I'm sharing a completely different approach to goal setting that focuses on embodying the feelings you want to experience before you achieve your goals. I walk you through the Sun Ray Method—a powerful visualization technique I learned from spiritual businesswoman Cathy Heller—that helps you connect with how you'll actually feel once you've achieved your goal. Whether you want to lose weight, start a side hustle, improve your relationships, or (like me) become financially free, this somatic approach to goal setting will help you manifest what you truly want by getting into your body and activating those emotions now. This isn't your typical New Year resolution advice—this is about feeling good in your body first, which naturally pulls your goals toward you.

Key Takeaways

1. The Sun Ray Method for Midlife Goal Setting Draw a circle with your primary goal in the center, then create six rays extending outward. On each ray, write an emotion you'll feel once you achieve that goal—words like "expansive," "peaceful," "free from regret," or "excited." This visual practice helps you connect your goals to genuine feelings rather than external outcomes.

2. Embody Your Goals Before Achieving Them Your brain doesn't distinguish between a vividly imagined emotion and one you're actually experiencing in real time. By intentionally activating the feelings associated with your achieved goal—getting into your body and feeling expansive, calm, or lit up—you're already there. This somatic approach helps manifest goals by pulling them in energetically.

3. The True End Goal Is Always Feeling Good in Your Body Whether your goal is weight loss, financial freedom, or better relationships, the ultimate desire is to feel good in your body. By focusing on how you want to feel first—rather than grinding through workouts you hate or restriction you dread—you create sustainable change that actually lasts beyond January.

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