The start of a New Year often seems as promising as the start of a blank sheet of paper in a notebook,starting a new journal,wearing a new outfit for the first time. It can also be equally frightening as larger new things like moving into a new home, beginning a new relationship, driving a new car.
New Year’s Eve is magical as the clock strikes midnight, the ball drops in Time Square and the cheering and celebrating begins and magically we are transported to a new year in our timekeeping calendar.
7 Ways to Create a New Your for the New Year
1. Release the Old
Lighten your load – travel lighter into the New Year.
Just as when you physically move into a new residence, as you pack you “stuff” you usually consider if you want to bring that stuff with you or let it go.
Find a way that feels right to you for reviewing 2005. You may want to look at your calendar, check register, personal journals, photo albums etc.
Make a note of how you invested your time, energy and money.
You may want to ask yourself questions like, did I balance work and play? Did stay connected with those close or make new acquaintances?
I have done this for years and it is a great practice for the first week in January.
When you are finished, look over your list and write a page summing up the year.
You may also want to make a list of the tings, people, places, and situations that you are ready to release from your life. Sometimes it is helpful to create a ritual around this release. You could burn the paper in the fireplace/or candle, or throw it in the trash etc.
Clearing the past is the important first step.
2. Create a Vision
If this New Year is to be an expansion of your life, moving you forward then you must allow your vision to also move forward.
Creating a “vision” is different for everyone. For some they can actually “see” a new life. For some they “feel” what a new life will feel like. For some they may “hear” intuition telling them what a new life is like.
Take some time to sit quietly and let your mind wander into the New Year. You may find having a piece of paper near by to jot notes is also helpful. Or you may wait till you vision feels complete and write or draw or somehow create it.
For some it is very helpful to create the vision by using photo’s and images from magazines to create a vision board. This vision board can “visually” be helpful for you to emotionally connect with your new vision. And if you can hang it somewhere that you will look and make the connection with your expanded self, daily you will better be able to stay focused. For example, inside the closet or the bedroom door.
3. Set Your Intention
You may think that setting an intention is a new word for making resolutions. It is not. When you make a resolution, you are “resolving” something. Resolving situations happens in step one. Setting intentions is about focusing your energy to manifest your vision.
When you set an intention you are creating new. There is much more power in the concept of setting your intentions.
To set your intention you have to focus your thinking on what you want to create. Setting intentions reminds you that you always have a choice. It reminds you that you have the ability to create your life. It requires that you step forward into a new aspect of your life.
Setting intentions calls forth your life’s energy and concentrates it like a lazar into generating all that you may need to experience your intention.
After you have created a vision board, set your intentions accordingly. Make you intentional statements a clear and easy as possible. Read over you intentions and be sure you are affirming what you desire to create, not what you don’t want.
4. Form a Support Team
We have all tribal/mass consciousness beliefs that it is more difficult to survive alone than in the “tribe.” There is some truth in this belief.
There is great power when two people agree on something. The power of two is squared and becomes more. When you share your intention with just one other person and ask them to believe this for you, you are forming a core of energy that will help to generate all that you need for your vision to come about. And if you have more that one other person – so much more the better power.
Share your vision and intention with someone and ask them to support you in accepting this into your life. You can also ask them to take a stand for you in regards of this vision when you may give up your belief or perhaps you may need to invest your energy in working through a roadblock.
5. Plan for Setbacks
You know sometime we have the best of intentions and then we hit the “speed-bumps,” “roadblocks,” and “detours.” This is the place where most people abandon their intentions. So, planning for setbacks is paramount in moving forward.
Planning includes:
1. Knowing they will be there and get in your way – there may always be some old stuff there that need cleaned out that now becomes evident that it is in your way.
2. Be grateful that you have remained conscious enough to recognize these blocks when they come up. This is the time to hold you vision and intentions tightly as you clear w\away, heal, do some more letting go.
3. Have your support team or teammates in place. They will be the best reminders of your vision and be able to hold the space for you as you take a small detour.
6. Allow Change to Happen
Now, although this may sound sill to even mention it is one of our biggest challenges in creating something new. We think new, vision new, set intentions for new and then we hold onto dear life any change that may have to come about in order to ALLOW the new to arrive in our lives.
We are either allowing or we are resisting. We want our lives to be different BUT..we don’t want anything to change. Now this is insanity and we all do this.
When the change begins to happen, when the old shows signs of falling apart, remember not to focus on when is changing but rather focus on your intentions and your vision and accept that if is making it’s way to you. Affirm that whatever is changing is part of the process to being you new imaginings to you.
7. Claim it – Celebrate it
When you get into the practice of allowing change to take place begin to divest your energy from the fear of change and invest it into the celebration that you vision is appearing in your life now.
Sharon Marquart is a gifted Certified Personal Coach, inspirational speaker and author. For more than 13 years she has share with audiences large and small. She is the author of "Working For God," "Living With Soulful Purpose," and "Creating A Wedding Ministry." Her coaching practice is Living at YES!(You Embracing Spirit) where she passionately supports clients in identifying mistaken beliefs and self-limiting thoughts. She coaches them in getting unstuck, setting intentions and living possibilities! Sharon teaches via tele-classes and facilitates tele-groups and e-courses. Her coaching clients are nationwide. Sharon is committed to bringing Metaphysical and Spiritual Truths into everyday language and applying them to everyday life experiences.
