2025 : NOW
I love coming up with a word that encompasses my heart
intention for the year- something that sums up this vibe that I want to fill my
days, thoughts, instincts over the next year.
This year, I had a hard time settling on one word. I had all of these words circling that I was
embracing the feeling of, but didn’t quite want to settle on those words. I of course loved “Thrive” because it rhymes
with 2025…. Also I was landing on feelings and words like “Trust” “go” “passion”
“grow” “energy” “aware”……
And also NOW. For this year, I am excited to
embrace every NOW that I can.
As I turn 50 in 2025, I want to recognize the gift of each
day that is given to me. I don’t want to
wait to embrace each day.
I want to make brave and bold choices in recognition that
who I am is what I choose every single day. I want to be fully immersed NOW
in making things happen. I’m not going
to do something come March because my body just magnetized to that spot in the
world- no- I need to do my part in going in the direction I want to live.
Each day is NOW, and each NOW
builds to allow future “nows”.
I want to recognize where fear is getting in my way of going
after things that I’ve been putting off.
I want to recognize what I need to do less of in order to
make space for the things that are MORE important, so I know for sure that I
have not wasted my precious nows.
I want to do big things.
And I also want to grow more comfortable doing nothing but simply enjoying
the moment of NOW. This is
not something that is easy for me, and so it is another reason I am choosing
this word. I want to embrace moments of
simplicity and revel in the peace of just being. I want to imprint on my heart
that I can be in a moment of now without panic that I need to do anything other
than just be in it. (Of course, I realize there are responsibilities as well,
but I need to learn that life is more than just a series of responsibilities
and tasks to complete).
I am already excited to make some things happen- no longer
just waiting for magic to appear in front of me. Noone is going to present me with a calendar
full of moments that bring me joy throughout the year, so I am proactively prioritizing
positivity and making these moments of “now” happen- some bigger, some very
simple and small, all I know will bring me to places of embracing my days in
ways that I choose to live.
“If not now, when?” (~Rabbi Hillel)
