“…Being at home, in the core of ourselves, is the foundation that gives us the security…to be in full relationship to life.” Bud Harris
Early 2023, I nearly dropped my e-reader. “This is so where I am at right now!” I noted next to this passage above.
My word of the year for 2023 was Foundation – specifically, shoring up the real foundation to everything: my relationship with myself.
All year, I had decided, I would be unwobbling the wobbles around accepting every part of myself. I didn’t want to feel at odds with myself anymore.
It was a drastically new kind of goal for me: I’ve always been a speed demon set on tackling my business projects, writing books and articles, serving people through all that and a nonprofit, plus a million other things.
But losing my father took my mind off all that, and my 2023 goal felt less tangible and obvious; the kind of thing that falls in the cracks. An Honorable Mention type of goal, not really worthy of a gold prize.
Basically not worth the time and energy to focus on if I had anything more important and urgent to do. But that is why it had to be the top priority of all.
My biggest task is to meet myself where I am, moment to moment in my life, especially when life gets busy.
If I have any goal that consider to be more important, as soon as I feel that urgency, this relationship with myself will play second fiddle…heck, it’s the triangle in the back.
In order to really take things up a notch, I had to to say, “Forget the other goals, if all I do is end the year more self loving than I began, then I will consider it a success.”
So how did it go?
Read on in this free January edition of On Purpose Women Magazine!
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