A Message for the New Year
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Guys, typically on New Year’s Eve I’d be feverishly setting goals.
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This year I can tell you: I have ZERO desire to set goals.
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I went into 2020 hell bent on achieving a bunch of stuff. When the pandemic hit I vowed to never let it change my plans.
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And yet, of course, not surprisingly, it totally changed all my plans.
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So, for the first time in my life, I started investing in coaching courses and therapy.
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Initially I did so because I thought they would help me plow through the bullshit of 2020 and achieve anyway. ACHIEVE AT ALL COSTS.
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I felt like I needed to bring in the big guns. Really get my mind wired tight so I could MAKE THOSE GOALS HAPPEN DAMMIT.
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Can you see where this story is headed?
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The courses and the therapy didn’t deliver me my goals.
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Instead, they broke me open.
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They showed me all the ways I had been hurting and hiding it- even from myself.
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And a way forward so that eventually I might not hurt so much anymore.
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I went in looking to achieve GOALS and what I got was: Empathy for myself, a little more self-worth (it’s an uphill battle), an intense passion for mining the depths of my soul to Figure Some Shit Out.
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I’ve stopped reading “Money” books and started buying crystals, smudging my house, participating in moon rituals...
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Wtf?! 2020, you were a funny one. (In a not so conventionally funny way.)
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All that to say, sometimes you go on a journey looking for one thing, and by the end you realize you needed something else entirely.
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My only goal for 2021 is to live in greater integrity with my soul.
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That’s it.
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This year, let’s keep it simple guys.
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The world needs our joy more than our control.
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Let’s roll with the punches.
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Enjoy the present moment.
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Revel in the tiny miracles of everyday life.
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“We’ll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne”.
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Happy New Year. Thanks for joining me here and reading my words. It means more to me than you could possibly know.