"Red Car" by Annalogue75 © Original 2023 via Creative Fabrica Spark™
✨ HAPPY NEW YEAR! ✨
How about we start this year slow and steady?
Normally we rush and hurry, so let's take this opportunity to slow down for a little bit. Breathe.
Okay? Okay.
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I don't make New Year's resolutions. In my opinion it's a recipe for failure and anxiety for most, so I stay clear of them. But a year or so ago I heard about another thing to do around New Year's that appeals to me more than promises and resolutions. It goes something like this...
On or right after New Year's Eve you decide what you want the theme and/or goal to be for the coming year, write it down for yourself to look at often, reminding yourself of what you decided. It's not a promise to do it, but a goal you set to work towards in everything you do.
It could be "get a promotion and feel professionally and personally accomplished" or "find love and discover my passionate side" or "write three short stories and get them published and feel proud of myself."
A variant of this is to find ONE word that is your theme for the year, and have it present in everything you do. Not as a promise, but a guiding beacon, so to speak. Some ideas:
Love
Freedom
Friendship
Finances
Career
Joy
Calm
Learning
I like both ideas, perhaps I will do a combination. But whatever you choose to do, or not, choose it for yourself and no one else. Perhaps keep it to yourself, as your own little "secret mission" for the new year?! Could be exciting to look at it like that actually.
I am staying true to my word and will continue to work on myself and my life first and foremost. 2024 will be a year where I will prioritize myself and I will work on expecting to be prioritized by others, it's about time I start to value myself as much as I value others and expect the same in return. Now, that's not a promise but a mission, but it's not the "secret mission" of the year though.
That one is naturally, by default, secret...
Wherever you are I wish you all a Happy New Year. You are valuable. And remember, about this you may tell - so share it far and wide!
/Annalogue75
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