Spending the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day in the mountains of Vermont is a tradition for me. Jumping out of a busy routine to walk in the mountain air, stretch in a morning yoga class and perusing my favorite bookstore help me to unwind. I pulled out the vision board I made last year and scrolled through my camera roll since last January.
All this percolated as I spent evenings in front of a fire enjoying the stillness.
By the end of the week, I took the advice of a popular podcaster to focus on what I wanted to “continue doing, start doing and stop doing”.
Here is what I came up with:
Continue: Helping others on their healing journeys with acupuncture. Enjoying our 3-generational household. Keep working on the book I have dreamed of finishing for a very long time. Appreciating life. Reading scripture daily.
Start: Sharing more of my art with others in exhibitions. Getting away more to be in nature. Spending quality time with friends. Getting acupuncture sessions to boost my immune system. Practicing short custom made qigong practices daily.
Stop: Worrying. Trying to be someone I am not. Helping others in ways that are unhealthy.
What do you need to continue, start, and stop doing in the New Year? Making time to pull away from your routine might help you to discern.
Whatever it is, start by being grateful for exactly where you are right now. I look forward to seeing some of you in this fresh new year where anything might be possible!
