It is a new year!
Last year at this time, I thought I was going to have the best year ever. I thought about how I was healed and ready for growth. Little did I know it would be the year of my ultimate healing instead of growing. I still had so much to work on. Things I thought I would never admit came spilling out. It changed everything.
It changed the relationships I had with those closest to me. It made me closer to some and farther from others. It made me question almost everything. It was my most challenging year to date. I learned a lot. One of my biggest takeaways from last year was that the more you hang on to the past, the more you stunt your future.
The only way to move on is to address your issues, learn from them and use what you have learned to improve. Sounds so simple right? It is. But it’s not easy. Read that again. Those words are often used to mean the same thing, but they mean different things.
Simplicity is when things are clearly laid out for you.
“If you have money, you can buy things.”
Simple, Right?
But it’s not always easy to have money.
The same goes for your personal growth. It can be very simple to say,
“stop being friends with that person.”
But it’s not easy to let go of your relationship with someone, even if they consistently upset you.
Sometimes, even when we know what we need to do, we don’t take the steps to do it. Changing our habits and how we do things can help us reach all those other goals we want to accomplish. So instead of saying, “I want to visit 34 new places or lose 50lbs or read 100 books, I am going to take it back to I am going to make intentional decisions. Before I do something, I am going to ask myself, “what is my intention here?”
I will still have my list of goals I want to accomplish, but I will have a different game plan of how I will make those goals happen.
Mindset is everything. It can change how you do everything in your life. Mental health is so important. Just as important as physical exercise. This will be my focus for the new year my health.
What will your focus be this year?
~M~
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