BONUS: Ease Into the New Year and Your Goals

Almost 30

Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik

Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Do you *really* want to run a marathon? Or, take that ceramics course? Or, lose 10 pounds? Or, is it more likely that you are creating a future you that’s based on external validation from others? There are no right/wrong answers, but checking in to the why behind your to-do list is a beautiful opportunity to unpack your authentic desires. So, before you grab your journal and rattle off your resolutions for 2023, take a moment to reflect. Let’s reshape our expectations around goal setting and give ourselves a little breathing room to be in, and cherish, the present moment – always. After all, YOU are the end goal. Morning Microdose is a podcast curated by Krista Williams and Lindsey Simcik, the hosts and founders of Almost 30, a global community, brand and top rated podcast. With curated clips from the Almost 30 podcast, Morning Mircodose will set the tone for your day, so you can feel inspired through thought provoking conversations…all in digestible episodes that are less than 10 minutes. Wake up with Krista and Lindsey, both literally and spiritually, Monday-Friday. If you enjoyed this conversation, listen to the full episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everyone's a holidays are crazy.
0:10.6	We've got to go to see family and travel and we've got to get everything in for work
0:14.3	and end of year stuff.
0:15.6	And then in January, everyone's like, it's crazy.
0:19.1	We've got to set goals and we've got to achieve our goals.
0:22.2	Bob Blondam just like, hey, when are we going to take a break?
0:26.4	And when are we going to check in with the ways in which we're participating with our consumerist
0:31.0	society or our capitalistic society?
0:33.8	And I don't even have that much beef with capitalism when it's done well, but it's like,
0:37.7	we just continue to put ourselves on these wheels and continue to be like, oh my God, I
0:41.9	got to set these goals.
0:42.9	I got to finish these things.
0:43.9	I got to spike our adrenaline somehow and our cortisol somehow through this goal setting.
0:49.6	And it just drives us crazy.
0:51.6	And it really keeps us out of presence.
0:53.4	And again, giving evidence at the beginning to why goals are super important to me for
0:59.6	most of my life and discipline was, but as I sort of progress on my journey and it's
1:03.8	all part of a journey and you're on your journey, I'm on mine and our audience is on a different
1:08.2	journey, each one of them individually.
1:09.8	But it does bring us out of presence because we're always focused on the next thing.
1:13.9	And I did find myself at the end going crazy because I was like, okay, in three days, I've
1:19.4	got to do this.
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