Hello and welcome. This meditation session is designed to help you clarify your goals. To enable clarity in relation to your goals, I'll be guiding you to reflect on three core attributes - your values, intentions, and aspirations. So we can call this a via meditation, V-I-A meditation, on clarifying your goals. Via for values, intentions, and aspirations.

So let's get started. I invite you now to find a way to sit or stand or even lie down, if you're lying down in a way that is alert, but relaxed at the same time. Whatever that means for you. Becoming aware of your body. And becoming aware of your breath.

Now let's start with exploring your values. Values, simply defined, are the qualities that are most important to you. For example, creativity or wellbeing, or having meaningful work. Whatever's most important for you in life are your core values. To identify and explore your values, I encourage you to bring to mind a person or persons that you admire.

It may be someone you know personally or someone you used to know, or perhaps it's someone famous. It can even be a fictional character. It could be a family member, someone you've worked with. Anything at all will do. The important thing is that this is somebody that you admire and respect.

So calling this person to mind. Consider the key attributes that they embody. Something that they display that you find admirable, or that you greatly value. For example, it may be that you've seen this person speak up for what they believe in. So you might consider the key value here to be courage.

Or maybe this individual is always available to offer help to those in need. And so the value here is compassion and kindness. So just take a moment to consider some of the key values that you admire in this person or people. Often, the values we admire in others are those same values that we aspire for in ourselves. So turning your attention towards yourself now, consider if the values that you highlighted are, in fact, your own personal values.

Perhaps asking yourself if these values are the same ones that you embody or that you aspire to express more of in your own life. And if that's not quite the case, what are some of the values that you aspire to express more of in your life? What are some of those things that are most important to you? And note whatever emerges as you moved through this reflection. Now inviting your core values to be your anchor point, as you move towards reflecting on your goals. So reflect for a moment. How might I embody the values I hold to meet the challenges, the opportunities, or the obstacles that may come my way? How might I embody the values I hold to meet the challenges, opportunities, or obstacles that may come my way? Now as you hold these values in your awareness, I invite you to shift your attention to your intention.

Your intention to realize these values as part of your daily life. And what I mean by intention is your innate capacity to harness and direct your energy and effort at will. So take a moment now to reflect on where and how you might harness and direct your energy and effort towards living what's most important to you, that is towards living your values. How might you most skillfully respond to what life is presenting you? What intention might you set? How might you harness and direct your energy and effort to realize your values? Taking a moment to reflect and notice what emerges. Now that you're clear on your values and intentions, I'd invite you to turn towards setting your aspirations.

An aspiration is something you wish to accomplish in this phase of your life. You can begin by asking yourself, what matters most to me at this stage in my life? Next, you can also ask, where am I most wanting to put my energy and see results ? Where am I most wanting to put my energy and see results? Take a moment now to notice what emerges when you pose these questions. What matters most to me at this stage in my life? And, where am I most wanting to put my energy and see results? This aspiration rooted in your values and intentions may be personal or professional, big or small. It's what you're hoping to manifest in your life now and into the future. This is what you hope for.

This is your goal. Visualizing this goal with vividness and clarity and holding it for a moment in your mind and in your heart. And now we'll bring this practice to a close. And I'd invite you to take three slightly deeper breaths at your own pace. And my hope, as we close this practice, is that you have one small measure of clarity on a goal you wish to achieve, the values you will bring forth to meet them, and the intention with which you'll energize your efforts.

I wish you every success and I thank you for your practice.