New Year Intentions or Devotion to Evolution
How to WIN every day?
2025 is a big year. Cosmically & energetically, and therefore physically.
Which intentions have you set for yourself? Which seeds have you lovingly sowed into the soil for the coming year?
The underlying question really is: who are you choosing to BEcome?
Having been the one feeling the excitement of BIG visions, dreaming of magnificent creations that change lives, and planning for the grandiose future, the “small stuff” always seemed pretty meaningless in this big borderless picture. When you get into the habit of gazing at the forest from afar, you forget the trees & plants & animals that are the cornerstones of this ecosystem. You fail to notice the beauty of a leaf, the softness and strength of moss, or the wisdom of fungal networks. The forest doesn’t exist without them.
In a similar way, we forget that everything is actually small. Life = all the moments put together. Our body is governed by energy + the smallest particles inside our cells. Objects are composed of atoms. All the small stuff matters deeply in the process of living alchemy.
I loved this podcast episode with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, who talked about the importance of SMALL changes and the 3 questions that he asks himself each morning (I took the liberty to rephrase as I remembered them):
What am I grateful for right now?
What is my ONE priority today? Apparently “priority” didn’t even have a plural form to start with, it’s just something we created later, in our multi-tasking era.
Which quality do I want to show to the world today?
ONE PRIORITY PER DAY - f*king game changer for 2025. My addictive affinity to endless to-do lists could have NEVER even comprehended the possibility of “one task per day" amongst the sea of things that “HAVE to be done & asap”. It has been a process of the last 18 months or so to come to the point where this seems fully accessible for my system.
The beauty of defining THE ONE thing that truly matters each day, and then making sure you’ll get to do it, means that every day YOU WIN. Instead of a daily wrestling match with another endless list, every morning awaits you with a blank page, a magical tabula rasa, and another game you won.
May your intention for 2025 be devotion to clarity, focus and simplicity amongst complexity; and commitment to what truly matters. It’s a decision to be enveloped by the beauty of a single tree, rather than only looking at the forest from far away.
The seemingly “small stuff” is what TRULY matters. The daily moments and little changes accumulate and truly create the NEW you.
Once a therapist asked me - do you ever have FUN? My internal thought was: “JC, of course not, who would have time for such frivolous undertaking.” Until I realised - people have been right! The small stuff, and The Everyday, is where FUN happens.
JOY is not an award you get for living an overwhelmingly stressed life: Life itself is an award, where joy can be YOUR chosen modus operandi, moment by moment. The magnificence of the forest is made up of the beauty and wisdom of each tree, plant and animal living there.
Focusing on JOY as your guiding light, and PRESENCE within each moment is how you spiral upwards. Focus on each step is how you make BIG visions tangible and magnificent creations your playing field. Without the suffering, impatience and fear, that the Dream might be out of reach. It doesn’t matter, as you’ve already WON.
Over the last days of 2024 I realised something huge, and not because I suddenly became a billionaire. In fact, it had nothing to do with external change of circumstances.
The message was:
Lifetimes of forcing and heavy-lifting is done. I don’t HAVE to do anything. I do stuff because I WANT to. This means a new criteria for creating: one question only - is it FUN & INSPIRING for me? Is it LOVE on the drivers’ seat - or fear?
The award is Magic of Life, and the only requirements are to travel light and have fun on the journey.
The End is the New Beginning. I wish you all the following:
Slow down.
Reduce clutter. Let go of what you don’t need.
Define one priority per day.
Renew your devotion to things that nourish you.
Direct your energy & attention to what truly matters.
Be your new reality.
Have you thought about it - maybe you don’t HAVE to do anything either? Maybe life can be FUN without having to deserve it first?
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