Forget Resolutions! This 5-Step Method Will Change Your Life in 2025!

Hey Adventurers!

In this episode of The Adventure Reignition Podcast, we’re uncovering why 95% of New Year’s resolutions fail—and what to do instead.

Most people set rigid goals in January, only to abandon them by February. But what if the problem isn’t you—it’s the way goals are set?

If you’ve ever struggled with staying consistent, felt trapped by expectations, or lost motivation after the initial excitement wore off, this episode is for you.

Join me as I share:

✅ Why most resolutions fail and the hidden reason you lose motivation.
✅ The Journey of Intention—a flexible, adventure-driven approach to goal setting.
✅ Why rigid goals can disconnect you from your true desires (and what to do instead).
✅ The 5-step framework to create sustainable goals that actually align with your passions.
✅ How my biggest adventure taught me to shift from obsession over results to loving the process.

This episode is for you if you’re tired of starting strong and falling off track—and want a new way to set goals that stick. Let’s ditch the resolutions and create a year filled with meaningful, aligned action!

Episode Breakdown:

[00:01:22] Why 95% of resolutions fail by mid-February.
[00:03:10] The gym effect: Why motivation fades so fast.
[00:06:38] The danger of setting rigid, outcome-driven goals.
[00:09:01] My personal adventure story: How I almost ruined my dream by focusing on the goal instead of the journey.
[00:13:11] Step #1: Name Your Year—how to set a powerful intention for 2024.
[00:14:32] Step #2: The 7 Levels of Why—how to find deep, emotional motivation.
[00:16:00] Step #3: Define your core values—your Golden Compass for the year.
[00:21:12] Step #4: Shift from goals to journeys—why process beats results.
[00:26:34] Step #5: Set goals under your control—why small steps lead to big changes.

Favorite Quote:

"The journey is the goal. If you hate the process, you’ll never love the result."

Key Takeaways:

🔹 Resolutions fail because they’re rigid, not because you lack discipline.
🔹 True success comes from aligning your goals with your values and passions.
🔹 The key to consistency is loving the process, not chasing an outcome.

🚀 Ready to create YOUR Journey of Intention? DM me "Intention" on Instagram or LinkedIn, and I’ll send you my one-page guide to help you build a year that excites you.

🎧 Subscribe & Review: If this episode resonated with you, subscribe to The Adventure Reignition Podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps us reach more adventurers like you!

Final Thought:

Most people give up on their resolutions because they’re chasing goals that aren’t truly aligned with who they are. Instead of another year of broken resolutions, let’s create a year that fuels your soul.

It’s not too late. Your adventure starts today.

Let’s go find it! 🚀

Where to find your host online :

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Website: blaisedepallens.com

Transcript

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Hey, everybody! Welcome to the Adventure Ignition podcast. My name is Daisy Palance. I am the host of the show

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Thanks for listening. I am grateful and honored to have you here on the show with me. Fasten your seat belts and say yes to your life's next adventure.

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Did you know that most resolutions fail by February?

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As I am publishing this podcast episode around mid-February, probably 95% of you have already given up on the.

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But what if there is a different way to approach those?

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Welcome back to the Adventure recognition. But guest, I am really excited to have you here today to talk about New Year's Resolution,

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how we can do it differently.

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And I'm going to basically expose my whole approach and perspective on this. So stay tuned. Thank you for being here with me on the Adventure Ignition podcast. Whether you are a regular listener of the show or just a new one listening to the first guest. So thank you so much for being here. Before let's dive into the episode.

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All right, to kickstart that episode on resolution, I want to share something that I

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witnessed so many times. You probably already heard that kind of story, but that was something I could observe over the years.

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I had a lot of

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period during my 2020s and early 30s where I would, be really involved in to a gym

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even now, even if now I am more like doing a lot of things outside.

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During my 20s and even early to early 30s, I was spending a lot of time in the gyms, and I could see the patterns happening year after year.

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Generally, the gyms would be packed with people and you could see a lot of new people coming in the gym.

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And every time

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people would be really motivated. And by the beginning of February or mid-February, the gyms would be empty again.

