My Gift to You for 2025

As we each begin a new year, it's the perfect time to pause, reflect, and intentionally design our year ahead.

The transition between years offers us a unique opportunity to examine where we've been and consciously choose what we want, where we want to go, and what we want to let go of.

This year, I'm excited to share a powerful tool I created to help guide your reflection and visioning process - the "2025 Visioning Your Life" Guide.

Reflect on 2024 and examine your life holistically to create meaningful intentions for the new year ahead.

Envisioning the life we want to intentionally create and writing down our vision and goals, significantly improves the likelihood of achieving them.

What Writing Your Vision and Goals Does to Your Brain

• Writing engages your brain's hippocampus. This makes you significantly more likely to remember and act on goals you've written versus those you've only thought about.

• The dual benefit of written goals includes both internal processing and external storage (giving you a reference point you can review and track).

• Written goals help you be specific and hold you accountable to your original intentions rather than letting them shift when motivation dips - or distractions get in the way. *Review your goals and adjust monthly, breaking them down into weekly and daily priorities.

• Engaging multiple senses while documenting goals through writing, drawing, emotions, etc. makes them more sticky and memorable.

• Keep your written goals in a visible location to enhance their impact on your brain. *Remember: Out of sight - out of mind.

• Physically writing your vision and goals down allows you to track your progress. You can also celebrate achievements by crossing off completed goals, and regularly review and adjust as you go into the future.

You'll start by looking back at 2024 through a reflective lens. By acknowledging and celebrating the past year's journey, we can better understand what we discovered, achieved, and want to carry forward - and what we're ready to leave behind.

The guide includes a Wheel of Life assessment. This exercise helps you evaluate your satisfaction across key life areas including health, family, career, relationships, personal growth, and more.

By rating each area from 1-10, you get a visual representation of where your life feels balanced and what may be out of balance going into 2025.

The power lies not just in identifying gaps, but in using that awareness to make conscious choices about what to adjust and where to focus your energy.

You'll ask yourself important questions that help crystallize your vision:

- What do you truly value most in life?

- How do you personally define success?

- If you were 100% fearless, what would your life look like?

- What habits would support achieving your most important goals?

These questions push us beyond surface-level "resolutions" to explore what genuinely matters to us.

They challenge us to dream bigger while also considering practical steps to transform those dreams into reality.

We're also be prompted to consider our legacy, our spiritual connection, and how we want to give back. It recognizes that a truly fulfilling life balances personal aspirations with meaningful contribution.

The guide reminds us that "If you can see it - you can be it." By taking time to envision what you truly want and mapping out steps to get there, you're already beginning to transform possibilities into your reality.

Let 2025 be the year you fully embrace your dreams with courage, clarity, and conviction.

You can download the free guide here.

Let's commit to make 2025 the most intentional and fulfilling year yet.

Here's to your vision, your growth, and your extraordinary year ahead!

Until next time,

LuRae

Be You and Be Free

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