Goal Setting, Planning and Growing in 2025

This is the time of year when we think about resolutions, breaking bad habits, or setting new goals. With our new intentions, we embark on a brand-new year of possibilities.

Like a reset, we have a chance to start over.

What do we want? An experience? Accomplishment? Situation? Relationship? Acquisition? Status?

When you write down your intentions and desires, I’m sure you’ve noticed that they spontaneously flow up into your thoughts. It’s entirely natural for our desires to be ever-present, just like our preferences and aversions. One thing about them is that they come loaded with our reaction to attaining them.

For example, when we decide to change professions, what comes with that desire? How will the result affect us? What do we imagine will change in our lives? Will we be happier, more fulfilled, or more financially confident?

Or how about finding our soul mate? Do we imagine we will feel more contented, connected, and appreciated?

What if your desire is to finally write your novel, mend a broken relationship, or go on that long-wished for trip?

Every desire comes with an imagined emotional state that we are seeking, one we will experience once the desire is fulfilled.

And this is something to think about: Each feeling of satisfaction with reaching our goal can come in many other ways. There are endless paths to feeling contented, connected, valued, appreciated, fulfilled, happy, or confident, aren’t there?

I call this the essence of the desire, found in an end result. Allowing the universe to serve it up in other ways stretches our possibilities for more success where we may not have imagined it! So keep that in mind!