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Resolutions are out. Intentions are in. This week on A Call For Love, I’m sharing a powerful framework to help you ditch the overwhelm of resolutions and focus on what truly matters in 2025.
I’ll walk you through my own 25 for 2025 list and show you how I narrowed it down to the top 5 priorities that will have the biggest impact in my life. You’ll learn why letting go of the rest is the key to success, how to categorize your intentions into personal, relational, and professional goals, and practical tools to make them stick.
Stick around until the end for a heartfelt intention poem to ground you as you start the year with clarity, purpose, and love.
If you’re ready to embrace growth, focus your energy, and create a life rooted in what truly matters, this episode is for you.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- The difference between resolutions and intentions (and why it matters).
- How to create your own 25 for 2025 list and prioritize your top 5 goals.
- Why letting go of lower-priority goals is a game-changer.
- Practical tools to stay focused, aligned, and intentional throughout the year.
Remember, this year isn’t about doing everything—it’s about doing what truly matters. Let’s make 2025 a year of clarity, connection, and growth.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- My upcoming retreat in Costa Rica
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About Linda:
Have you ever battled overwhelming anxiety, fear, self-limiting beliefs, soul fatigue or stress? It can leave you feeling so lonely and helpless. We’ve all been taught how to be courageous when we face physical threats but when it comes to matters of the heart and soul we are often left to learn, "the hard way."
As a school teacher for over 30+ years, struggling with these very issues, my doctor suggested anti-anxiety medication but that didn't resonate with me so I sought the healing arts. I expanding my teaching skills and became a yoga, meditation, mindfulness, reiki and sound healer to step into my power and own my impact.
A Call for Love will teach you how to find the courage to hold space for your fears and tears. To learn how to love and respect yourself and others more deeply.
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Hello, and welcome to a call for love where we inspire
Speaker:you to choose love, peace, and joy over fear,
Speaker:stress, and worry. And it's really about embracing growth
Speaker:and creating a life rooted in compassion and connection.
Speaker:And today, I wanna share with you something that's really been on my heart and
Speaker:mind, and that is how we step into
Speaker:this new calendar year. Now I do believe that every day
Speaker:is a new beginning. But with the turn of the calendar
Speaker:to 2025, let's face it, many
Speaker:people set resolutions, and that can feel very
Speaker:overwhelming. And most of them don't stick.
Speaker:I feel it, and I've been there too. But I found a way to set
Speaker:intentions that actually work, and it all comes down to
Speaker:focusing on what matters most. So in this episode,
Speaker:I'm sharing my 25 for 2025 list
Speaker:and how I have narrowed it down to my top five
Speaker:priorities. And that's the thing. The ones that will really
Speaker:truly make the biggest impact this year in your
Speaker:life. I also talk about why letting go of some of the
Speaker:goals is a good thing and how it helps
Speaker:you show up with more clarity and purpose. So stick around
Speaker:until the end because I'll be sharing a special intention
Speaker:poem that I created to help you start the year
Speaker:fresh, feeling grounded, focused, and ready to embrace
Speaker:all the good that's waiting for you. So let's begin.
Speaker:To start today, I would like to share that every
Speaker:year, you know, you hear the one word intention
Speaker:or you hear the phrase or you hear something to motivate you, to
Speaker:propel you into the next calendar year. And it's really
Speaker:about creating a fresh start. But let's face it.
Speaker:Most resolutions fade because they're either too vague, which
Speaker:I've mentioned on many of the podcasts, or we try
Speaker:to tackle too much at once. I've been there too,
Speaker:which is why I've shifted my approach to this calendar
Speaker:year to set intentions that actually stick,
Speaker:and it starts with clarity. So why
Speaker:create intentions? So creating a list, I've
Speaker:decided to create 25 items in my list because
Speaker:I kinda like those synchronicities of numbers. So 25 for
Speaker:25. And I think it's really cool that we have
Speaker:now entered into and completed a quarter
Speaker:of a century. But in any case, creating a
Speaker:list isn't about doing everything perfectly,
Speaker:really. It's about aligning your energy with what matters
Speaker:most and showing up intentionally. It's about clarity
Speaker:and not chaos because we can set all these
Speaker:intentions. It can become too overwhelming, and
Speaker:we really haven't thought them out. So it's
Speaker:really about resolutions to intentions.
