“Adjust your actions to meet your goals, not your goals to meet your actions.” May Yeo Silvers challenges us to rethink how we approach goal setting in part two of her three-part series on strategic planning for 2025. Are your goals pushing you to grow, or are they keeping you in your comfort zone?
In this episode, May explores the distinction between practical goals that feel safe and realistic goals that push you toward meaningful progress. Drawing from her own journey, she shares how to set goals that challenge you without overwhelming you, encouraging bold but achievable steps forward.
How much time, energy, or money are you truly willing to invest in your goals? May encourages listeners to assess their circumstances honestly, identifying opportunities to automate, delegate, or eliminate tasks that don’t align with their priorities. She stresses the importance of tracking progress, refining strategies, and leaning on a supportive community for guidance and encouragement. Setbacks, she reminds us, are part of the process—and community can be a powerful source of resilience when they arise.
Quotes
• “There is a big difference between setting realistic goals versus setting goals that are practical. For me, I like to have a good balance. Setting realistic goals, for me, are goals that are not only just practical, but it pushes me, and I will be able to find resources and support that will push me from practical to realistic.” (04:52 | May Yeo Silvers)
• ”When you are setting your realistic goals, it is pushing you more than whatever you’re doing, but not pushing you so much to the extent that you feel that, ‘Oh my God, I’m never ever gonna make it.’” (09:45 | May Yeo Silvers)
• “You have to also evaluate your current stage in your life—your current lifestyle. Do you have many obligations that will take time away from you working on your business? …A lot of business owners tell me that they are unable to grow their business because they don’t have the time.” (18:01 | May Yeo Silvers)
• “Adjust your actions to meet your goals, not your goals to meet your actions.” (25:03 | May Yeo Silvers)
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