Three questions for living your best life…
How do you want your year to be?
Is there something you want to achieve this year?
How do you want to feel?
Funny questions to ask yourself when you’re living through an upside-down world...I believe that there is no right or wrong time to ask yourself these questions, it's always important to continue to check in with your goals even in August.
Even though 2020 is looking a little bit different to how we ALL thought it would look, these three essential questions are still important to ask ourselves.
Let’s look at the first question - How do you want your year to be? Well, I know from a personal point of view, there is no way in hell I wanted to be ‘stuck’ at home, unable to even get on the freeway to our beach house. But, that doesn't mean that my year is a waste or over before December 31. So, I ask myself this question, in the parameters of where life is right now. Permitting myself to ask myself what I want is so empowering, it reminds me that I am worthy enough of having it all.
Is there something you want to achieve this year? Something you’ve been striving for, maybe you had a goal for last year and you didn’t quite get there, so it’s something you want to focus on this year. Maybe it was travel, and now that we can't, in a way, yes it's off the table, but your vision board isn't and the planning of your ultimate holiday isn't off the table either. Yep, it looks and feels different, BUT how can you get as close as to what you had in mind when you created the goal in the first place?
I’ve always liked to work towards a feeling. The reason for this is because it’s so much easier to work towards a feeling than a number or a tick the box. I realise it’s really important to have quantitative data, but I was always more keen on understanding how people felt. The reason I say this is because you still may not feel satisfied even when you’ve reached your goal. Say, what?! Could it be that you're searching for a feeling in all that you do and that in fact, material things cease to make you truly happy?
This flows into the next question, how do you want to feel?
You may have heard of the Desire Map by Danielle La Porte
This book talks about how you can have all the goals in the world but material items, whether they are holidays, household decor or that particular relationship, if you’re still feeling shitty within yourself or you’re just striving towards something because you think it’ll make you feel something you think you want to feel, then when you’ve acquired it, you may still be exactly where you have been for ages.
So, now that the world has turn upside-down, I ask you this, even when you're working from home, you're not travelling and maybe you're not making the cash you thought you would be in 2020, how do you want to feel? In every moment, of every day, how do you want to feel? What's your True North? The point on the compass that you keep coming back to day-in and day-out.
I know, that in everything I do, I make a concerted effort to move with and in the direction of joy and love. Always, they are my True North. Feelings those feelings allow me to step into my infinite magical essence, a magnet for abundance and fun. So, how do you want to feel? Decide now. .
