1: Improve The Health Of Your Brain By Setting Goals

Are you a working mom who doesn't feel like you have enough time in your day to reach your dreams and goals? I've spent years learning how our brains work and what holds us back from having the courage to achieve our dreams. Each week I'll be sharing practical strategies to help you to find more time in your day, build your confidence, fight back against mom guilt, and reach your goals. Learn to thrive from home and at work with The Bold Life.

This week on The Bold Life podcast I share my story of how I spent 11 years in university then landed my dream job and still wasn’t happy. How I loved the team I worked with, I had great benefits, and I was working in the job I’d always dreamed of in a hospital working with people who had injuries or illnesses to their brain. But about five years into my job, I wasn’t as excited to go to work. I realized my brain was bored because I didn’t have anything to reach for in my career. I’d reached my goal, and my brain was having a tough time staying motivated without a new goal to strive towards.

Signs your brain could be stressed from lack of goals:

You feel you're not excited about work anymore
You feel burnt out at the end of the day
It's hard to get motivated to get moving in the morning
You think that other's lives are better than your own

Listen in to find out why your brain can get stuck and stressed without goals, and why it’s important to have goals for all areas of your life. Learn the three reasons our brains need goals, and why having goals might actually help you live longer.

Show Highlights

[01:27] How I fell into my degree and the best professor at University.

[04:08] Graduating and landing my dream job.

[05:54] I reflect on a key component that was missing from my job to find out why I wasn’t happy.

[07:48] What your brain wants and why your brain wants this.

[08:42] Signs your brain is stressed and what you can do about that now.

[10:09] Make sure to have milestones in all areas of your life and the three reasons your brain needs goals.

[11:49] Goals keep our brains looking toward the future with optimism and excitement.

[13:13] Having goals keeps our brains on track to handle uncertainty.

[14:18] Goals create a learning environment for your brain.

[16:23] Our brains are like a muscle that needs and wants to be used.

[17:26] How you can always have a goal to keep your brain muscle working.