NEW YEAR, BLAH , BLAH, BLAH

The title may sound like I am jaded, but I promise you I am not. I am just a part of the wave of people that have come to accept and realize the new year energy that we are supposed to participate in is outdated and downright diabolical. After all, it is based on the expectations of a capitalist society. It's a ‘show me what you can do so I can place value on you’ kind of energy and it is getting tedious. Now, more than ever, many are stepping away from the notion that the new year means setting goals tied to action and finances. More of us are realizing that the new year can just be that…the new year. Some of us ( I am in this clique) see the new year as a chance to continue doing the inner work of being better humans and a time to evaluate how the past year went.

Now to focus this conversation on me, for context, of course. Some years back, I realized that the ‘show me what you can do so I can place value on you’ kind of energy was not for me. I wasn't getting the results I was promised and to be honest, I felt like a failure when the vision board created in January did not match my reality in December. Did it mean I was a failure? That I was lazy? That I wasn’t giving it my all? No. It simply meant that that system was not working for me. After all, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity so it was time I checked out of the madhouse. 

Now my vision boards are about ME not what can I do! At the end of the day, I am me and not what I produce. Centering myself made sense and it still makes sense. Now, I still do add projects and desires I wish to attain within the year but now I focus on becoming the person who can truly handle all those things. I will give you an example. I was having a chat with someone about the rapid growth of someone she admires on social media. She went on to mention how she could not handle the negative energy that comes with having a huge following YET on her vision board she has the desire to have a huge following! Do you see the fallacy and contradiction?! How can you desire something and yet you are not the container that can handle it? See why I had to change my new year energy?! 

With that being said, my new series on my channel is my way of sharing how I approach the new year. It is a way of being ( and doing) that has evolved over 5 years and continues to evolve. 12 Days of Youanuary will have its own blog post ( which will be up within the next few days!) and I hope it will inspire you to stop doing the same thing over and over again hoping for different results.

Wishing you a fantastic start to the year and here is to checking ourselves out of the madhouse.