Hey there, have you ever set a New Year's resolution, felt super pumped, only to abandon it by mid-January? Like, you start with this blazing fire of motivation, but somewhere along the line, it fizzles out, and you’re left wondering what went wrong?
This week on Nourished to Bloom, we're tackling this head-on with Ep. 45: The Five Qualities of Effective, God-Centered Goal Setting. Right in line with National Quitters Day—which tragically marks when many people abandon their resolutions—we’ll discuss how we can craft goals that we actually stick to, using a Christ-centered approach.
In this episode, we’ll challenge the well-known SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-based) concept. While these elements are all about self-reliance, we’re flipping the script by introducing five Christ-centered goal qualities. These five elements encourage us to invite God into our goal-setting journey.
Think about it – when was the last time you set a goal with a strong desire, understood a clear why behind it, embraced uncertainties with open arms, and truly surrendered the outcome to God’s will?
✨ Key Takeaways:
- 🙏 Present your desires to God and trust His plan.
- 🌟 Grow in virtue and deepen your relationship with Him.
- 💡 Discover your “why” to stay anchored and motivated.
- 🌈 Embrace discomfort as a path to growth.
- 🕊️ Surrender your goals to God’s timing and success.
🎯 Ready to take your goal-setting to the next level? Join us for the Goal Setting with God Workshop on February 5! Let’s align your goals with God’s purpose and set you on a path of growth and transformation. 💕✨ Click here to register or visit www.karatrochta.com/goals
This workshop kicks off our brand new membership—Bloom in Middle Motherhood Membership. It’s a membership for all moms who find them selves in transition, asking the hard questions about who they are and what’s their purpose. This membership features monthly workshops coupled with weekly coaching sessions to help you gain clarity and confidence on what’s next for you, while also helping you focus on your health and wellness so you can bloom in this next chapter! Click here to learn more
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So last Friday marked National Quitters
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Day. It is when the majority of people end
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up giving up on their New Year's resolutions and any goals or
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habit changes that they are trying to implement. So
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we are going to continue our conversation on goals because
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a lot of times I think the way that goals are presented to
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us from a societal perspective
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really sets us up to fail. It sets up that National
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Quitters Day actually being a real thing. So today we're
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going to dive into what I believe are really five key
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qualities that helps us achieve our goals
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from a Christ centered perspective. So I hope you'll join
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me. Let's go get started. Welcome to
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the Nourish to Bloom podcast, where your faith meets your health.
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I'm your host, Kara Trachta, a registered dietitian and certified
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Catholic coach, and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection with your
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body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them
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both. In a world filled with noise and
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confusion about food, health and body image, this podcast
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offers truth and healing from a Christ centered perspective.
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Together, we'll untangle the deep roots of diet culture and discover
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what it means to truly care for ourselves through joyful
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nourishment of mind, body and soul. We're here to dive into
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the transformative power of intuitive eating coupled with the rich teachings of our
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Christian faith. With every episode, I'll be cheering you on,
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offering insights, inspiration and practical tools to help you
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heal your relationship with food and embrace the beauty of your
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body as a temple of the Holy Spirit with confidence
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and courage that can only only be found in Christ.
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Join me as we journey together towards a more holistic approach to wellness,
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one that honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation,
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the teachings of our faith, and the unique purpose you're called to
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fulfill. You were made to bloom,
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to come into full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit
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for the Lord with your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body,
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feed your soul, and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're
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in the right place. And I'm so happy you're here. Welcome
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to Nourish to Bloom, where every day is a sacred
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invitation to thrive. Hey there. Welcome back
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to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. So thankful to have you
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joining me today. I hope that your week is off to a good
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start and maybe I'm really hoping that you haven't
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been a part of National Quitters Day, but if you have, that is
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okay. Today we're really going to Take some time to look
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at goals from a different perspective. I think you
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know, most of us know the acronym for goals
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Smart goals specific, measurable,
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attainable,
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reasonable. I think that's what the R is and then you know, time
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bound. And that is the way that I learned how to set
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goals for most of my life. And maybe that's the way that you have learned
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how to set goals as well. But I want to share a little bit about
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why I don't think that those work like
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that. That approach really works to set us up for success
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when it comes to our goals and why it can really be
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counterintuitive to a Christ centered perspective when it comes
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to goal setting. So let's look at the specific.
