Ten Tips for Thriving in the New Year

2: Be True to You

What do you know about who you are today? What vision for yourself and your life do you see and desire moving forward?  What you focus on expands.  So trust and follow what peaks your curiosity and activates your vitality…embracing what resonates and sparks joy!

3: Claim Your Challenge

Goals are important for us to stay awake and move forward.  What will set you up for success in your new year resolutions, is clarity about them and your resolve to achieve them. What is a need and/or desired stretch for you on the physical health, mental health, career, financial, or relational front you would like to call forth?  Identifying and declaring it will fortify your commitment, accountability, follow through and results!

4: Love with No Holds Barred

Who are the people nearest and dearest to you?  You can never reach out too often to let them know how much they mean to you.  Set intentions to plan and enjoy nourishing virtual or live time together!

5: Embrace Community

For introverts and extroverts alike, we all deserve to have extended community that will witness us, lend support, uplift and propel us into new avenues of awareness, connections and opportunities.

6: Beware of Assumptions

The divisiveness in our nation (on the political, racial, and health front) has created strain and polarization within our families, friendships, neighborhoods and country.  Let us remember what we share in common…interest in the wellbeing for ourselves, loved ones and humanity;  focusing on seeing the best of human nature…replacing the tendency to blame, shame or dismiss those with  differences of opinion with communicating from a place of respect, curiosity, and good will.

7:  Choose Faith over Fear

Suffering exists.  We can attend to it, versus wallowing in it.   Risks also exist from the uncertainties of life and state of our world today. With foresight, we can try to prepare, without living in anticipatory catastrophic thinking. For nothing is gained from focusing on and living in the energy field of fear and worst case scenarios.  Choosing faith allows focus on best possible future outcomes, sustaining a strong immune system, and positive high vibe energy field.  This magnetizes like-minded individuals and opportunities to appear, that we may not have noticed otherwise.

8:  Allow gratitude to live along side grief

When there is a loss, coping with grief is inevitable. Our heart aches with the absence of something or someone that meant so much.  While we recognize this loss, we can at the very same time invite and allow space for the frequency of gratitude to accompany our grief. This can soften the sharp edges of our pain and show us the glimmer of light that always lies within us and around us, guiding our way to a brighter tomorrow.

9:  Do unto Yourself…as you would do unto others

Lest we forget, our lives are finite.  Direct our commonly used expression “take care” onto yourself. A one and only unique being, way too precious to ignore…you are the best care-taker for your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

10:  Be Here Now

Mindful attention to the present moment, allows for us to be IN the experience of our lives… unencumbered with belaboring the past or worrying about the future.  Whenever you stray, let your breath lead you back home…into your body, the beauty that surrounds you and feeling palpable joy which is your natural nature and birthright.

At the end of the day, Love and the Present Moment is all we really have.