Ep. 2 Setting Powerful Intentions – Goals Meet Grace

Alright, so you've reflected on your driving why to connect resolutions to overarching life purpose and vision. The next step is setting intentional goals manifesting that motivating purpose, which sustains you through discomfort as you stretch toward actualizing your potential.


What's the difference between goals and resolutions? Resolutions connote rigid checklists imposed through sheer white-knuckled willpower. This breeds self-judgment when (really, if) our human fragility causes us to stumble. Goals instead suggest navigating toward a magnetic North Star vision that pulls us forward through life's nonlinear twists and turns.


Striving for specific tangible goals puts stakes in the ground creating accountability to support actual follow-through. Yet grace abounds for however the path meanders in service of the ultimate vision catalyzing our growth.


This means letting go of perfectionistic all-or-nothing thinking that derails us. Progress over perfection allows curiosity, flexibility and even playfulness with stumbling blocks that arise. Partnership with life's organic rhythms makes achievement sustainable long-term.


Here are best practices for setting powerful intentions as North Star goals stretch you toward new heights while honoring your holistic wellbeing. Determine SMARTER goals that are:


Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Time-bound

Engaging

Rewarding


And most imperatively, stay connected to the underlying spiritual R – Meaningful Purpose that serves your unique life's journey toward awakened potential.


Let's break this down further:


Specific: Get ultra clear and precise in defining milestone markers of success. Vagueness breeds ambivalence so laser focus intention.


Measurable: Build objective metrics allowing you to tangibly track progress made. Quantify the qualitative wherever possible.


Achievable: Set bold but realistic goals based on the current baseline that incrementally moveability. Bite off more than you can chew then chew vigorously!


Relevant: Goals must align closely to core motivations and values underpinning your "why” uncovered above. Don't lose sight of North Star.


Time-bound: Assign defined timelines creating checkpoints for completion and celebrating wins. Divide goals into digestible monthly, quarterly and yearly benchmarks.


Engaging: Craft goals eliciting curiosity, creativity and intrinsic motivation. Boredem bleeds commitment so keep it spicy!


Rewarding: Embed frequent feel-good wins that sustain momentum. Enjoy tangible reinforcement you're on the right track.


And never forget the spiritual aspect - connection to personal growth and purpose beyond ego. Create goals curated just for your unique soul evolution. Let the intentions set you not limit you.


This entire process invites clarity while staying receptive to inner wisdom adjusting course as needed. Hold goals lightly yet steadfastly.


Part III: Build in Accountability for Consistent Action


You've unearthed your soulful "why" purpose fueling aspirational 2023 goals. You've refined bold intentions through the SMARTER formula accounting for sustainability. This firm foundation prevents resolutions from fading by February.


Yet achieving ambitious growth still requires structure promoting consistent action that chips away at elevated aspirations. The bridge carrying you from Point A's intentions to Point Z's manifestations is good old-fashioned accountability.


Left alone with unlimited freedom but no oversight, we often lose motivation when the temptation for distraction arises. Goal achievement thus benefits from a friendly external authority steadying our hand upon the plow even when feeling weak or overwhelmed.


Accountability partners, coaches, and even automated tracking apps can serve this role – not tyrannically but as a stabilizing sounding board. They ground us in commitment when the fickleness of moods, energy levels, and circumstantial chaos might derail discipline.


Here are proven strategies for proactively building personal accountability and supporting your resolve:


Share Goals Publicly – Social expectation creates healthy pressure when others witness your intentions.


Recruit Goal Buddies – Find like-minded comrades working towards parallel outcomes. Check-in on joint progress.


Enlist Encouraging Cheerleaders – They believe in your audacious goals even when you doubt yourself.


Hire Coaches or Mentors – Their expert guidance lends outside objectivity.


Use Habit Tracking Apps – Modern tech offers c

Episode Transcript

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All right, so you've reflected onyour driving why to connect resolutions to overarching
life purpose and vision. The nextstep is setting intentional goals, manifesting that
motivating purpose which sustains you through discomfortas you stretch toward actualizing your potential.
What's the difference between goals and resolutions? Resolutions connote rigid checklists imposed through sheer,

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white knuckled willpower. This breeds selfjudgment when really, if our human
fragility causes us to stumble goals,instead, suggest navigating toward a magnetic north
star vision that pulls us forward throughlife's nonlinear twists and turns. Striving for
specific tangible goals put stakes in theground, creating accountability to support actual follow

