FINALLY achieve your goals | Monthly Reflections + Intentions (With God)

good morning you guys and welcome to another video I am really excited to cover this topic in fact I really didn't think I was making a video on this until last night I quite literally got the inspiration on a walk talking to you guys on Instagram stories I was talking about how I do Reflections and my intentions for the month and I thought you know what I need to stop right here because I have so much to say on this topic that I really should probably put it in a full video like this so I really wanted to talk about how the last day of the month and the first day of the month have become such important days for me when it comes to achieving my goals um in Proverbs 29:18 it says where there is no vision the people perish in other words where you have no vision for your life no goals you're not making progress really in any area of your life you're not striving for anything you will feel an emptiness inside of you you will feel a lot of people use the word I feel dead inside to describe that feeling and this is something I can very much relate to in fact there is a specific night I really remember feeling this way and it's significant because this is actually the night that I really made the change um that ultimately has led me to where I am right now so many things in my life have changed from this one decision this one moment where I was sick of watching my life pass me by I felt like I hadn't made progress in any area of my life in many many years I really felt like everything was exactly where it was again years before if not worse in a lot of areas but the thing is a lot of the time it takes that anger at yourself where you're really mad at yourself where it's more painful to stay than it is to change that you actually make the change so I made that change and really since that moment this was back in 2022 that I really hyperfocused on these goals and I broke them down into monthly goals so that's really when I started implementing what I'm about to teach you when I say monthly goals it's so great to make your New Year's resolutions in fact I still do that every single year but what I have found to be true is if I focus on monthly goals it keeps me so much more disciplined and I know I'm going to stay on track to actually reach that big goal so how I like to do this is I will first start with Reflections and end with intentions so the first thing we're going to do is we will reflect on the previous month now this might be harder for some of you who haven't been doing what I'm going to be recommending because the secret to really reflecting and like deep dive reflecting is to keep a Daily Journal it is so hard to know the progress that you have made unless you are keeping track of this on a daily basis and here's how I know this is true today is March 1st 2025 yesterday February 28th and I spent the entire day reflecting I like to do this all day long the first thing that I will do is I will try to just recall without actually looking into my journal what were my wins for the month the funny thing is when I just thought back on the month I knew there were some big ones that I had reached for example one of my goals was to do 10,000 steps a day um to hold myself accountable that was one of my non-negotiables for the month so something like that is easy to recall I know if I did or I didn't do that but there were a lot of like those mini wins that I just couldn't recall off the top of my head it wasn't until I opened up my journal and I go through every single entry for the month that's what I do I spend some time in my day doing that and it doesn't take very long um I went through 28 entries when I opened my journal and started reading through February if I could give the month one word I would have said it was my breakthrough month and the funny thing is when I was just trying to recall on my own I really couldn't think of that many things on my own it really was me reading my journal that helped me see all of the areas I had made progress in there were so many big changes that happened spiritually physically financially things in my personal life it is just really cool to see all of the areas that you have overcome struggles I read through so many concerns and worries that I had and then I saw how my prayers were answered and then of course goals that I had set for myself and I had accomplished so I want you guys to trust me on this for this month you are going to commit to writing in your journal every single day promise me that you're going to do this because you can't really reflect you can't really do this part without first doing the Daily Journal entries I promise you this this one thing is going to impact your life significantly so trust me on it now let's discuss setting intentions for the month you might choose one big goal or one thing that you want to focus on you might have a couple subcategories and I kind of do a little bit of both for example the month of February my main big Focus was 10,000 steps a day but then I also had the subcategories right the 10,000 steps was my goal and I did have an accountability partner Me and Bobby had this challenge for each other and this was really great because if you have an accountability partner what we would like to do is at that midday Mark we would send each other what our steps were and that's usually where we were like okay we need to step it up some nights we would have to go on walks we would call each other and talk on the phone while we were on our walks just cuz it's dark here in Utah at even like 6:00 it's like pitch black outside so we would talk on the phone when we would go on our walks but it's fun to have an accountability partner but then I would say I had three subcategories so one of them was spiritual physical that one kind of fell under physical as well and then Financial business so let's go through some of those for Spiritual my intention was to grow closer to the Lord so I'll share some things that I did for that and the outcomes that I had I had journaled on the