As the festive season is now upon us with the sun soon to be setting on 2024, as we head towards 2025, do you give yourself quality time to contemplate and set your goals and dreams for the incoming year?
Someone recently asked me what my biggest dream/goal was for 2025 and without missing a beat or with a conscious thought, I replied, World Peace. Aspirational indeed, sadly unlikely in 2025.
2024 has been somewhat of a roller-coaster ride whilst still creating some wonderful memories. It has also been a year that has brought significant challenges for so much of our shared humanity – there have been times that I have found myself feeling hopeless and helpless, yet I would never give up on my faith for a better future for our world.
During 2024, I witnessed some exceptional, inspiring and uplifting acts of kindness, generosity and love from our shared humanity around the world, restoring my faith in our shared humanity.
So, how can we all do our bit to bring more love and kindness into our world? Firstly, let’s speak to the need for our fulfillment of quantifiable goals.
Our survival depends on the fulfilment of quantifiable goals as per Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs – I certainly support the achievement of quantifiable goals. We need the lower-level physiological needs such as home/ shelter, breathing, clothing, sleep, water and food. These needs must be met before we can move up the hierarchy of needs and fulfil the higher-level needs/goals of love and belonging, intimacy and a sense of connection, friendship and family. At the higher levels comes confidence, self-esteem and a sense of achievement – quantifiable outcomes and ultimately self-actualization – acceptance, meaning and inner potential all of which I would refer to as qualifying goals or outcomes.
When setting goals, for a vast majority of people, it is about setting quantifying goals- the how much and how many goals: financial goals for ourselves or our business, how many more clients we want to attract, how much money do we want/need to save, the house we want to buy, new car and so it goes on.
If you want to move up the hierarchy and bring more love, kindness and peace into your own life your business, yes business and for our shared humanity, here’s something to think about when you start to contemplate and set your goals and dreams for 2025 and beyond…
Think about qualifying goals, goals that relate to qualities, to a specific set of values. Values like kindness, compassion, patience, wisdom, acceptance, tolerance and love. These values I hold close to my heart and always include in my goal achieving exercises.
Here is five qualifying goals that might give you inspiration – you can adapt to match your own values and language.
🎁I will practice more frequent random acts of kindness
🧘♀️I will meditate on compassion at the end of every meditation practise
🤗I will be more patient with those who hold opposing views/beliefs to me
💝I will be more loving towards myself and others
🌏I will be in the world with an open mind and heart
For the remainder of 2024 and moving forward into 2025, I wish you the fulfillment of all your dreams and goals.
May you continue to shine your light on our world and enjoy a wondrous and positively memorable 2025.
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