I spent the last couple weeks of 2017 planning for the new year and doing some goal setting. My initial list of things I wanted to accomplish ended up getting pretty long, at which point I realized I needed to step back and really focus on one important question: why are any of these individual objectives actually important to me?

In thinking about “why”, it helped create more focus on what I should actually try to accomplish but also provided the reminder I would need in the coming months when I (likely) will need a little motivation to keep going.