Happy New Year to everyone near and far! I was blessed to be able to take a trip to Negril Jamaica organized by my neighbor...and boy did we enjoy ourselves!
It was a drum and dance circle theme and we met up with like-minded folks from different cities, coming together to share and build. I took my daughter as well, and it seems she enjoyed herself too for the most part. (She cried when I took her in the ocean.) But overall, the experience revitalized me and helped me clear my head for 2012. Like most of you, I have personal goals and business goals I'd like to achieve this year. An older sister I met in Jamaica does poetry therapy for a living...we shared a few pieces with each other and the group during a bonfire and dinner on the beach. She was so encouraging, and reminded me of a practice I used to do but fell off from doing. That is to keep a vision board. Take a big poster and add text and pictures (drawings or magazine cut-outs) of the things you'd like to achieve and do in your life. I recently looked at my old vision board and realized that a lot of stuff on there I had actually accomplished at varying degrees. Visualizing your life is a really good way of meeting your goals, and the vision board helps you to crystalize those things into reality. My new poetry friend also suggested creating a list of 30 things you'd like to do...check each one off as you complete it. So take it out of your mind and put it on paper. Then see yourself walking into it for real! EnjoyourSelf this year...2012 is a time for change. Peace!
