Thirteen random ways to insure that 2013 is going to be the best year yet!
There is a shift in our world. It is a slow one, but it is coming. A shift to focus more on family, community and supporting one another and less on outdoing each other.
I want to help lead the charge in this shift. We can’t get there fast enough. It’s time for communities to be stronger and more united.
For moms, daughters and mentors a like, these thirteen random ways we can help lead others to better ourselves and our communities – I hope that you will share them with all you know and join me in having the best year yet!
Put technology down and interact more
Put the technology down and interact more with your friends, family and others in your community.
Make a commitment to the people in your life that you will make them priority, not the email you need to respond to or your Facebook status. It’s been a weird learning curve over the past few years as we have all incorporated these new social medias into our lives, but I think that enough is enough. Time to put some balance in place if you haven’t already done so.
I hear this even from my oldest daughter who is now nearly 19 years old. She and her friends are ‘over it’ – meaning the connectivity via technology. They want to be out and interact with each other more. The phones are in their bags and pockets. I have heard more and more teens are deleting their Facebook accounts. Some don’t even text anymore. They are finding that the ‘old fashion’ way of communicating is better – meaning the face-to-face or over the phone voice-to-voice.
Lets all do the same this year.
Make this year the year you stop worrying
This is the year to stop worrying.
We have had one hell of a year in 2012! There has been lots to be worried about, and lots of people trying to tell us to be worried about things that we can’t control.
Time to take all that control back.
My suggestion in 2013 is to limit your exposure to media – all forms of media. Limit your television consumption. Limit your exposure to anything negative – such as movies, music, and people that have bad messages or are too intense.
Make choices this year that lift you up and keep you moving forward. Negativity is everywhere and it will permeate your being in ways without your permission.
If you find that you have a difficult life situation, as we all do, make choices to see how to make the best of the worst situations. Ask for help. Don’t go it alone.
Make this the year that you stop worrying.
Learn something new – often
Maybe you have wanted to take a dance class or learn how to program in order to build a web site?
Make it a point this year to learn something completely new!
Move outside of your comfort zone. See what happens.
Forgive yourself and others
Forgiveness is so important in allowing abundance and prosperity into our lives – especially when it comes to relationships and our health.
No matter what has happened in your past it is important to work towards forgiving yourself and others who may have wronged you.
This year start your work on forgiveness. It is a process. Explore it and see what forgiveness can free you from.
Be your own health care advocate
This year take back your health care.
If you are seeing a doctor that doesn’t have your best interest at heart – fire them. Get a new doctor that understands your needs and will treat you the way you need to be treated. There is a reason they call it a ‘practice’.
Find time to eat right. It takes time and effort, but it is worth it. You will feel better and you will need to see a doctor less over the year.
Get outside and get moving. Just a tiny bit of time a few times a week can make a world of difference in your mental and physical health.
Make these changes about your health and not your appearance. This is how you will be successful. This is also how we better mentor any little ones who might be watching.
Spend time in stillness
Make time to be quiet.
Turn the television off. Don’t answer the phone. Have your partner or sitter keep the children. Get outside in nature.
Make time to still your mind and let your mind be quiet.
This is a powerful way to recharge your creativity and brainpower.
Eat one meal together as a family once a day
Go retro! Bring a meal back around the table for at least one meal a day.
What you accomplish by doing this is well worth the effort.
Families who eat together see their children communicate better and have better nutrition. It also gives you and opportunity to model good eating habits for your younger children. For your older children it is said that it can help lower the use of alcohol and illegal substances.
Stop judging yourself and others
So easy to pass negative judgment of yourself and others and forget that little ones are watching.
This year try to be less judgmental of yourself and of others. If nothing more do it because your little ones are watching. They learn this negative behavior from us.
Every time we comment negatively on our appearance or something someone else has done that we find unappealing our children take note and they too think that the behavior is an okay behavior to engage in.
Try this year to verbalize the good things you see going on around you. The kindness extended to you by the person providing you your morning coffee, or the person who let you in when you needed to change lanes. Perhaps verbalize the cute outfit you see another woman wearing while out shopping – even pay the woman a complement if you pass her.
This year try and re-focus your world lens. Try and see the positive and verbalize it often.
Believe that you are enough
“No more hiding out and holding back. Let yourself be awesome!”
~ Brave Girls’ Club
Make 2013 the year that you believe that you are enough.
Believe that you are enough to seek and live the life you deserve.
Believe that you are enough – you need no one to confirm or deny this. You have what it takes to make it happen!
Make your goals for 2013 and work your ass off to get them! You can do it! You are enough!
Consume more culture and diversity
Make time to visit your local museums, dance and cultural centers this year.
Learn about cultures and diversity that you don’t know about. Broaden your mind and your knowledge of the world.
Rediscover something you may have lost – play
Make time to play.
Get outside and play this year. Run around with your children or pets. Walk in the park. Get lost in your imagination.
Spend time doing this often. It is good for your spirit.
Say it
Your voice is so important.
Make this the year that you speak your mind, your truth and what is in your heart. You have so much to say – regardless of age – your stories need to be shared so that others know you and can learn from you.
It’s important to speak up and speak your truth so that others don’t take advantage of you or misunderstand you.
Say it with love and with an open heart and you will never go wrong.
Don’t forget to get some rest
It might seem cool to stay up night after night – but the fact is lots of things start to break down when you do this.
What am I talking about?
Well for starters your brain and nervous system can’t function. You put your cardiovascular system, metabolic functions and immune systems at risk. Additionally, not getting enough sleep can exacerbate hypertension, emotional disorders (like depression), and physical conditions like obesity and diabetes and alcohol and drug use.
Do some more reading on the subject with the American Psychological Association. It will blow your mind!
I am one of those people who used to be up night after night burning the candle at both ends AND in the middle, until I started to read more and more about what not getting enough sleep can do.
It’s terrible!
So this year, if you were like me, not getting a lot of sleep and thinking that you were okay in doing that – make this the year you get more rest.
Do it and live longer and in better health!
