Setting goals for 2023 can be a daunting task. Acknowledge that setting goals for the upcoming year and striving to meet them is an important part of personal growth and success. Understand that goals not only help you aspire to new heights, but also add a sense of purpose and excitement to day-to-day life. Before setting goals for 2023, reflect on the year so far and your objectives from prior years -- have you met them? Knowing where you are starting from will help inform what goals are achievable for the upcoming year. Set goals that challenge you without setting yourself up for failure. Make sure your goals motivate and excite you rather than create discouragement. Write down your goals clearly and establish standards to measure your progress against. Reassess, refocus, recalculate as needed along the way to guide yourself toward achieving your goals in 2023.

Culture has a tremendous impact on our lives, setting standards of behavior and often providing us with the vision of our idealized future self. Within an individual culture, there is always a version of us that we wish to be and standards which we strive to meet. These standards may vary from person to person, as well as from one cultural to the next, but overall they provide a structure for behavior and a roadmap for developing our sense of self. Our current culture then becomes the platform for imagining, and ultimately achieving, the version of ourselves that we wish to become.

Whenever we choose not to take part in something, it is an opportunity for us to display strength of character. Resilience, self-esteem and self-confidence are all built up with every letter of refusal or delay of action. Failing is as big a lesson as succeeding and by shrinking back, we miss out on the real reward that problem solving and accountability can bring. Refusing to act is not merely avoiding a task - but rather taking a step back to assess the difficulty level and make a conscious decision that pushes us further along our journey towards success.

This week we are discussing outsourcing when it comes to our lives, as well as when it comes to raising children. Being a parent is the biggest responsibilities we will face in this life. It is important that we give the resourses to make their own way in their life, but when we outsource those resources to other individuals that pose an influence we rob them of developing their own processes and ability to over come problems that will build self-esteem.

Sometimes it's what our parents didn't do for us that build the most value in our life. It gives us the ability to figure things out on our own and to align ourselves with our priorities.  

So many times in life you'll find yourself pulling your hair and not knowing what your partner wants from you. In this episode we will take a deeper look at why there is this disconnect between significant other's from time to time. You must know how each of you in the relationship recieves love.  

In relationships, their happiness is just as important (if not more important ) than your own, but it is also important that your partner reciprocates that effort. You'll have to acknowledge that you are willing to make exchanges for your partner, and that as long as they reflect your effort that those exchanges don't go down as tally marks of who has done what for you, but rather deepens that commitment you hold for each other. 

Your life is full of relationships. That's truly where your happiness will be derived from. 

Now, if you don't watch closely; these relationships can take a turn over night, or at least it might seem like that. In reality though, it was a series of compounding decisions over time that developed this distance within your relationships. 

If you don't constantly make sure the ones you care the most for are getting their needs met and you are being the person they need you to be at that moment in their life. Then you'll look up from the pursuit of your own goals and find yourself all alone with no one to enjoy your success with. 

First ever guest on the pod cast, Caleb Bergimini, dives into the what it means to have a strategy and to grow it with your allocation of resoures. When you have that strategy what's next? and how do you know that you are contuiously moving in the right direction when it comes to achieving those goals you set out for yourself. It's easy to be distracted with the chaos life plants in your life. Being intentional and focused on long term goals while aligning short term goals to make sure you stay on track.  

When do you know when is the time for you to make the change? and how do you know it's worth pursuing? These are the question we shed some light on during this episode. I hope it inspires some insight that you all may apply in your careers and maybe you will take the chance at an emergent opportunity, and who knows, maybe the path that emerges for you allows you to find some thing that truly moves you and provides a great sense of purpose. 

What makes us tick? Why are you doing what your doing? Is it just for the money to pay the bills or is it because you find deep meaning and fulfilment in what you're doing?

This is important to think about. If you've given up on your dreams isn't important to know what the price was that you put on them?

This episode dives into the difference between an incentive and motivation.