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I already listed my personal ones above. Skip to content This post may contain affiliate links. A Review of Productive January January was an effective month for me. An Intentional February — Aligning Doing with Being Before we get into the nitty gritty of the doing, I wanted to share a few thoughts about being.
Here are examples of personal growth goals that I look forward to in February. February Goals for Personal Growth Speak less, listen more. Pause before every response. Be a humble worker so as to inspire respect, never demand it. Grow my relationships by giving self-less service, sharing words of gratitude, and gifting more frequently.
Where the world seeks to master outcomes, the monk seeks to master self. Where the world medicates, the monk meditates. Grow my blog connections through collaborations and partnerships. Foster my relationships with my patients by dedicating five extra minutes per patient trying to learn one thing about their personal life that I never knew before. Act from a place of service, as a humble worker. Dedicate to maintaining a clean, minimalist home to facilitate my creative personality.
Dedicate each space in the home to a single, clear purpose. Create the ideal workspace in order to facilitate my best work. Find a desk, imagine what I want it to look like and how I want it to function.
Meditate with TIDE app five days a week. Sleep early, wake early. My goal is to wake up by am every morning so that I can dedicate the time for meditation, gratitude, exercise, and insight. If I am able to forgo shopping this month, place the fun money in a brokerage account and invest it instead.
Bake a new cake recipe. Cook 2 donabe recipes. Read 2 books. Try Kintsugi for the first time. Finish one drawing. At first I had no idea what it was but a manual for Monks that you could apply to your everyday life?
After learning more about it I learned that the Monk Manual is a three month self-reflection planner. It is called the Monk Manual because it seeks to apply a method of living, thinking, and believing that Monks adhere to. Where the world says focus on more, the monk says focus on less.
Where the world seeks to master outcomes, the monk seeks to master self. Where the world fills our lives with noise and distraction, the monk fills his or her life with quiet and focus. Where the world pursues a life of independence, the monk pursues a life of trust, walking the path of life with God and others. Where the world medicates, the monk meditates. All of those concepts are deeply intriguing to me, especially in this age of polarized relationships and social media overload.
It also reminds me of the Examine practice in which the participant spends time each day in prayer, contemplation, and reflection. The Monk Manual pages are set up like a daily, weekly, and monthly planner but it is only intended to be used for three months. Monk Manual pages can be downloaded by signing up here! It took me a minute to understand how to use the Monk Manual.
Yes, any old planner would suffice, but they were always missing something, which is why I never committed to filling them out for the rest of the year. My phone is always with me so it made sense to use it instead of a paper planner. But a goal of mine was to separate from my phone as much as I could.
Well, according to their mission on their website , this is what they're all about:. Now, if you know me then you know I'm not religious by any means. When I say I'm Jewish, it's more of the cultural context than the spiritual. My dad is Jewish and so is the rest of his side of the family. That's about as connected to Judaism as it gets for me. So, 'walking the path of life with God' isn't something I necessarily connected with when it came to choosing this planner.
But, the layout of this planner was exactly what I have been looking for all these years. I didn't even know that's what I was looking for! So, how is it laid out? You have the month on the left side and you fill in the dates. At the top right of the left page, you write down a habit you want to stick to for the month. For February mine is to go to bed by pm and up at am. Go down the left page and you'll find the Prepare - Priority section.
This is where you write down the most important tasks for the month. This can be tough to figure out at the beginning of the month, so it's okay to fill it out as the month goes on. Now, you can see the right page is blank. This is because I will reflect at the end of the month how it went! This was super cool to me and I'm excited to see how February pans out in comparison to what I originally scheduled.
This analytical and introspective aspect of the planner was a huge selling point for me. Now, this weekly section is awesome. The left side is what you fill out at the beginning of the week.
Add your personal goals for the week. For me it was finishing an audiobook I was taking my sweet time with. Then you add your relationships you want to grow. Then add what you're looking forward to that week. The right side of the page is when you reflect on how the week went. Again, I love this about the planner. A lot of planners don't seem to have this kind of thing.
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