Hi friends and happy new year!
I hope everyone’s 2020 is off to a great start. Mine started slowly and painfully, with a flu that seems to be taking its sweet time to pass. I haven’t had too much excitement, but still managed to get through my usual new year’s rituals. I wanted to take a moment to go through them to share how I ring in the new year.
Word-of-the-Year
You can see my previous Word-of-the-Year post here. In short, it’s a word that we choose as an intention for the year ahead. Last year, I chose the word healer, because I was focused on my own post-concussion and career health, in addition to helping others heal their lives. While I continue to work on my healer capabilities, a new year brings new energy. This year my word of the year is wealth. I choose that word because not only am I focusing on financial wealth, but wealth of experiences & travel, friendships, health/wellness/fitness, presence/mindfulness, spirituality/intuition, and minimalism. This year I am tracking towards being debt free before the end of January, which will free up energy and space to pursue some of the areas I’ve been lacking in.
Gratitude Jar
My husband and I worked on our gratitude jar throughout the year. Some weeks and months we did better at remembering than others, but I find it a fun tradition on January 1st to review all that we were thankful for in the previous year. Some of the recurrent themes were: Maple (our fur baby), achieving our sports and fitness goals, getting a new deck, and working towards our financial goals. Now our big jar sits empty, ready for some more notes to be added over the next 12 months.
12-months Spread
For the past few years, I’ve done a monthly card spread. I have so many card decks that I love, so this year I decided to incorporate them all in some way. My spirit animal for the year will be Wolf. My virtue for the year will be Perseverance. My Enchanted Map message is Protecting Treasure - to move forward safely and securely. My Rebel Deck theme for the year will be to laugh more. Then for each month, I have two cards that will act as a theme and give me lessons and guidance to turn to as the month unfolds. These come from the Moon the Wild Unknown decks.
New Year’s Resolutions
This is something I have troubles with. Not because I feel I should take part, but because the feeling around it implies that our old, 2019 selves were not measuring up in some way. I typically steer clear of serious resolutions. However, I have found that very functional and simple habit changes have been attainable if I’ve made them into resolutions. For instance, last year I resolved to change my bed sheets every weekend. It’s laughable really, but I stuck to it and I was rewarded with fresh sheets every Sunday, and good sleeps every week! This year, my resolution, if you can even call it that, is to change my face cloth more often, like every day or two. Simple, attainable, not life changing.
Goals for 2020
I have some other goals for 2020. Some things my husband and I would like to work on together, other things I’ve come up with on my own. I’d really like to travel more this year. I’d like to think about getting another fitness certification, and I’m in the beginning stages of unrolling a cool coaching program later this year. I’m also going to focus on creating new and diverse friendships a bit closer to home. It’ll be interesting to look back this time next year to see how I did.
Salt Cave Meditation
Last year I started running a Year End Reflection & Meditation in a nearby salt cave. I loved it a lot. Guiding people through releasing from their past year, and setting intentions for the coming year is quite powerful, and I received a lot of positive feedback. Plus the cave itself is so healing and tranquil, that it feels like a mini retreat. So I’ll be back at it again next weekend. You can see the event here and get a ticket here if you’d like to join!
What are you up to with the energy of this new decade? Hopefully something that promotes light, love and positivity.
And so it is.
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