Happy New Year!!
May this year be filled with love and abundance for you!
I love the start of a new year. Any thing seems possible and I spend a lot of time day dreaming about which of those possibilities might manifest abundance in my life over the course of the next 365 days. Of course, before too long into the New Year, I’m once again caught up in the swirl of day-day survival and many of those dreams go unfulfilled.
This year I’ve decided to change that.
This year I’m going to consciously focus on creating abundance; not just wish for it.
Y’know, all around me this past week I’ve had people, advertisements and so on wish me a prosperous New Year. But no one has wished me an abundant New Year. Why am I so picky about semantics? Well, according to the dictionary on my iPad, there is a big difference in the meaning of the two words.
Prosperity – a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
Abundance – an extremely plentiful or oversufficient quantity or supply
- overflowing fullness
- affluence; wealth
Prosperity is defined by words like flourishing or thriving; while abundance gets words like extremely plentiful, oversufficient, and overflowing fullness. The former implies “enough” but the latter shouts “to infinity and beyond!” Which would you rather have? I vote for overflowing fullness!
Everyone’s definition of abundance is different. For me, it is a cozy apartment that reflects my personality and energy. It is a place where people walk in and feel not just welcome but loved and appreciated. My apartment is also my personal oasis where I recharge and enjoy my own company for a while.
People must be a source of abundance for me as well. I love meeting new people and hearing about their experiences. I don’t like crowds of people because I can’t devote time to everyone in the room, but a gathering of 3 or 4 at time is great for me.
Travel is important to me as well. Again it’s the people thing. How better to get to know a person than to step into their world and explore their language, food and history first hand.
Money is important because it provides the means to accomplish my other values. For example, I want to take my parents to Australia one day. This year, I want a new bed and a new car.
So what am I doing to create abundance this year? I’ve made a commitment to take my New Year’s resolutions very seriously.
I started thinking about this back in the summer when a colleague and friend turned me on to the PROSPERTY GAME. The very first assignment was to create a list of 100 things to do, have and be. The list started out with the material things I needed like brakes for the car, however as I filled the list it evolved into a reflection of my values with things I wanted not just for myself but to give to others. Experiences I wanted and those I would share them with. My list became more than a definition of prosperity. It became an outline for abundance.
Over the course of the next few months, the list became a fluid document in my life. I found myself thinking about it when I was working and imagining how it would feel to check items off that list. I started daydreaming about other things I wanted to put on it. I realized that I had allowed my life to slide into a state of apathy and had ceased being an adventure. Y’know what? I want my adventure back!
So I set my New Year’s Resolutions to start checking of that list. Some of the things are long term goals and others are doable this year. In fact, some can be done in a weekend so I set more than one.
1. Visit all 13 Smithsonians
2. Go to the Cherry Blossom festival
3. Get a new car ( I’m looking at the Dodge Dart)
4. Get a new Sleep # bed
5. Increase my coaching certification by two levels
6. Score a ride in a helicopter
7. Take a sketch class
8. Post a blog every week this year on abundance and goal achieving.
9. Interview 12 people this year that exemplify the definition of “a redhead”
10. I want a black belt in a martial art by the time I’m 50, so I start training this year.
12. I want to finally get my desk organized.
(The Harley will wait one more year)
Will I get all these things done this year? Probably not. But as Mary Kay Ash used to say…” Aim for the moon. Then if you miss, at least you land among the stars.” So even if I only get 2 or 3 done I’ll have also made progress on a few more and that will be further along than I am today.
What is your New Year’s resolution? Is this the year you make it happen? I’ll tell you what. I’ll give you a complimentary (Yes, I said FREE) coaching session so you can look at that goal to break it down and see what it’s going to take to succeed. Click the link below to book your free appointment.
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