So you start out with that simple sentence. What is my single intention for the year to come for this bucket. Then we're gonna move into, for each one of your three buckets, vitality, connection, contribution, what is your Q1 or first quarter focus, right? And we just walked through how to think about the focus on a sort of a quarterly basis for each one of these. Again, it's a small enough chunk of time so that it feels doable, but it's big enough so that you can experience real change. You can really, you can move the needle in each one of these buckets. You can meaningfully fill each one of them by committing to doing something, to taking action. Now, here's what I want you to add to this when we're doing this writing exercise, right? I want you to then think about quarters two to four, right? So we kind of started out with the, you know, January to March, now go March to June and then go through the third quarter and then go through the fourth quarter, all four seasons if that's easier for you, more poetic, right? Less business eight, less Q1 to Q4 and more poetic. Think about the seasons of the year, right? So for each season, think about, okay, so what is my simple intention? What is my first season or Q1 focus? I think we're just for the next three months. And now, if I can imagine out even farther, I'm going out through the next three seasons or Q2 to four, what would be the focuses of those when I think about each one of the three buckets? If I think about the context of a whole year. Still, I want you to keep it simple and actionable because if you start to make it really complex, it's just not going to happen. This we know from tons of research. So now we're going to take this, this writing, and we're going to turn it into some guided visioning for 2025. So here's what I want you to do. Once you've done this exercise, and again, you can circle back to this and then you can replay this part of this episode if you want. Now, take a nice big breath in and exhale. Settle into your seat again. Take a few breaths and just let your body settle. Let your mind settle. Close your eyes. And now I want you to imagine it's December 31st, 2025. Your vitality bucket is just brimming over. It is fuller than full. Your connection bucket is overflowing. It is just completely rich with abundance. Your contribution bucket is absolutely topped off right you feel alive you feel centered you feel at peace you feel strong you feel resilient you feel flexible and fluid you feel deeply connected to people to cultures to environments to beings that genuinely matter to you. You feel like you're investing your energy yourself in a way that truly brings you to life. You feel alive and connected and aligned. Picture now the details, not just the buckets, but the details in each context. Who's with you? What are you doing? How do you feel? Where are you? The more detail, the better. Bring movement to it. Bring emotion to it. Bring senses to it. What does it smell like? What does it sound like? What does it look like? What does it taste like? What does it feel like? December 31st, every bucket is just exploding with abundance. Detail it as much as you can. And then just take a moment to savor that vision. Now open your eyes and write down as much of that as you can remember. If it's easier for you to just take a voice memo and just speak it all, that's fine too. Whatever mode is accessible to you, access that and record as much of this vision as you can. Now, we're going to get a little bit more granular here. For each bucket, write a short paragraph or speak a short paragraph, again, whatever is accessible to you, describing what full looks like in 2025. For example, it could be really simple here. In my vitality bucket, I wake up each day feeling strong and calm, at peace, centered, focused, hopeful, filled with possibility, fueled by daily movement, immersion in nature, and good food and good sleep. In my connection bucket, I'm picturing myself with just deep, rich, strong relationships, deep and joyful relationships with my wife, with my daughter, with my family, with my chosen family, with my friends, with my environment around me. Build on time, rich time, deeply present, exquisitely attentive time together. Same thing for my connection bucket. I can envision myself just pouring myself into work each day. For me, I happen to know that writing is something that I want to take an even bigger place in my life in the year to come and moving into a different type of writing. So I see myself doing that a couple of hours every day and then making some of those shifts, moving through my two by 20, starting some new things, which are starting to bubble up now. And I'm getting so excited about actually breathing life into them in the year to come. And I'm picturing myself, you know, December 31st, 2025, and the state of those things in the context of my contribution bucket and how amazing and gorgeous and rich and full and abundant they feel to me. And it feels good. It feels good. we want to have this. Now, final word as you're thinking about this here, you may not have absolute clarity on the details of these visions now. In fact, you almost definitely won't, and that is 100% okay. If you don't know exactly what you're going to be working on, who you're going to be deepening into, or exactly what parts of your vitality you want to feel differently on, simply get a vision around the qualities of those things. I want to feel loved and deeply connected. And like, there are people where if I'm struggling or if I'm celebrating, I have people that I can pick up the phone, that I can hug, that I can reach out to. Just know the general qualities of what that feels like when that bucket is full. We don't have to have all the details now. That's okay, right? But create a vision. Make it as visceral, as sensory as you can, both generally and then for each individual bucket. And again, we'll have these instructions in a cheat sheet for you so you can go back to it after this particular episode. So as we wrap up this first episode, remember that your roadmap, this new beginnings roadmap centered around the good life buckets is not about perfection. It's about direction. It's about creating a life where your buckets are fuller, your days are more joyful, and your actions align with what matters most to you. So take maybe 30 minutes this week. If you want to go longer, that's totally fine. But set aside just a half hour out of your entire week to complete the ideas, the invitations that we've shared today. And then if you're inclined, if you feel good about it, share it with someone you trust and revisit it regularly to stay aligned and inspired. Now in the next four parts of this five-part new beginning series, we're going to dive into a lot more detail on how to actually make these things happen. Big picture, big brand things, and a little picture, tiny day-to habit things. We'll explore a game-changing approach to choosing and achieving big, meaningful goals and visions. We'll talk about building the confidence to take action and make them happen. We'll talk about how to identify those habits that'll actually help you fill each bucket and make both every day feel better and the bigger vision happen and actually make those habits a regular part of your life. And then we'll wrap this five-part New Beginning series with a deep dive on how to be present and intentional in all the tiny moments and the hours and the days, and how to savor them along the way, rather than sacrificing them in the name of something bigger and forgetting that all the touch points along the way are equally, if not more important. So if you haven't already followed Good Life Project in your preferred place to listen or watch, go ahead and do that now, so you don't miss any one of these critical episodes in the five-part New Beginnings series. The best version of 2025 is waiting for you. Together, we're going to craft it so that it becomes your reality. Let's make it extraordinary. One step, one choice one day at a time. Thanks. This episode of Good Life Project was produced by executive producers, Lindsay Fox and me, Jonathan Fields, editing help by Alejandro Ramirez, Christopher Carter crafted our theme music and special thanks to Shelley Adele for her research on this episode. And of course, if you haven't already done so, please go ahead and follow Good Life Project in your favorite list. choice, one day at a time. 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