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So I can see kind of both
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sides of this. It being specific just means that you kind of have a
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very clear vision of what the goal is and that is important.
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And when we look at it from a Christ centered perspective, it
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is important to kind of, to have a vision of what it
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is that you're working towards. Achieve achieving.
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But where it can be counterintuitive is when we look at that
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specific part of it, that specific
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part of it, it can really lead
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us down this path of I want
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and or I need. It really
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fuels that kind of selfishness and
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self centered perspective of, of why we're setting this goal.
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It's really putting
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ourselves in the shoes of trying to control the situation versus
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that surrender posture or letting God have a, have
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a major role in, in our goals. So specific
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it is important that when we are setting goals and they are aligned with God,
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that we do have a clear vision that we, we do kind of know what
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we're, what it is that working towards. But we need to make sure that we're
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not falling into that kind of
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self reliant type of attitude when it comes
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to setting goals. Now M is
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measurable. So this is interesting, right, Because a lot of times
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when we're looking at measurable goals, we think that it needs to
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be very concrete type of, of
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numbers. Whether it's dollars earned or, or
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pounds lost or minutes moved or
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like that. We need to start really thinking
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about measuring goals on a broader perspective. What
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are some of the other ways that we can measure
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success? Society likes to
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put success in this little box and say this is what it looks like.
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But when we're really working from this Christ centered perspective
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and we're looking at how we measure success from a Christ centered
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perspective, it's about way more than concrete numbers. And I'll just use
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Myself, for an example, in starting the podcast and
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in starting a coaching business, I find that
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I measure success not necessarily by the
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number of clients I have, the number of listeners I have, or the, the amount
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of dollars that are coming in. For me, it's really about that
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impact and that is really what fuels me to
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move forward in continuing this, this journey and continuing
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to work on this goal. So I had to start thinking outside the box when
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it came to that measurable kind of
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criteria for goals now achievable.
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Now I think this is really interesting when we think about
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setting goals and that it needs to be achievable one,
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because if we know it's achievable, it doesn't actually
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maybe require any growth from us. It's
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maybe something we already know how to do. And so it's not really a goal
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that's pushing us forward or, or causing us to grow and
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stretch the way the Lord calls us to. And then also
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it's a little bit of promoting that self reliance, right? If
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we know that it's achievable, if we know that it's something within our control,
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it's eliminating God from the equation. It's
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eliminating co working and collaborating with him
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to achieve this bigger goal, achieve
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this bigger dream. So that's kind of where I have maybe a problem with the
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idea of, of. Of. Of go achievable
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is that it can really promote some of that self reliance and self
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control. Now I had the R wrong. It's not, I don't
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even remember what I said, but it's relevant that the goal is relevant.
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And this is also interesting because if we're really goal
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setting with God and we're discerning with God, he may be
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putting desires on our heart that we just really don't
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understand where this is coming from. But
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he also provides that relevance for us.
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He's going to show us that way of, of if we follow him
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and if we are goal setting with him in mind that whatever it
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is he's leading to us will be relevant. We just might
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not know it yet. So if we're kind of
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pigeonholing ourselves into making sure that whatever the goal we're
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setting is relevant from our perspective, we may be missing this
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bigger opportunity, this, this greater good
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that God has set out for us. And then lastly, time
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based. So time based means that you're going to achieve
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it within a certain amount of time. And again, I think that
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promotes an attitude of self reliance and attitude of self
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control that if we are,
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you know, depending on our own efforts and our
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own, you know,
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time that, that we're spending on this. Then when we don't, when
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that goal is unachieved within that time frame that we set, we tend to get
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discouraged or we give up. And
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part of this, of the surrender and really goal setting with
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God is knowing that some, that God's time does not
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work like our time, that he
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has a time in mind for when all of this is going to play
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out. And so it, it's a very different
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perspective when we look at these, these smart goals and maybe the way that we
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have been conditioned to believe this
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is the right way to go set. And so I just want to offer a
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little bit of, you know, perspective
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shift as to why this may not really be working in
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your life. And I really want to offer up some just different
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qualities that I think can help
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if we implement them into our goal setting.
