As we head into the New Year, let's make a pact with ourselves that we will not set any goals or change-based resolutions. Instead of imagining any end results, let us instead focus on the intention we hold in our hearts as we form a general but loving outline for 2025.
As I listened to my favorite podcast, We Can Do Hard Things, a recent episode inspired me to create this Flow Practice to help clarify our intentions. You can listen to that episode here:
Imagine yourself 10, 20, or even 30 years from now. Ask yourself these questions:
Where do you live?
How do you use your gifts, talents, and wisdom to serve the larger community?
What do you truly value?
How do you spend your days?
How do you look and feel?
You can answer as many of these as fit easily into your future-self vision. Please only answer what feels in alignment with your heart. This can be done on paper or in your imagination.
Here is my example below to help you begin:
I envision I am 80 years old. I am healthy and vibrant. I lead each day with love. My years of introspection, global travel, and animal conservation efforts have afforded me the unique ability to lessen my attachments to external outcomes. I am grounded in an unshakeable peace and carry this peace with me everywhere. I live in a community that values spirituality and the natural world in equal measure. I am someone others seek out for guidance, all the while knowing I am simply a mirror to the wisdom they already hold within. I spend my time writing, with my loved ones (animals included), and immersed in nature. The journey within remains at the forefront of all I do. I have started a non-profit that reflects and intertwines all these entities.
Once you have an idea in mind of who this future self is, then use this image as your guide for all your decisions and actions moving forward in 2025.
Do your current choices and goals support this future self's values?
Even if they don't right now, this is important information for you to have. We don't have to make any dramatic changes but becoming aware of our intentions is a step in the right direction. Mindful action and choices are what will support us in healthy and loving ways.
Your amazing future self is waiting for you, but please don't forget to love the self you are right in this moment. This self is exactly on track and unfolding in perfect timing.
May the year ahead reflect your heart's evolution in its entirety, and may you uncover the truth of your soul once and for all.
Find Your Flow - Practices for the Soul
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