First part was the negative self talk, that we all know. The second part you focus on the silver lining.

You are on your way. Don’t listen to the chattering monkey in your head, he isn’t always right. You can choose what you believe.

I understand your frustration. I also felt overwhelmed when I had too many goals yet couldn’t keep up with them.

What I did at the end of April is to cut down my goals to only 5 things, that’s the number I feel comfortable that I can accomplish daily. Once I have less goals in my list, it’s easier to keep track of each one and make entries. After all, we are making these goals to motivate ourselves, not to overwhelm ourselves.

I do have more than 5 things that I wanted to do, but I told myself, I could only add another one if I had marked something “done”. For the things I wanted to do but not on my 5 things list, I put them under “Resolutions”, so I can come back to them later.

I noticed that you currently have 41 things on your “doing list”. Maybe you could try to narrow down the list, and start with the easiest ones for you, so that you don’t feel too hard. For example “drink more water” is easier than “find a new job”, “Clean my room” is probably easier than “clean my house”. Get rid of the similar goals and you shall have a much shorter list. I am sure you could get some goals done this way.

加油! (Jia You! That’s the word we use to cheer up people in Chinese.)

:-)