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A way for us to really make sure that we're
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aligning the goals and the desires and the dreams that we
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are working on, the habits that we, we are building with God's
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plan for our lives. And so these are kind of five key qualities
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that I think are important and can offer just a different perspective
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when it comes to goal setting. The first one being it needs
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to have a strong desire. You have to
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kind of really want this
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now. Goals start with a spark. It starts with the strong desire.
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But it's not just any desire. We're talking
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about a desire that comes with a mix
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of hope, but also with a little bit of
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impossibility, a little bit of, yeah, I really hope
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this happens, or I wish that this would happen, but I have really no idea
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how it will would happen and maybe even a touch of
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doubt. And I think that this is important because
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this, this really plays into kind of the law of receptivity,
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where it's recognizing that achieving this goal
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will take more than just our own efforts. It's
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a key and crucial part of being able to invite God into
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the process. Because when we have this desire that
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is full of hope, that is full of longing, and it's,
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it's, you know, burning deep in, in our, in our souls,
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we can rest in the comfort that God likely put
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that desire there, but also rest in the comfort that
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the impossibility, the doubt that comes with it is
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that invitation for the Lord to come in. It's asking him to
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come in and to perfect this desire and
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orient it towards the good it will bring. It's
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asking him to come in and play a part of, of
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Transforming this goal and this desire
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into it being a part of his bigger mission. And
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so it's important to reflect on these desires because I think a lot of
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times desire can have a negative connotation that,
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that our desires may be self centered or are
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selfish. But when we can take the time to reflect on the
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desires, we can start to see, you know, is this a
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reoccurring desire or, or you know, a reoccurring goal
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that keeps coming up that's really God nudging us into taking
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action in this particular area. So I think some helpful questions
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to ask are how does pursuing this desire
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allow you to serve God and others?
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And also asking what is your intention behind that
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goal? Look at kind of like the tone of, of that goal or that
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desire is about
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you and you achieving this and kind of this maybe self
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centered perspective of like I want, I want, I
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want or is there an intention behind it that you know that
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if you pursued this that it would lead to
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a better quality of life for you and your family or
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the impact that you would make and, and how this would allow you to, to
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serve others or make others lives better or are
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point them towards the Lord. You can also look at it
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as what fruit will this desire produce?
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And if, if you look at the fruit that will
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produce and you know that it's good, you know that it will help move the
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kingdom of God forward, then you can rest in knowing that that desire is
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one from God. And then I think this is really important
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because I think this comes up for a lot of women is that we have
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these dreams or we have these goals, I like to call them
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someday goals. Things that, well, someday I will do this, or
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when the kids get older I will do this, right? We keep having these
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desires that keep returning over and over and over
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again even when we try to ignore it. And I think that
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that's really important because I think it's the Lord coming back and maybe knocking on
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our hearts and saying, hey, can you open the door to this? Can you, can
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you consider this? I was definitely there,
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you know, this time last year with the whole podcast thing and him
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saying, you know, I really want you to do a podcast and me saying nop,
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right? But he's going to provide exactly what it is that, that we
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need. And so he opened up this, this opportunity to
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fulfill the desire that I had to share
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the knowledge that I had gained to share the perspectives about
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faith led wellness and Christ centered intuitive eating and,
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and a Christ centered mindset to share with other women.
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He provided the means for that to happen. And
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God places these desires in our hearts as part of his mission for
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us. If we just trust him to guide us, that
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he's going to reveal and provide every next step that we
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need. Okay? Quality number two is that
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your goals provide an opportunity to
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grow in virtue. Good goals aren't just
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about achieving something and definitely not about
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receiving something entirely tangible, but they're really
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about who we become in the process, the type of
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character, the type of habits that we are building, that the
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pursuit of our goals should draw us closer to God and help us to
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grow in virtue and holiness and faith.
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It's all about learning to have trust, to have faith
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and to surrender and being able to recognize
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that our goals are an opportunity to co work
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with God, that we're providing the raw
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materials, that we're providing the desires and the
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actions that we're taking as the raw materials. And he's going to transform
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them into something good. Just like when we bring
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the bread and the wine to the altar at Mass
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and we're saying, here, Lord, here's the raw material. You're going to
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transform that into the body and blood of Christ, where it's
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the same thing. We're taking our desires and our actions and this
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raw material and placing it on the altar and asking him and inviting
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him to come and transform those into something good.
