{"id":1626,"date":"2024-01-04T19:45:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T00:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiritmoxie.com\/conversation\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2024-01-04T19:45:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T00:45:58","slug":"welcome-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiritmoxie.com\/conversation\/welcome-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember who you are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"upsideThis year I struggled with a post about the new year, which is why this post is early in the year, but not at the very beginning. I reread all the former end of\/beginning of year Spirit Moxie Conversations. (I suggest the core 1916 post \u201cDream\u201d<\/a> and last year\u2019s \u201cFoundations.\u201d<\/a>) I wrote a lot of rough drafts about \u201cunease,\u201d which is hardly the most positive word for 2023. Plus, it wasn’t entirely true. Then, on a New Year\u2019s Eve flight to visit my son and his family, I understood. Besides wondering why travel always freed me, I realized I\u2019d stopped claiming who I am at my core. And that was the source of the unease I felt.<\/p>\n

Have you forgotten who you are? Has the chatter in your head become so loud that you\u2019ve also forgotten your beauty, resilience, and general fabulousness, which, by the way, are three things I know are true about you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first clue I had that I\u2019d forgotten was my reaction to a challenge from Amanda Fuel<\/a> as part of a finance game in which I\u2019m participating. What percentage of my life is determined and guided by me and what percentage is guided or manifested by the magic of the Universe\/God\/Chance (choose your phrase)? She was working on a 55%\/45% relationship for herself. I\u2019ve heard 10%\/90% as well and vice versa. If you find these percentages useful, play with them. How much of the determining factors do you bring and how much do you want to happen to you through forces outside of you?<\/p>\n

Thinking about this, I realized that what meant the most to me wasn\u2019t percentages, but recognizing that there is a partnership between the two. Somehow, for me, that partnership had been shaken and become unstable. While I have had dreams and goals, somehow they had become just words I\u2019d written. In other words, to be effective, I needed to actively remember who I was and who I am so the Universe (or whomever) could do its magic.<\/p>\n

\"cloudsThe second piece to help you remember: I kind of dare you to try. It is an exercise I love that apparently pushes people\u2019s buttons. Ask someone \u2014 using these exact words \u2014 \u201cTell me how I\u2019m fabulous.\u201d You can ask me that question when you see me in person. Or, send me a private message.<\/a> There\u2019s two parts to this apparently very vulnerable question: 1) You learn things about yourself you\u2019ve never noticed before and\u00a0 <\/span>2) It\u2019s a gift to the person being asked. To look at you that way and share is exciting, interesting, and bonding for the person responding. We love the challenge to ourselves to look at you this way. Plus, we\u2019ve\u00a0 <\/span>been wanting you to know! So my request to ask me is pretty much all self-interest!*<\/p>\n

Who you are at your core is what to bring into 2024. Your own greatness. Your job, if you will, is to remember that that greatness is\u00a0 <\/span>there. Yes, include those dreams. Use the word \u201cgoals\u201d if you prefer. It\u2019s fun if some of them are huge and some are tiny. Share those too.<\/p>\n

The world needs you exactly as you are right now. Yes, you\u2019ll change. But breathe into now, the you of early 2024.\u00a0 <\/span>And, in the next step you take, breath into that you too.<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/p>\n

_______________________________________<\/p>\n

*I I know I got this exercise from someone else, but haven\u2019t been able to find it again.<\/p>\n

All images by Spirit Moxie:
\nUpside down sign: Is this how the end of the year felt?
\nView on the New Year’s Eve flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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