The Two Resolutions That Will Make This the Best Year Yet

Welcome to 2025! Are you ready to make this your most successful, fulfilling, and joyful year yet?

In this episode, Justin shares two powerful yet simple practices that will set you up for your best year ever. Whether you’re riding high on last year’s wins or feeling like you fell short, these steps will help you reflect with gratitude and step into the new year with clarity and purpose.

Justin walks you through the importance of celebrating your wins and defining how you want to feel when you reach your goals. Tune in for practical insights that will make your resolutions stick and give you more ease, joy, and motivation as you grow. Plus, he shares why tracking your progress can be life-changing and how to stop getting stuck in the grind of "doing" without savoring the experience.

Key Highlights:

• Reflect & Celebrate: How to do a "Year in Review" to recognize all your wins.
• Goal Clarity: Why focusing on how you want to feel fuels long-term success.
• Avoid Burnout: The surprising way emotions and experiences create momentum.
• Actionable Tips: Simple ways to track your wins and set intentions using your calendar and journal.
• Mindset Shift: Why your goals may have felt empty—and how to change that.
• The Power of "More Than You Imagined": How the universe often delivers more when you focus on meaning and impact.

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But if you go like, I want to make money in this way because of the impact, because of the benefit, I know it's going to have my world, for the growth, for the sense of accomplishment, you realize that mix gives you so much more meaning along the way and gives you a reason to take the steps and that you're not just going to have to wait until it's quote unquote done or finished. You Are you ready to live a life with enough time, money and energy have relationships and connections that delight you? Are you ready for the extraordinary life you know you've been missing? If so, then this is the place for you. I'm a best selling author, coach, consultant and speaker who's worked in technology for over two decades. I'm a leader at transforming people and organizations from operating in fear, obligation and guilt to running off joy, ease and love. It's time for engineering emotions and energy with me. Justin Wenck, PhD, you today, I'm going to share with you two things you absolutely must do so that you don't waste another year. So with that, welcome. Welcome to 2025. If you are, you know, watching this right as it's coming out. This is the first show of the new year. And if you're like many people, you might have, might have looked back on 2024, or whatever the previous year was, and maybe you're a little disappointed, like, Oh man, I didn't do everything that I wanted to, or I missed some stuff, or I fell short. If you've been watching the show, listen to the show or following me for quite a while, you've probably learned a lot of the techniques that I teach, so that you probably are feeling pretty good, and you're just like, how did I make this year even better than the one before? So whether you're new or whether you've been here a long time, these two things I'm going to share with you are going to have a huge impact on your upcoming year. And so if you haven't done them already. I'm going to say, do these as quickly as you can. Just like, get on it. Like anything else that you've maybe quote, unquote resolved to do, done a New Year's resolution for if you do these two things, it's going to just going to make anything that you wanted happen quicker, faster, better. And who doesn't want that? Don't you want things easier, faster, better and with more joy, more ease, more love, like I talk about in, you know, my my book here, and I will, I will say that I'm going to give you enough so that you can just do it right here. But if you do want a little bit more info or more explanation of stuff, it's this is like stuff that's from a couple of chapters in engineered to love, going beyond success to fulfillment. So I do hope you had a wonderful, wonderful end of the year with good holidays and a good new year celebration. I know I had, you know, really good quiet time where I was really a lot of quiet reflection, a lot of looking back and just noticing what happened. And so without further ado, the two things that you must do. So this ends up being the best year you've ever had is, and I'm going to suggest you do it in this order, is one, do an inventory of all the awesomeness from last year, and the second thing, and I'm going to tell you all about how you do that, because you might just be like, well, you okay, easy. You said that. You know, it's not, it's actually probably challenging, because you're probably really successful, because you're probably always looking for ways to do better and see where you fall in short. And the second thing is going to be, basically, you want to resolve on how you want to feel in this upcoming year and what you want to experience. I don't care what the fuck it is that you want to do, whether it's you want to lose 10 pounds, 100 pounds, you know, double your income, you know, get married, honestly, comes down to it. None of that stuff actually matters. What matters is how you feel as you're doing it, when you get to the end result. And so if you don't know how you're going to feel, why you want to feel, or why you want to experience it, then think maybe that's why some of the stuff hasn't happened yet, because you don't even know what you're going to get going to get when you're in the pursuit, or if you even get it. So the first thing is the awesomeness of the previous year. Imagine a young boy she really wants to do well, why do I mix the genders? Because it doesn't fucking matter. It really doesn't. It could, this could be you, this could be me, as could be any child, any child, they're good. They really want to do well in this world. So they're always, you know, wanting to, you know, do what their their parents tells them to do. You know, wanting to, you know, learn how to help around the house and, you know, learn and grow in school and all these other things. Yet they're, they're a child like maybe they're five to seven years old, and so it's their first time for so many things. And so they're, they make mistakes. Could you imagine if no one ever told that child the things that they did right? Would they ever move on to attempting something new? Or would they just. Keep going like, I guess I fucked that up again. I got to figure out how to ride this bike. I don't think I quite got it right. Or, I guess I'm going to have to keep trying to figure out this two plus two equals four nonsense. Because I guess, I guess I never get it right. You would never do that to a child. Never let them know, like when they they did something successfully, or something was was great, right? Yet, how often are you treating yourself in this very abusive way where you never give yourself credit for all the amazing stuff that you've actually done, or you don't give yourself credit for? You know, maybe the exercise you did do for the relationships that ended yet freed you up to make new ones, or maybe you had some big challenges, and yeah, maybe you didn't get to where you wanted to be, but shit, you really didn't go backsliding as much as you