Preparing for 2023
As we head into 2023 I am struck with the thought of getting a chance at new beginnings. Whatever that means to you is probably what it is for me. Just through my perspective and experiences.
What I want to work towards isn’t something that is totally definable. In all reality it is something that I am defining. Its like waiting for all of the stars to align to what you want to see in the future.
In a way, its like seeing what you want in your future but letting reality provide you all the pieces, trusting that there is a together point. We don’t know all of the pieces that have to fall into place when you have grand goals and designs.
On your way to those destinations, the people that you have had to meet, and their story that got them to where they are…. For all those things to have happened is something truly remarkable.
Just as remarkable as it is for you to enable that same majesty in your own life. Having a grand vision of what your life could be, presents you the opportunity to learn about what the fundamental pieces that make up your goal. I am thinking ten years out as a long-term goal. For long goals you might not know all the pieces at this very moment and that is okay.
Why 10 years out? Maybe you’re 25 and 10 years ago was when you were 15. Imagine being 33 and looking back 10 years to when you were 23. The number of experiences you have gone through already, at 23; I’m not discounting your story. I’m talking about the perspective difference. Not that you don’t know a lot at 23. But the difference in perspective that I have at age 33 is completely different then what it was at 23. If I had the perspective that I do now, when I was 23.
I would go back and do it differently. I don’t know how. But I have way more tools now than I did then. Which would give me more tools to face whatever challenge’s I had back then. Effectively taking each of those opportunities I had and made better of them for my life.
Imagine what you would have had to have been capable of, to be where you are today. What you have survived. Now, looking forward, use those skills that you have, to make life better.
That is what 2023 means to me. Taking the skills that you have been working on. The skills that you have been building. Or the knowledge you have been obtaining or experience you have been earning. Using that knowledge and experience to move forward, and not be afraid of what is coming, but rather being excited about what you can make of life coming at you.
It puts you in the mind frame of being powerful in your life instead of helpless. Be the Merlin of your life and transform how you see and what you see in it by using your magical abilities you have gained over the years.
Trust in yourself.
For me, its time to take all of that. Meld it together, and use it. No longer do you need to be wondering what’s coming around the corner. It doesn’t really matter. Does it?
Not that I or anyone has faced everything. But that’s kind of the point. You use your skills and abilities, whatever those may be. In whatever situation that may come up.
The point is, you already have all the skills and abilities you need. And.. if you don’t, you have a way to get those skills and abilities.
The unfortunate truth that everyone forgets is it takes something in return. If you don’t have money and you don’t have the skill you have to put in time.
This time buys you the skill, and pays you in money, when you sell your time with said skill.
Everything is a skill, and you are spending your time, one way or another. Make it something you want to spend time on.
Now 2023 has all the crazy energy I like when it comes to new things. The world is crazy, people are crazy and I am for sure… crazy.
There is a lot happening in the world and what I think of crazy energies, or themes running through society desperately need some Chaos which is what I think crazy is.
Chaos provides the perfect foundation for things to change. It makes it easier for people to find a balance in their life, as it forces focus towards the self, away from the world.
Crazy is just the good thing we need. It’s not that I don’t care about the world. I very much do. But how can I take care of anything in the world if I don’t first take care of myself.
That’s taking care of yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I don’t mean spiritually as in church, I just mean being in touch with ones-self, your personal world. It helps to be able to look internally. So, I am going to continue my efforts in making a quiet mental space, with walking and exercise, which is two birds with one stone in my opinion.
Maybe 3, if you count the hormonal benefits chemical response in the reward center of the brain from exercise, even in winter, there is a boost that makes up for the lack of sun; the cold air. It stresses the body beneficially, providing a beneficial negative balance to all the positives in life. As life must have balance, with positive there is negative. The key is to focus on the positive and learn from what you deem negative, turning that negative into a positive situation. Counteracting its negativity, at least in some ways, maybe, emotionally, or mentally.
I have been gaining enough skills. It’s time to take action. No more sitting on the sidelines worried about whatever thing you decided to invent as an obstacle for that day, instead of just trusting in your skills and abilities, and just doing.
Simply doing.
That’s all it takes.
It’s often easier said than done. I imagine it’s easier to say, it’s Easier said than done, than to actually just do it, too.
The truth of the matter is, it is always easier said, then done. So just start doing. Most of the challenges you say in your head, are just invented by you to say in your head. Pretty Circular
Stop saying, in your head, and start doing.
It gets real, real quick. Life starts happening the moment you start doing.
Let your actions speak louder than your words, because those words should be silently thought, and physically acted.
2023 is just waiting for you to make it what you will. Changing what you don’t like takes time
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You have to move all the pieces, either physically/figuratively, or let the universe move them into place for you. Then you just keep doing and watch all the pieces fall into place.
But nothing can happen if you aren’t doing.
No matter how small, every action moves you towards your goal in unknow ways. I just imagine every small action I make now, has big implications for my future.
I must look through that lens. Because you never know what small piece needs to be, in order for your future to be what you want. Each and every piece is important.
So maybe you haven’t thought of anything to do for the new year.
Let me just tell you. You never know how big an impact, one small action can make in your life. Even if it is just so much as thinking; “Hmmm, I wonder what I can do better this year to make my life better?”
Give this video a watch if you don’t believe me.
(A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominos of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that starts with a tiny push and knocks down an impressively large domino.)
If all you do is ask yourself that question. You can set off a chain of events with untold effect. So, intend for good effects and just do, you never know what small action sets it all off.
If you feel like you are going no where, don’t fear, keep placing your small dominoes on the board. Those little dominoes should be what makes you, you. Like me and writing, I don’t know where it leads, but I would like to see more of it in my life. What it is you want to see, what it is you want to be or do?
The trick is wanting something and being willing to put forth effort to get that thing. It takes you being and doing, to move reality towards your end goal. Who knows what is on the other side.
Its time that you took action. Stop waiting around for life to happen. Get out of your own way and stop being afraid to take action on your reality. It's time you stop worrying about your skills and abilities and what you can or can't do. You of all people are totally worth the effort.
You already know what is positive and or negative in your life. So use the negative to learn something and gain more skills so that way going forward you can use those skills to make life better for you and those that are in your life around you.
It's time to appreciate what you bring to the table. You are an absolutely amazing human, so why are you telling yourself any different?