A word I’ve been using a lot lately is discernment.
Honing our sense of judgement is such a crucial life skill. Discerning what we actually want and the best way to go about getting it.
And going into 2024, I think I can boil that down to two things:
Awareness – of who the hell you actually are; how you feel and react to people and situations
Deliberation – and working toward showing up consciously every day of your life and being intentional about your actions
(Throwback here to 2016 and the 2 things I learned that changed my life)
When you know what you want, and you’re fully dedicated to making it real, things start to click into place. Next steps reveal themselves. Opportunities unfold. Things start happening, flowing, without too much pushing or forcing.
You follow a simple framework to manifest it: clarity, conviction, and commitment. Setting the vision, holding firmly onto the purposeful sense of guaranteed success, and channeling it all into consistent, embodied action.
(More on that full process here.)
Crucially, you’ve got to believe first. The steps are be > do > have. It starts inside, within. Expanding who you are, which flows into what you do, and finally, the results.
It’s so much about how you feel and what you consciously and subconsciously believe. Leaving behind old wounds and patterns. I spent my 20s saying I didn’t care what my parents thought. I didn’t care about their judgement. I wasn’t trying to please them or earn their pride. BUT, that wasn’t entirely true underneath the surface. That wasn’t fully congruent. I was partly trying to convince myself. Only now in my 30s am I truly starting to release that hold … and it’s just the start.
This year, it’s your time. Tune out the noise. Discern what your heart truly wants. Then, keep cutting out the shoulds, and keep attuning to what feels like it’s pulling you. Discern your next moves, one aligned decision at a time.
You don’t need to know it all right now. You don’t need to see the full journey. Who knows where the path may take you? Follow the signs and breadcrumbs. The snippets, slices, slivers of a future vision that come to you unbidden. And trust the tapestry will weave itself together.
There’s more to read, if you want!