Do you make resolutions or intentions for the new year? I stopped making resolutions years ago and now set more mindful resolutions/intentions for the year. In 2023 I didn’t set resolutions or intentions and I noticed the affects throughout the year. This year I wanted to make sure I set some mindful resolutions for myself things to remember through out the year. I’m sharing those here to keep myself accountable and to have a friendly reminder I can look back on.
Practice Gratitude
I’m a big believer in daily gratitude and feel like in 2023 I wasn’t as consistent as I’d like to be and wanted to spend 2024 being more intentional about practicing gratitude. When life gets crazy or when things don’t go as expected, it’s easy to focus on the negative and what didn’t work and this year I wanted to make sure I saw the good even if something doesn’t go like I hoped.
Give Myself Grace
Running a business isn’t for the faint of heart. But trying to run a business while working can also be difficult. It’s easy for me to be hard on myself if I don’t get something done or if a task I did goes wrong. I also know I can put more pressure on myself than I should. In those moments, I want to always remind myself first to Give Myself Grace and not be hard on myself if something goes wrong or it takes me longer than I think it should to get something done.
Do My Best (done is better than perfect)
As a recovering perfectionist, this one is big. There’s been countless times I’d want everything to be perfect before I took action, or if it wasn’t perfect I would start over (I know… yikes). What I want to remind myself is that sometimes you’re not going to catch a misspelling. Other times that graphic may not turn out the way you wanted and that’s ok. I’d allow my desire for everything to be perfect to paralyze me sometimes to the point I wouldn’t do what I needed to do. That’s not good and it doesn’t allow me to be grow and learn or be a beginner at something. This year, I want to remind myself especially when I’m working on something I have done before (like a new product), that it doesn’t have to be or look perfect, If I do my best that’s good.
Find Joy in Everyday
One thing I’d like to do more of in 2024 are things that bring me Joy. There’s so many things I and everyone else has to do that we don’t enjoy so why not make sure that each day I spend time doing something that I love. Most times for me, that’s candles. But, there are other things I’m interested in and I want to make more time for those activities.
Do you have any resolutions or intentions you are making this year? If you don’t have any yet don’t worry there’s plenty of time, there’s no rule that says you need to figure all this out at the start of the year. If you have an intention let me know in the comments, we can hold each other accountable 🙂
