Happy New Year! In this first episode of 2024, Marli presents a solo episode focused on helping you Manifest Your Dream Life in 2024. Without the typical New Year's resolutions or goal setting, Marli introduces a brilliant 7-step process designed to help listeners gain clarity on the life they want to create. This mini workshop-style podcast pep talk promises to uplift, support, and encourage while challenging the traditional mindset of creating goals from lack and scarcity vs. abundance and possibility. Through engaging prompts and thought-provoking insights, Marli aims to guide listeners on a journey of growth, transformation, and impact. It's a perfect listen for those seeking a fresh and empowering approach to starting the new year.

Grab a journal and a pen for this one and let's set you up for success in 2024!

Marli Williams is an international keynote speaker, master facilitator, and joy instigator who has worked with organizations such as Nike, United Way, Doordash, along with many colleges and schools across the United States. She first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor when she was 19 years old. After getting two degrees and 15 years of leadership training, Marli decided to give herself permission to be the “Professional Camp Counselor” she knew she was born to be. Now she helps incredible people and organizations stop waiting for permission and start taking bold action to be the leaders and changemakers they’ve always wanted to be through the power of play and cultivating joy everyday. She loves helping people go from stuck to STOKED and actually created her own deck of inspirational messages called StokeQuotes™ which was then followed by The Connect Deck™ to inspire more meaningful conversations. Her ultimate mission in the world is to help others say YES to themselves and their big crazy dreams (while having fun doing it!) To learn more about Marli’s work go to www.marliwilliams.com and follow her on Instagram @marliwilliams

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Hey, everyone. What is happening? First, I just want to say, Happy New Year. Welcome to 2024. I am super stoked because this week, I am bringing you a solo episode on how to manifest your dream life in 2024, and I'm going to walk you through a brilliant 7 step process to really help you get clear on the life that you want to create. That's way more fun than boring goal setting or New Year's resolution. So, can't wait for you to dive in, grab a journal, grab a pen, grab a friend. And this is kind of like a mini workshop podcast pep talk. So, I hope you enjoy. Happy New Year.

Hey, everyone. What's happening? I am super stoked to welcome you to the Marli Williams podcast where we will explore authentic leadership, transformational facilitation, and how to create epic experiences for your audiences every single time. I am your host, Marli Williams bringing you thought provoking insights, expert interviews, and actionable strategies to unlock your potential as a leader, facilitator, and speaker. Thank you for joining me on this journey of growth, transformation, and impact. Let's Lead Together. The Marli Williams podcast begins now. Let's dive in.

Hey, everybody. What is happening? I am super stoked to welcome you back to the Marli Williams podcast. And I just want to say thank you for listening. Thank you for reviewing, rating, subscribing, sharing.

It is the beginning of a new year, 2024, and I am going to kick off this year with a solo episode. And I am really excited to kick the New Year off, really getting you in the right energy, getting you in the right mindset, really helping you feel uplifted, supported, and encouraged. I think that one of the things that I see get in people's way when it comes to the new year is we feel like we have to change everything for everything to change. And we take on maybe new habits and we want to get up at 5 AM and we want to lose a bunch of weight and we want to stop drinking and we want to do all of these things. And what ends up happening is we typically do that for a couple days and then we give up.

So, I'm going to invite you to have a different perspective, whether it's goal setting, new year's resolutions. And I'm going to really invite you into a different energy. Oftentimes, when we create and set goals, we're creating them from a not good enough place. I'm not enough right now, but if I did this, then I would be enough. Then I would be enough. If I had the body that I want, if I, you know, had my perfect morning practice, then I would be somehow enough.

So, the first step is instead of creating from a place of not enough, setting goals and intentions from this place is to start from appreciation. To start from feeling enough right now just as you are, knowing that if nothing changes, that you are still loved and you are still enough right now without changing anything and what I know to be true. So, here's what I'm going to do. Here's what I'm going to do today. I am going to walk you through the 7 steps of manifesting your dream life. Right? So, you know, as we step into 2024 and really think about what it is that you want to create, who you want to be, these steps are going to support you on that mission and on that journey.

