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THOUGHTS FROM THE DIRECTOR’S STAND
The Importance of a Mid-Year Review
Eldred Brown, DTM - District 7 Director
Did you set Toastmasters goals at the start Goals You’re Still Working On
of the program year? Are you taking some Let’s say you started a new path in
time at the start of the second half to review Pathways last June and you made it your
your goals? I hope you’re not following the goal to finish Level 3 this year. You probably
“set them and forget them” strategy. Now that expected to finish at least Level 2 by the end
we’re in the second half of the Toastmasters of December. Are you still on pace to achieve
year (and the start of the new calendar your Level 3 goal? Have you fallen behind?
year), this is a great time to pull your goals If so, is it realistic for you to try to catch up
out and review them. Where are you now? and get back on schedule? Great! You still
Are you close to where you want to be? You have five-and-a-half months to go. Are you
may be behind. Can you catch up, or do you ahead of schedule? If you are, then maybe you
need to reset your goals? Maybe you’ve even want to reset your goal to finish your Level 3
accomplished your first-half goals and can set in April instead of June.
new goals for the second half. What course
corrections do you need to make to get back Goals You Gave Up On
on track? Why did you give up? Did life get in the
On her website, The Motivated Mom, way? Maybe you got Covid and needed to
LaToyia Dennis identifies three types of spend a couple of weeks in bed to recover.
goals you should assess in your mid-year There’s nothing wrong with putting a goal on
goals review: the back burner or giving up on it completely
• goals you’re still working on because you had to spend time getting healthy
• goals you gave up on again. Your health and safety are much more
• goals you achieved important than any goals you may have set.
You can read her blog post here. Let me Don’t beat yourself up because you did what
explore each category in more detail (and in you needed to do to regain your health after
my own words). an illness. If the goal is important enough
to you, then you may consider resetting it
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