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today's big question comes from Tracy R who asks this.

I want to set big goals for the year, but I'm struggling to land on goals that I'm really excited about.

I can think about lots of things I should do,

but it's harder to come up with things I really want to do. How do I set good goals for the year

and how do I know that they're good goals.

So how do you set good goals for the year and how do you know that you've set a good goal,

one that you will actually follow through on.

You know, this is something that I feel like happens a lot, especially with women.

We get so trapped by all those things that we feel like we're supposed to do that we have trouble even seeing after a while what it is that we actually want.

I talked to so many women so often who say I've spent so long taking care of everybody else around me and doing things for everyone else that I've lost myself along the way.

I just want to want something and I think that as adults we are

really really good at censoring ourselves you know we've lost the magic we've lost

this feeling that we have when we're kids or when we're teenagers or even when we're in our 20s that

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