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And that, pattern that I have observed over and over over the years, and I think that's the best

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analogy to show, is that people are really good with really, really good intention,

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but they just couldn't back it up over time. And we're going to dive into what I think about

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resolutions and maybe how we can do a different way.

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Maybe

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learn about what I call the journey of intention of instead of having a resolution. I think that's a game changing approach for me to start the year aligned and inspired. Actually, that's something I've been doing for

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the last three years, and I've been

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pretty happy with that method. But let's dive into first why resolution fail

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for me, they fail for many reasons.

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First, because they feel forced,

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misaligned.

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And sometimes unmotivated.

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It really comes down a lot of the time from social pressure.

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Like you feel.

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There's two things for me here at the end of the year.

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You kind of like reflect a lot on, on, on the past year,

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and then you start the new year with a lot of new motivation and energy. And it often comes down to that because that's the moment of the year we actually realize the passing of time,

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because that's the moment where the year change. That's the moment where you kind of like reflect and feel like damn time is flying.

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And I am now getting older. And so maybe I should do the change this year. And because, like, everyone around us is like talking about New Year, New Year's resolution and things they want to do, it kind of like comes to this, pressure. And people, most of you maybe do them in urgency.

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And I find that something that can be quite and motivating.

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And I experience that many times and I share,

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a quick example in a second

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is that sometimes the outcome you are

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giving or wanting to, to achieve or reach is too rigid.

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You want to lose 20 kilos, you want to run a marathon in the few hours you want to make.

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100 K a year with your business or your, your job.

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And sometimes it's like, really disconnected from

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personal authenticity.

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So you take, like, basically generic

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resolution. You heard somewhere and just you apply it in your life without really see if it's really aligns, aligned with your own

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goals,

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values, vision and even desire. Because, for example, let's say you want to run a marathon because you've seen many people doing that, but you hate running.

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or maybe it is the perfect goal for you, because you actually want to challenge yourself to run a marathon even if you hate it. And maybe you're going to find some joy in it. It's possible it happens. It happened to me many times,

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but usually when you start with the goal in mind, first it really disconnect yourself from

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from the goal because you don't

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put the ingredients of who you are into this.

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An example I wanted to give you about rigid, outcomes.

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I could relate to that of one of my latest adventure in 2023. As you may have heard. I decided to bike packed

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the 26 regions of Switzerland.

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And the goal was actually that it was to explore my country. But I was really fixed in the 26 regions to visit,

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and I got so obsessed with achieving the goal that I forgot everything about the the journey to get there.

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And I could remember like it was yesterday, the first three days where

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terrible for many reasons,

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I had headwinds. I wasn't used to my heavy packs I was carrying with me,

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and so many other reasons that I won't, talk about it too much here because I don't want to stay on the story. And that's only when I released the,

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the pressure of achieving the goal, the results to to kind of like, tell I achieved this, that I started to really enjoy it.

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But all the goals I mentioned before, there's nothing wrong with that. And

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like I said, it's just maybe you're doing it the wrong way around. So instead of starting with the rigid goals, maybe do a little bit of introspection to put your magic into two goals that are aligned with some, some, some of the things I'm going to talk about in a second.

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But I wanted to add something also, about goals that my life personally has taught me about

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life and goals.

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In

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in 2008,

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the 4th of January 2008. Actually, I just turned 18 two weeks before that,

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my dad jumped out from the window and I was living in the sixth floor.

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And it happened the 4th of January

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and this experience.

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And if you want to have more details about my whole story, you can go back to my previous episode where I actually shared my

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whole, personal story, and I go a bit more in detail into this one. But this experience of waking up that day, the 4th of January 20, 2008, and learning news about my dad jumping out of the window really taught me about life, unpredictability and life fragility.

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So when you start a year like 2008 like that, and you let's imagine you have set a ton of goals for you,

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they're going to just like,

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everything's going to disappear in an instant when you have something like that. And that's why I think on top of that, if you have goals only focused on rigid outcomes, for sure,

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when something happened like that, you just like, forget them.

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And that's normal.

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And also in my 20s, I, I kind of like, avoided resolutions all my 20s, for many reasons, because

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I was in the mindset of

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the experience I just shared with you. And also I was like, what's the point of setting goals or resolutions that you will give up and then blame yourself and feel even worse than before?

