Welcome back, Goal Investigator, to the Week 8 Action Plan. This week, you will look at when motivation isn’t enough to keep you going and when it’s better to form habits. Keep working on your happiness list. Continue your weekly tracking.

• When motivation isn’t enough
• Your Happiness List
• Weekly Tracking

When motivation isn’t enough

If you are like me, you are very excited and motivated when you first start a goal or project. But what happens when your motivation wanes? Do you struggle through, or do you move on to the next goal or project because you have lost interest in the current one? It would be better to build habits around your Crossroads Journey than to rely solely on motivation.

Some things to think about when setting up habits around your Crossroads Journey:

• Do you have dedicated time each week, each day, each month to work on your current goal?
• Do you have about five hours each week dedicated to your goals?
• Or how much time each week do you want dedicated to taking action on your goal or project?
• What habits can you form to achieve what you have set out to achieve?
• Have you added this time and habit to your diary or planner so it can be tracked?
• It may help if you set a time each day or, at the very least, each week marked specifically for your goal.
• Is there a repetitive activity? If so, have you scheduled it into your planner or diary?
• What else can you do to form habits?

Happiness list

As you will know by now, if you have been following along with each week’s action plan, that happiness list is a list of activities that make you happy. You do at least one happiness activity daily. But also as a reward for achieving something from your Crossroads Journey. And also when you are struggling because it is an off day or you have done one of the roadblock and sabotage activities.

If you have been following along since week one, then you will have a good selection of activities to do that make you happy. Is there anything else you would like to add to the list? What has been your favourite activity to do?

One thing I have been doing that makes me happy is focusing on my self-care. I used to be a nail picker, and years before that I was a nail biter. I am coming up to about week 8 of growing my natural nails. I am surprised that they are stronger than they used to be. I have also been applying body lotion each night before I get into my pyjamas.

I have also purchased an empty makeup palette off Amazon, and I have added the makeup that I made: mineral foundation; it was loose, but I pressed it into one of the empty pans. I have also added two of the three lipsticks I made. And I have made a list of the makeup that I want to make next. I have also priced how much it will cost to buy the ingredients, but I will have to get the ingredients I don’t have a little at a time. The first project I want to do next is make myself a mascara, as I am fully out. For now, my goal is to create all the products for this makeup pallet… but I am thinking of getting a couple more pallets so that I can have a pallet for different occasions. In the meantime, I can use the commercial products that I still have.

15 pan makeup pallet:

1. Pressed mineral foundation (already have)
2. Blusher (using a commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
3. Highlighter (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
4. Bronzer (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
5. Mascara (I am completely out, so this will be my next project)
6. Concealer (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
7. Lipstick (already have) – pale purple lavender/violet ish
8. Lipstick (already have) – red brown
9. Lipstick (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients) – pink
10. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
11. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
12. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
13. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
14. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
15. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)

Makeup Ingredients I already have:

• Sericite mica
• Zinc oxide
• Boron nitride
• Magnesium myristate
• Jojoba oil
• Vitamin E oil
• Emulsifying wax (getting low so will go on needs list)
• Vegetable glycerine
• Broad spectrum preservative
• Pigments:
  • Red iron oxide
  • Yellow iron oxide
  • Bronze mica
  • Titanium dioxide
  • Brown iron oxide
  • Blue ultramarine
  • Rogue red lake

Makeup ingredients I need (top 3 are for the mascara but are also used in some of the other products):

• Sunflower wax 100g NZD$12
• White kaolin clay 100g NZD$10
• Black iron oxide 100g NZD$10
• Arrowroot starch
• Magnesium myristate
• Calcium carbonate
• Emulsifying wax

If you are interested, I am using the recipes from the book Make It Up by Marie Rayma. Here is the affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4cIzdTY, and I got started with the lipstick kit https://www.gonative.co.nz/products/lipstick-kit?variant=49653416689947 and mineral foundation kit https://www.gonative.co.nz/products/mineral-foundation-kit from Go Native. These aren’t affiliate links.

Weekly tracking

Continue with your weekly tracking because nine times out of ten, if it isn’t tracked, it isn’t achieved. Use your HGD Ultimate Crossroads Planner, the HGD Quarterly Planner or even your own planner to track your actions and goals.

• Weekly Tracking
  • Focus of the week
  • Top 3 Tasks of the Week
  • Resources required
  • Accomplishments of the week
  • Weekly Tasks/habits
  • Weekly Notes
  • Top 3 Action Steps for next week

This concludes this week’s action plan. If you want to go deeper, HGD Crossroads Module 1 is free for the self-led option. If you are one of the next 12 to sign up, you will also get 15 minutes of WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support for free. You can get support by sending multimedia and text messages to your Goal Detective. You can ask questions about your Goal Investigation and your goals to get accountability with your goals. The minutes are only counted for your Goal Detective’s time, not the time you spend on the messages.

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