Are you building walls between you and your dreams? Start prepping now for a better you! No excuses, your dreams are waiting!
It’s time to dismantle those walls between yourself and your dreams! Hold onto your vision and start making it a reality.
Our Walls
Hard to believe, but we do build our own walls. Sometimes a wall can be an excuse. An excuse could look like something we create to avoid people, a difficult conversation, self-sabotage from ourselves because we feel we don’t deserve something (that we may actually want).
What walls have you created in the past?
Whatever those walls are, it’s now time to start taking them down.
While most people are holding onto those bad habits they created this year with hopes for a fresh start for next year, you are going to start to dismantle walls now.
This does 2 things…
- It eases the anxiety surrounding change
- It helps you begin to create better habits now so you’ll already be making them more permanent as the new year begins
Editing 2020
Break out a journal, piece of paper, or a napkin soiled with good-smelling coffee (or wine), and let’s give ourselves some perspective looking backward for a moment. We mustn’t bury our past without first processing the walls we build between ourselves and our dreams.
- Stuff: What stuff did you acquire recently or just have hanging around you want to edit. Maybe you have 5 black skirts and want to sell 2. Maybe you bought a bread machine and now you want to lessen your carb load. Are there things hanging around you just do not use? Grab all those Amazon boxes that accumulated over the months and start filling them with things that no longer serve you.
- Boundaries: Think of the boundaries that have been crossed you now want to build walls for. Maybe it’s not answering work e-mails after a certain time or only certain times. Maybe it’s carving out me-time because you and your partner (and/or kids) are around each other all the time. Maybe you are setting an invisible boundary between yourself and the leftover Reeses that call you from Halloween. Whatever those boundaries are, choose them now so you are well aware of how they affected you in the past.
- Mindset: Are there any self-defeating thoughts were on repeat in your head? Write them down and get ready to cross them out! We don’t need self-talk building walls against ourselves or our goals. We are going to strive for a more positive mindset now.
- People: Who in your life do you want to edit for the rest of this year? Perhaps someone toxic you want to edit out completely or maybe you want more space from your roommate. This could also be giving someone more time…maybe more self-care for you or more time with your kids/partner because work blurred into home.
Looking Forward
Allow yourself to heal from the past. It was an insane year filled with all kinds of crazy we are sick of (literally and figuratively). Now is the best time to start.
Let’s knock down those walls so there’s nothing in our way.
See you in the next post to keep this rolling!
