This past year has brought some unexpected challenges and expenses with it. As I say goodbye to 2022 and enter into a new year, I want to approach it with curiosity and possibility and not apprehension.
I’ve never really made any type of New Year’s resolution. It just seems like an opportunity to fail.
The past few years I’ve taken a different approach. In January I get together with a women’s group and we spend time creating a personal vision board. We use pictures from magazines or other materials to represent some things we are hoping and striving for in the coming year.
My past vision boards have contained not only goals, they have also depicted a motto or belief that speaks to me.
One of the things on my board for 2020 was to finish my book, which I did. For 2021 there was a line of advice I really wanted to heed: trust yourself, she will listen. That is the year I courageously listened to my heart and changed jobs after three decades with the same medical group. It was a scary move, yet I do believe a wise choice for me. In 2022 I wanted to ride a bike more often, which I did, as well as read more books, which I have.
As I looked over my past boards, there are also things that haven’t happened, but I don’t judge them as failures. It could be that my goal has changed or that there were factors beyond my control that prevented it from occurring. Perhaps it just wasn’t the right time for what I was aiming for.
I don’t know yet what I will put on this year’s board. I just know at the end of the year, I want to step out of it looking back and appreciating any growth and knowledge I will have gained. That’s a vision I can focus on.
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