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through. Yet grace abounds, forhowever, the path meanders in service of
the ultimate vision catalyzing our growth.This means letting go of perfectionistic all or
nothing thinking that derails us progress overperfection allows curiosity, flexibility, and even
playfulness with stumbling blocks that arise.Partnership with life's organic rhythms makes achievements sustainable

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long term. Here are best practicesfor setting powerful intentions as north star goals
stretch you toward new heights while honoringyour holistic well being. Determine smarter goals
that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time bound, engaging,
rewarding, and most imperatively, stayconnected to the underlying spiritual, r meaningful

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purpose that serves your unique life's journeytoward awakened potential. Let's break this down
further specific, get ultra clear andprecise in defining milestone markers of success.
Vagueness breeds ambivalence, so laser focusintention measurable, build objective metrics, allowing
you to tangibly track progress made,Quantify the qualitative wherever possible achievable. Set

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bold but realistic goals based on thecurrent baseline that incrementally moveability. Bite off
more than you can chew, thenchew vigorously. Relevant goals must align closely
to core motivations and values underpinning yourwhy uncovered above. Don't lose sight of
north star time bound assigned to findtimelines, creating checkpoints for completion and celebrating

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wins. Divide goals into digestible,monthly, quarterly, and yearly benchmarks.
Engaging craft goals, eliciting curiosity,creativity, and intrinsic motivation. Boredom bleeds
commitment, So keep it spicy,rewarding imbed frequent feel good wins that sustain
momentum. Enjoy tangible reinforcement you're onthe right track, and never forget the

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spiritual aspect connection to personal growth andpurpose beyond ego. Create goals curated just
for your unique soul evolution. Letthe intentions set you, not limit you.
This entire process invites clarity whilst stayingreceptive to inner wisdom, adjusting course
as needed. Hold goals lightly,yet steadfastly. Part three, Build an

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accountability for consistent action. You've unearthedyour soulful y purpose fueling aspirational twenty twenty
three goals. You've refined bold intentionsthrough the smarter formula accounting for sustainability.
This firm foundation prevents resolutions from fadingby February. Yet achieving ambitious growth still

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requires structure promoting consistent action that chipsaway at elevated aspirations. The bridge carrying
you from point a's intentions to pointz's manifestations is good old fashioned accountability.
Left alone with unlimited freedom but nooversight, we often lose motivation when the
temptation for distraction arises. Goal achievementthus benefits from a friendly external authority steadying

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our hand upon the plow even whenfeeling weak or overwhelmed. Accountability partners,
coaches, and even automated tracking appscan serve this role, not tyrannically,
but as a stabilizing sounding board.They ground us in commitment when the fickleness
of moods, energy levels, andcircumstantial chaos might derail discipline. Here are

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proven strategies for proactively building personal accountabilityand supporting your resolve. Share goals publicly.
Social expectation creates healthy pressure when otherswitness your intentions. Recruit goal buddies,
find like minded comrades working towards paralleloutcomes, check in on joint progress,

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enlist encouraging cheerleaders. They believe inyour audacious goals even when you doubt
yourself. Hire coaches or mentors.Their expert guidance lends outside objectivity. Use
habit tracking apps. Modern tech offerscustomized metrics monitoring schedule rewards, ceremonies.
Attach frequent positive reinforcement to progressive milestones. Join training programs or communities, built

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in feedback loops, and benchmarking,post progress pictures, publicly visible evidence feeds
motivation through social proof, leverage,gamification strategies, levels points, and friendly
competition taps playfulness. We all needtrusted partners holding us accountable when distractions.
Sabotage is discipline. So proactively assembleyour personal growth squad to cheer lead your

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twenty twenty three intentions into reality.Part four Expect and embrace obstacles as opportunity.
All right, you've unearthed your purposefulwhy, crafted smarter goals manifesting that
vision, and built personal accountability systemsto ensure consistent action. You're locked,

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loaded and ready to level up twentytwenty three. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, just about it. Everything. We can laugh, but it's
true. No growth journey worth itssalt follows a straight line. The path
toward a wakened potential inevitably brings usface to face with inner demons, daily
disruptions, and formidable obstacles exposing ourlimits. Yet here's the paradox. If

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realized goals came easily, they wouldremain shallow promises. True transformation occurs by
working through resistance. As iconic thoughtleader Joseph Campbell described the hero's journey follows
the iconic arc of departure, struggle, and return with Boone. So when
formidable challenges arise, recognize this asa glorious opportunity to discover your heroic moxy

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within each difficulty, building mental,emotional, and spiritual muscle ultimately fuels forward
expansion. When not if obstacles arise, here are constructive perspectives to embrace.
I get to upgrade my grit andresilience through this. What part of my
identity or skill set needs leveling up? Everything unfolding for me not to me.

