New Year, New You? I Call BS

Has anyone else felt like this year is off to a SLOW start? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Maybe it's that we started the year with Mars in Retrograde, or maybe it was the INSANE weather we faced here in Sacramento. Or maybe that's just what I like to tell myself. 😂

But overall, I felt a little disappointed there wasn’t some MAGICAL shift at 12:01 on January 1st, where everything seamlessly fell into place.

Was it just me? Was I being DELUSIONAL?

I am a pretty ambitious person and generally want things done NOW. Patience is a virtue I’ve worked on cultivating over the years, and one that still needs help.

But WHERE were my delusions coming from? Then it hit me. 🎯
 

They are coming from a CULTURAL IDEA that a new year has to bring a “new you” with new goals, resolutions and intentions. They are coming from my INNER CRITIC pushing me hard to achieve and progress. It’s coming from my INNER CHILD who is scared she’s running out of time and that she’ll be left behind.

But where's my ADULT in all this?  

My ADULT surveys the scene and asks, “What’s the REALITY of the situation?”

The answer: Factors have been out of my control that delayed some progress AND goals have been achieved too! BOTH can exist, even if my Critic doesn’t want to acknowledge it.

Then, my NURTURER reminds me that the Universe has it’s own timeframe. Things will work out just as they should, exactly WHEN they should. 

TRUST THE TIMING. 🙏

That doesn’t mean, don’t move forward, it just means, remember we can’t always control the SPEED of progress. And we should KEEP GOING anyway. 

So, I’ve been working on being softer, kinder, and more understanding to myself.

But who knows, maybe next year, it won't be storming, we won't be in retrograde, OR just maybe, I'll have cultivated a little more PATIENCE.