Welcome to Radical Personal Finance to Show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

Insight and Encouragement you need, to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets, I am your host today.

We're going to continue part two of our series

How to End a Year and Plan a Better One in the previous part of this show.

Previous episode of this series I talked about the power of reflection

simply taking time to reflect upon the past, taking time to reflect upon

this past year, and learn the lessons from it.

Rejoice in the things that have gone well and smoothly for you,

learn from the lessons, learn from the challenges, etc.

But the next step after you have reflected on the past is simply this.

Dream about the future. Dream about the future.

Notice I'm not saying plan the future. I'm not saying set goals. I'm saying dream.

Dream about the future. Call it a daydream, call it just a dream whatever you want, but dream about the future.

What do you dream about happening in your future?

What kind of lifestyle do you dream of? What kind of job do you dream of? What kind of activities would you like to do? Who would you like to be with in the future? What would you like your year to look like? Just spend some time

dreaming about the future. Now what I've learned in my years of working as a

financial advisor is that this exercise is easier for some of us than it is for others.

I don't know or understand all of the inputs, all of the reasons why some people have an easier time

dreaming than others do. I think there may be certain inborn characteristics that we have where some of us think more easily about dreams

and some of us are more present oriented. Maybe some of us are more future oriented, some of us are more

present oriented. Some of us are more future oriented some of us are more present oriented some of us have

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