January 2, 2021 ……. 1 +2 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 = it is up to YOU to get it DONE!
Looking back on the first 20 years of this century, this doodle I created is what life has looked like if I am being honest.
Like many, I have spent much time worrying over details and “things”. Not the I am a party planner and every last minute detail must be perfect kind of worry. My worry was all about the what if’s and overthinking things that really didn’t matter. While I was in my bubble planning, losing sleep and stressing life turned out to not be the straight line or even a wavy line with a few curves. It turned out to be exactly like my doodle….. ps yours did too ! ……………. You lived through 2020 so every person on this planet has some version of this life path ……….. don’t let the mess cause you stress, because calm can be totally achieved with all that going on if you focus and adjust your mindset to honoring what is truly important.
The doodle is filled with bumps in the road, and heart beats and grains of pinkly sparkly sand (super tiny) OK glitter, lots of cocoons and some butterflies. It is up to us to become the butterfly and grow to what makes us happy, and use our wings to fly away from what is not serving us. Life is going to be crazy and unexplained, you have to go with it OR worry, fear, stress, whatever makes you unhappy will steal your present joy. The goal is to figure out how to balance the planning with the living for now.
In my life there are always signs, sometimes they are anvils dropping, other times they are very subtle, but always there. And they ae always connected to different themes. I have learned to trust them because they pop up so often. Nothing in life surprises me anymore. I suspect everyone has this stuff too and maybe doesn’t realize it.
These notebooks are my new ones for this year and the penny (heads up of course) is one I found NYE very dirty in the Target parking lot after getting the notebooks at Hobby Lobby (2 survival stores for 2020 aka the 2 safe places we could go and went often to last year LOL!).
I wiped the penny off and found a super shiny Mr. Lincoln and the year 2000 which got me thinking and inspired this post. Lincoln was the “emancipation” president and 2000 was the year before life changed for everyone 21 and over. 2020 is the next big cycle for change for the whole world ………….. those world wars in this century are certainly looking a lot different than they did in the last one ……………………. I will leave this post at that so you can dream, create, inspire, live, love and have some hope as you begin to navigate you’re new chapter.
Keeping moving your body and your mind, don’t let the thoughts in your head limit what you do. Take the lesson from 2020 that while it was bad in many ways, lots of people started new things (all the life things personally and in business), they did not let anything stop them …… and remember some businesses (people too) that closed really just re-organized to dump “debt” and move forward ………… a lesson in re-invention. xoxo, Tracy Lynne, the lovely spotted flamingo
The Lovely Spotted Flamingo 