#245 How to Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet

Hey everyone, it's Peter. Hope you've had a great week. Hope you had a great end to 2024 and an amazing start to 2025. Around this time of transition, we always get this. Think about what happened in the past. What are we grateful for? How can we improve and optimize things for the next year? The New Beginnings this week is going to be a short podcast. We just talk about how to make 2025 your most fulfilling and ever. And it's based on things that I'm just working on myself and maybe something that you might get value from. If you want to listen, you want to enjoy, stay tuned. Welcome to the Passive Income MD podcast, where we talk about creating your ideal life through multiple streams of income. If you enjoy hearing about this stuff, make sure to hit subscribe now. Let's get on with the show now here at Passive Income md through our podcast, through our blog, courses, conferences, communities, we've always talked about creating ideal life through passive income, other streams of income. We talked about creating financial freedom. Freedom. The big thing about 2025. When I think about this year and what it should and can be all about, I think it's always helpful for us to come up with a word that is a theme for the year. I don't know what yours is and you can absolutely choose. I had my kids choose, my daughter chose courage and my son chose improvement. Both amazing words and it just kind of helps shift everything and put everything in perspective. I think this year with our community, the word that we're thinking about is the word intention, meaning that everything we do has a purpose, meaning that when we make choices in life, there's a reason we're making those. When we're working a certain way, it's for a reason. It's because we chose to. When we play and enjoy life, it's cause we chose to. What we do with our time, what we do with our money, it all comes with great intention. I think the thing that hurts a lot of us is that we just go along with outside influences. We let the environment choose how we feel, what we do, how we spend our time. We let administration at the hospital, our jobs dictate what we get to do with our lives. But I think the one thing that I've really started to realize, and many of the members in our community have started to realize, is that you get to choose. Meaning that there is intention here. You have leverage, you have choice. And so how are we gonna take that into 2025 and make the most out of it? How can we take it to feel fulfilled, to reach that fulfillment that we all want to achieve? And I know this thought of fulfillment, it's like deeply personal. It doesn't look the same for everyone. Like, If I ask 10 different people in our community, what would your ideal, like, ideal month, it would probably look pretty different in terms of the details. I think if you zoom out, it looks very similar. Meaning that we all want to feel like we have a sense of purpose. We want to have people around us that we love. We want to do something meaningful. We again want to have great relationships around us. So I think it's important for all of us to clarify what fulfillment means to us. I know a lot of us think about the new year and think about resolutions. I actually think what would be more powerful for all of us will be to think about what truly excites and energizes you. Like, what's truly meaningful for you. And I began to think about this myself. Sure, work is meaningful for me, but why? What does it get me? It gives me the opportunity to connect with people. It gives me opportunity to feel like I'm making an impact, that I have a purpose in life. It gives me the opportunity to have freedom with my time. It gives me the opportunity to spend time with my family the way I want to do the things that I love doing with again, the people that I love. And this is not based on expectation from other people. It's not based on what I feel I should do. But it's doing the things that I want to do with intention because I know that it will fulfill me in the end. Hey everyone.

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Financial freedom is an amazing goal and I think it's a goal that everyone should aspire to to some degree. But it is just the goal. It's not about the money. I know it feels like it is, but it's about what it gets you and also who you actually become. In the process of getting that, do you become more resourceful? Do you more. Do you become more creative? Do you get to design how your life is? So a challenge I'd have for you is to really clarify what fulfillment means for. And I promise you, you're not going to do that by while. And I promise you not gonna do that while you're scrolling on your phone and looking at other things or watching a movie. It probably takes about 10 to 15 minutes at the very least. Of course, if you can have more time than that, then that's great too. But just take a few minutes to sit down, write down, and jot down what fulfillment would be for you in 2025. Just know that it can change over time. You don't have to have it all perfectly figured out for the next 10 years, but at least for this year, 2025, what would a meaningful year look like for you? I think most of us think that fulfillment happens by accident, but I absolutely believe it doesn't. Just like building passive income streams, it takes intention. So does living a fulfilling life. It requires aligning your priorities with your values and then making deliberate choices about how you spend your time and energy. We're going through an interesting place in the market right now with so many different shifts. Obviously there's a political change. There are very interesting things happening in both the economic markets, the real estate market, all interest rates, inflation, all of this is in flux. Who knows what's gonna happen with the stock market this year? Knowing what your North Star is your goal, and then coming up with a basic strategy after that to figure out how to get there, then being able to shift, being able to course correct along the way is gonna make this year fantastic for you. And it's funny, I had a conversation with someone recently and they asked me, if you were going to do this all again, what would be your first step to figuring all this out? And I said, my first step would be actually finding people who are doing things that I want to do or are in places that I want to be. Why try to reinvent the wheel? Find a community of people who are already doing this and then learn from them. As I mentioned before, not everybody's path is the same. But success leaves clues, meaning there are breadcrumbs for you to figure out how to get on the right path. Now you gotta get your take your own path and figure that out on your own. But at least people can point you in the right direction. So surrounding yourself with a community is absolutely vital. And I hope that in 2025 you're this is the year of intention for you, the year of building community. It's the year of taking action. It's the year of taking action on that goal, on that fulfillment goal that you clarified. And every couple months, let's take a step back and just celebrate the milestones, the simple steps that we've taken to help get us closer to where we want to be. Thanks for always tuning in to this podcast. If this brings value to you, please share it with some other people. It means so much to us. It helps to build our community, and it helps us to figure out how to bring you more value over time. And that's our goal in 2025. I'm excited for this year and I hope you guys are as well. Let's make it happen. All right, everyone, have an amazing week and let's talk again soon. Enjoy the show. Let me know by dropping a review in the podcast app you're listening to us at. And if you haven't already, be sure to hit subscribe. Join thousands of physicians who are also on this journey to creating their ideal lives through multiple streams of income. Learn more at our Website, passive income md.com thanks again for allowing me to.

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