Here we are a week into 2012! Are you ready for an amazing new year to achieve your dreams and find the true love you’ve been looking for?
Now that we’re back, I want to share with you what we’ve been up to recently. I love the holiday season because it is exciting to begin anew with a blank slate. My favorite part of winding down is that it’s a time to reflect and to plan, both of which I find invigorating. The season, with its built-in downtime, enables us to acknowledge our accomplishments, to reflect on what worked as well as what didn’t work, and to look ahead to a brand new year primed for new and fresh possibilities.
My husband Michael and I use this time to review our long-term goals, which we call our “life plan,” and to evaluate our progress. We then do an exercise called “Creating and Completing.” We do this while relaxing at the beach on cushy chairs–one of our favorite settings. As we breathe in the negative ions provided by the ocean breeze, we take some time to gain perspective away in a quiet atmosphere. We take a step back and, with clarity, acknowledge what together we accomplished in 2011. Then we look at where we fell short, what we learned, what was missing and what we would “do over” if we could. This is the process of completing.
