078: Things You Need to Know Before 2018

In this episode, I share with you seven things you need to know before 2018. It’s my list of things I’d like to tell you as you get started on this next journey around the sun.  As a bonus, I also announce the first book for 2018’s Book Club!  Yay!  Here’s a link to buy the book The Four Agreements. This episode is great for anyone who is heading into 2018! It’s for anyone who wants a fresh perspective on accomplishments and how to push through while rolling with the contrast.  If you liked this episode, I’d be honored if you’d share it (there are social media buttons right up top!)  Thanks for listening and happy new year! Transcript: Welcome to the art of living day. I’m your host, Betsy Pake, and this podcast is designed to share interviews and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. today’s podcast is brought to you by audible, you can get a free audiobook download and a 30 day free trial at audible trial, comm backslash live big, there’s over 180,000 different titles to choose from. And you can listen to them on your iPhone or your Android or your Kindle. Now the cool thing about this is that that 30 day free trial, so you get the free audio book, but the 30 day free trial gives you a discount on all the other audiobooks. So even if you cancel it, and you don’t keep the membership, you could get a whole bunch of audiobooks on your list for 2018 by using your discount with your 30 day free trial. Now, here’s the show. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. This is the last episode of 2017, which is like both exciting and like a little bit sad. I feel like this year has been such a crazy, tremendous year of growth, and so many good things, and so much contrast. And I’m just, I guess I’m like filled with gratitude, really, we had some really incredible guests this year, and just so much great stuff. And so with all of that, knowing that so many good things can happen. I’m looking forward to 2018. But I wanted to share with you seven things that I think you should remind yourself of seven things you need to know, before you head into 2018 Are you ready, this is a list in no particular order. But my first thing that you need to know before you go into 2018 is that you don’t have to be perfect. I think that with the new year, it sets us up on this. Like, you know, with the resolutions and the high intensity of like, I’m going to change things I’m going to make things different this year is going to be different this year is going to be better, all of that puts a lot of pressure on us to be perfect, and to not screw up. And what I think that actually does is limits us from really becoming everything we can become. Because to grow and change, we have to take risks. And when we take risks, we screw up. And so you don’t have to be perfect, you don’t have to get it right, the first to the second, you don’t even have to get it right the third time, you just have to keep trying new ways. So keep that in mind when things don’t go the way you want. And it’s January 3, and you think oh my gosh, I was so excited about doing this thing, or I was so excited about this change. Just know that you don’t have to be perfect, it’s okay, it’s a marathon, just keep running, just keep going. Now, the number two thing you need to get to know before heading into 2018 is that things can be in pencil, you know, you can change your mind. I think so many times we set and I know for me, I would set this like huge list of resolutions and how I was going to live my life.