I came out of 2012 feeling a little beaten and battered. I’m blessed with a very full life and sometimes that gets overwhelming for me. Trying to keep up with all of the demands of the day as a business owner, coach, mama, partner and community member had run me ragged. I was feeling lost on the sea of tasks and responsibility without feeling a true connection to why I was doing any of it. The weeks tend to roll by so quickly now and it’s all too easy for one season to turn into the next without ever really tuning into what I need.
Honoring your personal yearnings is essential to emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. You were given a unique path for this life and you are the only one who knows how to follow it. Take the time to listen…
That’s why I always make a concerted effort to vision into my own personal needs at this time of year. This precious deep wintertime, right after the holidays, is perfect for dreaming up and envisioning the path that you will walk for the remainder of the year. Modern life is inevitably busy, noisy, and distracting… but here, at the still point of the year, we can slow down enough to listen, if we’re willing.
If we don’t make time for it now, we’ll surely get swept up in the fast pace of Spring and Summer without our own inner compass to guide us. A life of endless busyness and disconnection from our individual longings can leave us burnt out and discouraged. And then all we are doing is “keeping up” with a culture that is going nowhere fast. In order for us to live good, juicy, meaningful lives and work together to restore the vitality and beauty of the world we live in, we each have to reconnect with our inner longings and reclaim the right to live our dreams.
“Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the stillpoint, there the dance is.” -T.S. Eliot
Here are some practical tips to get you started in dreaming up your precious life path for 2013…
I’m going to hook you up with the magic formula for creating powerful New Year’s reSOULutions that will actually make a difference in your life. What this means for you is that 2013 is going to be the year that everything changed. It is going to be the year that you stood up and reclaimed your sacred right to LOVE your life.
Get Connected. Do you remember that feeling that you had when you were younger… that hunger for life, that curiosity and longing? The feeling you had when you dreamed of traveling to foreign places or conquering the injustice of the world. This is the sensation that you have to connect to.
You may long for different things now, but you’ll know you’ve hit the spot when you experience that same kind of hunger in your soul. This is the gold. The yearning that makes your soul burn like this is your truest genius and it’s begging to be welcomed into your life. Be aware that this might take digging deep, because you may have taught yourself to ignore and discard these feelings. If you get stuck at this step please schedule a Strategy Session with me and I’ll help you through.
Get Real. Take a long, slow sober look at your life. What are your blessings? Where have you compromised? What’s working really well? What’s not working at all? What needs some improvement or a shift of attitude? Be brutally honest with yourself. There’s no need to fake it here.
Get Clear. Once you have a clear picture of how your life is currently set up and what yearnings are begging for your attention, you can start to make a plan. Figure out what needs to be in place to make these visions possible. What needs to change? What do you need to let go of? What might you need to learn or invite into your life?
Considering all of these questions, make a clear plan for moving toward your dreams, one step at a time. Again, if you get stuck at this step, please schedule a Strategy Session with me and I’ll help you through… I LOVE this part of the process.
Get Support. The process of really owning your life and making a change takes some time. It’s subject to countless distractions and obstacles. It can be easy to lose sight of your personal needs and vision while you’re trying to keep up with life as usual. Make sure you have solid support for this process, like a coach, mentor, guide or group that will lovingly keep you on task.
As a coach and in my own personal life, I simply LOVE this process. This is what’s it’s all about… waking up to our own unique, brilliant lives and giving ourselves permission to live our dreams. It’s really not as hard as it may seem. Let me help you gain the clarity you need in just one hour by scheduling a Strategy Session with me today.
Make 2013 the best year of your life (so far) by stepping into it with clarity and intention!
Happy New Year!
