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Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

2024 Goals for My Houseplants and Garden

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Happy New Year, plant friends! And you know what that means—time for some serious reflection about the previous year and thinking about how we want to step into 2024! I'm all about assessing what worked and what didn't across all areas of life. But today, let's talk about plants and how you and I can use them to cultivate as much happiness as possible in the coming year.

When we show up consistently for our plant hobby, I firmly believe it can help us feel better, more peaceful, and more grounded. So I carved out some time to get clear on my goals based on what 2023 taught me. The name of the game is joy, calm, and some nervous system regulation from our plants!


In this episode, we learn:

  • [03:31] Let's talk about what our community aims for in 2024!
  • [05:55] Here’s a framework to help you set your own goals.
  • [06:50] #1 Look back at how 2023 treated you and your plants (what brought you joy and what didn’t?)
  • [07:53] #2 Set goals for 2024 (think about how your plants will fit into that)
  • [10:01] #3 Don't forget to write them down! (as accountability for yourself)
  • [10:59] Exciting news—Billy and I are heading south! <3
  • [13:45] Goal #1: R&D (Research & Development) year
  • [15:05] Try the new Wind River Meditation Chimes for ultimate relaxation!
  • [16:48] Grow your best vegetable garden ever with the all-in-one guidebook
  • [18:00] I want to make new plant friends (and get familiarized with the area)
  • [19:31] Goal #2 figure out sustainable routines
  • [21:08] What is habit stacking?
  • [21:42] Take a quick 3-minute break from work
  • [22:38] Goal #3: Reconnect with the first-year plant parent Maria
  • [25:13] Follow me on my social media!
  • [25:40] Exciting new content coming your way - expect episodes on houseplants, gardening, and finding wellness through nature's lens!


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For a deeper dive into creating sustainable routines,

check out the full show notes and blog here!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

January is a time of reflection and goal setting as we assess how the previous year went and see how we want to approach the year of 2024,

0:08.0

what worked in 2023, what didn't, what do we want more of and what do we want less of and how do we want to step into this new year?

0:15.0

But when we think about New Year, January, we think a lot about New Year's resolutions in addition to goal setting and a lot of those classic resolutions tend to

0:24.3

revolve around life and health stuff all in the interest of feeling better in the

0:28.6

next year whether it's losing weight or maybe traveling, eating healthy,

0:32.2

getting in a relationship, getting out of a relationship, right?

0:35.0

But today's episode is going to focus around goal setting when it comes to our plants,

0:41.0

because if you are in a rhythm with your plants, if you are actively showing

0:44.9

up to your hobby and love of plants, I'm going to bet that it is going to help you feel better.

0:51.2

Caring for plants, as we all know, is an amazing way to grow joy in your life.

0:55.2

So let's carve out 30 minutes in this episode to sit and think about how we want to

1:00.0

show up to this hobby in the best way to create the most joy for ourselves, the most calm, the most nervous system

1:07.1

regulation for ourselves in 2024. It's going to be a little bit of a

1:11.6

personal episode. I'm going to share with you my three goals that I have for 2024.

1:16.0

We're also going to go over goals that the entire community has set, as I've heard from a few of you.

1:20.0

But most importantly, I'm going to give you a framework where you can walk through your own goal setting to explore how you want to get the most out of 2024 when it comes to your plants.

1:30.0

So welcome. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast

1:38.0

to the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast

1:41.0

where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so.

1:50.0

I'm Maria, former plant killer turned Happy Plant lady, author of Growing Joy, the Plant Lover's

1:55.0

Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant

1:59.7

friend.

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