maybe you could have, or maybe you have done, or maybe you've seen other people do so going through your year and just kind of having that detached, loving parent view, and you can even like as you go through and write it like this person, they went on a vacation and so a place they had never gone before, right? This is really good, and I find one of the easiest ways to do this is I go through my calendar for the previous year. So just start, you know, the first week of January. And use that, use all everything you know, in my calendar, to jog my memory of, you know, who I met, and then maybe who now I'm no longer meeting, what events I went to, what vacations, what I did for business. And just let that sort of jog your memory, and just start giving yourself credit, writing down all the cool things you did in business, in your personal life, health, wise, food, travel, vacations, or even just books you've read, maybe things that you've written. And also you get to give yourself credit for doing this exercise, right? That's something awesome. So give yourself credit for all the amazing things. I'm gonna be surprised if you don't have an entire page of stuff again, you want to pretend like you are just the most loving, caring parent. And look at what, what this, what this beautiful, beautiful person did this past year, and you want to praise them and give them credit, and that person is you, and that this is going to make the second thing that you absolutely must do, so you don't waste another year so much easier, because once you've realized all that you've done, all that you've accomplished, can't you imagine how much easier it is to build off of that of what you want to experience and how you want to feel, and it's really important to just simply, even if you've already written out like, a bunch of outcomes you want to have, or a bunch of resolutions to really just go, like, well, what, how do you expect to feel, or how would you like to feel if that resolution was done, like, you lose a bunch of weight, like, Do you realize that if you don't assign how, that's how you're going to feel because of that, and you have unconsciously that eating food, I feel good not eating food, I feel like shit. And you don't put in that, wait, I'm going to feel so accomplished as I change my habits, and I'm going to feel proud of myself. If you don't put that in, that you are fucked. You are never going to get the results that you went for, and it's like, oh, maybe you want to do something in business. And you realize your subconscious knows there's a there's a ton of ways to make money. And if you're saying, like, I want to do something in business, that subconsciously, you've got as, oh, this is like, worse than being tortured, it's going to go, well, we're not going to do that. We're you want money. We're going to find other ways to get money. But if you go, like I want to do, I want to make money in this way because of the impact, because of the benefit, I know it's going to have my world, for the growth, for the sense of accomplishment. Do you realize that makes gives you so much more meaning along the way, and gives you a reason to take the steps, and that you're not just going to have to wait until it's quote, unquote done or finished. You're going to start to get these feelings every little teeny step you make, and that's going to be the fuel that gets you to make progress and to get to completion on a lot of these things and experiences are big as well. So not just, you know, oh, I need to stop this habit, or I need to, like, make this much money, or I need to do, do this or that, or whatever. But, like, maybe there's something that, like, you want to just have an experience, right? Like you want to go on a trip, you want to experience what it's like to be near a volcano. Or you want to experience, what's it, what's it like to, you know, get married, right? Like, what if it wasn't about, like, oh, because that's what I'm supposed to do. It was. It really became, like, I want to have the experience of commitment and see what it's like to really work through something, right? Right, really thinking about what it is you're trying to get out of these, these activities so they're not just activities. They're a means to have feelings, emotions and experiences. So the two things like these are so powerful, yet so simple. So the first remember is you go back through the previous year, and I suggest you this calendar, and you write down how awesome you were in the previous year. Go through all the things that you've you've done, and then maybe it's like, you go clean up some emails, or, like, you start tidying around the house, whatever starts triggering these memories. Create a list and write it down and just add to it, of like, Oh my gosh. Like, I wrote a book. Or, that's one of the things that I've done. All right, I had that I did a revision with an editor, one of the true things, or, like, Oh my gosh. Like, I completely changed the way that I eat. I now no longer have dairy again, something that I did that's really fucking awesome, and it's really changed my life. There's probably so many things that you forgot, that you've done, and yes, there are going to be some things you didn't do yet. When you look at it through this lens, it's like, oh my gosh, I got so much more. I'm so grateful that I didn't get the things that I wanted, because I got even more. That's how I usually end up, because I always do write down, like, here's how what I would like to happen in the next year. And when I it's kind of fun to compare what happened with what I intended the year later, and kind of see like, oh, actually, I really got even more. If I'd gotten it the way I thought I would have, that kind of would not have been as full of an experience. Yeah, when I look at, you know, the emotions, the feelings, the experiences, I always end up getting that or more, and I want you to get what you want or more. And so with these two tools, it's going to make this the best year you've ever experienced. And so if you have any questions about it, like, send me a note again. The book engineer to love, going beyond success to fulfillment, kind of has a couple chapters that are very similar to this. If you want to work one on one, reach out to me through the email and through the social medias that are coming up once I end the show and are, you know, part of the show notes and whatnot. So looking forward to another phenomenal year. If you're watching this on YouTube, you get to see my sparkle, shiny celebratory coat. If you're listening, you can't see that, but you can see it in your mind's eye, and then maybe check it out later and let me know, like, did it match? But yeah, I think this is gonna be a incredible year. Will it be easy? Maybe not. Can it be more easeful? Absolutely. And with these two techniques, you're gonna really enjoy it. So with that, thank you so much and good day. Thanks for tuning in to engineering emotions and energy with Justin Wenck PhD. Today's episode resonated with you. Please subscribe and leave a five star review. Your feedback not only supports the show, but also helps others find us and start their journey of emotional and energetic mastery. You can also help by sharing this podcast with someone you think will love it just as much as you do. Together, we're engineering more amazing lives you