Speaker:That's how I'm shifting my mindset for this year.
Speaker:Not resolutions, but really being mindful of my
Speaker:intentions, and maybe this resonates with you as well. And,
Speaker:of course, I'm recording this at the start of a brand new year.
Speaker:However, this is something that you can refocus on
Speaker:any quarter of the year, any month, or any
Speaker:milestone. So let's divide them into
Speaker:categories. That's how I've separated and categorized
Speaker:my intentions, and they're under 3 areas. 1st,
Speaker:for me are personal goals about nurturing myself,
Speaker:my body, mind, and spirit, and then about relational
Speaker:goals about deepening the connections with those we care
Speaker:about. And then for me and for many of you, maybe
Speaker:professional goals about creating impact.
Speaker:Now my 25 for 25
Speaker:is quite intense. It took me a little while to go through
Speaker:them, and I selected 6 for my
Speaker:personal growth. I'm not gonna go through them all, but I
Speaker:will share with you that some I've already been doing.
Speaker:But the main ones that are new for this year,
Speaker:and I I phrased it like this, is to honor and celebrate
Speaker:my body's evolution with age. You
Speaker:know that saying you're not getting older. You're getting wiser.
Speaker:Well, I would like to actually put that into practice
Speaker:because I am physically getting older,
Speaker:and my body is showing it. And I wanna embrace
Speaker:it. I wanna celebrate it without criticizing
Speaker:it and judging it. And so one of the main practices
Speaker:I'm doing this year is I'm going to include weight
Speaker:training. And I have a special guest coming
Speaker:up who will talk more about that. But I do
Speaker:feel I have the agility, mobility, and flexibility
Speaker:through yoga and Pilates kinda down pat now,
Speaker:and I want to embrace the weight training.
Speaker:Actually, my son, Michael, bought me some hand weights this
Speaker:Christmas, so I'm ready to go. So
Speaker:that was the main item I had for my personal growth.
Speaker:The other ones, you know, like, I wanna read 25 books
Speaker:for 2025, stay grounded and present with self compassion,
Speaker:you know, practice the let them let me, which I will talk
Speaker:about further in another podcast theory.
Speaker:And, of course, starting my mornings intentionally with
Speaker:meditation, a gratitude practice. I like to read in
Speaker:spiritually inspiring readings to really ground and
Speaker:uplift me. So that's kind of my personal area.
Speaker:So you may want to create some intentions.
Speaker:I'm not gonna say goals, and I'm not gonna say resolutions, but
Speaker:intentions in your personal growth. Okay?
Speaker:Things to propel you forward on your journey. But then
Speaker:I call the next category relational, and,
Speaker:really, it's about friends and family. My main
Speaker:one I have 5 in this area, but my main one is
Speaker:to remember birthdays and special
Speaker:occasions. I have I am blessed with many,
Speaker:many people in my life. You know, I have 10 older
Speaker:brothers and sisters, teen nieces and nephews,
Speaker:and great nieces and nephews. I think we're bordering on, like, 60 now.
Speaker:And, I I feel very overwhelmed with
Speaker:remembering birthdays. And, of course, I have dear friends
Speaker:and clients. So this year, I'm going to try being more
Speaker:intentional about remembering these special occasions.
Speaker:Now that is the main one. I've chosen just one main one from each
Speaker:category. So for the personal was including weight training
Speaker:into my health regime and remembering
Speaker:birthdays for my relational intentions. But I
Speaker:also have, of course, supporting my sons, Michael and Patrick, on their journey,
Speaker:spending more quality time and activities with my husband,
Speaker:Gord, and taking technology breaks.
Speaker:I can get very obsessed about technology
Speaker:and wanting to get things done, and so I'm gonna be really
Speaker:mindful of that, like, closing the computer, putting my phone away.
Speaker:And, you know, we've had a lot of changes in our life recently,
Speaker:losing our parents and, you know, our kids getting
Speaker:older. And so I would like to create new holiday traditions.
