Beautiful green fir tree branches close up. Christmas and winter concept. Soft focus, macro.

As we step into a brand new month, seize the opportunity to embrace and keep your dreams in focus. Continue to paint the masterpiece of your life with determination and success. Remember that you are not just a part of the story, you are the storyteller. Your journey is filled with untold adventures waiting to unfold. Dream big, reach for the stars, and believe in the potential within you.

In the face of challenges, be a beacon of resilience, rising stronger and wiser with every setback. Life may throw you curveballs, but you have the courage to hit them out of the park! Surround yourself with positivity, lift others around you as you rise, and let your kindness be a guiding light.

We become much happier when we are chasing our dreams, choosing forward movements towards your goals builds self confidence and energy, so let’s take an
attainable step towards something you want for yourself. The feeling of positive movement in your life releases endorphins in your brain, which cause you to be more creative and over all more positive. Choose to take steps toward a positive pivot in your life journey lets find goals that actually work. We can always learn something new. Have you set some goals for this next amazing year?

Remember what Brian Tracy says; “A goal that is not in writing is just a wish with no energy behind it, it has no power in your life; its just a vague objective that comes in and out of our life like a sunrise and sunset, without ever accomplishing anything. There are many misconceptions when it comes to goals, many people believe that they don’t need them or say, “I don’t need goals, I am doing fine!” or “I already have goals, so I don’t need to make new ones.” Are you living without any goals or plans, maybe your goals are only tumbling around in your mind, offering you no clarity or direction. When you think of a home that is carefully designed and beautiful, it still will require continual upgrading, needs to be continually worked on and constantly improved. If we don’t take the time to think about what we truly want in life, no matter our challenges, or choosing to write those things down, we only have dreams and wishes.”

Lets make a difference in the plan, path and potential of our 2024 year ahead by choosing to use some time management and discipline to write our goals down. This amazing psyco-neuromotor activity, of choosing to sitting down and being honest with ourselves about what we really want, this forces us to think and concentrate while choosing what is more important to us and our future. Lets build our self confidence and increase our daily energy all with the gift of writing our goals for the next amazing year in our life down.

Don’t worry if you think that you don’t have the skills to achieve your goals, because all essential skills are learnable with attainable steps and gradual results. We can take the first attainable step today in any direction we wish. We can all set a course for our own life while discovering the motivation to succeed.
Here at VAD we can work together to support each other, never feel that you are alone, reach out and gain a motivational partner.

Allow yourself to be open to critique and accountability, a healthy sense of self-awareness helps with self-control, self-confidence and feelings of validation.
To become proactive in our life journey’s, it is important to breakdown large goals into attainable steps, while also taking time to celebrate each small milestone we achieve along the way. Striving to take a small steps builds our motivation up in increasing
amounts. Constructively reviewing our own performance allows us to assess our intentions and personal effectiveness, and it provides an opportunity to ensure our strategies are geared towards self-reward and not self-punishment. Choose to develop your self-leadership this year, you have the ability to pivot the vision of your life, so start today.

This first month is yours to own! Make it one of your chapters in your journey that radiates strength and grace. You are capable of greatness and the world is ready to witness your brilliance and so are we at VAD.  Have an amazing year,
Katrina Breau, President