Her Unique Glow

New Year’s Day is here and you’re ready to take on 2022 – Hold up… Not just ‘take on’ 2022… Let’s rephrase that: I want you to THRIVE in 2022.

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This is YOUR year gorgeous.

This is YOUR year to step into your truth and live life being unapologetically YOU.

This is YOUR year to enhance your health.

This is YOUR year to work on YOUR longevity.

This is YOUR year to realise that you’re in control of your destiny.

This is YOUR year to become the healthiest and best version of yourself possible.

This is YOUR year to finally make your dreams your reality.

This is YOUR year to finally let go of all the limiting beliefs that have been holding you back.

This is YOUR year to THRIVE!

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This isn’t your typical ‘goal setting’ post.

Don’t get me wrong, I love goal setting and have written about it many times before – so if that’s what you’re after then head on over to my previous articles.

This my lovely, is how to make that epically awesome vision you have for your life, your reality. This article is not only about setting goals, standards and boundaries to carry forwards into 2022, but how to make them effective, efficient and sustainable so that you can create the life of your dreams. THIS is about celebrating everything that has come before, learning from the hiccups along the way and placing loving, strategic principles in place so that you can take INSPIRED ACTION.

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***A little reminder:

What is INSPIRED ACTION?

It’s action taken from loving thoughts, beliefs and feelings. When you move from love you simply can’t go wrong. If fear is in the driving seat, then no matter how ‘right’ you think that action is, it won’t serve you in the best possible way. Always come back to love and make sure that every action you take fills every cell in your body with exactly that… Love.

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Making your dreams of 2022 your reality IS possible and I’m so excited to share the EXACT 3 step process that I do every year. Let go what you think you know about goal setting and let’s have some fun!

Grab a pen and paper and divide it into 3 columns (alternatively you can download the free worksheet I’ve created to help you with this by clicking on the link at the bottom of the article). At the top of the page write down everything you desire in life – this could be a list of goals, resolutions, a vision you see for yourself – anything you like! Once you have this list it’s time to get started!

STEP 1: CELEBRATE

So before we get to the ‘goals’, I want us to go back to January 1st 2021. Now, I know this year wasn’t the best for many of us (or perhaps it was for your beautiful, in which case I can not wait to see what you put on your ‘celebration list’) but let’s not allow our inner mean girl to take over here and convince us that 2021 was a waste of time. It can be so easy to listen to her persuasive lure to draw us back into fear-ville and keep us stagnant and stuck in believing that we’ve failed, or that 2021 was a complete sh*t fest…but I want you to politely show her the way out and close the door so that you can come back to love.

It’s time to celebrate 2021.

I want you to throw yourself the biggest 2021 I LOVE YOU PARTY!

I want you to spend the next 3-5 minutes writing down everything that this past year brought you – All those fabulous heart-thumping highs that make your body want to sing and dance. These may not necessarily be huge events – Even those seemingly smaller things still make the biggest impact on our lives so write down everything you can think of from the time your best friend made you wet yourself laughing to the time you graduated or got that promotion you’ve been working your butt off for. Write this list in the first column.

My list was endless (and let me tell you that this year wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies, trust me…But I refuse to let fear be in the driving seat so I celebrated every. single. little. thing. I could) – Here were the first 5 that I jotted down on my 2021 I LOVE YOU PARTY list:

• Passing my 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training
• Realising that my Pilates classes were more than about enhancing our bodies: I’ve created a little community that is like my family away from home that I’m SO proud of
• Being offered a Yoga teaching job with Eden Hot Yoga
• Spending Christmas with all of my family together (this is something truly to be grateful for)
• Hearing my little boy say “I just want to make people happy” when he heard a child crying

If this list is challenging for you, then here are some prompts to help guide you:

1. What did you achieve this year?
2. What are you grateful for?
3. What did you love?
4. Who do you love?
5. What celebrations were you a part of?
6. How did you grow?
7. In which ways are you a better person now than you were a year ago?
8. How did you enhance your life over the last year?
9. What were your favourite moments?

STEP 2: LEARN

It’s great celebrating everything that is us and everything that we have achieved, but when it comes to success, learning is the key. After all, you don’t know what you don’t know and you can’t unlearn what you now know! Learning is your superpower and being open to learning from your experiences is what will propel you forwards in life. If you want something in life then it’s within your control whether you go for it or not. However, if you want to strategically put steps in place to help you move with greater ease and grace on that journey then educating yourself is the biggest key component to help you along the way.

