Stay tuned later in the week where the mystery of the couscous is revealed…
I was a mess last week: scattered, sad, disoriented, upset, tired, unregulated...you name it. This was not due to any one thing, rather a million. Compounding these feelings was the accumulative affects of a long, hard year, the end of a good-but-very-stressful holiday season, and a rocky beginning to our nation's 2021.
Perhaps you can relate.
Typically, I looooove Januarys, and I looooooove resolutions. Not because I think there is some special voodoo magic about making resolutions at the start of a new year - we can re-start, re-think, and re-boot at any second of our lives that we choose! - but because humans are drawn to ritual and tradition, and sometimes it feels really good to have that "peel off the band-aid and start afresh" sort of feeling that a new year can give. Also because I love dreaming of the future, coming up with fun, audacious plans (rappel off a building, anyone?), and because it's incredibly exciting to me to see a whole 365 new days stretched out before me.
This year, however, I have had a much more challenging time finding and keeping that sense of optimism, hope, and excitement. Don't get me wrong - I believe in it, as whole-heartedly as ever; it's just been harder to live into it. Anyone still with me? Can I get an amen?
That is why, for this year, I am rethinking resolutions. Typically I run myself through a series of steps: what were last year's successes & challenges? Where is there room for growth? And what do I want out of this year: personally, professionally, etc? What are the steps needed to get there? I do this because I enjoy it and find value in it. I do it because it helps me to actually do the things I want (even if I don't do everything I dream) and I enjoy looking back in future years to see where I've come from.
There is nothing wrong with this system in itself. it's just that this year, I'm not there - at least not at this point. Truthfully, all of us should feel some amount of success from last year just because we are still standing! And I am quickly finding that for me, some very important parts of 2021 may lie in things like self-care and the long game.
So the questions I've been pondering recently are things like,
Where do I need balance in my life, and what can help me find it?
How much bandwidth am I realistically dealing with right now?
What will add more breath and joy into my daily life?
I still believe 2021 is bursting with possibility, and I truly hope you do, too. But topping our resolutions list this year, let's all add,
"Be kind and patient, with ourselves and others."
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