Embracing the Chaos: Setting Intentions That Feel Good + Spark Growth

How to Turn Your Jumbled Ideas Into a Fun + Flexible YOU-shaped Plan for 2025

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Have you ever melted into the sofa to organize your thoughts with one of the 27 empty notebooks you have lying around, only to find yourself deep in a rabbit hole of cute kitten videos 30 minutes later; convinced that all the endless possibilities you felt on the first empty page were just gas from that burrito you had earlier? (Just me? 🤷‍♀️)

If January were a question, it would be… “What’s the plan, Dre??”

Figuring out a plan feels like assembling IKEA furniture with Swedish instructions + three screws mysteriously missing. It’s messy, it’s overwhelming, and most of the time I’m not sure if I’m even building something usable.

My brain spins in circles, debating every itty-bitty self-sabotaging detail, until suddenly it’s 2 a.m., I’ve solved nothing, and now I’m emotionally invested in a YouTube documentary about competitive wife-carrying.

The mental chaos usually flings me straight into the sweet embrace of avoidance… but not this year.

I won’t allow that madness, anymore…. but how do I stop it?? Or do I?

What if the chaos isn’t the problem – it’s the process?

• What if it’s just my brain brimming with ideas, truths, possibilities, and potential?

• What if that wild forest of tangled thoughts I can’t see my way through is not a sign that I’m drowning in doubt, but a sign that I’m on the verge of brilliance?

• What if every idea, no matter how weird, non-traditional, or half-baked, got a chance to be heard?

• What if it wasn’t about silencing the noise, but recognizing that it’s raw material?

That every half-baked thought + totally-out-there idea is actually an itty-bitty building block waiting to be shaped into some part of the cart-sized life + business I’m looking for.

Kinda like dumping out a 1,000-piece puzzle. At first, it’s just a pile of mismatched pieces, but hidden within is the picture I’m trying to create.

I don’t want to shove the pieces back into the box; I just need to start sorting them, one piece at a time, and trust that with enough time, patience, and clarity, the picture plan will start to take shape.

A plan, even a scrappy, wild, work-in-progress one, is GPS that’ll keep us from getting lost.

And I don’t mean one of those rigid, soul-sucking plans that make us feel trapped and guilty every time life throws us a dumpster fire, school break, or unexpected Netflix binge our way, and we can’t “rise” to the occasion. 🙄

I’m talking about a flexible, imperfect, let’s-figure-this-out-as-we-go kind of YOU-shaped plan.

One that gives us direction.

That says, “Hey, DUDE! Stop spiraling, I got you. Just head this way.”

The kind of plan that evolves, adapts, and grows with us.

Because spoiler alert: we’re not going to get it 100% right on the first try. (And if you do, congratulations, please write a book about it because the rest of us need answers.)

If you’re free next Wednesday, Jan. 22 @ 10am PST, I’m hosting a LIVE planning session to start organizing the beautiful chaos of jumbled ideas in your head into an exciting + flexible YOU-shaped plan for 2025.

Goals are really just intentions with better PR, and intentions are just an idea that you plan (cough… intend) to carry out.

Intentions (a.k.a. The plan) needs specificity + clarity, or it’s as useful as a weather forecast for next month.

Anchoring to generic goals like, “I want to be successful,” or “I want to make 6-figures” is like saying, “I want to eat something delicious” – great sentiment, but what are we talking about here? Tacos? Ice cream? An entire charcuterie board you didn’t mean to eat alone? Anything but sushi?

We can’t expect the Universe to read between the lines.

It needs our “order” to be able to deliver what we’re craving.

It needs to know that you specifically want a “one pot meal”.... With extra onions + bacon… served in a red, vintage casserole dish… and garnished with a dark chocolate fountain…

Or it’s gonna keep bringing you more raw sushi that makes you gag just thinking about.

The magic of setting clear intentions is turning all the chaos of jumbled ideas in your head into a plan you can actually tackle – without feeling like you’re trying to scale Mount Everest while chainsmoking in flip-flops.

During this 90-min. planning session, we’re going to focus on setting THREE main intentions for 2025.

🌭1. What You’re Going to Sell

This is where your vision meets your values. We’re going to dig deep into what lights you up, what solves a real problem for your kindreds, and what offers the greatest potential for impact + profit. Whether you’re refining an existing offer or dreaming up something entirely new, we’re going to work on setting clear, actionable intentions around creating an offer that’s wildly fun + flexible for YOU + intensely heartfelt + helpful for your kindreds.

🌭2. How You’re Going to Market It

This is where your strategy meets your soul. We’re going to dig deep into how you can share your brilliance in ways that feel good + spark growth. Whether you prefer writing, video, and/or podcasting, we’re going to work on setting clear, realistic intentions around creating a content strategy that’s both sustainable + impactful, so you can show up consistently without burning out or going into survival mode trying to feed the content monster.

🌭3. What You’re Going to Experiment With

Growth happens in the trying. We’re going to dig deep into all the bold, exciting, ass-sweat-inducing risks that are worth YOU taking this year, and visualize what kinds of growth, learning, and unexpected wins they could lead to. Whether it’s a new platform (here’s looking at YOU, Substack), a refreshingly new content approach, or a totally off-the-wall idea, this is about creating space for experimentation, so you can spark growth without the pressure of perfection. This is where true innovation lives and honest breakthroughs happen. This is where you’ll take all those bold (repressed for far too long) ideas for a test drive and discover what’s truly possible.

I double-dawg-dare YOU to be specific. Give your intentions some GPS coordinates! Join me next Wednesday… LIVE… to do some ooey-gooey work that’s going to actually pay off!

Success isn’t some tiny, sparkly unicorn prancing around on a techni-color rainbow full of storybook characters, waiting for you to find it. Business isn’t a long game of Where’s Waldo?

That far off fairytale shit doesn’t exist, and even if it did, we’d pay for in glitter-bombed emotional breakdowns.

True success, the feel good, here to stay, kind we’re after, is more like a scrappy workhorse—it’s not glamorous, it’s not Insta-worthy, but it’s reliable, steady, and gets the job done.

It’s the sum of tiny, intentional steps, like brushing the workhorse’s mane one day and feeding it carrots the next. And before you know it, that ordinary workhorse? Turns out it was your unicorn all along—just without all the unnecessary sparkle (or the crippling imposter syndrome).

You don’t need magic to succeed; you just need a clear vision, a doable plan, and the willingness to take one unglamorous step at a time.

How to attend this planning session:

All you have to do to attend this live, collaborative planning session with me + my kindreds is to upgrade your subscription to The Hot Dog Cart (HDC)… you can pay $15/mo. or $130/year (and you can cancel anytime).

Upgrade Your Subscription To The Hot Dog Cart For Access To This 2025 + Beyond Planning Session on January 22nd at 10am PST…

The Zoom login deets will be emailed to all of my paid subscribers and posted in the HDC chat next Tuesday.

If you have any questions, concerns, or tits that need cooling… don’t be shy. Drop a comment below or DM me anytime. I live for the genuine connections we’re going to make this year!!! 🫶

To building a fun, fearless, and flexible plan without losing our damn minds,

Dre ‘Scrappy, Wild, Work-in-progress’ Beltrami

Founder, This Digital Playground
Gangster, The Entire Internet (Since 2014)
Beer Hater, No Matter How It's Brewed (Since 1979)
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