How To Make 2025 ICONIC: Your New Year's Prep

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What's up, radiant icons, and welcome back to

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Dare To Be Iconic, the podcast made

for icons daring to be themselves.

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I'm your host, Amanda Paolicelli

and happy: 2025

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I literally cannot believe that the new

year is officially here and what better

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way to kickstart 2025 than with you guys

and with a very special tea time sesh,

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because today's tea time sesh is all

about New Year's prep and giving you a

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little taste of what to expect in Dare

To Be Iconic's first ever masterclass

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on January 18th, New Year, Iconic You.

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And yes, tickets are available in the

show notes below and on daretobeiconic.

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com.

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But anywho, today's episode, I'm

literally so excited to get into

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it because I love New Year's.

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I love what New Year's represents.

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It's this new chapter

that you get to write.

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For a while I did not like New Year's.

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It's going to be the same thing.

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I'm going to make resolutions and then

I'm never going to see them through.

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It wasn't until the end of 2022 going

into: 2023

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switch for myself and how I, I viewed the

holiday, but then also how I viewed life.

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And it all comes down

to setting intentions.

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Setting intentions is the secret

to living your most iconic life,

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because I am a firm believer that

intentional actions build iconic lives.

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And that's exactly what we're

going to be talking about today,

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but also what we will be doing in

New Year, Iconic You masterclass.

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We'll be going into it deeper in

the masterclass, but I'm going to

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give you a little sneak peek of

it now, because why not, right?

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Why not get excited for what's to come

because: 2025

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our most iconic lives and we're doing

it together, so why not start now?

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So are you ready, Radiant Icons?

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Because your Tea Time

Sesh is starting now.

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So here's the thing, I never

saw the purpose of New Year's.

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I just thought, okay, it's another day.

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And I kind of let the year happen to me.

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It wasn't until the end of 2022

going into: 2023

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let the year happen for me.

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And the key in that mindset switch

for me was setting intentions.

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That's why I am such a firm believer

in that power of intentional living

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because it truly changed my life.

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I always get asked all the time, Amanda,

have you always been this positive?

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Absolutely not.

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Ask my parents, they'll tell you hell no.

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But, it wasn't until I truly started

to retrain my brain and reframe

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my mindset that I started having a

positive outlook on life and really

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noticing the world for what it is,

which is this beautiful opportunity

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to create the life that you want.

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That's why 2023 onward were some of

the best years of my life because

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it was rooted in that intentional

living and the power of it.

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It allowed me to visualize and

conceptualize what I truly wanted out of

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life and to fully write out the chapter

that I wanted for myself and that's what

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New Year's and the power of intentional

living does for me solely and that's

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what I found has worked for Me and

so I want to share it with you guys.

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So the first thing is setting intentions.

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I know ,what a shocker, it's not

like I've said setting intentions

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multiple times during this episode.

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If you're of age take a shot every

time Amanda says take a shot setting

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intentions or intentional living,

you'll literally, you'll be having

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a good time during this episode.

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But like truly you guys setting intentions

or that word of the year is the first

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step in living your most iconic life.

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Setting a word of the year is the

way in which I view the entire year.

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It's the lens in which I look at

it, it's the root of every decision

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and scenario and choice that I make.

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It always comes back to that word.

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It always comes back to that intention.

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So at the end of 2022, going into 2023.

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My word of the year was me.

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Every decision I made, every

choice I made, every situation and

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scenario, it always came back to me.

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What did I want to do?

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And truly 2023 was the

year my life changed.

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Because I was on that self discovery

journey, self healing journey that got

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me to the idea of Dare To Be Iconic.

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Everything that I did in that

year of: 2023

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do I want to do as Amanda?

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It was my first time being single

out of that long term relationship,

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and having that time and being

selfish and prioritizing myself

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for the first time in my life.

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And truly, 2023 was the

catalyst for everything that's

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happened afterward, right?

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So everything that I did in 2023

came back to the decision of,

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what do I, Amanda, what do I want?

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If it's not something I want

to do, I'm not doing it.

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I was very selfish that year,

but also selfishness is self care

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and people don't talk about it.

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But it is, and 2023 was a great year.

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Let's talk about 2024.

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2024 was the year of trust because in

order for me to honor that commitment

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of choosing myself that I made in 2023,

I realized I needed to start trusting

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myself and I had no idea where to start.

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As you guys know, I have

a lot of trust issues.

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I'm the first one to admit to it.

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Um, I have a lot of trust issues, not

only with other people, but with myself.

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And in 2024, I wanted to learn how

to trust myself because in order

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to choose myself, I need to be

able to trust my decisions and I

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need to be able to trust my path.

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And if I don't have a solid foundation

in that, then what the hell am I doing?

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Right?

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Like how the hell am I functioning?

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If I can't trust myself,

the universe or others.

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So I needed to work on

that and every decision.

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And when I tell you this is

true, every lesson that I

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learned in 2024 came down to.

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Trust.

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I'm not even joking you, you guys.

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Everything came down to trust.

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I needed to trust my path.

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I needed to trust myself.

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I needed to trust the universe.

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And once I realized that trust was

not leaving me, and I picked the

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right word for the year, it made

it easier for me to decide what my

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word of the year would be for 2025.

