happy new year 2013

Happy new year, friends!  May 2013 bring you tons of hugs, laughter, smiles and successes.  I'm running a little behind this year - I started thinking about my dreams for 2013 a little over 2 weeks ago, and I'm still working on what my 2013 year will feel and look like.  I focus on putting words around what my dreams will "feel and look like" instead of setting goals or "new year's resolutions" - because opportunities and successes come in many different forms, people, and times (timing is key, isn't it?).  What you really want is to accomplish the feeling you are going for or the vision of what a goal might be like - and you want to make sure your expectations are flexible and open enough to recognize (and receive) those opportunities and successes.  :)  Paint the picture of what that future dream state feels like, looks like to make it achievable.  Tie your conscious goals with your subconscious dreams.

Break it into 3-5 pillars that are integral to your happy well-rounded well-balanced life.  For example, mine looks sort of like:

1. Family - building and investing in my family, having a deeper sense of "home" with my husband.  Taking the time to talk, walk, hang out together really makes me feel so secure in my home base.
   
2. Personal - personal goals like get healthier, become a true vegetarian or learn a new language.  I want to be able to feel clean, purposeful, and thoughtful about how I eat and drink to minimize the nausea/migraines I get even further.
   
3. Career - focus on carrying a low center of gravity, getting published, ...  executing larger and larger business deals.
   
4. Community - getting back into the world of community, building friendships, maybe sitting on a board or two again, ...  contributing to the "betterment" of the community we live and work in with bigger impacts.  Changing the world feelings that help give me and the people around me hope in humanity, in our future, in life.
   
5. Platform - focusing on what my platforms are, growing the ones I currently have or growing new ones.  Not sure what these are still - I've been brewing for a couple years now, but this is still one I struggle with.  ....
   

Still working on the details, but that's what the main "Pillars" of my 2013 are looking like for now.

Happy new year!
~Arry