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It’s wild when I think about all that has opened up, cleared out and even blindsided me in just 365 days. For starters, I settled into a part of the country I’d never even visited before and decided, virtually sight unseen, to make this place my home. I dated a couple of interesting men. I got dumped. Twice. I made friends. I lost friends. I lost weight. I gained clients. I journeyed around the world and back again many times over without ever leaving my apartment. I did the unthinkable, what heretofore was wholly unnatural for me: I slowed down, turned inward and spent the better part of the year listening to my Self. I plunged into the amazingness of my surroundings; I came to deeply appreciate the expansive natural beauty that both surrounds and resides within me. I stepped out of boatloads of stagnant energy only to repeatedly press, clang and eventually move through the boundaries of my comfort zone. I floundered and fell more than a few times. I soared even more. And I wasn’t exactly what you’d call ready for any of it. Which brings me to my point.
What are you ready and set for in 2011?
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Within the past two weeks my loosely-crafted holiday plans have shifted and fallen through faster than cake flower through a sieve. What at one moment was shaping up to be a good time with friends in Colorado quickly turned on its head, ground to a halt and began to resemble a holiday of ho hum featuring me on my couch feeling like a rejected sad sack of Christmas coal. Too late and expensive to head toward loved ones out east, I decided to look at my skimpy Christmas calendar as an opportunity to do something new this year. But not before losing it just a little bit.
After my initial cry of WTF! came my launch into doing what I do best: getting busy! Mind you, I didn’t say I got busy fixing the situation or making new plans, or even being overly constructive in general; I simply puttered around in circles without creating any kind of real plan for the open week ahead. All I knew was the ominous clouds of Christmas pity were gathering overhead and the last thing I wanted was for them to rain out the final flickers of my waning holiday spirit!
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Ahh, the holidays. A time for selfless giving and sharing ourselves with loved ones and the occasional strange ones near and far. A time to present our favorite people, pets and neighbors, colleagues and cohorts with presents they’ll love us forever for. It’s a time to loosen our purse strings to charity, tax write-offs and special causes. You get my point: it’s time to give until it hurts. This year, though, I’d like to introduce a new way to engage the holidays, and every day, for that matter. Instead of giving until it hurts, how about we open to receiving until it heals?
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