In the spirit of being creative, I came up with an acronym around the word REFLECT that might or might not be useful. This could help if you’d like to dive deeper into a 2021 reflection exercise.
The world is a glorious patchwork of diverse people living lives that might be profoundly different from ours. It’s important to rally against the tendency to think about people as either ‘us’ or ‘them’ as it can be a slippery slope downhill from there.
Embrace the unknown, revel in the what ifs, and be strong and brave in the face of uncertainty.
We’ve got this.
We don’t know what is going to happen in the future, and that is scary. It seems to me that the most helpful behaviour we should be striving for during these chaotic times is flexibility.
To cease seeing only the shadow in others, invite your own shadow back into yourself. Embrace and accept all your qualities even while smoothing them out. Disowning things you don’t like about yourself, projects them onto others. It happens.
So 2019 whizzed by at lightning speed didn’t it! It was an interesting and challenging year for many people with a a fair bit of up hill down dale motion. It feels like only yesterday I was thinking about my goals for 2019 and here we are charting our course for 2020. A lot has happened, some of it positive, some a bit meh and whatever for most of us I’m sure.
I certainly do….. like most of us. It was the poet Edward Young who said in the 18th century, “Procrastination is the thief of time.” I say true dat Edward! The good news is that everyone procrastinates, except maybe The Rock, that dude never met a goal he couldn’t achieve. If you’re looking for a […]
Is it time to let go of any tired ways of doing things? Have you felt boxed in by the same old behaviour? Why not try a new approach to life? Introducing freshness and light into the mind can help you find your fire again. Responding to situations in a different way will push pause […]
Autopilot is groovy when you’re long haul flying but not so much when you’re navigating new and interesting terrains. You also have to be fully present and conscious if personal growth is your goal.
Approached positively, winter is the best time for thinking, planning and spinning good stories. Once it has moved on, you can spread your wings and fly, buoyed by the dreams and aspirations nurtured in winter’s cold embrace.
