Setting yourself up for success
Beginning a new year is always an interesting time.. So much is stirred up within us and there is a sense of optimism and energy that fills everyone’s souls after an often exhausting end to the previous year. I have heard of a lot of people setting goals, visions or choosing a theme for their years, which is all amazing, but the thing with all of this is, that unless your goals are aligned to your greater vision for your life and your vision is in alignment with your core values the excitement often wears off quickly and action isn’t taken.. So how can you utilise the hype, and harness the energy to CREATE the life you ACTUALLY want? I have listed my four step process for aligned goal setting below to get you started on your journey to the BEST YEAR YET!
STEP ONE – DISCOVERING YOUR CORE VALUES
Dive deep and discover what your core values are. There are the 2-3 values that underpin all of your decisions and actions you take. They are the reason why you do what you do and are who you are. Brene Brown offers a great list of example values that you can explore and add to here.
Start by looking at this list and circling all of the values you feel drawn too. Then narrow that list down again to a top ten and then finally a top two-three. Make note of these, put them everywhere as a reminder so that as you start to build our your vision and goals for your life you can keep checking back in to make sure your life is in flow with who you are at your core.
STEP TWO – VISION STATEMENT FOR YOUR LIFE
If you work in or run your own business, I am sure you know your companies vision statement, it is a key element of business as it clearly articulates the direction the company is going and what it ultimately wants to achieve; it’s a very powerful tool for business and it is a VERY POWERFUL TOOL FOR YOU!
OK, so you want to fast-forward to the end of your life, and I want you to ask yourself some BIG questions, like:
What do I want to be remembered for?
How do I want to spend my days?
What brought me the most joy?
Who do I want to share my time and energy with?
How do I want to spend my resources?
What are my greatest achievements?
How do I want people to feel when they spend time with me?
Keep digging deeper and deeper into these and similar questions that pop into your head, allow yourself to spend time here and go on a journey, write everything down. Then take a step back and look for the common themes that flow through the notes on the page and start to condense and structure these themes into your vision statement.
Your vision statement should only be 1-2 sentences, so it is easy for you to remember. It should be written as positive statement of truth, eg as something you have or are not something you hope for. You are a POWERFUL creator, and all creations start with a thought, so CHOOSE the thoughts that are going to allow you to curate the life you want to live!
Whilst you core values generally don’t change much throughout your life, you will probably find that your vision statement will – and that’s great, we should be constantly changing and evolving in this life! With this in mind you should try and review your vision statement and goals every three months, but at an absolute minimum, yearly!
STEP THREE – WORKING WITH THE ENERGY THAT SURROUNDS YOU
Now that you know where you want to go, now its time for ACTION, however it is vital that you are working in conjunction WITH the universal energy that surrounds you, rather than against it. What do I mean? OK, so every year on your birthday you move into a new numerology personal year, the energy associated with the personal year you move into tells us of the energy that you are being asked to work with and focus on throughout the year ahead to keep progressing your life forward. To calculate your personal year simply add your day of birth, month of birth and the YEAR you had your last birthday as single digits until you reach a single digit.
For example –
If you were born on the 23rd March and you had your last birthday in 2022 you would add 2+3+3+2+0+2+2 = 14. You would then continue to add the digits again until you get a single digit, eg 1+4 = 5.
So, you would be in a 5 personal year this year. In your 5 year you will be craving freedom and adventures, you will want options, you will be feeling very social and will want to shake up your usual routine and possibly even travel. Knowing that this is the energy surrounding you, you can map your life out to be in alignment with the energy. If you want help working out what energy is surrounding you, check out my ‘offerings’ and I will guide you through your unique chart.
STEP FOUR – ALIGNED GOAL SETTING
Final step is aligned goal setting and taking action to achieve the goals. There is NO point setting goals if you do not take action to achieve your goals!
Before you start this review the first three steps, get clear on where you are going then choose 3 major goals that when you achieve, will bring you closer to realising your vision. Make sure they are clear and that you have a deadline for achieving them; as humans we achieve our best results when there are clear timeframes placed upon us!
Now, under each goal I want you to list all of the smaller actions / steps you are going to take to make this goal realised. Once you achieve that goal add a new goal, with new accompanying actions to keep momentum towards your goals!
I hope you found this helpful! Please like or share if you did, it would mean the world to me!
With love,
Brearna x
