Happy New Year. When this episode comes out, you're either going to be hearing that soon or you just heard it. If you're joining midway through the year, it's always a great time to have a fresh start, a new beginning, all that kind of jazz, however. Not everybody feels jazzed this time of year, particularly with all the spending that just happened last month, with the credit card bills that might be coming soon, with the lack of a bonus you might have gotten,
right?Anybody get the welcome to the Jelly of the Month club instead of the bonus they thought they were going to get? I think a lot of people are experiencing that right now. Just rumor has it. Today I want to talk about those emotions and share what the emotion I'm feeling most right now and talk about how we can craft the year ahead to help us have a mindset that will grow not only our wealth, but also our connections, our mental health, our emotional health, our spiritual lives and so forth.
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OK, so people often experience a complex mix of emotions around New Year's Eve, New Year's Day into January. I'm going to kind of list some. So and you're probably going to find a place within this, this, these ideas that you that resonates with you. And I want you to know you're not alone. There's lots of other people feeling the same thing. So maybe you feel hope or optimism about the fresh start, anticipating positive changes, viewing the year as a
blank canvas. For achieving goals and dreams, maybe you have a sense of renewal and possibility. Feeling energized to make resolutions, embrace new opportunities. However, this time can also bring lots of anxiety and pressure. Some people feel stressed about unfulfilled goals from the year before, or worried about meeting expectations they're setting for themselves. This emphasis then all over the place, new year, new you, you know,
like you'll hear that everywhere. That can be overwhelming or artificial to many. Go back a couple episodes where we talk about it's new year, same you and you're just starting a new chapter, not restarting all over again, but you feel this constant bombardment for other people to reinvent yourselves and that's just really overwhelming, anxiety producing and and pressureful. There's also sometimes this bittersweet quality
to this transition. You reflect on the past year, and that might bring some gratitude for good moments, but also some sadness about difficulties or losses that you experienced the year before. Some people experience lots of loneliness during the holiday season, particularly if they're physically distant from the people they love, or they've gone through significant changes in their relationships this past year.
Lots of us have had some kind of change with who we are able to talk to, who's around, how how those relationships exist. Because holidays can also trigger more of like an existential thought about the passage of time, like some wishful feelings or melancholy about growing older, seeing the years pass. Even my six-year-old was saying, boy, this year's flown. And I'm like, you're 6 and just wait till you're 40, right?
Or 60, right?Others might feel kind of an ambivalence or skepticism about the arbitrary nature of calendar-based fresh starts like, eh, it's just another day, need another day, another dollar. There's also been, I don't wanna discount those who have experienced trauma or loss this past year. And the new year might bring complicated feelings of grief, but mixed with a feeling of hope and for healing from that trauma. And some people simply just feel
the complicated mix, right?I wanna keep grieving, but I also wanna look for healing, and I don't know. Which emotions I should be feeling, which there is no should just feel the feels, right?And then of course there's those that just feel neutral, indifferent, just another day, right?This is what I'm going to tell you how I'm feeling. I'm actually recording this mid-december, so I don't know how I'm going to feel on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day when the episode
actually comes out, but today. I still have a lot I want to get done by the end of the year. I have a lot I want to do next year. We've set our goals for the next year. I still have things I need to fill in with those goals and timelines, and I'm feeling really overwhelmed with all the things I want to do. If you listen to the last episode, you know I was trying to do too much. So I want to talk now about how you might set an intentional emotion for the year to come and take however you're
feeling now. Which is very natural, right?Very common. There's lots of people that feel how you feel and then and take that and set an intentional, emotional tone for the year to come. And so this is going to be another short episode because it's coming out with the holidays. So I'm not going to take a lot of your time, just going to invite you at some point, maybe while you're listening or maybe at some point over the next few days, maybe later
today. Just to sit quietly and reflect on the emotional state that would best serve your well-being and your goals this year. Some examples, it could be calm confidence or joyful curiosity or peaceful determination, whatever resonates with you personally. And I like that kind of two words to it. It's not one emotion, it's two emotions. My son loves Inside Out and Inside Out 2, his favorite movies. If you've never watched them, I recommend them. They're actually really good. for adults too.
