New Year, New You? Are You Ready for 2025? Ready for a different way of living to last year?
If making changes is on your list this year, you may have started with Dry January, or Veganuary, or re-started the gym membership that you let lapse last year…
Any day is a great day to make changes, but we always seem to use new year, birthdays, or Mondays as a perfect excuse to make a change.
Here’s the rub though; if you are stressed, your body and mind will instantly put up barriers.
When we are stressed and in fight or flight, our brain is hyper-vigilant in ‘keeping us safe’ mode. This means that, if too many things change at once, or if our routine changes in a way that does not resemble ‘the norm’, then our instinct will be to fight/resist, or run away!
Design your life in small, incremental steps
The other thing we need to do when making resolutions or changes, is to think about why. Are you doing it because social media tells you to through the endless ‘New Year, New You’ posts? Then it’s not your purpose.
Are you doing it because ‘your best friend’s, cousin’s mum did it and she did xyz’? Without doing your own research and knowing that it’s the right thing for you, then it won’t feel like the right thing for you.
Let me tell you a story…
Back in 2012 I sold the business that was my dream. There were health reasons, family reasons, and also the realisation that having a bricks and mortar business did not align with my long term plan of working from anywhere.
When Discover Your Bounce launched in 2013, this was more aligned to working from anywhere. Let’s be honest though, we didn’t have the Zoom/Teams technology of today, nor were people open to working this way. I also told myself that mentoring in person worked better for me. So I had a more flexible business and working with entrepreneurs took my hours to the Monday to Friday, 9-5pm zone rather than most evenings and this was a big change.
When we launched our publishing company, this was even more of a virtual shift. Our clients live around the country and the world, so being virtual was a must. Our team has also grown and live nationally.
And my own lifestyle has changed.
When I set the ‘work from anywhere’ vision, my children lived at home and Mr M worked full time in an office, and so my idea of working remotely from a far away land didn’t fit with this. Over the years, as our children have moved out and Mr M’s working hours reduced, we started to travel more. So my ability to combine living in other countries and working became more aligned.
With the advent of Covid19 we have all got much better at online communication too.
It was only really last year that I realised, after 2 month-long trips in different countries, that my vision had become my reality.
So where can you start as January starts?
1. Stay away from the fear/overwhelm zone by gently changing one or two things. When we trip over into fight or flight our brain wants to fight or run away – not the ideal mindset to sustain changes!
2. Be kind to you. If you beat yourself up for where you are now you will find other things to beat yourself up about in your new space! Change your language and thank yourself daily for everything
3. Stop reading online dramas or watching the news. Our brain can’t tell the difference between real and imaginary – that’s why visualisation works…but it works against us too.
In need of more inspiration?
These books are packed full of inspiration, coaching, tips that work and practical visuals, so you can immerse yourself in an environment of gentle change.
All available on Amazon.
Why not book one of our new year events?
Our next workshop is on the 21st January at 1pm – Plan Your 2025 – Create the Life You Want. Book your free place here.
If you would like someone to keep you on track, we have some great coaching options too, designed to fit in with our clients. Take a look here.
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