In this week’s episode, we’re setting ourselves tangible year-end goals. Whether you’ve been basking in the sun, enjoying family time, or taking a well-deserved rest, now is the time to take stock of what truly matters to you. I invite you to ponder two key questions: first, what’s the one thing you can start or complete that would make you proud by the year’s end? And second, what single step can you take right now towards achieving that goal? Tune in for practical advice on how to make the final months of the year count!
00:00 Invest in goals for an exciting journey.
03:26 Improve celebrating achievements, intentional progress by December.
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Year-end goal
Okay, so we’re beginning to come to the end of. Beginning to come to the end of the summer period here in the northern hemisphere. Hopefully you’ve done some reflecting, hopefully you’ve found some support in the questions I’ve been asking you. And hopefully, most of all, you’ve done a lot of resting and had lots of fun with your family and enjoyed some sun and whatever else it is you like to do in the holiday period. Now, you may have done a lot of fantasising if you have been asking yourself the questions I’ve been giving you, imagining what could be possible. And these imaginings might seem very far off, idealistic, long term. Right. And that can be motivating and inspiring in some sense, but it can also be so far off that actually, you know, it’s not realistic or what could I possibly do right now? So how can you motivate yourself in the short term and what might you do as an immediate first step? So I want to ask you two things today.
First of all, what’s the one thing that you can still do or start or finish that will make you most proud at the end of this year? Right? What’s the number one thing that you can start or finish or do? Complete? It’s the same thing as finish that will make you proud at the end of this year. And secondly, what’s one thing you can do? What’s one action you can take towards that goal? It is not too late to look back on this year and go, wow, I did that. Or what an incredible experience. Or, I’m so proud of myself for this, or, I’m so glad I made that shift. Right? And it could be that, you know, if you’re starting from zero, it could be getting to your first five K run, ten K run. You know, I’m a bit of a runner, so that’s where my mind always goes. Half marathon, marathon, etcetera. It could be in the business world, finishing your book or launching your programme or something like that.
But it’s not just those big goals. It’s not just the, hey, bucket list tick, big achievement, right? It’s not the end moment of success that we’re caring about, necessarily. It’s also the journey. It’s also investing in yourself and your health. So it could be starting a regular meditation practise, it could be marriage counselling to save your relationship, it could be investing in therapy for yourself as an individual, it could be joining a choir, it could be some new hobby or activity, right? So what’s something perhaps that’s been bubbling under through all these things we’ve been talking about the last few weeks, or just on your mind, on your list for a long time that would really make you feel like, yes, I did that. As much as I’m so much about now, being present and the little moments and enjoying what I have and who I’m with and so on, I found that the years when I haven’t really set myself a goal, being clear about what I wanted, I haven’t set those intentions. I don’t want to say I’ve been disappointed, but I have lacked a little that, like, excitement and pride to say, oh, my gosh, wow, I published a book that year, or I travelled to South America that year, or I had a baby that year, or I bought a house that year. Right? And there’ve been a couple of years I’ve just gone like, meh, someone asked me, what’s the proudest thing in your business? I kind of kept it ticking, which, you know, this is my.
My issue. I need to get better, as many of my clients do too, at celebrating and being happy with what we’ve done. But still, I wish for a bit more in really being intentional about what could you do now? How could you still make progress? It’s not too late to achieve something, to change something, shift something by the end of this arbitrary human calendar year that we’ve set ourselves. So by December, what would make the biggest difference for you? That’s the question. So what’s the one thing that will make you the most proud if you start it, finish it, make progress on it by the end of this year? And what’s the one step, what action that you can take towards that goal by the end of the year? Okay, see you next week.
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