(Reminder to self)
Posted by Goddess Leonie on February 10th, 2010. Filed under: Creative Goddess.
Dear Leonie,
I know it’s February.
And I know you still haven’t finished your own workbook. I know you had giant hopes and big dreams.
I know you’ve tried really, really hard. And it just hasn’t happened. And I know you are feeling a little sad that your kit is sitting, waiting for you, a little bit too blank.
Life happened, and all that January dreaming ran away.
I want to remind you:
It’s never too late to start.
We think we need to have all our goals for the year sorted by 1 January of each year.
And we pile on all this pressure – and then life happens, and we don’t. We don’t do it perfectly. Or we don’t do it at all.
So we try to ignore it. We give up. We think maybe next year. Maybe next year I’ll get it perfect and right.
Begin again.
Remember when we didn’t make my Word of the Year artwork until April last year? And when we did do it, it was just the reminder we needed?
We needed to focus on our intentions again.
I want you to know:
Our goddess lives and years are a creative and soulful work-in-progress.
Each day, we can keep adding to it, making it richer, lovelier and more beautiful.
Each day, we add our soul’s starlight to our life.
Begin again.
Make it true, and make it real for you right now.
The first of January wasn’t that one day to make it all perfect and right. It holds no more significance than today.
Today is the place of empowerment – where we can choose again & make our changes.
Each day we wake up is another day on our Goddess paths.
Each day we get to choose the journeys we are going to make…
for today… for our year… for our lives.
Begin again.
Start now.
Everything is possible.
Everything is new.
*
I love you with all my heart, dear, sweet self.
I believe in you.
big love,
P.S. Remember to tell other goddesses too… just incase they are suffering from January-first-perfection-itis too. You can’t be the only one.
P.P.S. I really love & adore you.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:23 am
It is so lovely to be given permission. I love my 2010 goal planner, but also have left too many pages blank. Thanks for the gentle reminder that it is there waiting for me, whenever I am ready!
Peace and Smiles to you,
Briana
February 10th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Funnily enough, this is just the thing *I* needed to hear right now, too. Thanks for reminding us both that it’s okay to be “behind” – it’s all for a good reason! <3
February 10th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
I encourage people to write one sentence if they feel they can’t get started. My blog motto right now is “stop dreaming, start doing.” Although I love dreaming of good things and using my creativity and imagination, putting the teeny-tiniest action steps into place (like writing one sentence) is certainly a step forward toward knowing more about ourselves and our world. Your step might be bigger or smaller than mine, which is bigger or smaller than hers, but all steps forward.
February 10th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
oh, sweet leonie! i am always amazed by you. it always seems that whatever i am needing to hear or be reminded of – i can just pop on over here and there you are, saying it to me {or in this case to yourself!} i appreciate your sweet spirit more than you can imagine and love, love, love that i am able to learn from you! blessings to you and yours during this exciting time!!
February 10th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Tears run down my cheeks. So much resonated with me in the chaos of this move. Thank u. Xxoo
February 10th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Yes, what you are saying is so totally true! I was feeling satisfied with just identifying my word for the year and getting up to #76 on the list of things to do (writing them down, not accomplishing them!)
February 10th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Goddess Loran ~ Celebrating with you beautiful soul… YOU ROCK!
Goddess Sone ~ I love, love, love you… hugging you and loving you big.
Goddess Mary Alice & Goddess Ellie ~ Oh dearest women… we are all so connected, aren’t we?
Goddess Briana ~ You are so dear, dearest! Permission, permission and even MORE for you…
Goddess Carrie ~ Amen to that, precious!
February 10th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I’ve just come in after burying my arrow, massive sense of accomplishment and relief then to read this really brings tears to my eyes! I want to hug each and every one of us! I’m doing the 2010 Planner, the Creative Goddess eCourse, Wicca and Kabbalah with Magicka School and single Mama to a teenage boy and a feisty and hilarious 3 year old Goddess-in-training! So I have finished my arrow, passed my 7th Wicca exam and my results from my follow-up colposcopy came back and are all clear (no abnormalities after removal of cervical cancer)!!! My life is definitely a work in progress and so is my year!
It’s all perspective and if I look at everything I have achieved since 1st January then I can see it is incredible and I am so proud, as I think each and every one of us should be!
Love, light and sweet sweet blessings!
Liza xoxoxo
February 10th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
aww leonie……….i *really* needed this BIG style!!!! i havent finished some of my workbook, and i feel dissapointed about not completiting some of my goals yet……i have the annoying perfectionist-itis syndrome………….so thankyou sooooooooo much for writing this sweetpea
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BIG LOVE
xxx
February 10th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
P.S – im going to print this blog post out, is that ok??
P.s- I LOVE these *reminder to self* posts!!!!!!!! xxxx
February 10th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Even though I mostly completed my planner, I’ve been going back adding and subtracting here and there and feeling as if I was already behind because it was Feburary and I hadn’t moved forward on the really Big Dreams. But beating myself up isn’t in alignment with my word of the year ‘Joy’. Thanks for this reminder that it’s not too late to start or reboot if necessary. Love to you!
February 11th, 2010 at 12:21 am
I needed to hear this today too. Ahhh… stress drifting….
February 11th, 2010 at 4:04 am
Amazing thing for me … not to be finished with something and absolutely okay about it! I actually was working on my Goddess habits list the other night
I am enjoying the process for sure!
I had to comment because I LOVE that Snatam Kaur cd! When we got our referral for our daughter, I was so scared and overwhelmed and felt so out of sorts. She looked so serious in her pictures and I worried I would not be able to be the mama that she needed. I went to teach my yoga class and was playing Snatam’s cd while cleaning and preparing the studio space. The song “By thy Grace” was playing and I felt this amazing opening inside … and acceptance and trust flooded over me and i knew that it all was going to be fine and i knew in my bones and in my heart i loved my daughter even though i had not physically met her yet. i KNEW i was her mama. That song will alway remind me of that sacred moment.
thank you for letting me share … i know you KNOW
February 11th, 2010 at 5:46 am
Don’t feel alone in not having it finished. My workbook is still a work in progress, too. (And I’m glad to know I’m not the only one.) I pulled it out again and did a little more yesterday evening, and again today during my lunch break at work.
Thank you for posting this and reminding us that we don’t have to do everything “by the book” and perfectly to get things done, that anytime is a good time for dreaming.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:43 am
This is exactly what I needed to hear today, I was starting to feel pressure as days keep passing and I haven’t completed things I thought I’d be further ahead on, I haven’t completed my workbook yet either! Thank you for the encouragement Leonie
February 11th, 2010 at 10:39 am
This was so awesome to read, it really allays a lot of our fears and lets us know that its OKAY to take our time and work slowly at our goals!
*hugs*
Jill