Slow Down and Listen
I don’t know about you, but this time of each new year, I really do feel like I am constantly turning myself inside out. Trying to figure who and what matters most as I look at the goals that matter most to me.
It has become a custom, and I think a pretty good one, to evaluate and re-evaluate yourself and everything that matters to you at the start of each year (I like doing at my birthday as well).
From cleaning out cupboards to clearing out all the cobwebs that can begin to grow in our minds.
I know there are the naysayers that say New Year’s resolutions and/or goals don’t work. But here is the deal and the reason I am still talking about this two weeks into the new year…
We find ourselves marching along to the beat of life, accumulating so much physical and mental baggage. Think about all that comes at you even in a single given day. This can cause us to lose site of the shore line and what matters most to us, finding ourselves swimming aimlessly against the tide at times in the sea of life.
Here is the good news, and the reason we must clear the clutter. The process of doing these activities gives us the ability to find the elements that help us to grow, even in the midst of life’s disappointments.
In order to grow we must re-evaluate what we want to grow towards. It’s a lot like turning the soil in the garden at the beginning of spring, making it easier for seeds to grow in the cleaned soil and move towards the light of the sun.
Our own inner turning of soil allows us to really figure out who or what we want to grow towards and why we even want to grow in the first place.
Is this making sense?
The constant need for instant gratification can leave us forgetting to do the hard work, the deep work. The work of discovering what makes the most important person in our life tick, our very own self.
I am the primary nucleus of me, just as you are the primary nucleus of you. When we can come at the world as our best self, amazing things start to happen.
Each morning we wake up and the earth (so far) is still rotating on its axis. Instead of stopping to celebrate and discover this miracle in itself, we can tend to plow into the day with the single focus of only what must be done. Doing this without taking the pulse of our inner being, our inner consciousness, can leave us missing out on our greatest insights.
The key comes in slowing down a bit and listening to what matters most. Putting the full focus on your inner being as you start each day. Bottom line we can become our own greatest enemy or, our own amazing best friend. I choose being my own amazing bestie … how about you?
In today’s podcast above I am sharing some quick tips from my Morning Momentum program and some ways to re-think the start of your day and that early morning or even last moments of the day connections (for you night owls). Keeping in mind that you are taking this time out for you.
If you are starting to lose your new year steam please don’t give up so easily! Spend the needed daily time with those written goals you have for this year. Do the work on a daily basis all year long and you know what? Your goals and dreams can and will come true.
Here is to your inner bestie!
To Your Success and Victories,
- Cheri
Cheri Ruskus, Business Growth Coach
cheri@businessvictories.com • 303-652-1718 • @victorygirl
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