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All in My Journal
This year I have broken up my intentions month by month. It is the first time I’m taking this approach and I’m quite excited about it. No matter what approach you take though, as long as you take some time to be conscious and mindful of your intentions each year (call them wishes, goals, whatever) or even just take the time to reflect at the end of the year, without having set any intentions at all, that is what matters I believe; Remaining conscious and mindful about one’s self.
New year, new me. That’s how the saying goes, isn’t it? I’ve always been a firm believer of setting intentions with the turn of the year. When I was in my young teens I would write myself a letter for the year and then seal it up at New Years, only to be opened again a year later. I’m not quite as methodological these days with my intentions, but I do take the turn of the year as an opportunity, more than anything else – to look backwards and reflect, as it inspires me to look forwards thoughtfully and purposefully.
Setting my intentions at the turn of the year has been a little tradition of mine as far back as I can remember. I was very excited about the intentions I had set for 2016, as it was going to be an exciting year for us in terms of travel, family and personal development. Since I didn’t have Stellarize Your Life up and running at the turn of the year, I decided that I am going to share these intentions with you as a form of reflection.
When your first baby is born, it becomes the light of your life - your everything. You have never focuses so much attention, so much love, on one particular thing or one particular someone. It is absolutely beautiful. How do you decide to widen your love circle? How to you manage to make more space? How do you manage to share your love?
Some people are willing to continually work towards achieving their vision of the good life. The cumulative effect of those efforts ensures that life's general trend in happiness is upwards. So if anything, you should be impatient that you aren’t growing older faster! Because as good as 27 was, 28 will be better.
My experience of motherhood so far has affected me in more ways than one. I want to hold on to these reflections and thoughts because I know that my journey of motherhood will take on new meaning over and over again - and unfold in ways I could have never imagined. How beautiful it will be to, one day, look back on what I felt so early on in my story.
Welcome to Stellarize Your Life! My new lifestyle blog, which will hopefully force and allow me to slow down, take a step back, reflect and write…which I know will result in me appreciating life and all the little joys that come with it so much more. So here is to making life a little bit more complex, but also a little bit more exhilarating and to continuing to follow your dreams They seem to know the way.
