The first step to making 2025 your best year is creating goals and breaking your ideal future down into small achievable steps.

To start, I have a little exercise for you to do. This can be done sitting or standing.

Close your eyes and drift into your ideal future. Real feel it, everything as you want it to be. Imagine you have no restrictions, no barriers, no commitments.. Your ideal future.

Really feel this and then imagine looking back to now.

Ask yourself, what is the first step I took to get here? Trust your mind and see what comes up.

Write it down.

This is an exercise you can do daily or ever weekly to keep you on track and allow your powerful subconscious mind to guide you on your journey.

Goals

Goal setting involves more than just being aware of what you want to achieve. It requires planning, as well as tru readiness for action. They bring the vision and motivation together.

Goals are the true stepping stone to success.

Effective goal setting requires you to create a plan of action. They will provide you the motivation and guidance to bring your idea life closer to you.

When creating your goals there are some rules that can be used to ensure success.

These are called S.M.A.R.T goals.

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.

Specific: Goals need to be specific so you know when they have been achieved.

• What is it that I want to achieve?
• Why do I want to accomplish it?
• Who is involved(if any) in achieving my goal?
• Where is this goal taking place?
• What requirements are involved in achieving this goal?

Measurable: For a goal to be measurable there must be a clear criteria for reaching the goal.

Ensuring the goal is measurable will allow you to keep track of your progress.

• How will I know when I have reached my goal?
• Words like, How many or How much..

Achievable: Making sure your goal is possible to achieve but also not too easy can be tricky.

• The goal must be realistic
• You must be able to set a clear road map to reach it.

Relevant: The goal must be significant and really matter to you.

• Does this goal moving you towards happiness and fulfilment
• Is this goal moving you towards happiness and fulfilment
• Can you realistically fit this goal into your life
• Do you have to sacrifice anything to reach this goal

Time-bound: Goals need to fit into a time frame to add to motivation and desire to achieve them.

• When
• What can be done today
• What can be done *...* weeks from now.

Just for fun, I would like you to pick one area in your life you would like to change.

With this area, close your eyes and picture how you would like it to be 5 years from now. Really go for it, dream big.

Once you have your steps written down, turn each step into a S.M.A.R.T goal. Go through the list of question above and get very clear around what it is you want and what you need to have happen to know you have to achieve it.

Remember STEPPING STONES.

When you have a wide river to cross if you leap, there is a chance of getting very wet. If there where stepping stones from one side to the other, solid, within reach stepping stones you will get there.

In reaching our goals there can be barriers and hurdles that need to be crossed. This is where I can help.

Hypnotherapy is an amazing tool that helps with mindset, can clear blocks and move you towards your goal easily. Sometimes we need a clear leader, an accountability partner, a person that can guide you and pick you up when you fall.

If this sounds just what you need, reach out.