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And this allows us to collaborate with God. I mean,
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talk about the ultimate team player, right?
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This journey to achieving any of your goals can really
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help you deepen your relationship with him as you lean on his
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guidance, that he is going to be the most
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amazing mentor in helping you achieve whatever it is that this
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desire is that you have. And so every step
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forward that you take is a chance to grow in patience and
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perseverance and trust. Okay? Quality number
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three is needing to have a very clear why.
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Without a clear purpose, goals can often feel
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hollow. We maybe fall into this
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idea that we're pursuing this goal because it, we feel it's
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what we should be pursuing because that's what our neighbor is doing or that's
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what our best friend is doing. And if you don't know your
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why, your goal is going to lack
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depth and meaning. So you have to identify
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why are you really pursuing this goal? Asking yourself,
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why do you want to achieve this goal? How will it change
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your life or the lives of others? Does
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this goal seem to align with what God is calling you to? Or is
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it something that you think you quote unquote, should pursue?
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And ultimately, good goals lead to that deeper growth
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and spiritual transformation. It's not about just
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achieving the surface level or worldly
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achievement. Your why becomes your anchor.
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That anchor that's going to keep you grounded when challenges come up,
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when obstacles come up, and it's going to fuel the action
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that you take in trying to attain and
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meet that goal. Okay. Quality number four
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of a good goal is being comfortable
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with the uncomfortable. Growth,
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which is what goals allow us to achieve requires stepping out of your
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comfort zone. If you have a goal set that
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does not challenge you, it's not a new goal, it's a task you
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already know how to do. So it's important that we
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embrace being uncomfortable, that we embrace growth,
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because good goals are going to stretch us. They're going to help us grow
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in fortitude and courage and resilience.
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And it's really about overcoming fear.
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I was listening the other day to a homily from Father Mike
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Schmidt, and he quoted this quote from Julius
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Caesar, and it was, the coward dies a thousand deaths
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before his actual death, while the valiant only faces
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death once. And it was just. It really hit me, right,
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how many times, especially when it comes to goals, especially when it's trying new
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things, do we just let ourselves die a thousand
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deaths of the fear and the worry and the what ifs and trying to
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control the outcomes? Right? Because that fear and that worry and
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the anxiety that comes with goals often
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paralyzes us. But what it
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really does is keeps us from fulfilling God's mission. It's
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allowing the enemy to win. He brings on that fear. He
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brings on the worry and the anxiety because he knows that it's going to keep
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us stuck and it's going to keep us from doing what God
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needs us to do to further the kingdom.
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And just remember that so often the hardest part is
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just starting, just taking that first step.
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Oftentimes I think we want to know every step that's going to get us
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from point A to point B. But I challenge that if you knew
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every step from point A to point B, would you actually
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continue to take the journey if you knew exactly what it was going to
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require of you? And if we knew
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every step along the way from point A to point B, there would be no
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reason to have God as a part of this. So
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when we take that first step, even if we don't know what the
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next step is, just taking that step, God
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reveals the next step. Remember that
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if we knew every step ahead of time, we wouldn't need to rely on Him.
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I'm going to go back to starting the podcast. One of my biggest reasons for
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not wanting to is I have no idea, you know, how to do
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all the things that are required for a podcast, how to record the
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podcast, edit the podcast, what kind of software do I need? Where am I uploading
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this to? What is an RSS feed? All of the things, right? I was getting
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so caught up in the the to do's instead
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of really focusing on how
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this one thing could allow me to fulfill the
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desire that I had to have a greater impact. But when I just took that
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first step and said, okay, I'm gonna try this,
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and it started with just trying to figure out like what I would even have
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a podcast about, God put a podcast
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course in my path at probably the
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perfect price plant price point for me too, because he knew that piece of it
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too. But I had to just take that first
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step. So trust that God is walking with you even when
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that path feels uncertain. He is that
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lamp for your feet, right? He's going to guide your path.
