Absolutely. Forget everything you’ve heard about goals having to be“hairy, scary, and audacious” before they’re worthy of being pursued.

Think about goal setting like this: you’re simply choosing which projects would be best to focus on right now. They don’t have to be huge, and your reasons for pursuing them don’t have to be impressive to anyone else.

Look at the Rooting Your Goals in Your Core Calling phase as simply as permission to avoid setting goals that don’t align with who God created you to be and how He positioned you to serve. You don’t have everything figured out. Your journey through this workbook is just a single iteration in your personal growth.

When you move onto the Outlined for Clarity phase the exercises will help you put a finger on your biggest pain point. You’ll be encouraged to design a goal that deals tackles that problem, no matter how “small” it might seem.

Read rest of these FAQs, to see if any of these other negative experiences common in typical goal setting culture could provide a little more insight into your own personal overwhelm.

Sounds like you’re a fellow visionary! Good news: this workbook was created by a visionary who was absolutely burned out on goal setting systems that leveraged all of that “starting a new project”energy, then failed to show me how to follow through when competing priorities and new ideas began cropping up like wildfires.

Thankfully, I, Shelby, had the task-crushing McCauley and strategist Clari helping to shape this goal setting system so it that would compel even us visionaries to commit and follow through before skipping to the next thing.

This workbook will help you to avoid getting stuck in a “shiny object syndrome” cycle. It will help you figure out exactly what you’re committing to deliver on when you set your goals. It will validate the reality that your passions are actively being developed by God as He leads you to learn more about your calling.

It’s the accountability tool you’ve been looking for to help you start turning your best, most important ideas into matured, life-giving accomplishments.

Well, hello, task-crusher! It sounds like you’re a natural at prioritizing and getting things done without drama. You’re in good company. My sister, McCauley, the CEO of this company, has the same productivity personality as you.

She’s a fan of this system because it’s encouraging and energizing. But she’ll be the first to assure you: even though you can easily learn to think in a ROOTED way, we’re not asking her or any of our other beloved task-crushers to adopt any fussy and extensive habits with this system.

Feel free to charge through this workbook just once, skim the cream, then get back at it. That one experience will work in the background to help you avoid nervous busywork by rooting your mindset more firmly in the things that matter most in the long run.  It’ll also give you ideas on setting up a few key rhythms in your daily life so you have the space for taking more action, and will show you how a quick daily check-in can help you make sure nothing vital is falling through the cracks as you run ahead.

You probably don’t get stuck often, but if you do, try focusing on the Developed by Providence phase of this workbook. This will help you refresh your strength at a heart level.

I seriously admire people like you! Your groundedness, your foresight, and your constancy as a strategist are all such gifts.

This workbook was co-authored by Clari, who has been the backbone of many of our business processes and who is now the strategist residing on our Advisory Team.

So, no, you’re not going to be wasting your time on an untethered dream-casting situation. Our core calling exercises are pretty trim and focused on gaining clarity about where you’re positioned to most effectively contribute. After that, you’ll be guided to efficiently zero in on your next-right-step goals and re-examine your habits and rhythms incase they can be upgraded to better reflect your current priorities.

I do want to invite you take a special look at the Developed by Providence phase. It’s encouraging, practical, and centered around the reality that—although we may plan our way—it is the Lord who orders our steps. It provides a helpful perspective when you find plans changing in initially unwelcome ways, and may help you avoid being demoralized so you can strategically pivot instead.

Welcome back! We’re thrilled to be able provide the option of hav-ing a physical copy of the Rooted Goals Workbook for you to tuck right inside your Evergreen Planner.

If you have only experience the original digital workbook, we know that analog format will serve in an even deeper way. We have substantially updated the Goals workbook with the release of the physical edition, adding some new exercises, audio content, and a few downloadable extras. We know you’ll deeply benefit going through the whole system again with all of this new content, so go ahead and take your time doing that.

While this book was designed to make it easy for our community to set Rooted Goals quarter after quarter, Rooted is more of an approach than a method. This workbook simply exists to take the guesswork out of setting sustainable goals.

Once you’re thinking in a Rooted way, you might find yourself sitting down with a fresh Goals Workbook at the beginning of a quarter, and feeling drawn to go deeper in certain exercises while skimming over others. We’re cheering you on as you lead with your own intuition.

Our Renew students also have access to a simple one-page "pro version" of Rooted Goals, called the Rooted Crosscut—which our Rooted Pros have said is a fantastic resource for rapidly setting Rooted Goals. You can find out more about becoming a Renew student here (which includes access to our private community and in-app coaching from Team Evergreen!)