2025 Goal Setting Tips

Do you have plans and hopes for the new year?  Most of us do.  Goals can help us achieve them. Lets talk about what works and what doesn't. Lets talk about ideas to give us the best chance for success.  It's your life and you are free to shape it anyway you wish - goals keep us on track and help ensure we end up with a shape we are proud of.

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast Working on Amazing.

This is a podcast where we talk about the work that it takes to rebuild an amazing life.

And I use that word rebuild because we're specifically designed for women who feel like they're starting over in the middle of their life.

If that's you, first, let me just say, I'm so sorry.

I know what it feels like to be in the middle of your life and all your hopes and all your dreams and all your plans for the future have gone up in smoke, and you're in the middle of like a midlife reboot.

I don't know.

It doesn't feel good.

And I know that.

But I'm also here to tell you, it gets better, so much better.

There is hope.

You're not alone.

You're actually in the right place.

So welcome.

I'm so glad you're here.

As we get down to today's episode, we're going to talk about big surprise goals.

If you'll remember, in the very beginning, I said I focused on five areas when I rebuilt my life.

I focused on my spiritual health, my mental health, my physical health, my financial health, and growth and goals.

So I don't feel like it's a big surprise that here, coming up to January 1st of 2025, that we're going to talk about goals.

And I do know there are people who don't like New Year's resolutions.

It's just the flip of a page on the calendar.

It really doesn't matter.

I get that.

But I like a blank slate.

I like a fresh sheet of paper.

I like a clean start.

And a New Year feels that way to me.

I like goals.

I think goals are good for us.

Goals keep us in a forward momentum.

And a lot of times, when we've had a lot of negative things happen in life, and we're in the middle of this transition, and it feels like a lot, it's easy to look down.

It's easy to look at our circumstances.

It's really easy to let our gaze drift down.

And it can very easily become a spiral downward and negative.

And I understand that.

I've been there.

Goals help keep our eyes lifted up and keep us forward moving, right?

Goals are about the future.

And when we think about all that's wrong, a lot of times it has to do with the past.

This person hurt me, this is what happened.

I can't believe, whatever.

And it is backwards.

It's looking back and looking down.

And goals help us look forward, look up, and move forward.

Okay, so we want an upward and forward motion, and goals help do that.

And in the middle of a dark season where everything kind of is pulling us down, goals help keep us moving forward.

And sometimes it's like a car, and that tire's spinning, and you just need a little traction to get that tire to catch and move the car forward.

Well, sometimes it can feel like our tires are spinning, and emotionally, we're just kind of not going anywhere, going down in a negative space.

And sometimes goals give us the traction we need to move forward.

They just give us a little bit of hope, a little bit of forward momentum.

Goals are always hopeful.

They're forward thinking and very hopeful in nature.

So I think, especially in a difficult and dark season, goals are super, super important, because they do give us that little bit of hope, that little bit of light.

Hopefully, give us a li