Many people give up on their goals and big dreams because they’re too daunting and seem too far out of reach to achieve. Therefore, setting unrealistic goals and timeframes can stop you from making progress with your goals because you will lack direction and focus. However, monthly challenges can help you to stay focused on your goals. Moreover, they prevent you from feeling overwhelmed and enable you to make progress/

It’s easy to forget about the goals that you’ve set for yourself and not even attempt to start them. Moreover, if they’re just an idea or a desire and you have no clear plan of how you’re going to get there. However, by giving yourself monthly challenges and focuses, you’re far more likely to make progress with your goals and stick to working on them.

Therefore, setting yourself a different focus each month will keep you interested and engaged with your goals. Furthermore, it will give you a boost of self-esteem when you achieve them. Additionally, this will make you want to carry on because you will see your progress.

Therefore, you can use each month to work on different areas of your life you want to improve or split one big goal over the year. Therefore, I like to pick different areas because it’s important to have balance in your life. Moreover, if I feel like I’m spending too much time working on one area, the other ones tend to take a back seat, and I stress about my lack of progress with them.

Monthly Challenges Ideas

Here are some examples of monthly challenges and focuses that you could set for yourself.

Say you want to have more savings and to feel financially free, you could do different monthly challenges like;

• No takeaways
• Having no alcohol
• No eating out
• Cycle to work month
• Prep meals for work

However, say you want to lose some weight; your challenges may look something like this;

• Gym 4 times a week
• Eat vegan meals
• Have no takeaways
• Drink 2 litres of water every day
• Walk 10,000 steps daily

Simply pick one challenge that you want to focus on for that month and see how much progress you make. It’s important to not overwhelm yourself and just stick to one of your monthly challenges. Then, you can pick a new challenge next month. This helps to mix up your challenges and make them more achievable.  

More Monthly Challenge Ideas

If you wanted to improve your mental health, your challenges could be;

• Don’t say anything negative for a month
• Practice 30-60 minutes of self-care daily
• Meditate every morning
• Read a chapter of a self-help book daily

Or, say you wanted to improve your relationship and friendships; your challenges could be;

• Do something nice for others daily  
• No phone when I’m with other people
• Weekly date nights
• Make an effort to spend time with my partner, friends, and family

Moreover, if you want to be more confident, your challenges may look something like this;

• Practice daily affirmations for confidence
• Practice positive open body language and eye contact
• Don’t say anything negative about myself
• Do something that scares me each day

“New month. New beginning. New mindset. New focus. New start. New intentions. New results.”– Unknown

Summary

Whatever your goal or focus is, you can set monthly challenges to get closer to achieving it. Therefore, breaking down your goals into monthly tasks will help you to achieve your goals and give you focus. It’s also good to challenge yourself, try new things, and keep growing and improving each day.

Moreover, if you want to reach your goals, you need to do something different from what you’ve done in the past. Therefore, setting yourself monthly challenges is an amazing way to start pursuing your big goals. They will become less daunting and more fun to achieve.

“Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.”– Brian Tracy

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