Starting this year off with a grateful heart and a resolution to slow down. 😌
If 2020 has taught us anything it’s that we need to re-evaluate our priorities and where we focus our time and energy. We have a tendency to praise all that is MORE: doing more, saying more, consuming more, having more... Having that mindset and living that lifestyle is neither sustainable nor healthy.
For me personally, I realize that by overloading my plate and over-packing my schedule in pursuit of accomplishing MORE does not serve me but only diminishes my potential and stifles my creativity. I am doing a disservice not just to myself but to my loved ones, my colleagues and my community. So I am making a real effort to slow down, and take the time to nurture my body and soul. Allow myself to have moments of stillness and practice gratitude.
Sounds easy now that I’m still on holiday mode, but as Thailand slides back into a second wave of the pandemic and we are entering a new lockdown, it will get harder to maintain this sense of calm and balance. I’m reminded of how lucky we have been here for the last six months, being one of the few countries in the entire world where life pretty much went on as usual, schools open, events happening, parties even. How easily we slipped back into the MORE mindset and lifestyle instead of staying the course and making sure we were really out of the woods. So here we are again. In the same place where the rest of the world has been all along. This is a marathon guys, and for anyone who is a sprinter like me, it’s going to take daily mindful intentions to brace ourselves for the long road ahead. Otherwise we risk burning ourselves out.
So, those are my resolutions for 2021:
1. Slow down.
2. Practice gratitude.
What are yours? ❤️
