having conflicting goals, or too many a once can also cause distress. If you are unsure of what your goals are, you will drift from one meaningless task to the next. A vague uneasiness is associated with a lack of goals, rather like that nagging feel when you think you\u2019ve forgotten something.<\/p>\n

Do you have too many goals? Too few? You may be comfortable with one goal to work consistently on, or you may prefer to have as many goals as hours in a day. We all have to figure out exactly what number of goals we each individually feel good about committing to; everyone is different.<\/p>\n