Hello and welcome to the Mindfulkind podcast.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at

Rachelcable.com.

Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress

and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 201 of the Mindful Kind podcast. This episode was inspired by an

article I wrote a few weeks ago about journaling to create your dream life, which received

such a lovely response from my readers

and has helped them explore and define the things they really want in their lives. Just so you know,

I also created a beautiful free PDF workbook containing all the journaling prompts so you can download

and save it straight to your computer, open it up and type your answers,

or you can print it out and write your answers by hand. You can grab your own copy of this free

journaling workbook at rachelcable.com forward slash podcast forward slash 201. In this episode, I want to

dive a little deeper into why it's important to actually write about

your dream life so you can set meaningful, positive and energizing goals. I think it can be so easy to get

caught up in goals that aren't actually important to us, or goals that we feel pressured to set that aren't

really aligned with who we are, or even goals that are influenced by other people, like

friends and family, colleagues, or even people we follow on social media. I think more than ever

we're being exposed to different ways of life and different values and

different opportunities and it's easy to forget the importance of knowing who we are and what we

really want. And that really is the reason why I wrote the article about journaling for your dream

life and created this episode about it. I know how easy it is to get swept up

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