Like you, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the new year.
I believe that each and every one of us has the capacity to identify our individual challenges and access the solutions within ourselves.
It’s a life-long process for most of us – a process that requires answering the age-old question about what we truly want, and then focusing on our deepest desires, as we activate the steps we must take to get there. It’s also one of the most challenging life journeys we encounter.
Fortunately, we are driven. We want to be more, do more… have more. It’s a human trait. “Beyond mountains, there are mountains”. But we all know that after a demanding workday, too many of us find it easier to sit in front of the news than to spend time working on, renewing, and empowering ourselves.
For the past several months, I have been led back to the teachings and practices that I learned decades ago – “Back to Basics”, I’ve called it. I am applying them to the new mountain peaks that I want to reach NOW. And why not more consciously return to the basics that worked so well?!
When I assess all the “new” stuff I can read, the courses I can take, I realize just how accurate the statement “there’s nothing new under the sun” truly is … We think there is so much more ‘out there’ … and there is … but what we really need to further explore, and what “The Basics” teaches and focuses on, is the depth of what’s already within us.
Have a really good look inside, gratefully reinforce and use what you already have access to, and very carefully determine whether you need to acquire more tools or return to the implementation of what has always worked. Perhaps it’s both.
Join me in turning up the volume on the basics.
Do the work. Trust yourself. And enjoy what you create in 2023!
