Extending ourselves the same kindness and understanding we might show to others is often an alien concept, as we push ourselves to do better and chastise ourselves for any perceived failings.
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So, you had plans for 2020 and all or most of that changed. The things we learned were internal. Who we are, how we live our lives. How slowing down to appreciate not only time, but our surroundings, our health, and especially our loved ones. We are going to hold hands and give a leap of faith into this new year together.
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No matter who you are or your whatever your reasoning might be, finding joy in the holidays is possible this year, and can renew you going into the new year. There’s always so much to do, that many times we fail to find ourselves truly living in the joy of the season or in any joy at all.
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This year you’ve had plenty of time to check in with yourself. Check in with your thoughts, your future, your past. Becoming introspective is something I bet you never really took time for.
If you found yourself always angry, depressed, irritated with your family, yourself, your job, and everything around you, then you’re completely missing the real opportunity.
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The ultimate expression of life is to life YOUR best life under the best AND the worst of circumstances we are thrust into.
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In most years, you can predict exactly what you and your family will be doing: spending Thanksgiving with the in-laws, then over to your own parents or friends’ homes. Maybe traveling for Christmas to visit your sister or extended family…and the New Year with just you and your partner or pets.
But this year it will all be different…Or will it?
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Trying to fit in with those around you can be exhausting.
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Isn't it interesting how often we take the judgments and negative comments that others throw our way and run with them as true?
It doesn’t matter how ill-informed or throwaway that comment was, for some reason we believe it.
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…we were all born pretty much 100% confident.
When we started out in life we didn’t have any hang ups or insecurities and as such had no reason to doubt our abilities to cope with any situation life might care to throw at us.
We didn’t question in those early years because nobody had yet suggested there was anything wrong with us.
All that sort of thinking came later.
For some of us it happened so early on in life that we can’t even remember ever feeling confident.
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Every single person on the planet at some point will go through something that shakes their self-confidence.None of us are immune to making mistakes (and hey - good for us! ...mistakes are how we learn).
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There's a lot of talk these days about being kind to others, and it's so true.
We really need more kindness in the world, especially right now.
Many are struggling to fight their way through this twilight zone year.
But all too often we put our focus on displaying kindness to others and completely forget to extend ourselves the same courtesy.
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Only dead people and psychopaths feel zero anxiety…
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It’s our sleep that enables us to deal with life’s unexpected challenges... not our attempts to predict them…
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