New Year….Hello 2019!

I’m not sure about you but I love entering into a new year, there is something so special and exciting about all the possibilities of what could be? Out with something old and in with the new.

Every year, I chose something to work on, I don’t feel like I can promote growth in others if I’m not willing to engage deeply with my own journey. Just because I am not in crisis, does not mean that I stop evaluating myself, what is important to me, my habits.

Last year…

Anyway, each new year I chose a word to focus on, not a new years resolution, but something that will help improve my character, open me up a little bit more and hopefully help me grow, last year’s word was ‘joy’. Let me tell you, this was a challenge, I was in a job that made me deeply unhappy, I worked 50 hour work weeks, and I felt so stressed sometimes! To find ‘joy’ in those moments was really challenging to me, but I learned that it isn’t always about feeling the joy, but remembering that joy is just on the other side of despair, and often that was enough to keep me moving forward. Guess what? I lived through my worst moments! those days are gone and new days arrived, new chances to change my perspective and my mindset!

This year…

To find my word, I try to meditate on it, pray on it, and spend some quiet time working out what my own personal life path is offering me in terms of personal growth, it’s not right for everyone, but it’s what I do. This year I was sure of my work, absolutely positive, it seemed so clear, and then I did a guided meditation and was presented with another word, a super challenging word, ‘Peace’. This will be hard for me, I’m a doer and a worker and peace does not come easy for me, which is perhaps why it’s my word this year?

Next year…

Well, in our house Christmas is safely tucked away for another year, the house is all clean and fresh and I am ready to wake up to 2019. I am so grateful for the lessons and experiences of 2018 and am ready to go forward into this new year from a rested place of contentment and utter curiosity for what is to come.

I wish you a wonderful new year, full of magic and promise, that if things aren’t great right now, they can get better. If things are great right now, that you can carry that on into the new year!

Grace and peace xx