AMY HANSEN

As this year comes to an end, it’s the perfect time to reflect on where you are.  Maybe you’re proud of the work you’ve done and the progress you’ve made this year.  Or, perhaps you’re not quite where you’d like to be and the new year gives you hope that there’s something better on its way to you.  As this year comes to a close, look to the new year with hope that there is still time to make changes.  You do not have to continue doing what you’ve always done and settling for less.  You can choose something new and different for your life.  You get to make the deciding factor to continue living life as is or choose a new direction.  A new year can be a fresh start and whole new beginning for you.

Goal Setting

A new year can bring a sense excitement, hope, light, love, and optimism for what’s to come.  There is plenty more in store for you and your life.  Sometimes you just have...

Going into the new year, you have hopes, goals, and dreams for yourself.  Keeping those goals at the forefront of you mind is important so that you continue to take action towards what you want to make happen in the new year.  One way to keep your goals on your mind is to have a daily reminder.  Many choose a word of the year as guidance towards what you want to achieve.  This year, I’m going to encourage you to dig a bit deeper and come up with a guiding question.

Guiding Question

A guiding question is meant to make you pause and think.  It helps you become present to the current moment so that you think things through before acting.  It’s meant to help guide you in the right direction instead of going down the wrong path.  Choosing a guiding question will keep your attention on what you want to create and make happen in the new year.

Your Goal

Start by assessing where you currently are.  Complete an inventory...

It’s a perfect time for reflection as this year comes to an end.  Reflect over what you’ve gone through, who you’ve become, and what you’ve had to do.  More importantly, you can reflect over just how much you’ve grown.  This is a time to celebrate your success, lessons learned, and your growth this year.

Growth Areas

You’ve lived through a whole entire year through all the ups and downs.  Since the start of the year, you’ve learned and grown a lot.  Take inventory of the areas you’ve grown in. One particular area of your life may have been a huge focal point this year.  But, usually you’ve grown in more areas than one.  These are the areas that challenged you, forced you to think, be creative, stay strong, and level up.  This has helped you become who you are now, which is smarter, wiser, and ready for the next challenge.  Growth can be hard to measure but it’s through...

What you think and believe about success will become your reality.  Therefore, if you want massive abundance in your life, you must first look at what you think and believe about your ability to achieve success.  Choose to start believing in yourself, your goals, dreams, and unlimited potential.  Let go of the limiting mindset that’s holding you back.  When you do, amazing things will happen.  You’ll open yourself up to receiving so much success, abundance, and happiness in life.  You have unlimited potential if you were to just believe.

Defying Gravity

One of the most powerful songs in the Broadway musical Wicked is Defying Gravity.  This song is about letting go of the limits that are holding you back and being able to truly step into your own personal power where no one can stop you.  It’s helping you to believe in yourself and that anything is possible for your life.  It’s changing your thoughts and...

Your thoughts are one of the most powerful things that will either help or hinder you from achieving your goals in life.  It’s what you believe is possible for your life.  As Henry Ford said, whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.  What you think and believe to be true is how you will base your decisions.  It will also determine how you respond to certain life events.  If you want to open yourself up to unlimited future possibilities in your life then you’re going to have to be cognizant of what you think and believe.

Your Thoughts

Your thoughts and beliefs dictate what actions you take.  If you believe you’re capable of success then you’ll bravely take action.  If you believe you’re incapable and act from a place of fear, then you hold yourself back from taking action towards your goals and life’s biggest dreams.  You’ll quickly cast away any unlimited...

You have certain goals and dreams for your life.  When you don’t take action towards those things, you’re preventing yourself from making progress.  You’re sidelining your goals and dreams for something that may give you instant satisfaction now.  Whether that’s sitting on the couch watching tv, scrolling social media, or eating fast food.  Usually, these things are easier than doing the hard work to achieve your goals.  It requires less thought, effort, and time.  The amount of output you have to give is less than actually doing the necessary, more difficult tasks to achieve your goals.  But, this is taking the easy way out.  It’s being lazy.  It’s procrastinating.  It’s putting off your goals and dreams for another day.  However, your goals and dreams won’t wait forever.  It’s time to get yourself into action.  Learn how to be committed to taking action towards...

Sometimes you don’t want to take action towards your goals.  You’ve lost your motivation and everything else sounds better than working towards your goal.  However, you know not taking action towards your goal is the beginning of the end.  One day without taking action towards your goal turns into two days, three days, a week, a month, a year, etc.  It’s time to get excited about your goals again.  Learn how you can rediscover your motivation to achieve your goals so that you can get back into action and make progress towards your life’s biggest dreams.

Motivation

One of the most common misconceptions when it comes to achieving your goals is that you should feel motivated all the time.  This is simply not true.  There will be many times where you don’t feel motivated to work towards your goals.  Everything else that’s easier sounds like more fun.  You’ll even procrastinate by cleaning or...

Turning your dreams into reality can feel like a lot of work.  You’re pushing yourself to take action and work to make progress towards your biggest goals in life.  But, sometimes that can lead to burn out.  Especially if you feel like you’re the constant hamster wheel of setting bigger and bigger goals for yourself.  Having goals is an important part of your life but not the point where you work yourself to the brink of exhaustion.  You must learn to balance taking care of yourself while still making progress towards your goals in order to avoid burning out from chasing after your dreams.

Your Identity

Working to achieve your goals can become a part of your identity.  You’re known as an overachiever, ambitious, and hard working.  The moment you achieve one goal, you’re onto the next.  You’re constantly looking for how you can achieve a higher level of success just to see how far you can go.  You have...

Often you live life on auto pilot.  You go through the motions of your mundane, monotonous daily routine without giving it much thought.  It’s time to uninstall that programming and start being conscious of the life you want to be living.  Sleepily floating through life will not get to you achieve big goals and dreams.  It certainly won’t allow you to live life to your full potential.  Learn to turn your goals and dreams into reality rather than living life with unachieved regret.

Your Dreams

Begin by dreaming about the future and what you want to achieve.  Reconnect to your goals and dreams in life.  Take time to close your eyes and visualize where you want to be in the future.  Go for a mindful walk outside without any distractions and just be with your thoughts.  Think about what you want to achieve.  Come back and journal your thoughts to get crystal clear on your future goals.  Don’t limit...

In order to achieve massive success in your life, you have to know where you want to go in the future.  Imagine yourself years into the future.  Think about what you want your dream life to look and feel like.  You need to give yourself some direction so that you know where you want to be headed.  Otherwise, you’re just aimlessly floating through life without a clear direction.  Write down your dream life on paper so that you can gain even more clarity on what you want to make happen.  Begin this process by writing a letter from future you to your present self.

Your Future

Write a letter to the present you from the you ten years in the future.  Visualize the life you’re living and what you’ve accomplished.  See yourself in the future and what you’re doing, where you’re living, who you’re with, etc.  Bring that visual into vivid detail so that you can get really clear on what you want to make...