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And I'm so happy to say that my

word of the year for: 2025

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What better way than to fully embody the

essence of iconic than after I've learned

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how to choose myself and trust myself.

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And now I get to go deeper into

the actual meaning of what my

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business is built on being iconic,

being remarkable, being bold.

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What does that mean in my life?

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How can I embody it?

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How can I align my actions

to live up to this lesson, to

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this intention, to this word?

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So when it comes to choosing a word

of the year, I challenge you to

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look back at the past year, right?

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What did you take from it?

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What did you learn now

going into the next year?

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What do you hope to gain?

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What do you want to focus on this year?

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What's one word or intention

that will guide you from every

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decision and action that you make.

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And once you get to the core root of

that, right, reflecting on the past

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year and what you hope to gain into this

new year, you'll be able to narrow down

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what you want this year to represent,

what you want this year to stand for.

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And if you need a little bit extra

guidance when it comes to setting

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intentions or choosing your word of the

year, make sure to check out the New

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Year, Iconic You Masterclass, and the

link for that is in the show notes below.

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So now that you've chosen your

word of the year or set your

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intention, it's on to visualization.

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And one of my favorite visualization

tools for the New Year is a vision board.

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I know vision boards are all the rage

and like everyone loves to do them and

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everyone has their own specific way.

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And that's great.

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But, this is how you make your

dreams a reality so you can

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live your most iconic life.

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It's by focusing it on or centering

your word of the year around every

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image that you put on your vision board.

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Because again, your word of

the year is the lens in which

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you view the entire year.

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It's the core root of every decision and

action that you make so why not align

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your vision board with the intention

that you set by putting them together.

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You're able to manifest all those

dreams that you have in your heart

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and actually make them a reality.

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And one really cool thing that I love

to do when it comes to my vision boards,

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especially for those bigger dreams that

sometimes are a little bit intimidating.

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You need to physically see yourself

accomplishing that dream, so

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you photoshop yourself into it.

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So I made my own fake like podcast cover.

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I made my own fake journal

cover and you know what?

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This magazine right behind

me, the F1 girlies magazine.

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This one was for shits and giggles.

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I said, you know what?

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I think I want to be

on a magazine one day.

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So I'm just gonna, I'm gonna just trust

because again,: 2024

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I'm going to trust that decision.

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I'm going to trust that

intention and everything.

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I don't know how, I don't know when,

but I want to see myself on the

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cover of a magazine because little

baby Amanda would be screaming.

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And so I, I photoshopped my face onto

a Vogue magazine and I put that on my

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vision board and well, I have my podcast.

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I have my journal and I was on

the cover of a magazine in: 2024

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That is me living out my intention

and making it a reality by taking it a

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step further and photoshopping myself

onto the dream that I thought was a

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little intimidating and a little scary.

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But in order to convince yourself that

you can do it, that you can make those

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dreams a reality, you need to see it.

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So why not align it with your word

of the year and make them a reality?

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That's how you make your

dreams come true in: 2025

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for Step 3 join my New Year, Iconic

You Masterclass on January 18th.

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now, let's get to the hotline.

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Hey Amanda, I've been struggling

to set clear goals for the year.

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How do I make sure I'm focused

on the right things when it

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comes to setting intentions?

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I think when it comes to setting

clear intentions, it all comes

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down to what are your core values?

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What do you believe in?

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What do you stand for?

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So, Think of what makes you excited,

what makes you feel alive, and when

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you have the answers to that, of

what do you truly believe in, think

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of, okay, What word represents

those values that I've listed out?

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What word aligns with the actions

that I want to go into the new year?

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And so once you know what you stand for,

you know your core values go into that

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word of the year exercise of okay What

word aligns with what I've written now?

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And that's how I think

you set clear intentions.

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Hey Amanda, I've heard about writing

a letter to your future self.

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How do I make sure I'm writing it in a way

that truly aligns with my dreams, and not

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just in a way that feels wishful thinking?

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This is such a great question because

this is exactly the struggle that I had

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when I first started using this technique.

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When you're writing a letter to your

future self, the key is to write from this

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place of gratitude and accomplishment.

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So describe what you've done, what

you've achieved, and basically the

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life that you've created for yourself.

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All right, radiant icons.

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That is your tea time sesh for today.

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If you enjoyed today's episode make sure

to subscribe to leave a rating, a review,

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a comment ,Tell your friends tell anyone

and everyone because we love more radiant

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icons in our iconic community of ours.

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But truly guys this episode

was so much fun It's one of my

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favorite things to chat about.

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I love New Year's, and

I love New Year's prep.

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I just think there's something so

beautiful about the start of a new

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year because it's truly a blank

slate for anything to happen, so

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why not be intentional about it

and build your most iconic life?

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Like, I think it's beautiful.

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I think it's great.

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And I hope to see you guys at Dare To

Be Iconic's first ever masterclass on

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January 18th, New Year, Iconic You.

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Spots are limited, so make

sure to secure your spot today.

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It's going to be iconic and I

can't wait to start building our

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most iconic lives yet for 2025.

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But anywho, I will talk

to you guys next week.

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Remember, radiant icons dare to be iconic.

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Bye!