Diving in to a New Year
Happy New Year!
For some reason I've put off writing this post. Over the last few days of December and into the first week of January there was New Year stuff EVERYWHERE, just as there is every year. Goal-setting guides, intention-setting guides, lists of what to do and what not to do, etc.
I LOVE the beginning of a New Year and the weeks leading up to it. This year though, I kept feeling this resistance to making grand lists and plans. As I sat with this and started working through a couple of my favourite goal-planning resources, I realized my resistance was a response to the idea that I felt like the New Year meant I had to start a bajillion new things and make a ton of new plans, when the reality is that I don't WANT to start anything new right now. I'm smack dab in the middle of a lotta stuff and it's gooooooood stuff. It's important stuff. And it's stuff I don't want to abandon to chase the next new, shiny thing.
Leading up to January 1, I had NO idea what my word of the year was going to be. In 2017 my word was Action. Last year it was Trust. But when I was thinking about 2019 I wasn't quite sure what I really wanted to cultivate the most.
As I started working through my workbooks and brainstorming all the things I'd love to see in my life this year and how I'd like to feel this year, I realized one word didn't adequately represent what I wanted out of the year ahead. It was a phrase and when I wrote it down, I knew it represented everything I needed it to.
My phrase of 2019? DIVE IN.
In 2019 I want to DIVE IN to finishing what I've started. I want to dive into conversation and connection and SHOWING UP. I want to finish my rebrand and website facelift, finish the Psych course I'm enrolled in, and get accepted into the Master's program I applied for in the fall. I want to DIVE IN to my spirituality deeper than I ever have before, the relationship I have with food and my body, and into the practices that help me dive deeper into those areas. I want to dive in to new experiences and new adventures and intoto my existing relationships. I want to dive deeper than ever into myself and my WHY so I can get past the fear that keeps me dabbling around the edges of so many things in my life and in my business and that prevents me from really SHOWING UP the way I want to. And alllllll these things excite me SO much. I'm proud of myself for taking on this challenge and the idea of putting in the work to accomplish a few of the things that are really really important to me LIGHTS ME UP.
So here's to finishing what we've started, listening to the voice inside us that reminds us what's MOST important, and to getting excited about all the possibilities 2019 holds for us.
What are YOU excited about in 2019? Or are you feeling a little blah and uninspired about the year ahead? I'd love to know.
Have a wonderful day, friend.
Love, Elsa