HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! 😀
In the spirit of the new year, and the NEW YOU, instead of doing the traditional new year’s resolution where you focus on what you would like to quit doing, do less of, cut out altogether, etc. what if you tried something different this year?
What if you just wrote a list of all of the things you would like to do this year? New places you would like to travel to, new experiences you would like to have, new skills you would like to learn, etc. Why not create a one year, 2014 bucket list, which gives you a deadline of 1 year for you to fulfill your desires, instead of an ambiguous deadline of “before you die”, which is what the traditional bucket list gives life to.
Creating a list that brings to your awareness the things you WANT to do this year – The things that feed your soul – The things that MOVE you!
How would that change your year?
How would that change your dreams?
How would that change your attitude on life?
How would that change the way that you spend your time?
How would that change the way that you exert your energy?
How you show up in your life every day?
How would that help move you forward toward your goals?
Who would you spend more time with?
Who would you spend less time with?
What would you spend less time doing?
What would you spend more time doing?
I’ll share with you an example to help bring this more to life for you and help you see the possibilities…
I did this for 2013, and are just a few examples of what happened….
This was the year of love, family, fun, health, adventure, personal development, growth, and connection for me! Here is just a little snippet of the jam packed year of 2013….
2013 bucket list item – Get Authentically Connected!
This year, in an effort to make more authentic connections, I got off Facebook for an entire year, and started instead to travel to see loved ones face to face! I had the most amazing blessings this year in being able to go to the east coast several times to get some good old quality time with the fam that resides there! I was also able to host my cousin here in the burbs of Chicago, and it was SUCH a pleasure and JOY to get to spend time with her, her amazing husband and her little angel of a nugget!
It has been such a true joy and honor to be able to create new life experiences with my family that in years past we had been in the pattern of only seeing each other on an annual basis if and when weddings happened. How fun it has been to grow relationships with the spouses of loved ones, and also the little blessings that are their children. I plan to continue this new more connected pattern as we move into the years to come.
2013 Bucket List Item – The World is Your Playground, Get Out there and PLAY!
On top of the business travel I do where I could be in any given state at any given time, I decided to expand the range of travels and experiences. This year I went London, Paris, Barcelona, and Rome. Oh, what fun!!!
2013 Bucket List Item – Make “HEALTHY” a Full Time Lifestyle
In the past year I quit smoking, quit drinking, cut out all of the foods that are highly processed, and through this journey to health I found out that I was allergic to a TON of foods, so I cut those out too! (More to come on this topic in 2014. This journey has been life altering and I look forward to sharing it with all of you!)
2013 Bucket List Items – Self Mastery Focus – Become a Better Public Speaker – (aka, Conquer my Nerves) – and Spend More Time with Loved Ones
I signed up for Improvisation classes at Second City here in Chicago. As a Christmas gift, I bought my mom classes too. Check, and check!
2013 Bucket List Items – Spend More Time with Loved Ones
I realized that there was always something that came up that kept me too busy to do the things that really mattered to me in life, things like my number one value in life which is family. So, through the awareness of this, I was able to choose a different course of action for myself, and we are now back on track! My dad and I have resumed our weekly daddy / daughter date nights.
2013 Bucket List Items – Be Vulnerable, Explore my Defective Programming in the Relationship Area of my Life and Reprogram Accordingly, and Seek Out and Sustain HEALTHY Relationships
This year, I met my wonderful boyfriend on eHarmony. (This was inspired by spending time with my cousin and his awesome wife who met on there as well and have a relationship that I truly look up to.) My boyfriend spent his birthday with my whole East Coast family for my Aunt and Uncle’s 40th wedding anniversary party. (My family is full of these long term loving relationships, and I plan to follow in the footsteps of the generations before me.) Today marks 7 months for us, and I could not be more fulfilled. This healthy relationship would not have been possible had I not first gone on the journey to figure out where I had defective programming that was no longer serving me and then reprogrammed it. It was a LONG and HARD journey, but it was all worth it! (Oh man, you should have seen the gems that I dated before I reprogrammed!)
2013 Bucket List Item – Create and Share New Experiences for the Loved Ones Around Me
This year I took my brother on a NASCAR experience where we were able to drive around a NASCAR track in one of the professional cars. When we got the results back after our experience it turned out that he went about a half of a half of a mile per hour faster than me and I haven’t heard the end of that. The good news though is that now after 13 years of me trying to convince him to join me on a skydiving adventure, he has finally accepted the offer so stay tuned!!! While we were there at the NASCAR race track, I bought my mother a “ride-along”, where she was able to go around the race track as a professional driver was behind the wheel taking her for a speedy ride! She was excited until she found out that the doors didn’t open and she had to go in and out of the window…. Good times to be had by all!
2013 Bucket List Item – Do What Feeds my Soul, and Pursue My Passions and Callings
Finally, I started my own business this year. I still am working full-time with the company I have been with for 6 + years, but I am building my business as well where I do Life Coaching to help people uncover their goals, identify the areas they are stuck, and then create a plan to help them move forward and become their best ideal version of themselves where they achieve and exceed their wildest dreams!
There were things on my list that I didn’t get a chance to get to in 2013. Want to know the beauty in that? I can put those on the list for 2014!
Can’t wait to see what 2014 has in store for me and for all of you!!!
What are the things on your bucket list for 2014? Feel free to share! Sharing them with others increases your probabilities of success!
Xoxoxo
Love, peace, joy, and happiness to all!
Morgan