Tips for Tending

Our Tending List was designed to help you simplify your life and break down big goals into actionable items! We’ve compiled our best tips for tending below, after years of working with the Tending List. We hope they’re helpful for you!

1. Use this Tending List to fit your life. It works for business, personal, or a mix of goals!
2. Flip through your yearly goals before filling out your Tending List each month. Chip away at a few of them by adding some of your Action Plan ideas to your Tending List each month.
3. Add items from your calendar and important to-dos to your Tending List. Examples: Host a neighborhood dinner party or finish a project well.
4. Tending is about progress, not perfection. New this year is a progress bar for monthly goals! Fill in the progress bar little by little. Imperfect progress adds up!
5. You don’t need to fill in every line. Some months, I only have two daily goals, and some months, I fill in every slot!
6. Daily goals should be simple habits you want to cultivate during the month. Examples: encourage someone, stretch before bed, pray.
7. Make your Tending List items specific and connected to what matters. Example: Instead of “work out", try “get outside and get moving three times per week for thirty minutes because it will help give me more energy!"
8. I rarely finish a month with all the boxes checked—sometimes, goals change or things don’t get done. The goal isn’t a perfectly checked-off list; the goal is meaningful, little by little progress. The little by little adds up.
9. Put your Tending List somewhere you will see it all day. Either keep this page open on your desk or take your Tending List out and tape it somewhere. When I get distracted or feel idle, I look at my Tending List, and am reminded where to put my focus.

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