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Ep. 55: Manifest Your Best Year Yet: How to Turn Your 2025 Creator Goals into Reality
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Do you ever feel like you set these big goals for the beginning of the year and then February rolls around and either those goals have just fizzled out or you just aren't achieving them? I hear you and I see you, and I think we all do that. You know, there's actually a holiday, I believe it's the second Friday of January. They call it National Quitters Day. And a lot of people do quit. A. A lot of people don't chase after their dreams or go through with their goals. And that's okay. But I want to change that. So today's episode is all about making your visions a reality. I'm calling this a Creator's guide to Manifesting big wins in 2025. So during today's episode, we are going to dive into powerful practices of vision boarding, specifically tailored towards creators and entrepreneurs. And we're going to have digital vision boards, vision boards that aren't digital, that you can actually have on your wall wherever you work or at home. This is the episode for you where I'm going to share practical steps to create a vision board, the key elements every creator should include, and how to use it daily to manifest those big wins for 2025. So stay tuned. Welcome to Call Her Creator Powered by Stan. I am your host, Kaitlyn Rhodes. Got a few little housekeeping before we get into today's episode. First and foremost, what am I going to tell you? Download this episode. It helps me and the team know that this podcast is doing well and that you like what we're putting out there. And if you feel in your heart that you like it, please leave me a five star review. I would love to hear from you. You can also DM me over on the Kaitlyn Rhodes on Instagram or call her creator, whichever one floats your boat. So, vision boarding. I've actually haven't done a vision board in a really long time. I feel like it was something that I got to do in my childhood and maybe when I was a teenager, but as far as, like, being a successful business owner entrepreneur, I just, I've never really thought about vision boarding. Now once I was doing all the research for this podcast episode, I learned actually I am vision boarding. So if you are using Pinterest and pinning things to a board, you are vision boarding. Okay. Today we're going to talk about how you can use that for big goals for this year and how you can do it digitally or maybe you have something on your wall. Whatever it is, I'm going to walk you through how to do that. I'm also Going to teach you guys why it's so significant to us and how it can help you achieve your goals and why it's so important. So first off, there is a psychology behind vision boarding. Crazy, right? So there's something called ras. All right, I'm going to get a little technical for you guys for a minute, but just stay with me. Visualization is a powerful mental practice that activates the brain's reticular activating system, ras. This is a network of neurons located in the brain stem that acts as a filter for the immense amount of information that your brain processes daily. Okay, here's how it works and how it relates to achieving goals. Don't go to sleep on me. Number one, the role of the Reticular Activating System, RAS. Can I say Ross? RAS. RAS. I'm going to say RAS. So if you hear me say RAS, it's the Reticular Activating System, rAS. So the RAS is responsible for prioritizing and filtering sensory information, determining what is deemed important based on your thoughts, beliefs, and focus. It essentially decides what gets your attention amidst the noise of daily life. For example, if you've been thinking about buying a new car, you may sudden start noticing that particular car model everywhere. It feels like the universe is aligning with your desires, but it's really your RAs filtering and highlighting relevant information. So before I go on, number two, isn't that crazy? And I've heard that before. I've heard that if you like, if you search up a certain model of a car or like the color of a car, you're going to start seeing that car more and more. And apparently it's because of your reticular activating system. So I'm really big on speaking things into existence and talking about them. I push it on my husband all the time. I believe that if you say something out loud and you think about it all the time and it kind of consumes you a little bit, you can make it happen. So think about something right now, like a goal of yours that you are speaking into existence, something that your rest may be picking up. What is it? Is it good? Is it beneficial to you? Is it positive? Is it negative? Like, this is where. Why we have to really pay attention to the things that we think and speak because they really consume you and become you. So how visualization activates the ras? Okay, when you practice visualization, you vividly imagine achieving a specific goal. This focused mental rehearsal sends signals to your RAs that the goal is important to you. It primes your brain to pay attention to Anything in your environment that aligns with that goal. So cool. This is why visualizing success can make you more aware of opportunities, resources, people that could help you achieve it. That's why you gotta think about it. So, for instance, visualizing a career goal. Maybe you have something in your goals for this year that pertains to your career. If you frequently imagine yourself excelling in a specific career or networking with influential people in your field, your RAs will make you more aware of events, conversations, opportunities that could connect you to those goals. That's amazing. The human brain is amazing. Another example is visualizing financial goals. I do this one too. By picturing yourself managing wealth or reaching a specific financial milestone, your RAs will attune your focus to financial advice, saving opportunities, or side hustles that align with your goals. Which is funny too, because like, me and my husband are in the process of building a home and I keep telling him, I'm like, we're gonna pay this for this in cash. We're gonna pay for this in cash. And I keep just saying it out loud because I would love to just build my dream cash. And you know, with that is going to come opportunities, financial opportunities, money. I know money's not everything, but that would just be