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How to Prepare for the Best Year of Your Life

How to Prepare for the Best Year of Your Life

Soul Gum vor 1 Woche

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The best year of your life doesn't start on January 1. It starts
with what you do before the year begins. Today, I come to you
with three things you can do right now to prepare for 2027 to be
the best year of your life.

I know it’s still October, but every year we lose our collective
minds from November until January. And soon it will be New Year’s
Eve and we’ll be trying to make our vision boards without having
given any thought to the actual vision. SO: we’re getting a head
start on preparing for 2027 before the holiday chaos hits with 3
audits that will help you get clear on what you want, what's
holding you back, and how you actually want to live.

Along the way, we're talking about why we're so bad at estimating
how much we can get done in a day, why being harder on yourself
might actually be holding you back, what the Stoics (the original
chads) can teach us about new year’s resolutions, and how to
chase your biggest dreams without wishing away the life you're
living.

PS: I made you a free worksheet to walk you through all three
audits! It's got all the questions we talk about in this episode
and space to work through them yourself. Find it here!!

EPISODE OUTLINE

00:00 Intro + why we’re starting before January 1

06:40 Audit #1: the levels of energy audit

07:36 How to make an energy ledger

10:02 The energetic evolution of choices

12:32 Epictetus on how to handle temptation

14:02 Reflection questions to audit your energy

14:44 Audit #2: the promise audit

16:26 Why shaming yourself doesn’t work

18:01 The planning fallacy

20:25 How to actually plan your day accurately

21:57 Intentions are not plans

23:08 Procrastination as a coping method

24:54 Audit #3: the perfect day audit

26:17 How to design your perfect mundane day

27:08 My perfect day

29:12 Comparing your ideal day to reality

29:57 Loving your current self while working to meet your next
self

30:46 lightning round recap + worksheet!

33:48 The Orange by Wendy Cope

EPISODE LINKS

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