How to Plan to Live Mindfully in the New Year
The New Year is peeking through the wreathed and garlanded doorways.
It’s sneaking up on us through the candles and the greenery and the scent of baking cookies.
Very, very soon now, we’ll turn that calendar page from this year to
a brand New Year.
Am I ready for it?
What are my intentions for this new year? What are my goals?
Sometimes, once in awhile,
when I’m sitting and thinking and wondering about the future,
and today, when I have so many things to do, it feels as if the whole goals thing is overrated.
Why do we have to have goals? Why do we fill day planners, month planners, and quarterly planners to the last threatening square? What do we accomplish with all that intense dedication?
All too often the biggest result is stress and worry. And no one wants to go into a New Year with that mindset.
Most of us would agree that our plan for the New Year is to
live mindfully…
We want to have our priorities in the right place… We want to have time for the important things in life…
And THAT is why we fill planners and calendars and write beautiful quotes on chalkboards in our dining rooms.
Because all of that actually helps us accomplish our goals. Not only our work goals, but our mindful goals, too. Not just financial goals, but planning mindfully guides the way to our ultimate goals.
Being intentional about everything, and setting aside time slots for random acts of kindness and even for being a couch potato should be interwoven in the whole goals thing. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others.
And taking care of yourself involves mindful goal-setting. Taking God’s will into consideration is The Important Thing when you’re planning your future and penciling in the squares of the new calendar.
May God bless you all in the New Year!
Pencil His Way into your plan…
plan to live mindfully…
and you will have a successful 365!
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Thank you very much for the invitation :). Best wishes.
PS: How are you? I am from France 🙂
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Your Watercolor Wishes calendar looks so beautiful. The pictures are stunning and the accompanying quotes are really thought provoking too. I often think that we spend to much time thinking about the big material things in life, that we forget about the small, rally important ones like love and peace and contentment. Big hairy audacious goals are good, but they don’t come close to appreciating little meaningful moments every day
Yes, you read my mind and said it better than I did. I want this calendar to be a personal reminder throughout the year.