So, step 1 is actually, appreciation. Starting right now in this moment with all of the things that you already appreciate, all the things that are already going well. Because here's what I know to be true is that we get more of what we look for. We get more of what we look for. So, again, instead of this not enough place, we’re creating from this, like, look at all of the things that are already going well. All of the things that are already working. And to start from this place of appreciation, from this place of gratitude, and knowing that that energetically shifts what we feel capable of calling in. Right? Because if we're starting from lack, we're always going to be creating from that not good enough energy. So, the first step is appreciation. Starting with appreciation.

Then the next step is attraction. And by attraction, I mean, what is it that you want to attract more of into your life in 2024. And I love this idea of attraction because it's really thinking about being magnetic. What do I want to attract. So, the prompt that I would encourage you to write down if you're journaling this, if you're following along and you have the time maybe if you're walking, listen to this again later. The prompt that I love here is what I really want is. What I really want is. And I invite you to set a timer for 5 minutes, for 10 minutes and just write as many things as you want down, right? So, the invitation, the question is, what do I want to attract? And when I think about this, like, what am I wanting to call in more of in my life? Love, relationships, money, abundance, friendship, support, travel. And part of this is really giving yourself permission to ask for whatever it is that you want and know that you deserve anything you desire.

I believe that, you know, the universe loves clarity. Imagine that you were sitting down to the restaurant of the universe. Okay? You can have anything that you want. And you sit down and you wait for someone to bring you something to eat and no one is bringing you anything. And you keep getting hungrier and hungrier. And if you're like me, now you're starting to get hangry. Near like, why is no one bringing me anything to eat? My friends, it's because you haven't placed your order. So, this is an invitation to place your order to the universe. Place your order to the universe. What I really want is give yourself permission to want what you want. Free write, journal, play with it, have fun with it. Don't take yourself too seriously.

Step 3 on our journey is all about alignment. Right? This is about getting your mindset into alignment with what it is that you really want. So, if what I really want is a booked out speaking calendar for 2024, the prompt for this next step is, I'm someone who. I am someone who has a powerful message to share. I am someone who can captivate an audience. I am someone who books out my speaking calendar. Right? I am someone who, you know, if you want to, what I really want is to be in the best shape of my life. I am someone who moves my body every single day. So, it's aligning our identity with what it is we want to call in. James Clear wrote a brilliant book called Atomic Habits, and I think the quote is something to the degree of we can't do who we aren't. And he talks about the power of how our identity shapes and changes our behavior. And so, it's really aligning your identity. Like, I am someone who makes this amount of money or has this much in savings or has this much in my bank account. I am someone who loves saving money. I'm someone who loves investing money. So, you're really thinking about taking on the identity of that person who already has the thing that you want. And this is about creating alignment.

So, again, we're just recapping. We're going through this beautiful process that I could call how to manifest your dream life. Step 1, we start with appreciation. What are you already grateful for? What's already working? We're starting from abundance and enough-ness rather than lack. Then we're moving into attraction. What it is that you really want? What do you want to call in? What do you want to magnetize to you? And then who would you need to be in order for that to be inevitable? In order for your success to be inevitable. And that's the alignment piece.

Number 4 is, you know, I think about this idea of aliveness as energy. Right? So, it's the energy that we're creating from. So, when we're doing things that make us feel alive, that give us energy, that brings us joy, we are going to be more inspired. We're going to be more effective. We're going to be more productive. And we're going to have more fun doing it. Right? Because I think the aliveness part is giving ourselves permission to not just be happy when, but to actually enjoy the journey, actually enjoy the ride.

