I hope you’ve had an amazing start to 2025!
As we gear up for the new year, it’s a time to reflect on the past, what we’re grateful for, and how we can improve and optimize things for the new year. New beginnings means new opportunities. So here are some ways we can work toward making 2025 our best year yet!
Set the Tone
Reflect on your purpose, your why, and your goals. These are ways of thinking about your future and making the plans and taking the steps necessary to making your dream future a reality. Maybe your ideal life is creating financial freedom through multiple streams of income. Maybe it’s starting a new business and becoming an entrepreneur.
Know what your goals are to set the tone. And when I think about starting a new year, I like to come up with one word or phrase that acts as the theme for the year. What will yours be for 2025?
I also like to get my family in on the fun, helping me brainstorm themes and maybe to come up with one of their own. My daughter chose “courage,” and my son chose “improvement.” Both amazing words, and it helps put everything in perspective. Waking up every day in 2025 thinking about living with courage really shifts my mindset to work harder toward my goals.
For the Passive Income MD community, I think this year’s theme for us could be “intention.” It means that everything we do should have a purpose, a meaning behind the choices we make in life. There’s a reason we’re making them, and we are choosing. When we enjoy life and work toward that ideal life, it’s because we choose to. What we do with our time and money…it should come with great intention.
Plan and Follow Your Path
One thing that I believe delays us on our journey to our ideal life is merely going along with outside influences. When that happens, we can let the environment choose how we feel, what we do, and how we spend our time.
I’m thinking of the physician who lets the hospital administration dictate what they will get out of their lives. That leads to burnout quickly, something a lot of physicians are facing. If you’re like me, I don’t want somebody else dictating what I’m going to do with my life.
I’ve started to realize, and many members of the Passive Income MD community have started to realize, that we can be in control of our own lives. Our time is ours. Our direction is ours. And to slowly gain that freedom back, we have to leverage our medical income with investing and entrepreneurship in order to get our time back.
So let’s make the most of 2025 to move that needle a little bit in a positive direction regardless of where you are in your journey. Maybe you’re in the planning phase, outlining a path that’s ideal for you. Maybe you’re ready to jump on the path and take the necessary steps to financial freedom.
Seek Out Fulfillment
The concept of fulfillment can be deeply personal. It doesn’t look the same from one person to another. If I asked ten people in our community what their ideal week looked like, I’d get ten different answers.
But what is interesting is that, when we zoom out, fulfillment can look pretty similar for all of us. We all want to feel financially secure. We all want to feel like we are in control of our lives. We all want to be around people that we love. We all want to do something meaningful.
Whether big or small, I think it’s important for us to clarify what fulfillment means to us. Find what truly energizes and excites you. Make pursuing those things a priority this year, and it will without a doubt be one of your best years.
Manifest a New Reality
Whatever your theme is for the year, how will you make your goals a reality?
For me, I want the opportunity to make an impact, to connect with people, and spend time with my family. But that means I need to give myself that opportunity. I need freedom with my time. That’s where financial freedom comes into play.
Financial freedom is an amazing goal, and one I believe everyone should aspire to, but it’s not a surface-level goal. In other words, it’s not just about the money. It’s about what it unlocks. It provides the opportunity to make an impact, get connected with people, and spend time with my family..
Additionally, pursuing a goal like financial freedom helps me grow as a person. And the same can be true for you. When you take steps toward financial freedom, what do you really get? Do you become more resourceful? More creative? More control? More resilient in the face of challenges?
Yes.
And that type of personal growth can’t be found scrolling a phone, streaming Netflix, or spending our time doing things that aren’t helping us clarify our goals or taking steps that can help us achieve those goals. Growth doesn’t happen by accident. It’s intentional.
So take a few minutes, just fifteen or twenty, to outline your goals for the year. By naming them, you are one step closer to manifesting them into reality. What does a meaningful year for you look like in 2025?
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Success Leaves Clues
Anything worthwhile takes intention. Building passive income streams takes intention. So does living a fulfilling life. It requires aligning your priorities with your values and then making deliberate choices about how you spend your time and energy.
Know your North Star. Then come up with a basic strategy to figure out how to get there. Be prepared to course-correct along the way. Find people who are doing the things you want to do and get connected with them. All of that will add up to a fantastic 2025 for you.
Surrounding yourself with a community is absolutely vital. Learn from them because success leaves clues. The good news is that here at Passive Income MD, we have plenty of communities that might speak to your interests. Explore them and consider joining them. We hope to see you there!
I’m excited for what 2025 brings, and I hope you are, too! Let’s make our dreams a reality!
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Peter Kim, MD is the founder of Passive Income MD, the creator of Passive Real Estate Academy, and offers weekly education through his Monday podcast, the Passive Income MD Podcast. Join our community at the Passive Income Doc Facebook Group.
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