2024 is almost history. How was it for you? Did you try anything new? Learn anything new? Get rid of some old habits that where not serving you? Start a new habit that is helping move you forward in the direction you want to go?
Regardless, it is actually a great time of year to think about this next year that is upon us. Every year at this time I write my own Destination Postcard. I have written a blog about it before as well. So what a great opportunity to repost it for you
As you all know, this year, once again turned a crazy one. As for me, more things came true this year due to me taking the time to write THIS Letter, last December (2023!)
So, let’s all do this again. Because things have changed.
It is now the perfect opportunity to step back and look at your life 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 2025 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 2025? To actually visualize what it will feel and look like when you sit back with a cup of coffee on December 31, 2025 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 was able to finally….
- I started a….
- It was so exciting to…
- It felt so amazing to…
- I loved it when I finally…
This might be something that could be written for me….
“It has felt so amazing to really step back into my writing this year! Not only have stopped beating myself up for putting it aside after Not a Fat Annie was published, but I also jumped back into writing another Aly Rose book! AND also completed the Body Neutrality Playbook, I have had great intentions about for over a year now!
I am also enjoying more dancing, walking, cycling and hiking, My body and mind have not been clearer. 2025 has been a great year of growth in all aspects of my life. I have so much more energy and confidence. I look in the mirror and smile all the time now. It has been an amazing year.”
What would you like to do, feel, or experience this year?
What to see your body differently? Get your Unlocking Body Neutrality Guide here!
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, 2025. Read it often, post it somewhere, or schedule to send it to yourself every month. And click here for Unlocking Body Neutrality…the free eguide that inspired the full Body Neutrality Playbook!
I can’t wait to hear how your 2025 was. Mine has been fantastic!
Want to be part of a community making their dreams come true too? Click here to join the Body Joyful Revolution! A community of women, regardless of weight, size or shape empowering other themselves and women to feel comfortable and confident in their bodies!
