Wonderings on a New Year and a New Ritual
Happy New Year!
Can you still wish somebody a happy New Year on the 7th January? Does it still count as a new year? I hope so, I still can't believe Christmas has finished.
As I mentioned last New Year, I have a little ritual where I take 12 candles to represent each month.
Then I spend a few minutes meditating over each month and what I'd like to achieve throughout the year.
Lighting the candles as I go and writing down my thoughts.
It's a wonderful start to a new year and provides me with some time to think over how I'm living my life and what could be done better, whilst also thinking over the positives and what I enjoy.
Hummm, not sure why I thought there was a good point for the Baileys pic, although sometimes you can't beat settling down with a glass of alcoholic creamy goodness.
Anyway, I digress. One of the things I've been noticing whilst catching up on some new year blogs is that a number of lovely ladies have been coming up with an inspiration word for 2013. Something that will help encourage them throughout the year. What a great idea and of course I couldn't resist coming up with a word of my own.
I mused over it for a little while, thinking about what I want to achieve this year and how I'd like my life to go in general and the word I came up with was STEP.
It doesn't sound like a very exciting word but it encompasses a few different things.
1. I'd like to take further steps towards selling my crafty items, making more elves and developing other ideas I have whirling around, setting up an Etsy shop and going to more craft fairs.
2. It probably sounds like a bit of a cliche but I am concerned about my carbon footprint (step!) and need to be more conscious about the environment. This is something I already try to do but still think that I can improve it further.
3. Try and live and work in a way that is more true to myself. I believe that the steps we take on our wibbley wobbly journey through life leave footprints (not just the carbon kind) behind long after we have gone and so we should try our best to ensure the prints that we leave are as loving and magical as possible.
Here's hoping 2013 is full of the love, magic and steps we all desire.
Can you still wish somebody a happy New Year on the 7th January? Does it still count as a new year? I hope so, I still can't believe Christmas has finished.
As I mentioned last New Year, I have a little ritual where I take 12 candles to represent each month.
Then I spend a few minutes meditating over each month and what I'd like to achieve throughout the year.
Lighting the candles as I go and writing down my thoughts.
It's a wonderful start to a new year and provides me with some time to think over how I'm living my life and what could be done better, whilst also thinking over the positives and what I enjoy.
Hummm, not sure why I thought there was a good point for the Baileys pic, although sometimes you can't beat settling down with a glass of alcoholic creamy goodness.
Anyway, I digress. One of the things I've been noticing whilst catching up on some new year blogs is that a number of lovely ladies have been coming up with an inspiration word for 2013. Something that will help encourage them throughout the year. What a great idea and of course I couldn't resist coming up with a word of my own.
I mused over it for a little while, thinking about what I want to achieve this year and how I'd like my life to go in general and the word I came up with was STEP.
It doesn't sound like a very exciting word but it encompasses a few different things.
1. I'd like to take further steps towards selling my crafty items, making more elves and developing other ideas I have whirling around, setting up an Etsy shop and going to more craft fairs.
2. It probably sounds like a bit of a cliche but I am concerned about my carbon footprint (step!) and need to be more conscious about the environment. This is something I already try to do but still think that I can improve it further.
3. Try and live and work in a way that is more true to myself. I believe that the steps we take on our wibbley wobbly journey through life leave footprints (not just the carbon kind) behind long after we have gone and so we should try our best to ensure the prints that we leave are as loving and magical as possible.
Here's hoping 2013 is full of the love, magic and steps we all desire.
Comments
Victoria
I have been thinking of my word for the new year, and this bit of "quiet time" seems like the perfect way to re-inforce it. Thank you for the inspiration!
I think Step is a poignant word....for the journey of a lifetime begins with a step :)
Here's to a magical 2013 ahead....with lots of little Bailey's moments, too...heehee ;P
Step is an excellent word. I love your drawing. A very positive and inspiring lady.
As for Etsy, yes! Set up a shop.
Joyfully, Donna