Speaker:So those are some of the intentions I have. But as I said,
Speaker:my main one I'm gonna focus on is
Speaker:remembering birthdays. And then
Speaker:for professional, I will dive into that a little later,
Speaker:but I do wanna say that when we break down our
Speaker:intentions, into these areas, into
Speaker:these buckets, personal, relational, and professional,
Speaker:it's really about seeing what areas of your life
Speaker:need more focus. And for me, it's about
Speaker:really noticing and making a shift. You know, it
Speaker:could be writing it on a sticky note. It could be putting it in your
Speaker:agenda. Recently, I've been buying a full year calendar that I
Speaker:put on my wall. I've been asking other people how
Speaker:they negotiate through this. And a lot of people say
Speaker:they write it down or they put it in their phone. I like
Speaker:visuals. I'm a visual learner, so I do like seeing it.
Speaker:And if you're anything like me, I am a Vata in terms
Speaker:of, Ayurvedic doshas. I need to see it, hear
Speaker:it. I have to have it in many places, not just
Speaker:one, in order to keep that really in
Speaker:my mindset. So as you look at your
Speaker:25 items, it's too much.
Speaker:25 items is really spreading yourself then. It's
Speaker:just like the one word intention. So one word
Speaker:is doable. It's something that's in your mindset. Well, if
Speaker:you have 25 intentions for 2025,
Speaker:it's really overwhelming and a little bit too much.
Speaker:So the key here is to write them all
Speaker:down and then to take the top 5.
Speaker:So I've taken actually, I have negotiated this a little
Speaker:bit. I've taken one for my personal, one for my relational,
Speaker:and I do have 5 for my professional. And then
Speaker:the secret here is, and this is the hardest part,
Speaker:is to let go on purpose of the rest.
Speaker:And what that means is, and I shared this with my friend Jodi
Speaker:Pappas, is you are to write them down and cross them
Speaker:out and make sure that you do
Speaker:not do them. So it actually works in reverse.
Speaker:You have to really create the mindset not to
Speaker:do them. So I will give you an example.
Speaker:I love creating. Just love creating. And I've been
Speaker:intending to write this course for Insight
Speaker:Timer. It's an app where I do have meditations on there,
Speaker:and I've been wanting to write this course. It would be so much
Speaker:fun. I could do a great job, and it gets me excited,
Speaker:but it's not in my top five. And
Speaker:so I have to purposely say because I get attracted to
Speaker:it like a magnet. No, Linda. Don't do it. Another thing
Speaker:is is that I love to take courses myself. And
Speaker:so I purposely have to say no.
Speaker:You're not allowed I say I talk to myself. You're not
Speaker:allowed to take another course at this time because
Speaker:that's not in your top five. That's not in
Speaker:your top five intentions for 2025.
Speaker:And so that is the key. When you remember
Speaker:this, then you can focus it. There's a great
Speaker:book. I don't know who writes it, but it's called Essentialism.
Speaker:And what it has is this circle and all these
Speaker:arrows around the circle coming like spokes, spokes of
Speaker:a bike. And so all these arrows are going away from
Speaker:the circle. That's when you have too many intentions.
Speaker:So say you have 25, all those arrows are
Speaker:focusing away. Well, of course, you can't get very
Speaker:far on the spokes. But the less
Speaker:intentions you have, then all that energy and
Speaker:time is purposely going into your
Speaker:top 5, and then you go farther. And
Speaker:that's what we want. And so for my professional
Speaker:goals, I do wanna go farther. And I've decided,
Speaker:of course, a call for love podcast is very important to
Speaker:me and my listeners. I've been getting exceptional
Speaker:feedback as I celebrate the 2 year mark.
Speaker:I'd said it episode 81 and
Speaker:82. It was this time 2 years ago
Speaker:in 2023 that I created a call
Speaker:for love, and it has really filled my life and my heart.
Speaker:It's something that gives me purpose and gives
Speaker:me joy. And so I'm going to continue that, of
Speaker:course. I put that on Apple, Spotify,
Speaker:many platforms, and also through Insight Timer.