When it comes to goals, manifestation and allowing the life you dream of to unfold before you, that education comes in the form of acknowledging all the lessons that life has thrown your way.

So let’s go back through the lessons of 2021.

It’s time to write a list of everything that you have learned over the past year in column 2. Perhaps challenge yourself and look back at the tougher times too – you never know, you might realise that there were lessons in them too.

Progress not only comes from experiencing the new, but it also comes from learning from your past experiences. This is your opportunity to see what worked for you in 2021 and what didn’t. This is your time to reflect and decide if certain things are worth brining into the new year or whether they’re best left behind. Allow this list to be your recipe for success by looking at which ingredients are needed, which you need to add in and which you need to take away or eradicate completely. That way you’ll have a clearly defined set of boundaries and standards that will help you on your journey in 2022.

Here were the first 5 things I wrote down in my list (again there were many more, these were just a few!):

• You are both right and wrong at the same time – It depends who’s listening
• Always come back to love
• It’s OK to slow down, to pause and to stop
• Learning to trust in timing is something I need to still work on
• ‘No thank you’ is a full sentence – there’s no need to justify or explain unless you want to

Here are some prompts to help you with your list:

1. What did you learn?
2. What were your most valuable experiences?
3. What do you want/need more of?
4. What do you want/need less of?
5. What habits are you going to adopt?
6. What are you going to let go of?

STEP 3: ABUNDANCE

This is the fun part! You are almost ready to take inspired action. But before we even go there there’s one more fundamental step that will set the foundations for your success: LEARNING TO MOVE WITH LOVE.

Inspired action is all about moving forwards with love in the driving seat.

We already know what you would like for 2022 – You wrote this list at the top of the page. This is about combining your gratitude with your educational experiences from your previous year to help you create a strategic plan for moving forwards. This, my love, is where the magic happens!

It’s time to write one final list in the 3rd column. This time I want you to focus on abundance, as though the items in this list already exist within your life. In life, things not only stem from love or fear, but our mind-set can stem from scarcity or abundance. When it comes to manifestation and creating the life we dream of, our mind-set truly has a majority share of the power. What we feel we believe. What we believe we act upon. What we do determines our outcome. So coming back to your mind-set is foundational!

I want your mind-set to be in full throttle ABUNDANCE mode!

Go back to your goals/dreams/wants/desires list that you created at the very start. Begin to go through the items on this list and vision how you’re living your life as though these things already exist and have come to fruition. Use your celebration and lessons list to help you construct a realistic and honest experience of what these would look like.

For example:

• If you wrote that you would like to lose weight, then envision that. Knowing what you know now, maybe your life would feel full of vibrant energy, luscious sleep and abundant healthy meals that keep you full, satisfied and happy.
• If you wrote that you would like to have financial freedom, perhaps planning, organising and decluttering your direct debits would leave you feeling more abundant and free.
• If you wrote that you would like to travel more, then maybe your life is about exploring, finding freedom and being open to new relationships and experiences.

However your life looks with all these things, it’s time to step into abundance so that you can start taking inspired action.

In this final column I want you to write down how you’re going to live your life in 2022. But I want you to write it as though it already exists; as though you’re already doing all of these things. That way you’ll stay in that abundance mind-set which will help you let love lead the way and therefore every step will be inspired action!

One of my goals is to create more white space in my life and slow down. So some things on my abundance list include:

• I have time, I don’t need to rush
• I allow myself to stop if I’m feeling overwhelmed
• I say ‘No thank you’ if I don’t feel it’s a ‘Hell yes!’
• I have space in my day to shuffle things around

Here are some prompts to help you with your abundance list:

1. How do you wake up in the morning?
2. How do you live each day?
3. Are there daily habits you do?
4. Are there daily rituals you take part in?
5. What are your non-negotiables?
6. If you want to manifest a goal/dream/desire then what steps do you need to take?
7. How do you need to live your life to make these a reality?

Use this abundance list to help guide every action this year. This list might change and that’s OK! We are forever changing and evolving so it only makes sense that this list might change too. Give yourself the permission to allow these lists to evolve too throughout the year. Use this abundance list to help guide your thoughts, beliefs, decisions and actions. When you can tap into that abundance mind-set, you’ll end up manifesting more of what you dream of and naturally let go of the things that no longer serve you. Why? Because you’ll be moving from love and when you move from love you simply can’t go wrong.

Let 2022 be the year you THRIVE!

Let it be the year of letting love lead the way.

I can’t wait to see what awesome things you manifest and draw into your life beautiful.

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