Embrace a gentler approach to life this year. Discover the power of self-compassion, the importance of setting realistic goals, and the transformative effect of mindfulness. It's time to prioritize your well-being and learn to go easier on yourself.
2021 was a tough year.
It was a particularly eventful year, where your life might have changed in one or more ways
- The issue at hand seems to be with levels of severity, and collapsed timetables
- Unrealistic expectations and high levels of self-pressure can cause you to set unrealistic goals and then fail at each and every one of those goals
- Another failure, another attempt at being a better person
Lighten the pressure
There are “reset points” available to you at many different points in the year
- Take the first day of the Chinese New Year, for example.
- For all the days leading up to that day, we have that natural instinct to go wild and try to fit in as much unhealthy behavior as we can before going cold turkey the day of.
As long as you approach life with a fair degree of genuine effort, there’s not much that could happen that would truly knock you irreparably off-course
You can trust yourself to do what needs to be done- and if that’s true, then there’s really no reason to stress about it.
Focus on the good
Don’t cast the previous year or the coming year in broad strokes of “bad” or “difficult”
- Even a bad year can be an opportunity for growth and improvement
- Instead, focus on the positives and remind yourself that the future will be better than the past
Get excited, not expectant
January 1st rightly carries a lot of weight, because we’ve societally chosen to ascribe meaning to it
- The danger is when you set hard expectations for things to happen a certain way and then get disappointed when they fall any degree short
- Be excited by the possibility of this year. Included in that possibility are your dreams coming true
