Casting My Vision for 2025

2024 End of Year Reflection
I feel like I’ve gained a little bit of power over the last year by exploring what is and isn’t serving me and also what I want and who I want to be. I think I’ve slowly accepted certain bits of me this year and realised I don’t need to change but I can allow myself to slowly evolve and level up. I have levelled up!
I began to explore self trust and believing and honouring myself more, even if it doesn’t please others or fit their ideals of me.
I still feel this pull sometimes to want to change myself and have this radical evolution, but I’ve come to realise it’s about the in between and that’s where the most meaningful results happen and have impact. I know I have a lot of learnt pathways I need and want to unlearn and rewire.
I’m learning that some things just have to be, I don’t need to use what I’m learning in TFC to analysis and make sense of everything – that actually doesn’t serve me and can take up a lot of energy.
I might not have taken massive action on some things I want to do – mainly around my buying things – but just wanting this and feeling that inner determination is a start. I want to explore making those steps bigger this year. Small steps have helped create the path and give me more data to work with. I never believed the progress I have made was possible so I’m excited to see how I can use that this year to make more progress. It’s made me realise change is possible but it has to not come from a place of not enoughness or set myself up for failure.

2025 Cast Your Vision
I thought my word of the year was going to be Explore and so when I did the call the first time that word did come. The word Ownership also came up.
I couldn’t see much but I did see contentment – with people and when alone. Contentment from my favourite things and from seeing and doing things. There was comfort. There was bravery and courage, with versions past and present cheering me on (from the past there was knowledge, from the future there was hope). There wasn’t too much but what was there offered sweet moments of life. There was lightness and relief.
I did see work pop up, maybe that’s because I’m trying to keep it separate or because of something else, although I have constantly questioned that part of me life since I joined TFC.
My future self said to me, “it was all worth it.”

The second time I did the call I didn’t see much again but I support myself. And I didn’t do a lot but whatever I was doing I was there doing it. My future self said to me to be open, “let life in rather than let it happen.” That’s when the word Open came in. It got me thinking about when you open a door you let air or sunshine in. When you open a bank account you deposit money in. When you open a bag of treats you love you let the goodness out to enjoy.

During the first listen I came up with a couple of goals – summits I want to reach – but have yet to fully flesh out the Rocks.
G: To explore creativity outside of work (I started this last year but yet to fully invest)
R: Create a list of things I could do
R: Spend one evening a week minimum to do something off the list
R: To make it easy and fun. There is no room for the thought “what’s the point” because there doesn’t have to be one.

G: To increase my tolerance for buying things
R: Write a list of things I’d like / need to buy
R: Put money in a separate pot to spend from each month
R: Buy at least 1 item per month
R: Continue to journal and get coached on my thoughts and feelings about buying and spending money

I’d really appreciate some constructive coaching about how to tighten everything from 2024 and my Cast Your Vision explorations so I can give myself some direction this year. I don’t want things to come from a place of not enoughness or trying to match up with the end point because I know that doesn’t exist. I want to lean in to what will be most meaningful and what’s going to have impact and what feels doable now. Thank you.

 

 

Answer:

It’s been said that as humans we overestimate what can be done in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term. A radical evolution could take any amount of time. What beliefs do you have about how long it should be for you? It may help the entire process to identify these beliefs and do some work loving them and letting them go.

Do you like having time frames on your goals? Does it help or hinder? Why? I notice you have weekly and monthly goals in your rocks. Which is great if it helps you. Does it feel open to you? Why do you want to tighten your goals? There is no right answer. Just check in with yourself.