2022 is almost a memory. How was your 2022? Have you asked yourself that? If not, go here to ask yourself some important questions to move into 2023 with some added wisdom!
I am reposting this blog, because every year we deserve a re-due! It turned out to be another crazy year all around. So, let’s all do this again. Things have changed. We have all had the opportunity to take a step back and look at our lives from a different perspective. What did you learn about you last year? About what is important to you? Why not take that information and put it to good use!
Your year-end letter
An old client of mine used to send out a wonderful year-end holiday letter. It would always contain the adventures of her four-footed friends Timber and Josie, herself, and the states that she and her husband had “knocked off” their list.
You see, after they had achieved the goal of climbing all of New Hampshire’s “4,000 footers”, they became antsy for another goal—one that involved the two of them and would be exciting and enjoyable to accomplish.
They decided it would be a fun and interesting way to see the country if they set a goal to visit and spend at least one night in each of the 50 states. They posted up a map of the United States in their den and the fun began.
I always loved to receive this letter to see how their goal and vision was being lived, what states they had pinned, and what adventures they had in each state.
As we start this brand-new year, we tend to think about what it might contain, asking the question…I wonder how this year will go down?
How to make your dreams come true this year.
Do you realize that you have more power than you think over your own 2023 destiny and how you’ll make your dreams come true? YOU DO!
Take the challenge:
We call it creating your own “Destination Postcard”. It can also be framed as your own year-end holiday letter. It’s a way to share with yourself how you want to feel, what you want to do, and what changes you want to make this coming year.
As you know from our last blog, I am not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, yet I am a fan of the power of thought and visualization.
That’s one reason I’m also a fan of journaling. Here are some of the other benefits of journaling.
Are you willing to take a few minutes to “see and feel” YOUR 2023? To actually visualize what it will feel and look like when you sit back with a cup of coffee on December 31, 2023 and reminisce about your past year?
It’s so easy for our days to slip by. Do you ever wonder where a week or month went as you pause long enough to think back? Isn’t it true that more often than not, you can’t even remember what you’ve done?
Without taking time to form intentions and think about what you want to do, feel, or experience, the likelihood of you doing, feeling, or experiencing anything at all disappear.
An exercise in visualization.
An exercise I do a lot is one involving talking out events, in present tense, that have yet to come. I talk about how a future event turned out, with embodied excitement and joy. It has helped me release any stress about an upcoming situation and enter it with calmness and confidence.
How to start.
- I remember how…
- I remember when…
- It was so exciting to…
- It felt so amazing to…
This might be something that could be written for me….
“It has felt so amazing to really start changing the way I see myself this year. I have finally stopped beating myself up and have been accepting and actually appreciative of who I am! It has been the best year, I am treating myself better, enjoying more dancing and hiking, eating new and interesting foods that feel and taste good, and doing things I would not have dared to do before…I have so much more energy and confidence. I look in the mirror and smile know. A year ago, I would not have thought that was possible. It has been an amazing year.”
What would you like to do, feel, or experience this year?
Take some time this week to sit down and write yourself an end-of-year holiday letter or destination postcard, outlining how you made your dreams come true. Write it as if you are dictating on December 31, 2023. Read it often, post it somewhere, or schedule to send it to yourself every month.
I can’t wait to hear how your 2023 was. Mine has been fantastic!
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