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And then quality number five for a good goal is
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surrender. Surrender. Surrender. Achieving
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your goals requires complete surrender to God.
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You have to believe that if you placed a desire in your heart
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that it's part of his mission for you, that he is going to
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help you fulfill that and trust that he's going to use it for
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good. So I think it's really important that we take
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Mary's posture of surrender,
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that we let it be done unto us according to God's
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word. Even if the path seems unclear or the goal
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feels impossible, we have to trust in his plan. And we can look at
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Mary's story for that inspiration and
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that confidence that he's going to fulfill the plan.
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She didn't know. She had no idea. This completely came out of
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left field for her. Right? But she did have that
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desire to trust in the Lord, that desire to give
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herself to surrender to Him. And
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he took that and he fulfilled the most amazing thing with
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it. He fulfilled our salvation with it. Just from her being able
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to surrender and be open to what the Lord was calling her
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to. And then part of this surrender
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is really being able to redefine success.
00:22:51
And it's important to know that God's definition of success might look
00:22:55
really different from our definition of success.
00:22:58
Oftentimes our definition of success is really
00:23:01
rooted in how the world defines success.
00:23:06
But when we surrender, it means that we're letting go
00:23:09
of our expectations and trusting God's
00:23:13
timing and his outcomes. And when
00:23:17
we surrender, we allow God to work through us in ways that we could
00:23:21
never ever imagine. And he's going to bring something better than
00:23:24
we could ever imagine to fulfillment with,
00:23:29
with us and through us and through these goals and
00:23:33
desires that he's placed in our hearts and in our minds.
00:23:36
So as you are maybe recommitting to your
00:23:40
goals for this year, just remember these five qualities. A strong
00:23:44
desire, an opportunity to grow in virtue, having a
00:23:48
clear why, being comfortable with the uncomfortable, and
00:23:52
then total surrender. Your goals. Being
00:23:55
aligned with God's will will not only help you achieve great things, but
00:23:59
it's also going to transform you into the person he
00:24:03
created you to be. So take a moment
00:24:06
today and reflect on the desires that God has placed on your heart.
00:24:11
And maybe you are ready to take the next step or the
00:24:15
first step. And so with that, I want to invite you to
00:24:18
the Goal Setting with God workshop that's taking place on February
00:24:22
5th. It's going to be at 1pm Central Time. It's
00:24:25
going to be on Zoom. And the way this is going to work is
00:24:29
we are going to meet for four weeks. So the first
00:24:33
week is really a workshop. We're going to be doing some goal setting
00:24:37
exercise and then the weeks after that are going to include
00:24:40
coaching. They're probably going to have a little bit of teaching. We're going to look
00:24:43
at things like obstacles to our goals. We're going to work on
00:24:47
a customized individualized action plan for you
00:24:51
to achieve these goals. But you're going to have four
00:24:54
weeks of this workshop. And so
00:24:58
with that, this is really kicking off this new and
00:25:02
exciting thing I am launching in 2025 and
00:25:06
it's called the Bloom and Middle Motherhood
00:25:09
membership. And so in the next couple episodes, I'm going
00:25:13
to get deeper into exactly what middle motherhood is. But just know that
00:25:17
if you are in a place in life where you have school age
00:25:21
children and maybe you've stayed at home with them, you know, up until the point
00:25:25
of them going to school and now they're in school all day and you're kind
00:25:28
of wondering like, what am I doing next? What is this
00:25:31
next phase of my life? Hold. This next phase of
00:25:35
my motherhood? Hold. Yes, I'm still very, very much needed as a mother, but
00:25:39
maybe have a little more free time to pursue a
00:25:42
volunteer opportunity or to go back to a
00:25:46
career or really step into something completely brand
00:25:49
new. But you're just in this place where you're
00:25:53
exploring who you are exploring what's coming next for you.
00:25:57
That's really what middle motherhood is all about.
00:26:01
So I really want to take the faith LED
00:26:05
wellness aspect and the mindset
00:26:08
and life coaching tools that I have and I'm bringing them
00:26:12
together to create this middle motherhood
00:26:15
membership. And so what this is going to look like is we are
00:26:19
going to have a different workshop workshop topic
00:26:22
every single month. This month it's all about goal setting with
00:26:26
God. In March we're going to do Christ Centered
00:26:30
self Care. April,
00:26:34
not quite sure. In May we're going to do, we're going to spend the
00:26:37
month talking about creating a,
00:26:41
a, a summer that, a
00:26:45
joy filled summer because you know, May is, is that time where we're,
00:26:48
you know, frantically trying to enroll kids in camps and what does summer look like?
