2025 Goals: New Year Planning & Goal Setting 💫 Transform Your Life Series

(soft upbeat music) Hello, my loves. Welcome back to Lavendaire, and welcome back to the Transform Your Life series. I'm so happy to have you here.

If you are new, we are doing a series where I'm posting every single Wednesday, helping us transform our lives in 2025. So we're gonna transform our lives in all the areas. Here's a preview of the video topics that we have planned.

Last week, we covered life design, so how to design a life you love, and then, today, we are going to plan our 2025 goals. So after you've envisioned the big picture dream life, it's time to look at, okay, what is next year going to be about? What is my theme?

What are my goals? How am I gonna actually execute, and get this done, and take my life one big step closer to my dreams? This series is inspired by our Artist of Life Workbook.

This is a guided journal that I created to help us create our most intentional and successful year, and I've been putting out this workbook since 2017, so this is the ninth edition of the workbook. People love it. I love it.

I use it every single year. So you can check it out at shop. lavendaire.

com to learn more. I'm also super excited to announce that we just opened enrollment for our Mastermind Program. So if you wanna go deeper with your goals, if you wanna do it with other people, connect with others, keep each other accountable, this is the program for you.

So our Masterminds is essentially a higher tier in our Dram Life Club membership. So if you join the Masterminds, you get everything in the Dram Life Club, like our live events, journal prompts, everything, and you get matched with a group of five to six people to work on your goals together throughout the quarter. So this is for keeping each other accountable, doing weekly reflections, monthly meetings.

I'll be there guiding you through events and stuff too. So it's really fun. It's a really great way to go deeper, and make sure that you are focused on your goals, and you make some new friends along the way.

So if you are interested, spots are limited, and we're closing enrollment December 20th. So enrollment is for the Q1 Masterminds. This year, I think we're just gonna do one quarter of Masterminds, so January to March, just to make it really impactful, and really give you a great start to your new year.

So if you're interested, I have the link down below for you to check it out. Now, let's plan our 2025 goals. So just like all the videos in the series, we have a free Notion template that you can download and journal along with us, or you can just do this in your own notebook.

The first prompt, what is my theme for 2025? So your theme is your intention that you're setting for the year. It's kind of like the overarching theme, feeling, or energy that you want to bring to your new year.

Like, what do you want 2025 to be about? It could be a word or it could be a phrase. Take some time to think about what you need or what you wanna give yourself in the new year.

Some examples of themes could be joy, confidence, bold, courage, self-love, adventure, new experiences, change. There's so much that your year could be about, but just think about what you wanna manifest, what energy do you wanna invite into this year? So if you've decided on your theme, I'd love to know what it is.

Comment down below, what is your theme for 2025? I'm still thinking about what my theme for next year could be, but one word that came to me was heart. Like, I want next year to be about following my heart, doing what I feel driven by internally, and doing things that fill my heart, fill my soul, that make me feel like I'm coming back to myself, and coming home in a way.

So yeah, I think that might be my theme, but I'm still thinking about. . .

You know, I'm considering the options right now. Prompt number two, what can I do to embody my theme this year? So this is just making your theme practical.

Looking at your theme, what are the ways that you can live out your theme, or kind of make it real in 2025? Like, what are the activities you can do? What can you plan for?

What new habits do you wanna create? Start thinking about how to make it real. Prompt number three, I love this one, what would make 2025 my best year yet?

So this is one of the relatively newer prompts in our Artist of Life Workbook, and I love it so, so much because it gives you permission to dream big, and it really gets you thinking, what would make this year my best year yet? Like, what grand things, exciting adventures, what opportunities would come? Like, what, I guess, facets would make this my best year?

And so it allows you to kind of invite all the best things, all the best dreams, and things that you can imagine into your year, and then the best part about dreaming big is once you are aware of what you want, then you can start to realize, oh, like, I can start taking little steps in this direction, or I can prepare enough, or do whatever I can do for this to happen, or so that I'm ready when this opportunity lands on my lap. Number four, start to brainstorm goals for all areas of your life. So reflect on all the different areas of your life, and start to brainstorm what are the different goals I have in these areas?

So this is what the workbook does really well because we guide you through different areas of your life, and help you brainstorm what do you want to change or evolve in these areas. So we go into areas like your health, your relationships, career, personal growth, money, creativity, spirituality, home, and it's essentially a way to look in these areas that you would often forget about, right? Sometimes we just focus on maybe career goals, or like health goals maybe, but I think oftentimes we forget to look at life as a whole.

