Liberation

With the highs and lows of 2016 a l m o s t behind us, wait. Seriously?  Geeze… even as I type this I’m reading Carrie Fisher has died.  What else will you throw at us 2016?

Shake it off.  I tell myself + you.

Sorry for the sharp conversational turn right off the top like that, but man, these 2016 losses of life, election, pride, honor, self, humility, kindness, and loss of I N T E G R I T Y – have hit hard. Real hard.  Especially this last quarter.

This was supposed to be a post about priorities as you plan for 2017.  Less about goal setting and resolutions – more about what you learned (good and good… because lessons are always good, especially the tough ones) and how you’ll make a conscious effort to evolve (mentally, physically, and spiritually), accept, wish-well for others, and follow your heart’s desires. This year is the year to GO AFTER EVERYTHING YOU WANT.

Be obsessed.  More than ever before.

Sure, these are still great priorities and please be relentless in your effort to bring them to pass.  But the undertone, the baseline of 2017, maybe it’s about, liberation.

What?

Yes.

Liberation. Freedom.

Punchy words with a hell of a meaning, right?

This year, what if we challenge ourselves to be deliberate in our thoughts and actions with liberation in mind?

Freedom to openly love who you want, freedom to be loved, financial freedom, freedom to cross borders peacefully, freedom to choose, freedom from judgement, freedom to be happy, freedom to live as healthy as you want in mind, body, and spirit.  Finally freed from a past love…

Freedom to heal and forgive, at your pace.

Imagine the kind of inner circle (friends, family, coworkers), government and world we’d live in if we all genuinely wanted our fellow humans to live freely, and peacefully without being envious or jealous of their successes and happiness?  For us ALL to be liberated!

Ask yourself, “Will this choice lead to the liberation I’m looking for? And, do I wish this same freedom/liberation for others?”

I’ll just pause there for these loaded questions to sink in – and you’re gonna need practice… asking and answering.

In closing, and if nothing else, let’s say goodbye to 2016 with appreciation we lived through it.

Let’s lead with liberation in 2017.

More to come,

Tanya B.