One of my favorite quotes about goal setting is, the purpose of a goal isn't to achieve it. The purpose of a goal is to figure out who you are along the way. Achieving it is the icing on the cake. And so, I love this, like, question of who do I get to be along the way, along this quest? Let's say, you know, what I really want is to give a TED Talk with a million views. Who I get to become along the way is someone who believes in myself, who has a powerful message to share, who develops incredible speaking skills. Right? Like all of the things that I get to learn and how can I generate the sense of aliveness and energy in service of the vision that I have, in service of this mission that I'm on, and inviting in that that sense of the joy and the playfulness that can come from creating a life that we really want. Looks like doing more of what you want, more often on purpose and not waiting until it's all figured out, until you have all the money, until you have all the freedom or time off, but doing things that make you feel alive right now. So, the prompt, if you're following along here, is I feel the most alive when. What are the things that you're doing when you feel the most alive? For me, it's being of service. It's speaking. It's spending time with my dogs and my partner. It's hanging out with my friends. It's being in the woods. It's facilitating powerful experiences like retreats for people. Like, when do you feel the most alive, the most you, the most lit up. And giving yourself permission to be in those places and spaces and experiences more often than not. Okay? That's number 4 if you're following along.

Number 5 is all about action. Right? It's one thing to know what we want. We're in alignment with who we are. We're feeling alive. We're feeling it in flow. And as I like to say, action is where the magic happens. This is where I think the law of attraction gets a bad rap because it's like, this is what I want. And I'm just going to sit around and wait for it to come to me. But as much as, you know, clarity is the language of the universe, I feel like action is right alongside of it. Right?

Action is showing the universe that you are committed to creating the life that you want. That you're willing to take bold, imperfect action in service of what it is that you want. And so, this is thinking and so often we can get stuck. We can get stopped. We can get overwhelmed because we don't know the right step to take the perfect action that makes the most sense. And the only wrong action is no action at all. The Box of Stowe quote says, imperfect action is always better than perfect in action. Right?

And so often people think, oh, once I have all of this clarity, then I'll take all of this action. And I feel like clarity is a result of action, not a requirement for it. So, this is really about thinking every single day. Not like what are the 10 actions that I can take, but what's the one action that I can take to move one step closer? One step. And again, it doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be something. And, you know, whether that's creating a video or sending an email or reaching out to a colleague or a friend, it's about building and creating momentum. Right? And getting into action, it's so much more important to do. Like, I would rather you do 1 pushup every single day for 30 days than like 10 pushups once and then giving up. So, it's about the small incremental steps that really lead to us getting to where it is that we want to go. And action creates energy and momentum. It helps us get unstuck and out of our own head and out of our own way.

When I was first starting out speaking, coaching, I would say I help people get out of their head and into action. Just 1 step, 1 step closer, 1 action. That's all. Every single day in service of whatever it is you want to create. And I don't care if it's like the teeniest tiniest thing. Drinking water, putting on your running shoes, taking a walk around the block, doing something that's serving you. Action is about you showing up for you. Right? So, we're taking the action. And this is where, you know, as an Aries and a fire starter and a 7 on the enneagram and all these things, like, I will take action all day long. Like, I will hustle. I will make things happen.

But number 6 is something that I've had to practice over the years, which is allowing. Allowing things to show up, allowing the magic to happen, allowing the connections, the serendipity, the opportunities to come to me. And this is the other side of, what we were talking about attraction. What do I want to attract? Declaring, deciding what it is that you want. And the allowing is the willingness and the ability to receive. Right? With action, we're like in this forward momentum and this forward energy and this receiving is this sometimes it's stepping back, sometimes it can look like slowing down, but so much of allowing is actually letting ourselves be worthy of receiving everything that you want. Right? That you deserve what you desire. Allowing that to come in. And this is part of being magnetic. Right? And the prompt here, the journal prompt is, I am open to receiving. What is it that you're open to receiving in 2024? So, this is similar to what I really want. It's just a different energy to play with. Right? What are you allowing to come in? So, that's number 6.