first of February how I was feeling distant from the Lord and I felt this urge to draw near to him I had this inner knowing that he wanted to speak to me but that I had been distant so a question that I would ask myself every day and I would Journal this every day how can I grow closer to the Lord I would do my scripture and my prayer every single morning but on a daily basis I would be guided to do something different to grow closer to him for example one day I felt like I needed to do a fast so I did a 24-hour fast and in that time period I will tell you I felt so hyper tuned in I got clear on a lot of things in my life that I I had questions about and so I was super grateful for that and I did feel inspired to do that fast and it helped me tremendously I also was very very active in my church and I go to a new church building so it's all new faces and for me that's intimidating it's intimidating to just be in a new area something I challenged myself was I'm like I'm not missing one single day of church and I went to any of the extra activities that there were outside of Sunday meetings I also got a new calling in this church so I'm over kids in primary but it's been really fun to meet a lot of the other moms and just build some friendships that I would have not built had I not been physically putting myself in this position so that was a challenge for myself and something that I did and I have met a lot of amazing people by just putting myself out there and stepping out of my comfort zone because believe it or not I'm an introvert and so doing something like this especially as like a single woman I don't know for me that just makes it a little a little bit more intimidating but I'm proud of myself for stepping out of my comfort zone and doing that under physical I had the 10,000 steps that I wanted to do every day but I also wanted to work out five times a week and I would say where I slipped up the most was eating habits for the most part I did eat healthy but I know that's an area that I can clean up quite a bit that's going to move into my March's focus and then for financial and business this is what's crazy so for years and years and years Me and Bobby have been talking about creating something like it's really been on our mind four years over the past few months we have both felt inspired to actually make it happen and we weren't sure what we were even going to do it just started with us following that prompting and then it really has become what it has become so what I'm really proud of myself for in the month of February is we finally actually launched the thing that we have been talking about for so many months and actually so many years but for so many months we've been just wondering like what what is this thing that we're going to create together so we created our program it's called master myself and it's really like an accountability group but we that's where we also put our podcast it's really just like life coaching on all of the topics to better yourself and that's for all the different areas of your life what I have found to be true is if God puts an idea in your mind and he gives you a goal He blesses action we did not know how we were going to do this we did not know the route we were going to take but the Lord bless his action so we would take these little tiny daily micro actions and then before we knew it we saw the whole big picture it's really like you take that first step God doesn't show you the whole staircase but just trust take the first step and he's going to guide you up the whole staircase right so that was really it for my February intentions Reflections but now it's March and my focus for the month of March is doing my 40-day challenge so I guess technically this is going to also spill into April but I am starting this Challenge on March 5th and I'm doing it with our accountability group I'm going to post what the challenge is right here you do not need to be in the accountability group but I do want to let you guys know if you want to be where you can access that cuz this is inside of me and Bobby's little coaching group in the accountability group we are going to be hosting weekly zooms where we will discuss breakthroughs people are having we're going to let you if you want to get on and and share some of your own breakthroughs or some great wins that you've had for the week we're going to do this on a weekly basis so that is something that I'm the most excited for is to really interact with you guys but for this challenge you can see all of the things that are on the checklist it really is kind of everything that I've been discussing so we're going to go over there's physical things where we're going on walks we are working out we're eating healthy but there's also some spiritual guidance as well and part of this is a 40-day fast now here's the thing the law of the fast is also the law of increase so when you're fasting from something you can also expect to be increased in another area of your life you're going to see significant increase and so because of that what I have recommended everyone in our little group is I want you to go into this 40-day challenge knowing what you're going to give up but what is the Breakthrough that you are wanting to have after this 40 days like what is the result that you are wanting to have from the Lord with that in mind I want to read this quote it says faith does not operate in the realm of possible there is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible Faith begins where Man's power ends with this in mind what kind of breakthrough could you ask the Lord to show you or to give you by you offering up this specific thing is going to be specific to you for 40 days so I want you to think about that pray on that what is the Breakthrough that you want to have from this fast from this challenge again this is for people that want to do this with me but this is what my focus is for the month of March I actually want to share this with you guys I wasn't sure if I was going to but I was struggling with what I wanted my breakthrough to be I felt