Dear friends,
Happy first Sunday Spark of the New Year🎉 ! Sending my best wishes to you and your loved ones for a series of great moments that begins right now to cherish forever.
I love clean slates. I love the energy of starting over, opening up new planners, and writing the date with a new year that I will keep mixing with the old for a while. This all feels like another Christmas to me.
First tip of the year: if you are starting a daily planner, fill day one now. Please don’t wait to fill all those introductory pages to use it. Start writing in it now.
If you haven’t got around to setting your goals just yet, please know that it’s perfectly okay! I have not set mine too, but I’m getting some good ideas for new habits and achievements to set in place this year. Remember, there is nothing magical about January 1st. You can set your goals when you are well-rested after the crazy holidays or in a better place in your cycle,
like the creative spring. You can set them after your visitors leave or when you go back home. You can set them over a weekend when you have some time to go through the steps or at the beginning of a new week, new month, a new quarter, or on your birthday. You choose your beginning. Just make sure you are not coming up with one excuse after another for not doing it. Set a date to work on your goals and share it with someone.
There is nothing magical about any date because we don’t really change in one day, but we change over days, weeks, and months. So this year, ask yourself: what’s the one habit that will reflect positively on most or all aspects of my life? James Clear calls it a Meta habit. Developing the habit of reading is one example because when you get used to reading, you will improve your life with new knowledge and find solutions to many of your problems. Parenting struggle? There must be a book about it. Clueless financially? Get educated about it. Health issue? Read more about it.
Another Meta habit is exercising. When you exercise, you choose better food to match your hard work, sleep deeper, feel more self-confident, and get all those happy exercise hormones after you finish a workout, to name a few.
What’s your habit going to be?
For me, it will be a home management/decluttering habit(s). It costs me emotional energy whenever I see clutter in my house, it costs me precious minutes every time I search for things I want around the house, and it costs me hours when getting ready to receive guests. It costs me parenting moments wasted on managing my kids’ stuff rather than our relationship. It also costs me negative habits taking root in my kids who are simply copying me.
I will share more about this goal and the accountability I am setting up for myself as I go.
Enjoy setting up your planners this week, if that's your jam. I will get to them soon after my second goals workshop that is starting tomorrow. So excited.
