Goaling is first identifying your emotions, so that you’re clear as to the feelings that are driving your present and future expectations and behaviors.

Goaling is identifying and writing down exactly what you want with the date by which you plan to get it. You can do if you are clear emotionally as to what intrinsically is motivating you to succeed.

Goaling is making a written list of the many tiny, incremental steps you will take to get you to your change, your improvement, or the difference you want to create for yourself.

Goaling encourages you to create positive habits that take the burden out of working to achieve your desired ends.

Goaling helps you give structure to your life, automate tasks, and reduce the need for constant “re-motivation” to get the goal achieved.

Really? Yes, really.

Goaling ultimately reduces your stress!

Just think, when you’re consistent about working toward your goals, you have the luxury of thinking less for you’ve already made up your mind about the actions you need to take to achieve your desired ends.

Now you’re free to focus on implementation…one tiny step a day toward your ultimate, successful results!

Stack Your Habits

You can use “habit stacking” as a less stressful way to get to the results you want. In his book, Atomic Habits, James Clear introduces this concept.

It involves linking a new habit (that you want to develop) with an existing habit (that you already perform consistently) which will help you reach your new goal, without greatly altering your current routine.

By leveraging the existing habit as a “trigger,” you can increase the likelihood of successfully establishing your new habit. And by doing so, creating your “new normal” becomes easier to do. So, there’s less stress.

Here are 3 samples of habit stacking as a guide:

1. Example: "After I [existing habit], I will [new habit].""After I brush my teeth in the morning, I will do 10 minutes of abdominal exercises."
2. Example: "Before I [existing habit], I will [new habit].""Before I go to sleep, I will read 10 pages of my selected book of the month on building my financial freedom."
3. Example: "During [existing habit], I will also [new habit].""During my commute, I will listen to financial podcasts to learn how to save and invest."

In each of the above examples, an existing habit acts as a reminder or “trigger” for the new habit you want to develop.

By stacking the new habit onto an existing one, you create a seamless connection between the two, making it easier to remember and execute your new habit consistently.

Now that I’ve persuaded you to see that goaling reduces the stress in your life, get busy goaling!