At the new year I like to invest some time in reviewing the previous year. What did I accomplish? Where did I make improvements? How might I want to live, work, love differently? In doing so, I clarify and refine the direction and focus for the new year. It is a process I have been using for the past few years and gives me both reason to celebrate and a template for insightful planning for the direction I choose for my life.
I actively participate with a community of women who share a genuine desire to live authentically and with purpose. Our facilitator is a certified Wolf Clan teacher, sharing Native teachings as taught to her by Seneca Elder, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch. The Goals workshop is a process using a whole-brain approach to living, thinking, dreaming, and experiencing. It uses our senses and the cyclical nature of life to offer meaningful direction. So rather than stating goals from a perspective of what is lacking in my life, I am actively pulling from accomplishment, dream, vision, and experience to walk a path aligned with Spirit.
My experience with this process has been more successful than any New Year's resolution I have tried. One of the greatest components is a monthly check-in throughout the year. One of my downfalls in the past was to start strong and then lose momentum. And somewhere around February I had lost sight of the goal, settling into a complacency of the same old thing.
I am in the midst of this process currently and I am excited! Part of the fun is allowing both my logical, practical side and my creative, intuitive side to have a voice. And believe me when I tell you they are both talking! My goals include creating organization and balance as well as creating room for travel and writing. Once clarified, I will create action plans for each goal, the path.
Life feels so much better with this direction and focus. I am living a life I used to only dream. How cool is that?
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