poems

My wish for all of you is to grab life with everything you’ve got this year. Jump in! Enjoy where ever life takes you, even if it isn’t as smooth as you imagined, even if you end up in some unexpected places, the joy is finding the treasures in these moments (ok, ok, I know you’ve heard that one before, bear with me :)). I had absolutely no idea I would end up in Nepal this year. It was most definitely challenging, but equally enlivening, growing, learning, sharing moments of great satisfaction, connection and fun. I would not replace those 5 months in the world for anything else. It was an incredible time in so many ways!

My second wish for all of you is to do something different this year. Now I’m not talking the run of the mill, ‘give up smoking’, ‘do more exercise’, ‘eat less candy’ boring type of affair. But do something you have never done before. You know the thing that you are afraid of most? The one you’ve been thinking about for years? The one thing you’ve either talked about constantly and never done anything about, or kept secret, hidden away so that maybe you’ll forget it? Bring it out! Commit to doing something about it. There are so many useful tools online to help you commit to doing that thing you are not sure you can do. Check these out:

• You can sign up to a website with a goal you want to achieve and with a committed time for completion. You give them your credit card details and if you do not do what you’ve said your going to do, you donate to your most hated charity! Awesome idea! A key part about it is involving a friend or ‘supervisor’, whom you know will check out that you did or did not do it, and if you haven’t, wham, there goes your cash to your most hated cause! The website: gofuckingdoit.com.
• You can sign up to other sites that are on a similar principle, again releasing your money to charity (that you like) if you don’t make your goal: stickk.com.

Or you can simply do an exchange with a friend, work colleague or family member. Both of you commit to following up with each other what you want to achieve (help each other by regularly meeting or calling in at a set time each week and seeing what steps each of you have taken towards your goal, and remember it doesn’t have to be huge steps – just something done towards it each week – it makes you feel better doing something – I promise – and inspires you to do more too!). And don’t let them (or you!) get away with it!