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After the drama, isolation, and challenges of 2021, I am seeing a lot of\u00a0 cartoons and memes questioning whether a new year is welcome or not. The year 2020 collapsed around us and, when we looked forward to 2021, the New Year didn\u2019t embrace us with a clean slate, but rather held us in unease, isolation, and, for many, illness. When light finally flickered in the distance, it was inconsistent. And it still is.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But we will flip our calendars, and they will say \u201c2022.\u201d How do we step, or tip-toe, into the new year in a way that supports how we want to be and what we dream of doing? A new year is always a bit uncertain, but 2022 seems to be asserting that one can\u2019t actually know anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this really true? As some of you are beginning to appreciate, I am currently called to a place of \u201cjust being\u201d<\/a> and \u201cnot doing.\u201d This is perhaps not the best place from which to offer unsought advice about planning \u2014 although it does allow for dreaming. Indeed, in other years, my suggestion on entering the new year has been to name one\u2019s dreams<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m still sure that resolutions are a recipe for New Year\u2019s failure. As I sit here I find myself trying to remember what I really wanted for 2021 as I watch others explore their hopes for 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I just reread my introduction to 2021<\/a>. There it is. My underlying place, dream, or feeling was for \u201cexpansiveness,\u201d which sounds appropriately vague. However, in looking back through my posts my place of not doing, but rather simply being, has allowed my 2016 dream of moving to the West Coast to dramatically materialize. Plus, at least intellectually, the move relates to the yearning I wrote about in that 2021 introduction for Spirit Moxie to expand its influence. How will this continue to unfold? I don\u2019t know yet.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For 2022, I have been honored to watch my friend Cindy wrestle with her plan for the new year. Unlike me, but perhaps like you, she likes lists, but knows if she is too specific in her list of goals they will run her rather than support her. Plus she has reminded me about claiming a word for the New Year. In 2016, I offered \u201cdream\u201d as a word – and while the dream\u2019s mentioned didn\u2019t all happen in that year, they pretty much have all happened since then. Cindy\u2019s word for 2021 was \u201cpatience,\u201d perhaps essential for many as we addressed or didn\u2019t address COVID. For 2022, she is considering \u201cbalance\u201d as her word. As an all or nothing kind of person, balance, for her sounds challenging, comforting, and supportive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been living with the word \u201cdream\u201d for a long time. But this year, having given up concrete goals, my word is \u201ccurious.\u201d I\u2019m curious about how things are for you, what my new life will look like, what\u2019s next for Sprit Moxie. I\u2019m curious about my next breathe. I\u2019m sprinkling this curiosity with \u201cjoy\u201d and \u201cdelight,\u201d words which offer me comfort and challenge as I continue to claim gratitude and positivity.*<\/a> These are intentions rather than goals and feel supportive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take some time for yourself. What supports you? Lists? Dreams? Intentions? Plans? Goals? Responsibilities? A combination? Remember, this is something that nurtures you,<\/em> not what you think you should be doing. What challenges and comforts you? What helps you feel freer? It will be different for you. Unique. Not Cindy\u2019s or mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now claim what you see. Give thanks for who and what you are. Know that 2022 is yours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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*I\u2019m including a link here to a very short video on \u2018pronoia\u201d <\/a>that was the introduction to December 2021\u2019s Corner of Calm. Pronoia is the belief everything is working in your favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images from the top:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Meme \u2014 adapted by Spirit Moxie
B’s new view of Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA \u2014 Spirit Moxie
Happy 2022 \u2014 Canva<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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