Hey, everybody, Emily Abie here. You are listening to the last five-minute Friday of

2024. I can't believe I'm even saying this, but next week, the show goes on a two-week season break.

So we will be back in full force with a special limited series on January 1st to help you start off the new year.

Right.

But until then, I'm taking a little bit of a well-deserved break.

So yeah, last five-minute Friday of 2024.

Like many of you, I am in like full reflection mode and I've been scrolling through the photos

of the year and reading through my journal of this year. And I'm feeling really proud

of what I have done, who I'm becoming. And I'm getting very clear in this time that I am still

here at home over the next couple of weeks in this little

season break on what I want to do in 25. And transparently, I think this is the longest

that I have gone without traveling in years.

And as unsettling as it feels at times, I know that this is happening for a reason.

And so as I'm sitting here and I'm reflecting on what it is that I want in 2025,

I know that I don't want to be forced to have the moments that I'm

having right now. I know that I want to get a little bit more intentional about really

listening to what's going on instead of masking it with all of this travel. And I know that I

want to set clear and realistic goals going

into the new year that really home in on my why that really matter to me. And this is the most

common thing I tell people when it comes to goal setting is you cannot set a goal that does not have a strong

why, period.

You cannot set a goal that doesn't have a strong why because I will tell you what happens

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