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Make this Your Best Year Yet! 9 Steps to Greater Clarity in Goals

As we’re wrapping up the year, you might be thinking about how to make the most out of NEXT year. In this video I share 9 steps to greater clarity to help you set the best possible goals that are aligned with your larger vision for yourself – so you can make 2021 your BEST YEAR YET! Because every year should be our best year yet (except 2020 which came in like a wrecking ball & many are still picking up the pieces 🤣). I take my executive coaching clients through these 9 steps, and now I’m sharing them with you. Let me know what you think in the comments! ====================================== 🚀FREE TRAINING– Career Clarity: https://www.shadezahrai.com/cct-registration To find out more about Shadé, visit the website: https://www.shadezahrai.com Follow her on: • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shadezahrai/ • TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@shadezahrai • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadezahraispeaker • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadezahrai

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At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Nine-step framework to clarify values, purpose, and goals for year

  1. Clarity is framed as an active practice—something you build through time, reflection, and intention rather than passively “finding” it.
  2. The process begins with creating mental space and identifying core values and passions to strengthen self-concept clarity and alignment.
  3. Purpose and a concise personal mission statement translate inner drivers into an outward impact you want to make.
  4. A five-year visualization and explicit “life criteria” create a decision filter for opportunities, boundaries, and commitments.
  5. The framework concludes by selecting one 12-month priority and crystallizing 1–3 concrete goals, reinforced through writing and daily visual cues.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Clarity is a skill you cultivate, not a moment of inspiration you discover.

The video challenges the idea that direction “appears” and emphasizes deliberate reflection and consistent practice to reach a desired level of clarity.

Values are the foundation of dependable goal-setting.

Without knowing what matters most and why, goals tend to reflect external “shoulds” rather than an internally consistent self-concept.

Passions reveal where you naturally perform best and feel energized.

Using sentence prompts (e.g., “I’m happiest when…”) helps you identify conditions and activities to increase in the year ahead.

Purpose lasts longer when it’s connected to impact beyond yourself.

Linking meaning to contribution—helping others, being a role model, making a difference—makes motivation more enduring than purely self-focused aims.

A mission statement turns identity into a practical compass for choices.

Craft an elevator-pitch mission with a clear “verb” (what you do) and “outcome” (the impact), so daily decisions align with who you want to be.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Clarity isn't something that you find. It's not going to appear at the bottom of your coffee mug one morning. It's not passive. You have to physically put in the time and the effort to reach your desired level of clarity.

— Dr. Shadé Zahrai

You will never have clarity unless you're first clear on your values and what's most important to you.

— Dr. Shadé Zahrai

Clarity only comes when you give yourself time each day to just be.

— Dr. Shadé Zahrai

Your time and energy is valuable, especially when it comes to clarity. And you'll find that FOMO, fear of missing out, soon turns into JOMO, the joy of missing out.

— Dr. Shadé Zahrai

Clarity leads to action, which becomes motivation and creates momentum.

— Dr. Shadé Zahrai

Self-concept clarity and psychological benefitsCreating space: mindfulness/meditation/prayerValues identificationPassions and peak-energy activitiesPurpose and meaning beyond selfPersonal mission statement (verb + outcome)Five-year vision and visualizationLife criteria, boundaries, FOMO→JOMO12-month priority and 1–3 written goals

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