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So that was my mentality during my 20s. So that's why I didn't kind of like set goals. And I, I tested also in 2022. I think it was just like going with more like intuition

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and there's no good in bad, to be honest. And I started to, to shift a bit, my mindset, after my year of traveling and adventure in 2016,

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about that.

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Even if I

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tested many different ways of setting goals for the year to come,

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I really, I think, nailed something that works, at least for me, over the last 2 to 3 years. And for me, it's about

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setting journey of intention. And if there's something the adventure, most of the time taught me, and especially in this example of my backpacking trip,

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is that the journey is the goal.

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So if you set a goal

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and you had the whole process.

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What's the point? I'm not saying that I will never do something like that. Sometimes I, I love to just try something out, challenge myself to do it until the end, to see whether I like it or not. I did that with morning routines in 2017. I tested routines like,

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running in the morning because I saw people doing that, and I was a bit curious and sort of judging.

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I was like, okay, let's test it out first.

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And I, I kind of like enjoyed it, to be honest. And I kept it, but I could have, like, hated it and didn't like the process. But that was an exploration phase. But if you really want to,

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have goals that you want to keep

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doing over the whole year.

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I think you have to shift the focus from obsessing about the outcomes and really focus on embracing the process. And that's where setting a journey of intention is the way to go, because you focused your goal mostly on the journey instead of the the achieving the outcome.

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And for me, that's the spirit of adventure.

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And over the last 2 to 3 years, honestly, I've done that in 2023 and in 2024.

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And I'm still in the process to do that as I'm recording this episode in mid-January to for 2025.

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It's really

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helped me, brings the joy and fulfillment into the whole year. I'm not saying is like, I'm like, happy the whole year, but at least I am setting journeys.

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So in every adventure you have things going wrong. You have to pivot, you have to change, and

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that's okay

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if you focus on the journey. So if I give you examples like, for example, in 2023

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as we were going out of Covid period, if, if even if it was a bit more like early 2022.

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I felt a bit disconnected with my creative side,

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and I decided to call 2023 without having like, rigid goals.

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The year of

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creative intuition and the. The goal for me was to to

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to go on the journey, to reconnect myself to my spirit of of creation, that I fed the last bits over the previous years.

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And in 2024, it was more about creating content on a consistent basis. I call it sustainable

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content. Sustainable creativity.

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And I was able to I then set a goal, and maybe I will keep that story for a bit later on. But basically I wanted to to create, over the whole year, regularly content.

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And that's something I can of achieve. Even if I didn't achieve the exact amount of piece of content I wanted to create, I somehow achieved it.

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But the journey of intention is exactly that. And let's go to the whole process. I go for journey of intention building.

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So what is a journey of intention? I kind of like explain it a little bit here, but for me it's like a flexible, value driven approach to goal setting focus on journeys and direction over rigid outcomes.

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I personally believe because of the and unpredictability of life, that having direction, having a compass

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is far more powerful than having the whole plan

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in front of you.

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Because if you have a plan, you follow the plan and then for some reason there is a big challenge

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you will have maybe difficulties to pivot and go around it. But if you have like direction, you okay, like, let's go this way.

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Okay. The roads are blocked. Maybe we should go this way, but you know, where are you going? So that's my approach. And that's what it is a journey of intention for me. And I have a step by step process to create the whole journey of intention. That's we're going to cover now. So as we just

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seen together, I love to give

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my year's name.

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So the first step

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is to name your year. Choose maximum three words of intention.

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Combining together, try to see how it can

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really, show.

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And represent your year.

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Start with that because that's at the top of of my documents. But

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actually if you not clear and you don't find it easy to find the a name for you year straight out of the bad, you can keep it for the last one because the other steps will help you

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do a little bit of introspection to understand that.

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The second step is to ask yourself seven times why. Once you have chosen your your year,

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this is not the optimal way to really find

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a really your your big why, but at least it will help you understand on a deeper level

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why you want to go on that journey this year. So once you have,

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your name

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of the year, ask yourself seven times why.

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So I want to go, for example, I'm going to go to the seven level of, of why. But let's say 2023 was

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the name of my year was Creative Intuition. Why? Because.

