I'm not too keen on New Year's Resolutions as they are presented and hyped up in the general population. I do believe in setting goals, having dreams and visions of what you want in the future, and I love the word of the year idea that seems to have really surfaced the past few years, or maybe I am just late to the game!
I found years ago that setting my intention for the 'year' served me MUCH better when I sat with who I am, where I am going, my goals, and a word for the year at my birthday each year rather than Jan. 1st. If your birthday is on January 1st, well then, I guess it is more about the intention of it is for you, by you, with you, not some NY rez that e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e does because it is the hype, then falls flat on their face a month or two in. I have my own thoughts on the falling flat on your face piece of all of this but I will save that for another blog post. Maybe next week in lieu of it being the first week of the new year.
This year, leading up to my 43rd birthday, whoot whoot. I swear we get better with age, like a good wine or whiskey. I, personally, can contribute that, getting better aspect, to an expanded consciousness and doing the work for my INNERbeing. I suppose there are some, who maybe the top wasn't corked or sealed well enough and it will take longer or another life time for them, but for me, this is where I speak from. In meditation, just before I turned 43 this year, I had a download of the statement " 43 and free ". This hit me hard, in a good way. I was excited, scared, eager, curious.......all the feels. What does 'free' mean anyway?
I suppose 'free' would mean different things for different people. We are all unique beings, no two of us are the same. As I sat with the potential of the word 'free' in my life and cross checked it to things such as financial, toxicity, personal, etc. I knew it wouldn't be financial, at least not yet, I still have a few years of student loans to pay. So, was it business, no, that feels perfect in its timing and I love all the aspects of my work. Oh, personal, yes, yes, yes, that was it. I have come a LOOOOOOONG way and I am very well aware of the gain with recognition of the gap, so where did 'free' fit into all of this?