How to 2023
For nearly a decade, I have had a New Year ritual to pick one single word as my intention for the year ahead.
My public journal where I share weekly reflections on how I’m unlearning.
For nearly a decade, I have had a New Year ritual to pick one single word as my intention for the year ahead.
My experiment was to go into a silent retreat, in my own home, by myself, for 4 days.
When I observe for a moment my daily lifestyle, an abundance mindset guides my choices, without a doubt.
It mattered less about where we were, what we ate or what we did, but rather who we were with and how we were with each other
If I wanted to feel more relaxed, more often, my default thesis was that I need to make more time and space for relaxing activities
Very few of my friends know what I do, and even those that do don’t seem very interested in knowing more.
We all seem to live in our own little, for some large, empires of worry.
It mattered less about where we were, what we ate or what we did, but rather who we were with and how we were with each other
Spontaneity is also the antidote to overthinking.
Flowing with waves of desires arising and disappearing is how I will continue to swim through life.
Every choice, action or word is part of a chain of cause and effect. I appear to be more the effect than the cause in my life.
It mattered less about where we were, what we ate or what we did, but rather who we were with and how we were with each other
There is an energetic quality of trust that is magnetic.
There is a piece of real estate that I have discovered to be the most valuable in the world.
The desire to pick the best available option is also a fear of making a poor choice.
My conditioning has been to believe there are no limitations to my time, and that I can do anything, and everything.
The concepts of debt and deficit have relevance to our physical, mental and emotional beings.
There is an expectation that my motivation and interest in some thing, some one or some place, remains constant. Like a straight line.
There is a conflict with my desire for the new, and my conditioning to expect efficiency in every part of life.
It may often feel like you must have it all together and figured out in life. That you must know exactly where you are going.
The moments I have experienced the most stress, anxiety, anger, frustration and disappointment have been when my expectations were many
The ultimate freedom in life is the freedom to make mistakes.
I have learned that the most important decision is not where to go, but how to get there.
It is now to make peace with the past year.