Like, you might not be setting relationship goals, or maybe like spiritual goals or home goals, and then you end up going through the year, and then your home is a mess, and you're feeling cluttered, and like, all these things are a part of your life, and so they have to be acknowledged, even though they're not prioritized. Like, it's okay to like not prioritize certain areas of your life and prioritize other areas of your life because it's up to us where we want to focus our time and energy. But it's a good thing, at least once a year, to kind of assess all the areas and really ask yourself, do I wanna focus on this?

What do I wanna change? What do I wanna evolve? And what can I do to make, like, a little improvement in this area this year?

So take time to look at all areas and what goals you might have. Alright, number five, it is time to set our 2025 main goals. So what are your main goals for 2025?

This is the step where you look at everything that you kind of brainstormed and wrote before, and then you boil it down to maybe three to five main goals for the year, and this is also a layout that I love in the workbook because it helps you see your main goals, as well as your why for each goal, and your how. So when you are done choosing your three to five top main goals for the year, you want to also, for each goal, like, write down why this goal is important to you. Why does it matter?

Is it taking you a step closer to your dream life? Is it something that you've been wanting to change for a long time? Like, what is your why?

'Cause your why is what motivates you. And then the how is where you kind of start to ask, how can I start to bring this to reality? You start to brainstorm the little steps, like big or small, that might get you closer to kind of executing or realizing that goal.

And the reason why it's important to do that now is because sometimes we set goals, and then we don't even think about how to do it, and then we just keep 'em on a page, and that's it, right? So I'm trying to guide us to like have the dream, clarify the dream first, and then start moving, start taking action, so that you kind of build some momentum to get the ball rolling, so that you're actually taking steps towards your dreams. All right, prompt number six, and this is because I love to break things down further and further, is what is my one most important goal for 2025?

So although you know your three to five main goals, there's probably one goal that is the most important, and when I say most important, that is up to you to decide and gauge what makes it important. It could be you ask yourself, okay, which of these goals would be most impactful? Like, if I were to achieve this goal, it would change my life in a very huge, positive way, or you can look at, okay, which goal, if I were to complete it, would make the biggest difference in my life 10 years down the line?

Some goals are like short-term, they make some sort of difference, or they're like a nice to have. But some goals, like, if you were to achieve them, literally can change your life. It's like a huge, like, milestone or a huge pivot.

So look at your goals that way because that's how you prioritize what is the most important goal that you should be focusing on. Oftentimes those important goals are the ones that we procrastinate on. So it's good to like recognize, okay, this is important, and I know it's big, I know it's scary, I'm probably gonna want to procrastinate and avoid it, but because I wrote it as like my most important goal, I'm gonna make a plan to work towards it.

That leads me to my next and final step, which is simply break it down. So with that most important goal that you have identified and prioritized, it is time to start breaking that goal down by the month or by the week, right? What can you do this month to work towards that goal?

What can you do this week? What can you do today? Like, what does the day to day, or the week to week look like if you were taking steps towards that goal?

I love breaking things down to the smallest and smallest bits because once it gets really small, then it becomes more approachable and more actionable. So that's it. It's really not a secret.

You just set the goal, break it down, take action. And if the task that you wrote down still feels scary and you find yourself still procrastinating, make it even smaller. Make it even easier.

Make it as simple as like, okay, I'm gonna turn on my computer, and I'm gonna Google something. Make it so simple, so easy, that anyone can do it. The goal is to just break things down to the smallest bits until they are no longer scary, and it is possible for every single goal out there.

All right, I hope you enjoyed today's goal planning session. Let me know what you think of it down below, and don't forget to check out the other videos in this series. We have two that are already posted, and we have more coming every single Wednesday.

So make sure you're subscribed to this channel, and you click that bell to be notified of all my new videos. And again, I wanna plug my Artist of Life Workbook. Today's video was heavily based on the prompts in the workbook, and the workbook goes even deeper to help you clarify and execute your goals.

So you know how I guided you to like break your goals down to the smallest and smallest step? Well, the workbook helps you literally plan and break down what you're gonna do month to month, week to week with your goals, and you do like monthly reviews, quarterly goals, quarterly reviews, and so there's so much planning and reflecting. Because if you are not reflecting, then you don't know how you're doing throughout the year.

So my goal is to help you stay on track throughout the entire 2025. Like, I don't want us to forget about our goals. I don't want us to fall off.

It's okay if you decide midyear that your goals change. Like, that's perfectly fine. But the goal is to stay aligned as much as possible throughout the year, to not fall off, to not forget your goals, and to not forget that you are here to make each day count, and to take each day as an opportunity to work towards your dreams.

Because if you are focused and intentional every single day, imagine how far you can go. Alright, sending you so much love, and I'll see you in the next one, bye.