June is the perfect time to have a check in, and see what’s going on with your life. And journaling is a great way to do the review, as you can put it down on paper (or whatever else you use to journal) and you can refer back to it when you need to.

So, the first step is to ask yourself “Where am I now?” What’s going on in your life? Your job? Your relationships? Your hobbies? Your health? What’s going on in every area of your life?

And then the next step is to think about the goals you had at the start of the year. It doesn’t necessarily have to be resolutions, but did you have any plans of what you wanted to achieve this year?

If you did, then look at what you wrote about the “where are you now?” Question. If you didn’t have any plans, why was that? Do you prefer to live in the moment? There’s nothing wrong with that. If you didn’t make any plans, it’s still good to look at what you have done (and accomplished) in the last 6 months.

When you look at the “Where are you now?” Question, think about how what you have done is aligned with what you wanted to have done. Don’t be hard on yourself if it’s totally gone in the opposite direction, sometimes life throws us a curve ball, and we just have to go along for the ride.

If the goal(s) that you wanted to have achieved are still what you want, then have a think about how you are going to achieve them. If you’re on the right path, what else can you do to help you achieve it, and make an action plan of steps, and a rough date of when you want to achieve this by. Remember to be flexible, as things happen, and it’s better to give yourself more time to achieve this step, than to be rigid and stressed about it.

If you’re on a totally different path than you need to be, try to reflect on why. Maybe you’ve changed your goals and priorities, and that’s ok. If that’s true, then have a think about what your new goal is, or what your new plans are, and think about the direction you are going with that goal, and again, think about what you want to achieve and a rough idea of when.

If you haven’t changed your goals/ priorities, and you are just on the wrong path because of life, or other things, and you still want to achieve that goal, then think about how you could get back onto the right path, even if it takes more time than you had planned for? Just remember to be kind to yourself, and also see what you have achieved and accomplished along the way (even things unrelated to our “main” goal still count as wins) and even if things have gone totally wrong (been there!) then that’s ok, too.

Now is the time you can put an action plan together. In 6 months what do you want to have achieved? Who can help you with this? What do you have to do to achieve this? You can even break it down if it’s too much; What’s the first step I need to do. What small step can I do today to work towards my goal?

Just remember kindness to yourself and flexibility is very important too. And it’s ok if your goal is just getting through a tough time. Your goals are yours. And it’s perfectly ok to not set a goal, too. If you just want to live “in the moment”, then go ahead and do that too.