Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
By Donna Tobey
How well are you able to quiet your mind? Are you able to slow it down enough to focus with deliberate intent on what you want in your life? I know some of us have difficulty deciding what we want our lives to look like. I have felt stuck at times and have come to realize that during those times, I lacked imagination. Not only imagination, also focus. We each have a precious life that is only ours to live. It is paramount that we actively participate in the creation of it.
This is the time of year that I reflect upon what this past year was and what I want the next year to be. What manifested and was I happy with what manifested? It helps me to break it down into categories, small bite size pieces to reflect upon. I literally write a list including these topics: fitness and health, family relationships, travel, finances, personal care, intimate partnerships, work or career, Spiritual practice or religion, and hobbies. This helps keep me more focused and present with this reflective process. So much happens in a year, I find the more I narrow it down into subjects, the more precise I can be with my reflection.
I start listing the positives in each category being grateful for each blessing from the past year. Sometimes what manifested wasn’t exactly what I thought I was asking for but I choose to look at the bright side of what did. Sometimes I can see clearly why it came in that way, sometimes I can’t. It’s a mystery to me. I just trust that it needed to be that way for lessons learned. My next step is to sit quietly moving past the mind and what it is telling me to sink into what my heart is telling me. That’s the tricky part, asking your heart to reveal to you what you desire moving forward. It seems like such a simple question, doesn’t it? What do I desire?
If you don’t have some clarity of what you desire, how can you ask? And consequently, how can you receive? I deliberately consider each topic, slowly. It generally takes me weeks to complete this process. I take my time to search my heart for guidance contemplating the possibilities of new. We are ending one cycle and beginning another. My goal is to have this project completed before we enter into Rosh Hashanah, which is considered by many, the Cosmic New Year.
Make some time as we are in this season, to examine your life, all the blessings of this past year with the intent to reflect and appreciate. Consider deliberate intentions, they are very powerful and worthy of the time invested to energetically pre-pave the upcoming year. Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. What we are living now, is something we gave thought to yesterday. What we give thought to today, we live tomorrow.