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Shawn Buttner: [00:00:00] Your year is either being won right now or it's being lost. There is a battle for your future, your 2023, and so many people have already lost it, and so we don't want that to be used. So if you're aware of what's going on, then we can make sure that 2023 is your biggest growth year. It's the year you have the most joy.

It's the year you have the most impact in everything. You. Hey everyone, this is Shawn Buttner, certified high performance coach, and I'm. Excited to be here with you, starting this year out with you and hopefully catching you before you've lost the war for 2023. And what do I mean that for so many years myself, the new year would happen so you'd have a lot of family and friends and lots of food and drinks and all that kind of stuff, and you would decompress into January and then get into your work schedule and off you go. [00:01:00] And that's fine. And I did that for years. But there's a higher level of quality of life for us when we have more intention at the beginning of the year for what we're gonna go after. And we're thinking more strategically about.

Holistically what our life should be, how we want to feel this year, how we want to our careers to be, how we want our relationships to, to feel and sound and support us, or how do we want our general wellbeing and health. So thinking about different buckets of your life and getting really clear on what the big moves are, what is really going to help you move forward is super key at the beginning of the year.

What you're up against is a little bit of habit, a little bit of routine this yearly cadence of start your New Year's resolutions and then go into doing those New Year's resolutions for two to three weeks in January, giving [00:02:00] up and then moving into February and, on you go. And what we want to do, and if you're someone like me who's watching this and believes in personal development, believes in, in.

Believe what I think everyone wants in this world is joy, growth, and impact. And forget the, words on my hat, it's for Brenda Bouchard's words, but my words are joy, growth, and impact, and. I wanna revisit that at the beginning of this year with you because I think most people want to be loved.

They want a sense of adventure, a sense of fun, a sense of mostly good emotions throughout the year. not to say that you don't experience other things other than feeling happy or feeling excited or feeling inspired being able to recover from that really quickly is important. And people wanna feel like they're progressing towards their.

And the first thing that we do [00:03:00] at the beginning every year is set these goals that are not inspiring, that are not there to compel us to act on them. And so again, we go through the first of the year kind of bust of going after for change in our life and. For many different reasons.

And I feel like we all want to have impact with the people around us, with our works, with furthering our purposes, our causes, our missions. And so most people are trying to, figure that out and, so if we know that's what people want and we know that your New Year's resolution is to get back into get better health , which is very generic.

There's a disconnect from, I want to get in the best health of my life by sliding up for a marathon. That's clear, that's distinct. I know what I'm going to do. I am inspired by that goal because I have never ran that [00:04:00] in my life, and that's not true for me. But that's how I started when I ran my first marathon.

It's oh, there's an excitement of, can I even do this? And, figuring that out, which is really, So it it's really important that we get this clarity part correct and we get it correct early in January cuz it sets the tone for the whole year, doesn't it? So how do you then go forth and set that tone I, hinted at it like, you need to be planning and setting big goals for different areas of your life, but you also want them to be aligned.

So you want your career, your relationships, your health, your wellbeing to be working together towards that, big goal for yourself and, for me this year. It's to grow the meaningful revolution. And the meaningful revolution to me is enabling people to live a life that they've built themselves and, live into that more [00:05:00] so that they experience joy, growth, and impact.

And we have this ripple effect around the world, right? That's the big, crazy, lofty goal. And for me, those, the measures that I'm going to be using to, make that happen are podcast guests. So if you haven't checked. The Meaningful Revolution podcast. Go to Apple Podcasts or check out my YouTube channel.

And you can see some of these amazing interviews that I've been very fortunate and blessed to have conducted in the last six months, five months-ish, since August of 2022. And so interviewing people about what they're passionate about that was the, little nugget for that. And I'm so proud of the.

That we've accomplished myself and the, people that I've had in my network that have been so very willing to, show up and, help me out here. And it's a lot of fun. So go check that out if you haven't yet. But so it's gonna be podcast guests. It's going to [00:06:00] be making sure that coaching people more on their dramatic transformation.

So like former clients who have you, Figured out how to get more disciplined in their health or start that business that's helping people in need. Really the trauma-informed education type stuff. There's so many different ways the people that I've coached have really helped people, and that's a really good feeling.

It's not about me, it's about you, but it's about us doing this work together. And so that's another measure that I'm looking for in my meaningful revolution this year, is to help other people have their meaningful revolutions. And then third thing I is to engage in the community more. So you'll be hearing me talk a lot more about this.

I am not super strong at community building in that particular. [00:07:00] Way, o online I, tend to be, if I'm on Reddit or Facebook or Instagram, a lurker versus someone that's actively getting people excited that's just my personality. But that's not serving you, it's not serving our calls in our communities.

This year I, I really want the meaningful revolution to stand for. That sense of agency over our lives, that we got this, that we can do this and we can do this together. I want it to feel like a sense of community that we're creating this movement where we're putting out more positive energy out into the world, and we're giving people reasons to not complain, right?

So we're against that complaining type mentality. We're against you. The environment preventing us from taking action. We're for action. We're for putting out your [00:08:00] sense of good your, story, your knowledge your, voice, your missions, your purposes. And so I'm really excited for that. I'm really to be focusing on that.

That side, you'll be hearing a little bit more in January about how. Involved and started in that. But if you would, if you have been enjoying these videos, if you've been enjoying what we talk about, if there's something you wish that we would talk about or something cool that you're like, Hey, I wish I had a community that helped me ask reply back to the email that you got this video on or in the comments in YouTube, wherever you're watching this.

And I'd love to hear from you. What is your meaningful revolution like? What is your dramatic transformation or your purposeful impact or that authentic movement that you have in your heart and you need to get it out in the world? And we need to have that, ripple effect of goodness out there [00:09:00] where we are.

We feel like we are the masters of our lives again. Cause I feel like looking back this last year, The start of this year that so many people have forgotten this idea that we have agency. And, if that's one thing that you walked away from this video or from any of my content with, is that you are more capable than you believe.

You can accomplish more than you think. And if we can work together as a group whether it's with me or other people on the path of trying to, make the world better. Then awesome. And let's try to do it together. Let's encourage each other. Let's really get into it. And that's the video for today, guys.

I'd love to hear what you'd love to talk about this year. What would make this space for you really special? How we can really have a meaningful revolution movement [00:10:00] as we get going. Just fortunate that you guys are here. And yeah, comment below and the comments on YouTube or reply to the email if you get the new.

And we'll see you guys in the next video next week. And I'm switching this to be the meaningful Monday series versus Motivational Monday. Keep an eye out for that change. You now know. So I don't think most people care too much, but let me know if you don't, want that to change too.

Super, super cool. All right guys, this is Shawn Buttner saying go out there live with more joy, more growth, and more impact in your. We will be back to the Reg, regularly scheduled content on Mondays of helping you live into your meaningful revolution.[00:11:00]