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I lost my creative side during the pandemic. Why? Because I wasn't creating. Why? And you get the picture. And once you get to the seventh answer.

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You have a pretty big emotional reason that will help you

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keep going.

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The step three something I like to do

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is to teach

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two quotes for the year that will guide and inspire you.

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I don't remember if it was for 2023 or 2024, but I picked one of the the quote as remember that life is not a sprint, but a marathon. And for me, it was a way to to remind myself to go step by step and focus on on being patient and not focusing on wanting to have like big results straight away.

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And that's definitely something that endurance sports taught me. So that's something I wanted to really, put for 2024. It was.

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And then step number five is to define your values. I have a whole documents to to help you,

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define your values. Just feel free to contact me on Instagram or, or LinkedIn if you want to have it.

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But basically here, the, the process is to choose 3 to 5 of your core values to guide your decisions for the year to come. And that's where for me, probably this is the central most important piece

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of the whole process here is to really be clear on your values, or at least the values you want to embody in 2025 for this year or 2026 if you do the exercise next year.

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Because I call the values the Golden Compass here, I'm just going

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to tell you to choose between 3 to 5. You can go to six if you prefer, but I feel as long as you have that your core values for the year, you will be able then to define your year. If you haven't gotten straight from the bad, the name of the year or just like, pick your goals and that's the next step.

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And the final step is to align your goals to your core values. And be sure they reflect on your values and exciting.

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I also like to frame my goals as journeys, but I know if you want to have

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sometimes like results, you you want to get

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six outcomes. But I love to keep the goals something that represents the journey or the journeys I'm defining for the year. And also.

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A goal that is mostly

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under my power, under my control.

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What I mean by that is, for example, let's say you,

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you want to set the goal to

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to grow your Instagram account to ten, 10,000 people.

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You cannot really control that, but you can control the amount of content and the work you put in to maybe achieve that goal. So the journey would be to create content. That was basically my whole purpose last, last year. Even if the goal, one of the goal I wanted to achieve was getting to ten K, which didn't happen.

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I put a more controllable goal around the the amount of piece of content I want to create. So my goal, my real goal, the journey I wanted to go on was to be consistent over the year, to create content. And of course, I kind of like burnt out in the middle of the year and had to take two months off creating,

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but I still ended up with hundred and 76 pieces of content created.

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I think,

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and my goal was 100 piece of content. So even if I didn't achieve the goal, I got somehow close to it. And that's this period of of me creating,

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goals that are under your control. So, for example, maybe the goal is to run a marathon,

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but how many?

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How many times do you need to run during the week to be able to run a marathon? That's the real things you can control.

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So yeah, that's, basically my step by step process that I go each year now to really define my years.

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And as you, listen to what I said, maybe you can start to brainstorm your journey of intention for 2025. And it's not because it's mid-February. That's too late. I mean,

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if this thing is too late by mid-February, you still have like ten months and a half to to to make something happen. And

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it's all about the journey and being in movement towards your own direction.

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And if you are clear on the core values that I just described above.

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For sure you're going to get way closer that if you pick a goal that your best friend said for herself or himself, because

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you heard it, he was doing that. So you would do that as well.

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Maybe you will not love it. Maybe you will give up.

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Most surely.

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So if I do a quick recap. Name your year. Define your values. Align your goals with your values. Ask yourself why and define maybe quotes that

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will inspire you for the year.

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One of the quotes actually I have here for the year for me is one from Tim Ferriss is like, what would this look like if it were easy?

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That's a quote from Tim from Tim Ferriss that's really inspired me, because I, I noticed.

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In 2024 and even before that, I tend to make things more complicated because I kind of like, like the hard way. And this is a quote that really inspired me to simplify things. And just like, make it more easy in my mind to create content and to do anything, basically I want to do.

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So that's an example of, of the, of the quotes you, you could use and that I will most surely use for 2025.

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But don't be afraid of the process. The goal here is to to start somewhere, get into movements and make it as sustainable as possible for you. So if you have never done sports.

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And you want to lose maybe 20 kilos,

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and your goal is to go five times a week to the gym from the start in January,

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it will be not sustainable for you

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because you didn't build enough proof in the past to

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make it sustainable.

