EP 83: 10 Life Planning Mistakes Sabotaging Your Goals – Use These Tips Instead

2025-10-21

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Avoid these 10 frequent life planning mistakes! Your vision board isn't the problem…Your planning tool isn't the problem…Your goals aren't the problem. The problem is how you are vision planning and not what you are planning for your ambitious mom life. In this episode, I'm sharing how I went from spending almost 2 years fumbling through trial and error with vision planning, to finally creating a life planning system that actually works. Learn what NOT to do to create clarity and flexibility in planning for your ideal future—I've built a method that ...

Avoid these 10 frequent life planning mistakes!

Your vision board isn't the problem…Your planning tool isn't the problem…Your goals aren't the problem.

The problem is how you are vision planning and not what you are planning for your ambitious mom life.

In this episode, I'm sharing how I went from spending almost 2 years fumbling through trial and error with vision planning, to finally creating a life planning system that actually works. Learn what NOT to do to create clarity and flexibility in planning for your ideal future—I've built a method that helps you get big results even though you are a busy mom.

And the best part? You can do this too.

I'm walking you through what mistakes to avoid, what safeguards to build in, and the exact strategies that make vision casting and life planning actually work—so you can spend less time managing your life and more time living it.

What You'll Learn:

Why treating your plan as a rigid roadmap backfires
How to stop overloading yourself with too many goals
The “success trap”
How to build resilience into your future
How to stay aligned with your evolving life

This episode will help you avoid common life planning mistakes and create a clear roadmap for success.

Episode Highlights:

(0:00): Introduction
(3:15): Listener Shoutout. 🤩 Leave me a rating & review—your support helps other moms find the show!
(4:06): A holistic method for planning your life
(6:38): Mistakes #1 - #5
(16:21): Mistake #6 - #10
(26:16): Recap

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