But in the first one, they learn like it's not just one emotion, that emotions can mix together and actually create more memories. And then a second one, they learn, sorry for, sorry, I should have said spoiler alert, my apologies. In the second one, they get into all these new emotions. There's emotion wheels out on the interwebs where you can see all these emotions that you could have. Maybe pull one of those up, right?Just Google
emotion wheel. And that'll come up and you can kind of think like which, which couple of these do I want to mix together to set as like the state that's going to serve my well-being and goals. And then you know, maybe consider how this emotion feels in your body, right?Our emotions are something that can be all over the place, not just in our head or in our hearts, but they can feel, they can be felt in different places. So if you kind of think of, OK, here's the the feeling I'm
thinking about. Then consider where do you feel it?What physical sensations accompany it?What might calm confidence feel like?Relaxed shoulders, steady breathing, warmth in your chest. Where do you want to feel that confidence?Or where do you feel or that emotion?Or where do you feel it right now as you're starting to think of that emotion?And you can create simple practices to try help cultivate this feeling, maybe of that word or short
phrase. That you you have captured and you put it places where you're going to see it more regularly, like you know, on your computer, like a little post-it note or in your planner on the regular, something like that. You might identify ways to connect with that emotion on the regular right part of your morning routine or part of your nighttime routine. To consciously like embody that and and intentionally choose
to feel it. And even if you don't, you know it doesn't fit where you are now, you can create environmental cues that right that remind you of that feeling and notice when you kind of naturally experience this emotion and take mental notes of like what triggered it. So maybe you can include more of those things in your life to bring that intentional
emotion into your day-to-day. So it's important to remember, this isn't about forcing yourself to feel a certain way while you're suppressing other emotions. Rather, you're taking all the feels, right?And you're gently orienting yourself toward an emotional North Star while still allowing space for the full range of human emotions. Again, look up one of those emotional charts. We have lots of emotions. You're gonna, you're just choosing like, what's my North Star for
this year?When I want to feel grounded, when I want to feel directed, what kind of emotion do I want to come back to as that touchstone?I actually asked A I OK, I'm feeling overwhelmed right now. What kind of emotion might I choose for the year to come?Use your little friendly A I thing if you like that idea. And my A I guy per thing suggested something like calm acceptance or patient trust. And then calm
acceptance. I mean, I like acceptance, but also like, I want to have a growth mindset, so that doesn't really fit me. You know, I want to be content with where I am, but like, I don't want to just get lazy or, you know, whatever. That's at least the connotation of that word to me. But patient trust, I really like that because it reminds me too. That I don't have to do everything. I can trust in a higher being. I can trust in the people around me to do really good things that I don't have to
do everything. And I can be patient to allow, you know, that trust to, like, show itself as valid. And so I'm thinking that might be the emotional tone that I'm going to adopt for the year to come. Patient trust. I'd love to know what kind of emotional tone you're choosing, what what's gonna feel supportive to you for the year ahead. If you're watching on YouTube, you can comment, let me know. Maybe that will spark someone else that they're like, oh, I like that one. I want
to do that same one. Or maybe just even putting it out there in the world that you're more likely to do it right. Because I just shared with you, like all these listeners that anybody around the world could hear this, I bet I'm gonna have a lot more patient trust in the year to come. So there you go. That's that's the episode for today.
That's it. This, I believe a lot of what we do with building wealth comes from our emotions and our emotions are things that are helpful to us, to feel them, to experience them, not to squash them, right, but also to guide to them and to have those places where we can
intentionally feel. Certain things that are helpful to us and our journey with our money, with our relationships, with ourselves, and build that confidence and that excitement, that chutzpah for the year to come, the courage for the year to come. So hope that was helpful to you. If you love this kind of thing and you want more of it in your 2025, I would welcome you with open arms into the Wealth Wisdom financial community. You can join at wealthwisdomfp.com/community.
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