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Maybe start by just going for half an hour the first two weeks, then maybe you can

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go two times a week by February, and maybe then you can increase as you

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make the habits stick and

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make it easier for you.

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And I see and I've done the mistakes so many times. So I'm really guilty of that.

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To think that I can go from nothing to everything in an instance and then I would burn myself out. It happened for me exactly. For the podcast, actually, I was when I started the podcast, I was on the journey to, to to create content once a week, having interviews once a week.

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And after a year and a half of podcasting, I.

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I kind of burned out from that podcast because it was so much work that I didn't see behind the scene, and I tried to keep it up for so long, and unfortunately, I didn't have the same amount of time that I wish I had to really work on that.

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So it made my.

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Podcast journey really difficult. And yes, there are a ton of people that are really

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consistent with podcasts once a week. Some of them have teams, some of them are alone. I know some of them are, really consistent. Early in head. And to be so consistent on podcast over the last three years. But for me it was difficult and I kind of like said, I would if I would do it again, I would probably try to make it once a month to get started.

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And if I think it's too easy maybe to, because it will help me get

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a better understanding of the whole process, and especially in 2021 and 2022, it was even harder because.

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There was no ChatGPT and now it helps a lot with a whole new content creation process that wasn't available three years ago.

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And basically, that's an example to say and to show you that I overestimated my abilities.

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I do that all the time, to be honest.

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And if I would have maybe

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downgraded a little bit more and then improve over time, it would be way more sustainable. And I'm still learning process. But that's the that's the same idea with

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your goals or your resolutions for this year. Try to make it sustainable.

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So yeah, that was basically my examples of

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giving.

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Yeah. Years to my name, to my years. And,

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and I think that's the first step to really

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make your years.

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Adventurous in alignment with who you are

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and be in movements. And even if you don't reach the goal, at least you you started to chase the right mountain. Sometimes I like to call this, like, following your purpose or something that's really close to you a dream or something like setting your own Everest.

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And by doing this little really introspective journey, even if it's not the full picture. I teach in my program.

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It really helps you starts to be.

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A bit more clear of who you are and where you want to go, and then chase the right Everest instead of chasing the goal of the neighbor that wants to run a marathon, or the other one who wants to lose 20 kilos in and because she's doing it, you feel that call to do it as well, but you're not really sure why.

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So getting movement

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and if you're ready to kind of like give up on those really resolution behind, feel free to to DM me name on Instagram or LinkedIn and I'll send you the one pager document I created for myself

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that go through the five steps I told you before in this podcast episode. And then you can, like, print it

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and write the answer down and put it somewhere in in your apartment or in your house where you can see it.

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A lot of the time. I usually put it right there on my door so that I see it almost every day. I don't pay attention every time, but I like to review it here and then sometimes. And, that's the way to go. So I think the best time to really

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align who you are to who you are and really

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make it

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2025, a year of adventure, whatever it means to you.

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It starts today with doing this exercise. And don't worry about being in mid-February or falling behind.

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We are all on our own personal journey, so don't compare to others.

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Really start to put yourself into movements on a sustainable way that you can really keep over the long run and start moving today.

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Thank you for being here until the end of this episode.

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That's it for, this solo episode on resolutions and my different approach on how to embrace journeys of intention instead of, rigid goals. And I really hope it was useful for you. Don't forget to, give a review, because it really helps a lot. And if you have any questions, just like go to, Instagram and I will be really happy to answer any questions you have.

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That's it for today's end. Thank you. So much. Bye.

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That's it for today's episode. I really hope you had a great time on the show today. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe to the Adventure Ignition Podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify because it helps a lot.

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Get this message of Adventure out. If you have any question, any suggestions, or you just want to contact me, please do it on social media. I blaze the stones over LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook. I would be pleased to start a conversation with you and answer your questions before to leave you. I really want to take a moment to acknowledge you for still being here on this episode.

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And thank you so much for your support and being part of my journey on the Adventure Recognition Podcast. And as usual, I'm going to end this episode with a famous quote from Allen Keller that I love so much. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Thank you so much for your support. Don't forget to say yes to adventure, surf the vibe and spread the love.

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Peace out.