Speaker:But what are my other ones? And so this is what I've decided
Speaker:is that just narrowing down my focus is
Speaker:retreats. I've been doing them for, oh, I would say
Speaker:7, 8 years now, and I love them. So this
Speaker:is the first time in 2025 that I'm actually going out of
Speaker:country, and we're going to Samara, Costa Rica. It is super
Speaker:exciting. It is gorgeous there. Stunning on the
Speaker:ocean, walking everywhere, an excursion. Just
Speaker:beautiful. If you're interested, you can go to Global
Speaker:Wellness Education offerings to retreats,
Speaker:or there's a link in the show notes. But in any case, my
Speaker:retreats are very important. And, of course, I have retreats
Speaker:every year at the retreat house in Ontario, Canada
Speaker:on top of Blue Mountain at the retreat house. So retreats
Speaker:are part of it. My podcasting is part of it. So that's
Speaker:2. The other thing is content
Speaker:creation. I love writing, and that's another thing. I
Speaker:wanna write a book, but I have to purposely put that
Speaker:underneath the 5 because
Speaker:that could really detract me from my main goals.
Speaker:But I can kinda satisfy that through my
Speaker:newsletters and my blogs and creating social
Speaker:media presence. And so that's where I've devoted
Speaker:my creative artistry is into writing
Speaker:for these newsletters, which people read, and I
Speaker:receive a lot of insight and feedback
Speaker:back, which I truly, truly appreciate. The
Speaker:third thing is to continue my in person
Speaker:offering. So I do corporate events. I do coaching,
Speaker:Reiki energy sound healing, circles of love, and,
Speaker:of course, I do my yoga meditation studio classes. So I'm
Speaker:keeping that in. That is not new, but it
Speaker:is a huge part of my life, and it takes up quite a bit
Speaker:of time and energy. So that is included. Now the
Speaker:last one, 5, is trainings.
Speaker:This year, I consider it a huge
Speaker:personal success for me that over the last
Speaker:2 years, I have created a meditation manual, and I
Speaker:launched a 50 hour meditation
Speaker:teacher training. Now this is expand your path to
Speaker:peace. And what I've noticed in we are having our
Speaker:last weekend coming up, but it's really about
Speaker:inner awareness, awakening your higher self. It's self
Speaker:discovery, returning to wholeness, all those things that
Speaker:lead you back home is befriending yourself. And so it's been
Speaker:so successful. And here, once again, my creative writing
Speaker:abilities coming in, that, 50 hours was
Speaker:not long enough to share all
Speaker:that I have learned because I have taken many, many, many
Speaker:courses as a meditation guide, yoga teacher,
Speaker:Reiki sound master, coach, shamanic practitioner.
Speaker:I've dove into so many areas,
Speaker:and I'm bringing this all into the course. It's
Speaker:not just about meditation. In fact, there's a
Speaker:huge component about mindfulness, self compassion.
Speaker:And so that is one of the trainings. The other one is I'm going
Speaker:to be offering Reiki. Reiki part 1, 2, 3, and
Speaker:master trainings where you can become your own
Speaker:Reiki energy healer. And lastly, a restorative
Speaker:yoga teacher training. So I have decided to take
Speaker:my skills from being a school teacher for over 30 years and
Speaker:create trainings. And so this is what I invite you to
Speaker:do. So you may be retired, and you may not have
Speaker:professional goals, but you could call them creative
Speaker:goals. Because I feel it's really important
Speaker:as we move through the years to have purpose,
Speaker:to go from me to we, to give back.
Speaker:And so why not call them creative endeavors
Speaker:or sharings or whatever it is? Because I have a
Speaker:friend. She volunteers at a nursing home. I have other
Speaker:people that paint and have created, you could call
Speaker:it a side hustle, but they don't have their main career anymore.
Speaker:So a passion, a purpose. And so
Speaker:I offer you the perspective that
Speaker:maybe you want to create something in your life that
Speaker:is an offering, a creative endeavor,
Speaker:taking up a new skill or passion. I have a friend taking
Speaker:violin lessons. I've been dabbling in guitar.