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So trust timing, er, staythe course, and break through weights
around the corner. I expected amazinggoals would have amazing pushback. How can
I get creative and innovative solutions.There's power in learning to thrive when plan
A fails. With an open heartedwillingness to work through struggle, realizing your
boldest twenty twenty three visions inevitably forgesyou into the strongest version of yourself.

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Remember, goals serve the glory ofexpanded potential, not arbitrary finish lines.
Everything along the way holds the opportunityto elevate. So when challenges confront you
epitomize brave heart perseverance. Say Iam courage and confidence incarnate. Then embrace
the beautiful gift of the obstacle asa sacred invitation to claim untapped power.

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Within Part five, inspire mini winsaccumulating momentum alas when New Year's resolutions don't
magically manifest but instead require working throughdiscomfort and uncertainty for months on end.
Discouragement often deflates dedication after initial enthusiasmwears off. Medium sized dreams can start

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feeling like opaque, endless everest peaksvanishing into clouds. Motivation fueled by rapid
results often plateaus right as goals demanddoubling down without frequent encouragement through tangible rewards
for milestone progress made inertia sets ingoal asterisks, setting asterisk, excitement fizzles.

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Undisciplined goal asterisk getting asterisk, hardwork piles up. And that's why
building mini winds into your accountability systemis key for motivation and forward momentum.
Each small victory earned in enjoys itsmoment in the sun. Consistent baby step
breakthroughs accumulate, ultimately amounting to hugerleaps toward elevated visions. It's like consistent

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savings and compound interest over decades,making moderate earners millionaires. Bite sized progress
nourishes momentum, multiplying motivation exponentially,so you end twenty twenty three feeling like
an unstoppable, unflappable champion. Hereare ways to infuse more celebration and positive
reinforcement as you chip away at intentions. Schedule milestone markers on your calendar for

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checking in delight. Treat small winslike you'd celebrate monumental achievements. Track metrics
visually so progress feels satisfyingly concrete.Verbalize appreciative self talk for each goal.
Aligning choice made, reflect on thedistance traveled since the commencement of the journey.
Save a frequent joy breaks, soakingin how far you've come through discipline.

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Sneak a dance party or bubbly toastinto your weekly rhythm. Let mini
wins accumulate strictly through consistency, compoundingover time. Pixel by pixel, the
pointless painting takes form brick by brick, the castle wall all was erected.
Seed by seed, Your dreams growinto destiny. All great ventures climb toward
the summit by stepping intentionally from baseto base camp to Apex, sustained by

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celebrating progressive mile markers, honor eachstroke of the paddle across the lake.
Before you know it, you'll blinkand find yourself arriving triumphantly upon the opposite
shoreline through steady, self affirming movement. The only resolution needed, progress over
perfection. In twenty twenty three,we've covered the full spectrum blueprint for setting

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and actualizing powerful New Year's intentions fuelingauthentic growth. The only missing piece,
grace and self compassion. Make thisa lifelong journey of joy over duty.
With understanding, patience and compassion towardsour perfectly imperfect humanness. Know there will
be ups and downs, leaps andstumbles over the next three sixty five days.

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As visionary Abraham Maslow wisely said,if you deliberately plan to be less
than you are capable of being,then I warn you that you'll be deeply
unhappy for the rest of your life. At the same time, gently release
unrealistic expectations of linear climb. Weare each exactly where we need to be,
on unique winding paths toward awakened potentialprogress. Unfolds organically through interest and

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inspiration, rather than mandate and fearfulself bullying. Your only responsibility is consistently
showing up through self awareness, intentionsetting, accountability, and belief. From
there, give yourself full permission tomeander mallifluously through motivation, ebbs and flows.
Trust All is conspiring in your favor, even when appearances argue otherwise.

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With playful patience balanced by fiery passion, fulfillment ripens in its own perfect time,
like sunflowers turned boldly toward the light. So as the calendar turns to
January twenty twenty four, may yourgoals set you free through self discovery,
not confine you through self judgment.This is not another year of penance,

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but rather an adventure. The destinationmatters far less than experiential joy and wisdom
gathered along the scenic route, progressover perfection. No matter what intentions you
ultimately commit to cultivating. Here arecheers to your unfolding highest potential. The
only resolution needed is opening your wildheart as a guide. Happy New year.

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Let twenty twenty four become your mostempowered chapter yet. Thanks for listening
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