Goal Setting: How do you want your holidays 5 yrs from now to look?

The holidays are hard.

Sometimes we get swept up fully into the holiday season and it becomes our normal routines undoing.

It also becomes a time where we are practicing things like gratitude, but we are completely falling out of our intentions. We are thankful for what we have, but we are also not living into the life we want to live. It’s kind of a strange place to be. Contentment without contentment.

How could we make this holiday season different?

Work to picture… Five years from now. But also, review last year. Where is the discrepancy? Where can you make change? Where can you live better aligned and more in a true contentment?

The Holidays in 2029

Imagining the holidays 5 years from now you and all that you do. Sometimes, envisioning helps a lot with trying to figure out exactly what we want to do and what we don’t want to do and everything there…

During the holiday season 5 years from now…

• How do you look? What do you wear?
• How does your normal day look? What does your schedule look like for the week?
• What do you eat or drink daily? What do you indulge on? What do you make sure that you have?
• What do you do with your family? Are there extracurricular things?
• What events are a must to attend or host? Are there any traditions you have?

Try to think about all of these different things that your life is going to hold.

The Holidays over 2023

Take a moment to think about the holidays last year.

• How did you look? What did you wear?
• How did your normal day look? What was your schedule for the week?
• What did you eat or drink daily? What did you indulge on? What did you make sure that you have?
• What did you do with your family? Were there extracurricular things?
• What events were a must to attend or host? Were there any traditions you kept going?

Now, the most important of all of the questions regarding this one… how did you feel at the end of the season?

The Holidays for 2024

Now as you plan for this holiday season ahead with the information of what last year looks like and what you want five years from now to look like…

How did the two lists of responses look?

Are there any things that drastically contradict?

What can you do this holiday season that will bring you closer to the imagined holiday season for 2029?

Takeaway

We don’t need to change everything. But even if we can change a little bit that has left us in that weird contentment, but not contentment… we will leave this holiday season a little bit better than how we left last one.

Every moment matters.

The moments are never promised.

Make the most of them that you can by living more in alignment.

I hope this helps

With love,

Coach Nik