Finding Your Authentic Goals for 2025

Feeling stuck or unsure of who you are? Learn how to uncover your true goals and build a life that feels authentically yours.

As the year comes to a close, many of us are reflecting on what we want to achieve in the next one. If you’ve spent much of your life people-pleasing, you might already feel the pressure to set resolutions—ones that seem impressive, socially acceptable, or guaranteed to make others happy. But when you’ve been conditioned to put others first, defining what you want can feel surprisingly hard. How do you even know what your goals are when you’re used to living by someone else’s expectations?

This year, I want to help you start the process of setting goals that are rooted in your authentic self—not in what you think you should do, not in what others want from you, but in what feels aligned with who you are. And if you don’t feel confident in who you are yet, that’s okay. This process is as much about self-discovery as it is about goal-setting.

Here’s how we can start.