something really super duper cool if we could build this house with cash. So I keep talking about it and saying it over and over again to put it out in existence. I'll let y'all know if it comes true. But it is on my visual, my vision board. Then there's aligning your visualization with action. While visualization can help you notice opportunities, taking action is equally important. For example, two things here. Daily practice. Okay, you're going to spend a few minutes each day vividly visualizing your gold. Include details. What you see, what you hear, what you feel, how you act once it's achieved. And then set specific intentions. Visualization works best when tied to concrete, actionable goals. The clearer your vision, the better your RAs can work to identify relevant clues in your environment. Love that. I love science telling me that. Hey, you manifesting you thinking of these things, it can happen, girl. It's. It's on your brain. Studies on brain activity have shown that imagining an activity stimulates the same neural pathways as performing it. So this means that visualization isn't just daydreaming. It's actually training your brain to recognize and act on opportunities, which is just so wild to me. I was a girl in school that did not do very well in chemistry because I was always daydreaming. And I was always visualizing my goals and my dreams. I had a little bit of a hard time in high school. I had lost my grandmother, who was my mother figure. Truly. My mom had me at a really young age. So my nana really stepped in and like she was that girl in my life. And so she died. And so high school, my parents split, my mom split with my stepdad, who was like a father to me. And so I was just having a really hard time in school. And I would just constantly be daydreaming of my life when I was older and what I was going to do and achieve. And it's just crazy to me that they're saying that this is actually a psychological thing and, and maybe it is why I'm so motivated and drawn to success. Success. It's cool to look back and reflect on those things and then as an adult realize like, you weren't just this silly girl daydreaming. This is, this is an actual thing and this is why you are the way you are. So pretty cool. There are some creator specific benefits to this reticular activating system and those would be one. It helps clarify your brand direction. This can help you with your business, your brand, any kind of direction really. Like even if we're not talking about the creator direction in you or the creator in you, but we're, we're talking about anything in life, it can lead you in the right direction. It also helps spark creativity for content, ideas. And then on top of all of that, it keeps you aligned with your long term goals. Growing your audience, launching a course, booking, speaking, collaboration, you know, whatever it is, whatever kind of goal you have, if you speak it, think it, put it into existence, it's going to help you reach those goals. So now we understand kind of why it works, let's talk about how do we create it? How can we create a vision board that works for you? So the first step in creating a vision board, whether it's digital or in person, is physical or digital. That's the word, physical. I keep saying in person. Physical. First you want to define what are your big wins for this year. Okay, let's think about your top goals. Just be quiet for a moment. Close your eyes. What are some of the goals that you have in specific areas in your business? We're talking business right now, so just close your eyes. Are you trying to grow your social media account? Do you want to hit a hundred thousand followers? You trying to hit a revenue goal? You want to earn an X amount per month? Maybe you want a hundred Thousand dollars months. I saw Abigail Pugh. That was one of her goals this year is a hundred thousand dollar month personal development. Maybe you need confidence when you're creating reels or public speaking or just working with people, whatever that is. That's three different things right there. So you can focus on one. Social media growth, revenue goals, personal development. So you've got, you got to define them, you got to write them down, Write them on a piece of paper, write them in your notes app. So let's just. We're going to have two different ways here. So there's a physical one and a digital one. So if you're doing the physical board, write it down on a piece of paper. If you're doing the digital one, pull up your phone's app and just go ahead and put three main goals for 2025. I don't want to overwhelm you, so just put your top three. If you can't think of three, do two. If you can't think of two, do one. It's totally fine. Next step, gather your materials. So if you're doing a physical board, this sounds silly, but you're going to need some magazines, some printed photos, markers, glue, glitter, whatever it is that you, that makes you you and creative. If you're doing the digital board, you can either set up a Pinterest account or, or you could do a Canva collage, or you could even just do something on your phone. There's a ton of vision board apps out there too. So depending on what you want to do, I'd say if it were me and I was doing a digital board, I would probably choose Canva because I can take screenshots of photos that I like that are on my vision board and then I'm able to screenshot them, pull them over into Canva, remove the background and make like this cool, pretty collage. I'm going to work on this too. Like at the end of this episode, I'm going to make my digital vision board and I would love if you guys DM'd me your vision boards and I will make a carousel and I will put that out into existence for all of us. So send me your vision board when we're done with all this. Okay, Step three, choose your visuals and your words. Focus on images, phrases that spark emotion and excitement in your life. And then we're going to want to add measurable goals to specific images. So, like, if you want to grow your follower list on Instagram, maybe you have a picture of your profile and then maybe you have, like, your follower target growth goal pictured on top of it. So I just want to get candid with y'all and put mine on there. So let's see. I would have. I told y'all we're building a home, so I would probably put the home that we're building on there and maybe put like, paid off in cash with a big green check Mark. That'd be