Setting an Intention for Your Marriage | Ep. 498
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Do you have goals or ideas you'd love to see happen this year? There are a lot of ways to embrace creating a vision, like New Year's resolutions, setting an intention, or creating a vision board. The Bible also speaks to this in Proverbs. It's not enough to hope your marriage goes in the direction you want it to - be intentional with where you want to go this year. Join Dr. Kim and I as we talk about how to effectively set an intention for your marriage this year.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:30.7 | Do you have goals or ideas that you would love to see happen this year? |
| 0:34.8 | There are a lot of practices that embrace creating a vision, |
| 0:38.4 | like setting an intention, making a New Year's resolution, or creating a vision board. But the |
| 0:44.0 | Bible also speaks to this in the book of Proverbs a lot. It's not enough to hope that your marriage |
| 0:49.4 | goes the direction you want it to. Let's be intentional this year with where you want your |
| 0:53.3 | marriage to go. There's a great way year with where you want your marriage to go. |
| 0:58.8 | There's a great way to set yourself up and your marriage up for success in 2022. |
| 1:03.5 | If you're new to this show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday, so be sure to hit subscribe in whatever podcast app you're using so you can join us every week. |
| 1:08.1 | So Dr. Kim, I want to hear about how you and Nancy do this. Do you have any practices |
| 1:13.0 | or traditions around the new year? Well, we do. Our anniversary is on January 2nd, and so it has always |
| 1:21.7 | been a time for us to stop and be thankful and to look to the new year ahead. We talk about the past year. We look about |
| 1:29.0 | things that stand out. We talk about what each one of us would like the new year to look like. |
| 1:35.6 | And I think that that's kind of cool because sometimes Nancy will bring up something I think, |
| 1:39.2 | I had no idea you thought about that. And so then it kind of gets a chance to say, okay, |
| 1:43.1 | then to set kind of our goals and what do we want this next year to look like, you know, and then we can evaluate |
| 1:48.6 | it a year later. Or as we go along, how are we doing on this, depending on what it is that we're |
| 1:53.6 | looking at? So, yeah, I think just sitting down, taking time, thinking about the past year, and looking forward the new year. |
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