And number 7 is all about abundance. And when I think about abundance, I think about expansion. I think about this prompt, this question of, like, how good can it get? How much better could it even be? Can I expand what I even believe is possible knowing that, you know, the universe is limitless? It like, possibilities are unlimited. There's infinite potential, possibility, and really calling in this level of expansion, joy, possibility and being in that energy of abundance that there is enough for me and for everyone rather than from like coming from this place of scarcity. Right? What we were talking about at the beginning of so oftentimes with goal setting and New Year's resolutions, we start with from this energy of this not feeling enough, feeling this sense of lack. And so, manifesting your dream life as really believing that what you want is possible. And it's raising the bar of what you believe is possible for yourself and for your life. And I really believe that everything is energy. All of these pieces are an invitation to be in a different energetic vibration. I know we're getting kind of woo, but to raise your energy to attract what it is that you want. So, instead of pushing and hustling our way to greatness or to success, that we feel pulled by our vision, by what it is that we want. That we welcome, that we are open to receiving the love, the joy, the abundance versus pushing it away or saying I don't deserve it.

So, I think so much as you enter this next year of your life, this next journey around the sun that we all get to go on, which is such a gift. Right? It's a gift to wake up in the morning. It's a gift to be alive and my hope, my vision, my dream, my goal is that every single year that I get to be here, that it gets to keep getting better and I'm calling that in. I'm inviting that in. I'm being in this the energy of the enough-ness, energy of abundance, energy of possibility.

I want to walk you through these 7 steps one more time. You can write this down. And if you're listening to this in the car, or maybe you want to listen to this again when you're able to sit down with a journal, a pen, a piece of paper. This is really about how to manifest your dream life in 2024. Alright?

Step 1 is start with what you already appreciate. What's already working? So, we're starting from this place of gratitude and enough-ness. Number 2, attraction. What I really want is, what do you want to call in in 2024? Number 3 is all about alignment and getting clear on who you want to be stepping into this next year. You get to decide that every single day when you wake up. I am someone who wakes up at 6 in the morning. I'm someone who has a morning practice. I am someone who shows up for my kids. I am someone who is a sought-after speaker. Right? I'm someone who. Number 4 is about the sense of aliveness, joy, energy, and knowing when you feel the most alive. So, the prompt for this one is, I feel the most alive when. Number 5 is all about action. Taking bold, inspired, and imperfect action in service of what it is that you want to call in and create this next year. And just taking 1 small step every single day in service of that. Number 6 is after you take that action, being open to receiving that which is coming to you, coming through you. So, I am open to receiving. Right? How much money do you want to make? What kind of relationships do you want to create? You know, I'm open to receiving opportunities to travel. What is it that you want to invite in and receive? And then number 7 is all about abundance, expansion, possibility of asking this question: how could it get even better than this? Right? If life is going really well, how could it get even better? And if life is not going really well, how could it get better? What would that look like and trusting and knowing that that is possible for you. And this is a process that I walk people through, that I'm going to walk people through in a couple weeks coming up at Camp Yes Baja. This is my favorite pool party play shop. But now you get to have your own mini play shop with your friends, with your family, with yourself, with your dogs, walking through this process of creating the life that you really want for yourself in 2024 and beyond.

So, that is your invitation as we kick off this new year on the Let's Lead Together podcast. And I would love to know if you do this exercise, how it went for you, what you're creating, what you're the most excited about as you step into 2024. And just know that I am on your team, on your side, cheering you on every step of the way. And I just can't wait to see who you become and what you create in 2024. Alright, team. Until next time. I'm sending you all so much love. Take care.

Thank you for joining us on another inspiring episode of the Marli Williams podcast. We hope you're leaving here with renewed energy and valuable insights to fuel your leadership, coaching, and speaking endeavors. I'd love to invite you to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast to help us reach more aspiring leaders and speakers like you. We have more exciting episodes and remarkable guests lined up, so make sure to tune in next time. Until then, keep leading with purpose, coaching with heart, and speaking with conviction. This is Marli Williams, signing off. See you next week.