00:26:51
So we're going to talk about how we're going to create a joy filled summer.
00:26:54
And I have some more exciting topics coming in the, in the coming
00:26:58
months. But I just wanted to give you that preview. And so with this membership,
00:27:02
what this is going to entail is every month we're going to have a different
00:27:05
workshop topic and then we're going to spend the remaining weeks with
00:27:09
coaching and you are invited
00:27:13
to join the membership. It is $48 a
00:27:16
month and you can, you know, cancel at any
00:27:20
time. You're going to sign up for the goal setting with
00:27:24
God workshop and, and the, you know, three weeks of coaching that comes
00:27:27
after that, it's going to be $48. And at the end of the month if
00:27:30
you're like, okay, I don't want to do Christ centered self care in
00:27:34
March, you can cancel your membership and then, you know, maybe you
00:27:38
want to join us in April and May, you can renew. It is
00:27:41
completely up to you. You are not locked into this
00:27:45
for any amount of time. I will say if you do choose to commit
00:27:48
for the year, you do end up getting about almost
00:27:52
two months free. There is a reduced price if you decide to pay in
00:27:56
full for the year. But I'm really excited to offer this because I
00:27:59
think a lot of times we, we want and desire
00:28:03
to work on goals, to make changes, to grow different
00:28:07
habits. But some of the courses that are
00:28:10
presented are just really out of, you know, our price point plan,
00:28:14
out of the budget that we have for the month. So I wanted to offer
00:28:17
something that was just as valuable in content but
00:28:21
at a lower price point. So this is the
00:28:25
introduction to the Bloom and middle motherhood membership and it's
00:28:29
going to kick off with a goal setting with God Workshop on February
00:28:32
5th. You can sign up for this at
00:28:35
www.care attracted.com
00:28:38
forward/goals. You can also find the link for that in
00:28:42
the description of the the podcast episode
00:28:45
below, I will say the whole thing will work
00:28:49
better if you open this from your browser, not from your
00:28:53
mobile phone. Just a little bit of a tech issue with the
00:28:56
Mighty Networks app, but nothing we can't overcome. I'm trying to make
00:29:00
this as easy and simple as possible, but I do hope that you
00:29:04
will join us, comment and try
00:29:07
it out for the first month and if it's not what you
00:29:11
want or need then you are not committed to stick with it for any
00:29:15
of the upcoming months. But I just really had this
00:29:19
again desire and and in talking with God, this
00:29:24
kind of opportunity to provide something at a at a
00:29:28
lower price point that I think is more budget friendly for
00:29:32
for moms and women who are
00:29:35
really trying to figure out what's next or want to work on some of their
00:29:39
health and wellness habits but don't want to
00:29:42
commit hundreds and hundreds of dollars to a a
00:29:46
bigger coaching program. So I'm excited to welcome you
00:29:50
into the Bloom and Middle Motherhood membership
00:29:53
and excited to kick it off with the Goal Setting with God
00:29:57
workshop. And I hope that you will
00:30:01
join us on February 5th. If you can't make it live, no
00:30:04
worries, there will be a recording for that.
00:30:07
But excited to to launch this. Feel free to
00:30:11
sign up and spread the word and invite other
00:30:15
women and moms that you know who may be in this season of
00:30:19
life and looking forward to really
00:30:23
offering some high quality
00:30:26
content and materials that are really going to help
00:30:29
kickstart your year and kickstart goal
00:30:33
setting with God and moving in on that path
00:30:37
and having clarity of where he is calling you to live
00:30:40
your your purpose and your mission. So
00:30:45
with that I hope that the rest of your week
00:30:49
is beautiful and blessed. Remember, beauty held is the
00:30:53
seed, beauty shared is the flower. It is your time
00:30:57
to bloom. Thanks so much for joining me and I will see you right
00:31:00
back here next week. Talk soon. Bye.
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