Every New Year is an opportunity to assess the coming year. Most blogs this season focus on what to release, making way for new growth by releasing what no longer serves us. But what about your successes from this past year? We think it’s just as important to expand upon the richness you received or created, as it is to make way for new opportunities.
What were your greatest achievements of 2023? Did you keep a faithful yoga schedule, improve your diet and water intake, become more social, maintain a tidy home and office? What did you do spectacularly well in 2023, and what do you want even more of?
Yes, it’s okay to also identify what didn’t work from the past twelve months and when possible, let them go. You certainly will open new doors and generate flow into your life. But we also encourage you to choose at least one thing that you did this past year that you want to double down on.
Was it time with friends, family, neighbors, colleagues? Was it turning off your devices and checking into the great outdoors? Did you make improvements in an area of your life? Did you reach new professional milestones? Did you finally tackle those home repairs? Did you plant a garden, volunteer your time, keep a journal, pay your bills on time? Did you finally take that vacation you’ve been planning for a decade? Well, we think you should take another! Or take the same vacation but stay twice as long!
Start by looking back at last New Years. Did you set a goal for the coming year, and achieve it? Maybe your goal was to read at least two dozen new books throughout the year. In 2024, you might set a new goal to read 48 new books. If your goal was to get at least seven hours of sleep each night, maybe for 2024 your new goal is to get 8 hours of sleep, but also more time at rest during each night so that you feel rejuvenated when you wake.
And if your goal was to make it to at least one class a week at Sol Yoga, could you double down and join us on your mat twice weekly in ’24?
Whatever you did especially well in the last year, how could you do even better? Let’s Double Down together and make ourselves proud. Let’s really challenge ourselves to be doubly our best in one area of life. We already know we can accomplish it!