Setting & Hitting Your Goals

Another year, different in how you make it.  2025 is here and so are the renewed pressures of the ego to break through yet another motivational barrier.   The root of the word sublime stems from Latin to mean, roughly, high threshold.  The things that are most worth doing are not easy. Sublime is a subjective word.  It’s true meaning found at that point where your aspirations meet the outset edge of your competency.  To find it, you need to be introspective and self-aware. This is the ethos of effective goal setting.  Goals are not fun to set because they invite discomfort through a tolerable degree of invitational suffering.    But through them we discover that extraordinary things can be achieved through incremental efforts. While setting goals starts with an honestly aware self, meeting those goals requires consistent action of the most ordinary kind.  Almost mundane, really, which is what can make accomplishment so tough.  In 2025’s first MAP episode, Brent and Ben discuss their thoughts on the subject with the hope that some can find encouragement.   It also serves to hold ourselves accountable to our goals for the content they deliver. Happy New Year and may you discover your own personal sublimity through this new 12-month journey in time!   ______   About your Hosts   Ben Jones Managing Director, National Wealth Management Group www.nwmgadvisors.com  Sign up for Ben’s newsletter at www.karastick.com  Follow him on X @thekaratstick https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-nwmg/   Brent Gargano, CFPⓇ Founder & Advisor, Infinite Wealth Planning  www.infinitewealthplanning.com linkedin.com/in/brent-gargano-cfp®-2067b573 Learn more about Brent and follow his newsletter --> https://infinitewealthplanning.net/about-us/#founder   ______   Editor   Trevor Gargano Financial Advisor Marketer [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-gargano-72727b67/   ______   Follow our socials to support the podcast; see extra clips and announcements!   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moneyalchemistpod/ X: https://twitter.com/moneyalchpod  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556458987483   ______   Disclosure:    The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual.  Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA & SIPC..  Advisory services offered through National Wealth Management Group, LLC a registered investment advisor and separate entity from LPL Financial. Brent Gargano is solely an investment advisor representative of National Wealth Management Group, LLC, and not affiliated with LPL Financial. Any opinions or views expressed by Brent Gargano are his own and are not those of LPL Financial