cool. Speaking is something I really want to get into this year more. So I told myself I wanted to do six paid speaking engagements. So I'll take a picture of myself from a past speaking engagement. I'm going to put it on HubSpot stage, and then I'm going to put it on nar, which is the national association of Realtors. My heart is in real estate marketing, and I would love to speak on their stage one day. So I'm going to put that on there. I'm going to list out the events I want to speak at. I also want to reach 200,000 followers this year. I'm at 175. So I think I can get there this year if I really try. So I'm gonna put that on my vision board. My family is going to be on there just because they're always going to be my number one. My husband, my kids, I love them so much and I need to remember that, yes, I'm a busy entrepreneur running a business, but they are my number ones and I have to put them first before everything. So the good work, life, balance. So they're going to be on my vision board at the top, spending time with more time with my aunts, my aunt, uncle, cousins. My papa, he had a heart attack last year and I have told myself that I'm going to spend as much time with him as possible. So I want to make it very. I need to make sure that I go over and have lunch with him as much as possible because life is too short. What else? Don't really care about a car. Like, I love my car now. I think that's kind of. Oh, revenue goals probably. My, my. My agency, my podcast. I definitely want to be a top podcast for marketing. I've been ranked in the top 40 in the US I want to be ranked in the fricking top five. So if y'all want to help me get there, cool. Send this podcast to someone that you love that would enjoy it or leave me a review. So podcast I'd put my podcast screenshot of my podcast. Top three marketing podcasts in the US Actually, I just want to be Top podcast in the U.S. even if that was just top 10, cool, done, influence, big dreams. But I want to double our clientele, which would mean doubling my team, which would just blow fish out of water. So that's. Those are my goals. That's a lot of goals. I should probably nail them down a little bit. But for now that's what would be on my vision board. So I'm going to do that and I'll share that with you guys. So send me yours when you're done. And then what it says here is to include a daily reminder. Place the board where you will see it daily. I saw a really cool tip here and it was said to put it as the screen, your backdrop screen on your phone. What is that called? It's not called your backdrop screen. Your background, your phone background. Put your vision board on your phone background. So then you'll see it all the time and get reminded like, hey girl, you got some big goals. You're going to fill them. Keep going. All right, once you've made your vision board, which I'm really excited to see what you guys come up with, here's how you can use it on a daily basis to make it all happen. Right? The first is morning visualization. So you're going to spend five minutes every morning looking at your board. Visualizing yourself achieves, achieving each and every goal that you have on there. So you got that on your phone, you wake up, it's the first thing you're gonna see, it's the first thing you're gonna think about. And that's going to just set the tone for the rest of your day, right? Then you're gonna wanna align your actions for the day with your goals. So you can have whatever goal you want in mind. But at the end of the day, what's your execution on it? What are you gonna do? So, reflecting on your vision, you can then plan out your daily task, your weekly tasks to help you execute. And I've used chat GPT for this. I'll put like my goals in there and then I'll say like, give me a 30 day plan to get started on these goals. And then he'll tell me what to do in the next 30 days, what to do in the next 90 days, what to do in the Next 6 months. Sometimes we just need someone else to tell us what to do. So I'm one of those people, I'm a huge rule follower. So I get into chat GPT and do that. You might not need that. You might know exactly what you need to do to achieve your goals. And that's cool. Write them down, put them in your calendar, follow them, use them as a checklist. Check them off when you get them done. One of the most important parts of all of this is celebrating little wins, big wins, crossing milestones off when you achieve something, celebrate yourself. Go get a coffee from Starbucks. Go eat that brownie. Go buy yourself flowers. Go do whatever you knew you need to do to celebrate the wins that you're doing. Because that's a big thing that we all forget to do is celebrate these things that we're accomplishing. Small, big doesn't matter. You need to celebrate those little things because those little things add up to the big things. Another piece of this puzzle is that you need to give yourself grace and stay flexible because it's okay if your goals change or they adapt. Your vision might change this year. Things might happen in your life and priorities might change. You might get pregnant right now and that travel goal that you had is going to change to getting the prettiest crib for your baby. Sure that they eat organically. Like we as women have to be resilient and be open to change and adapting our goals. So just make sure that you are always open to all of that. Okay, so recapping everything I taught you guys, why visioning your success works, how to create a vision board that is tailored to yourself and your goals, and then how you can use it daily to stay motivated and aligned. Your vision board is a visual contract with yourself. I love. I love that visual contract with yourself. Honey, don't just dream big. You're going to commit to those dreams. You are capable of incredible things. Incredible things in 2025 is your year. So I would love to see those vision boards that y'all make. Please send them over to me in the dms. If y'all can send them to me within the next week or two, I'll get a post out for us by early February and start showing off our visions and our goals so we can all put them out into existence. Thank y'all so much for listening today. I hope you liked today's episode. Leave me a review if you did. Let me know if you like this out of the Box episode. It's not so much about Instagram growth, but it's just about achieving goals for 2025. Hope y'all like it. All right, see ya.