like because I had decided in the month of March I was fully also surrendering to the Lord like I don't even want to come to you with my plan whatever your plan is for me I want to follow so I wasn't sure what it was I even wanted to ask in Return of this fast so the other day I was on a drive and I love to go on this specific drive through my town if I have some extra minutes I'll like take the long way home and I will go on this drive well while I was on this drive I felt compelled to drive up on the mountain and there's just this Overlook it's this beautiful Overlook we call it the past and it was sunset and I was like oh you know what maybe this is maybe I'm going to get some inspiration on what I want my breakthrough to be that's the thought that came to my mind anyway so I drive up to the path in fact I'm going to insert a clip right here so you guys can see cuz I did take some video while I was up there and I happened to have my journal with me which I never take with me but I was in a hurry that day earlier that day and I needed a pen and my pen was stuck inside my journal so I had just thrown my entire journal in the car anyway I don't know if that's even relevant to the story but that's why my journal was in the car and I thought okay maybe I'm going to get some inspiration right now I I mean the fact I even have my journal right here next to me so I started praying about this breakthrough and I thought okay whatever comes to my mind I want to clear my mind whatever words come to me this is what my breakthrough is going to be for the month of March and the words that came to me were call Bobby the first thing she says is your breakthrough I was like that's so interesting but also that makes sense Bobby knows me more than anybody else she knows my heart she knows the things that have been concerning me she knows the desires of my heart and I just thought that was pretty cool so I called her and I said you're supposed to tell me what my breakthrough is going to be after this 40 days she blurts out a word and I'm not going to tell you what the word is yet right before she blurts out this word I heard this word and then she blurted it out like I heard it in my own head and then she blurted this word out and I immediately just start bust out laughing and then she said to me I have no idea why I just said that because what I wanted to say was something different but I felt like something took over my body that was so involuntary I have no idea why that is the word that I said that to me was like a a second witness confirmation because I had felt and heard that word she did as well I mean she said it out loud and I thought you know what I'm going to trust this and here's the thing when this happens because it's going to I will share it with you guys after the 40 days my mind is just blown though it's so crazy how the Lord works it's amazing on that note I think it's also so important to find good friends surround yourself with good people something I'm trying to do in our accountability group is to help each other find accountability Partners while we're doing this challenge for the month and I think you're going to find a lot of like-minded people in this group the last thing that I want to talk about when it comes to goal setting and actually sticking to your goal is if you commit your goals to the Lord and that's something that I talked about in my last video and for this challenge if you commit yourself to the Lord you give these goals to the Lord this is the goal and this is what I'm committing to every day so five workouts a week you're going to abstain from sugar you're going to not drink coffee anymore whatever it is that you are promising to the Lord I don't know of a better accountability partner than him because you can sneak treats all day when it's your friend that's your accountability partner but do you know who you can't sneak things from that's right there's no sneaking there's no hiding there's no lying when it comes to the Lord if I could suggest two things to you and I want you to try this trust me and try it for the month of March or whenever you're watching this video the month that you are in right now commit to these two things you write out your goals break them down into your daily processes what are you going to be doing on a daily basis that you reach this goal by the end of the month okay and then promise that to the Lord that you are going to do this this this and this on a daily basis for example if you're doing this checklist with us in the group or out of the group you don't need to be in the group to do this with us one of the things is you're going to wake up 30 minutes earlier than you have to if you commit this to the Lord and your alarm goes off I have a feeling you're not going to hit that snooze button because you know you committed this to him so that's what I mean by giving him these goals because it holds you to a higher standard you're so so much more likely to actually achieve this than you would if you only had an accountability partner I still think it's important to have an accountability partner but also have him as your accountability partner as well so that's one thing that you're going to do the second thing is you're going to journal every single day so that by the end of the month you can go back and reflect on the entire month you are going to be so surprised at how much progress you made in a 30-day period you won't even recognize yourself I did my six-month Journey where I said become unrecognizable in 6 months you can be unrecognizable in 30 days if you do just these two things so commit your goals to the Lord journal every single day Watch What Happens I want you to come back in 30 days and leave a comment on this video about the progress that you saw I know for a fact you are going to have progress so that is my challenge to you come back in a month and I want to hear the update of how your month went all right well let's go take on the month of March March or whatever month it is that you are starting in and I will see you guys back here in 30 days [Music]