My Slow-Cooked Goals and Giving Props Where They're Due

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Dear Worthy Woman,

Last month, my focus was on setting goals for the new year. I wrote to you about ways to reflect clearly on the previous year, how to treat your goal-setting process like a slow-cooked meal instead of instant ramen, and how to avoid common goal-setting pitfalls.

Well, I've taken my own advice, and just like any well-prepared meal, the flavors of my yearly goals are starting to come together in unexpected ways.

New partnerships are emerging. Fresh ideas are bubbling up, and I feel clearer about my path than I did a month ago.

Despite this, I'm hesitant to share my goals publicly. As a coach, sometimes I feel this weird pressure to be perfect at goal achievement, like somehow my profession demands a 100% success rate.

Because I help clients unlock their potential, I often feel like I should be the poster child for self-actualization every moment of every day.

I was ruminating on this idea recently when I realized something. The pressure I feel to be perfect, to be superhuma…