Speaker:I love to paint. I love to knit. And so just
Speaker:exercising both sides of the brain as
Speaker:you navigate through the wisdom years is something that
Speaker:you may really wanna consider because we're all on this
Speaker:journey, and this is the perfect time. The perfect time is now.
Speaker:It's this the only moment we have is now. And so
Speaker:what intention do you want to set now? It's
Speaker:about creating action steps. So
Speaker:taking the biggest intentions that will have the biggest
Speaker:impact in your life and making those front and
Speaker:center. So this year, it isn't about
Speaker:doing everything, but it's about doing what truly matters.
Speaker:And by focusing on your top 5, give or take,
Speaker:you'll create the space, the energy, and the intention to
Speaker:make 20 25 a year of meaningful growth
Speaker:because this is what it's all about, is
Speaker:not comparing ourselves to others, but comparing
Speaker:ourselves to ourselves. And I don't
Speaker:really like the word comparing, but it's more of a mindful
Speaker:noticing to always step forward in our
Speaker:own journey even if it's one more small
Speaker:step. Why? You may ask yourself, why is this so
Speaker:important? You know, I'm fine the way I am, but, you know, I think it's
Speaker:part of the human nature to always be striving and
Speaker:growing. The mind always wants that. It always wants to be
Speaker:pushing. And so why not navigate it in
Speaker:a direction of growth? That is my
Speaker:thoughts in any case. And I do believe in myself,
Speaker:and I believe in you. I believe in the spirit
Speaker:of people that we can really grow
Speaker:to be a ripple of love and light to all those who
Speaker:come in our path and really raise the collective consciousness.
Speaker:Now to end this episode, I would like to share a
Speaker:poem that I've written. It's not really a poem. It's more of
Speaker:an intention. I call it from resolutions to intentions.
Speaker:It's really about embracing newness with purpose and
Speaker:clarity, and it goes like this. I am
Speaker:ready to welcome new beginnings. I
Speaker:embrace love, joy, and vibrant health. I
Speaker:trust in the beauty and goodness of life. I
Speaker:soften into changes and challenges, trusting they are for
Speaker:my highest good. I embrace this time of transition
Speaker:with patience and self compassion. I walk toward
Speaker:peace and joy, trusting it will show me the best
Speaker:path for my life, for my journey. I hold
Speaker:space for each day as it unfolds, trusting life's
Speaker:greater plan. I know that all is happening for
Speaker:me, not to me. I am supported and
Speaker:guided, creating a ripple of loving kindness
Speaker:out into the world. And so it is. Thank
Speaker:you. Thank you. Thank you. This may resonate
Speaker:with you. I hope it does. If not, create
Speaker:something that inspires you. I actually have this
Speaker:recorded on my phone in the morning. I can listen to
Speaker:it, and I do have it also on notes on my phone
Speaker:in case I wanna refer to it. That along with
Speaker:my 5 main objectives and intentions, my
Speaker:personal goal my main personal goal and my main relationship
Speaker:goal. And so that is how I am
Speaker:creating a path for this year.
Speaker:Let me know what your thoughts are. Let me know what your
Speaker:intentions are for 2025. Maybe you have created
Speaker:25 things for 2025 and narrowed them down to
Speaker:5. I would be so interested because this is what we do. We
Speaker:learn from each other. We're not what what does that say?
Speaker:No man or person is an island? Well, that's what
Speaker:it is. It's about learning from each other. You can reach out
Speaker:to me at lindaorcini@globalwellnesseducation.com,
Speaker:or reach out to me on social media at
Speaker:Instagram, Linda Orsini Wellness, or on
Speaker:Facebook, Linda Orsini, and LinkedIn, Linda
Speaker:Orsini. I am wishing you the clarity and
Speaker:the compassion to set your intentions
Speaker:for this new year. And remember, you can
Speaker:always pivot. If it's not working for you in this moment,
Speaker:pivot. Rewrite it. You are
Speaker:the master of your narrative of your life,
Speaker:not in the past, but moving forward. So really make sure
Speaker:that the path you're walking in is the direction that you want to
Speaker:go. Okay? So from my heart to yours,
Speaker:namaste.
