As the holidays and year end
approach, it’s a great opportunity to carve out some time to reflect on our
lives, our past year, and the year ahead of us. Here are some tips for doing
so.
1.
Ask yourself these questions:
How many lives did you make a difference in
this year?
What will you keep doing, stop doing and
start doing?
Where is your passion, and how is it
reflected in the work you do?
2.
To help you find your passion,
reflect on:
What is it about your current role that
excites you?
Where in what you do are you able to feel ‘in
the flow’?
Whom do you love working with and why?
How do you use your gifts to bring WHO you
are to WHAT you do?
3.
Create daily reminders:
Put 2 sticky
notes on your bathroom mirror so that you see them first thing each morning. On one note write: “Grow in one way each day” and on the other
sticky note write: “Make a difference in one person’s life today.”
These notes
will remind you to do these 2 simple things every day: (1) Read something
new or learn how to do something you didn’t know yesterday. This could be
reading an online article, searching online for information about a topic of
interest, or asking someone to show you how to do something rather than doing
it for you. (2) Do something that will help make someone else’s world
easier. This could be as simple as holding a door for them, or helping
them load groceries into their car. I’m talking easy here.
4.
Repack your life
During this time invite yourself
to “repack” your life. This means unpacking and examining all the things
you have been carrying around – material things, feelings, relationships,
attitudes, experiences, habits, beliefs, etc. Decide what you want to LOSE, and
what you want to TAKE with you. Start by creating your vision for your life.
In this vision do you have outer happiness and inner fulfillment?
If so, where are you? What do you have with you? What is making you happy and
fulfilled? Let your vision guide you in what you need to take with you going
forward and what to leave behind. Decide what you will leave behind and then
repack those things that are meaningful and enrich you at the core level.
Decisions are Powerful.
Make the decision to be happy and fulfilled, and to make this world a better
place by growing just a little each day, making a difference in at least one
person’s life each day, and packing appropriately to live a life of happiness
and joy in 2016.
Happy Holidays, and all the best
for the New Year!
Rebecca
"When you change the way you
look at things, the things you look at change."
- Dr. Wayne Dyer, 1940-2015
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