Tag: growth

Setting Intentions for an Abundant New Year.

Last year, I waxed poetic about whether New Year’s resolutions were doomed to fail.

This year, I want to suggest we throw out resolutions entirely.  Resolutions are so 2019; 2020 is all about Setting Your Intentions.

What’s the difference, you might ask?  Well, Intentions focus on the process, while Resolutions focus on the outcome. If we vow to run a marathon, but only manage a half-marathon, instead of feeling pride for the strides we’ve made, we feel let-down. This year, why not take joy in our accomplishments instead?

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Dwelling in Discomfort

Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
         we’re inconsolable.
                               Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
                                                                Tell me we’ll never get used to it.

– Richard Siken, Scheherazade

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We’re getting older.  We’ve had our hearts broken.  We’ve broken bones.  We’ve bet on the wrong horse or man or woman.  We made a poor investment along the way.  We lost something important.  We wasted time or money or energy on the wrong people.  We’re all a little more fragile now, a little more careful.  Curiosity is a trait we most associate with children or cats.

Not for us.

We tread the familiar paths.

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