Love: Life 2020
We all need space and reflection like ocean waves, we must retreat first before we can build more strength in what we are doing. This reveals itself in almost all areas of life: work, love, friendship, fitness, flexibility, connection, creativity. Trust these natural cycles. - Victoria Erickson
As we are all starting to reflect back on this train wreck, dumpster fire, finding out what we are made of year, I am looking back with so many emotions. The biggest one is joy. We can sit and complain about how things didn’t work out for us or we can embrace what did work out. This year has brought so much growth and learning I can’t even truly put it into words. At the beginning of the year and into March, it felt as though the world was spinning so fast. Then everything stopped. It was as if someone pulled the emergency brake. The world came to a screeching halt.
The next thing that came was fear and so much negativity. I stopped watching anything news outlets early summer. Not one was reporting anything positive. We collectively had gotten into such a combative state that it seemed there was no end. The path to the election only inflamed the country even more. Again, I shut it out. Joining our country was lost on everyone. Enough on politics.
The best part of slowing down this year has been just that. Slowing down. We are all in such a hurry to achieve the next big thing. I am very guilty of this. Thinking if this achievement or goal is reached then life will be amazing! When that achievement or goal is attained or not, life doesn’t change. It continues as it has. I miss out on the amazing things that happen each day. Finding the joy in the little things adds up. It pulled me out of a lost space along with life coaching. Now each day, I look at it as a gift. Do I always remember this? No. When life takes it’s toll, it is because I am not in a positive mindset.
The goals I have for 2021 are giant! I have spent this week preparing to succeed next year. Cleaning out closets, putting together systems that will allow me to move forward and not setting New Year’s resolutions. Most are not followed and abandoned by mid-January. My goals go the entire year! I am setting challenging, but attainable goals with some stretch to get there.
With joy that I have found in 2020, I have also found the most meaningful conversations with so many people. It seems that we are having thought provoking and in depth conversations more than ever before. So many times, I have found myself in the beautiful exchanges. Really embracing that moment has been amazing. It has been with multiple family members, my children, friends, and co-workers. Even several conversations with friends and family members have occurred in my DMs on social media. Truly listening and being listened to has brought so much joy. The connections that have been developed and encouraged make my heart soar.
So many words can be used to describe 2020. Instead of choosing to remember all the things that didn’t happen, I choose to remember all the things that did. The joy and connections that were made. The beautiful moments that might not have occurred otherwise. As I look to the future, all I am seeing is amazing adventures and continued love and joy in life.
