New Year is almost here and it’s usually a period when we begin thinking about the things we would like to change.
However, it’s often more beneficial to change our perspective and embrace this period as a time to reflect on everything we’ve achieved until now. This may be a more effective solution that will help us bring the desired changes.
Let’s do a fast reflection now. Ask yourself if you have followed your deepest desires in the past year and whether you’ve engaged your passions.
Ask yourself if you have been too caught up in stress and if there was negative self talk anger, and judgment.
When you reflect on how we’ve felt over the past year and you’re 100 percent honest with yourself, you can make better movements forward anytime in life, not only when a year is coming to an end.
Realize that our life requires from us to pay attention to our feelings and what we create. To take things into your own hands, remember to let go of things that may be setting you back.
Below, check out the things we should all let go before the New Year to feel happier.
7 Things to Let Go in this New Year
- Bye, bye negative self talk
The more we think and talk poorly about ourselves to ourselves or to other people, the more we disempower ourselves and give power to the things we wish to change.
Instead, be an observer, note it and then kick it out. It’s not something you can benefit from.
- Stop a bad habit
Taking good care of our bodies and minds is a vital thing to preserve mental and physical health. For the New Year, choose your worst eating habit or smoking and set a goal to give it up in 3 months.
Whatever happens, be honest and let it happen. Then, take on another bad habit and remove it from your life too.
- Don’t chase success
Sometimes, when we begin chasing success and the plans we think will lead us to it, we bring a lot of fear, worry, and stress in the picture due to not being properly aligned with what success means to us.
We should focus on the needed steps to get where we want to be; but we should allow to be lured by success and what it means and looks. Each person has a different meaning for success and we need to find our own.
- Don’t run from your problems
Often times, our mentality tells us to ‘get over something’ and even though in theory this sounds well because you get to move on from things that affected or affect us negatively, does it really help?
When we just forget about our problems, do we really move on? The answer is no- because it can all come back after a trigger happens. The goal is to face our issues head on and genuinely move past them.
Whether you discuss them with someone or write them down in your journal, it’s essential to find a way to really move on. Choose a person in your life who can see the bigger picture and tell you honestly what’s happening.
- Don’t compare yourself with others
Today, a lot of people tend to look at others and what they have and do and compare them to our situation and create a story in our heads. This often makes us feel sad about ourselves or feeds our ego. The key is to let go of comparisons, respect our own and others’ journey.
- Don’t judge others
Judging others can become a habit and often, an addiction. Sometimes, we feel we can’t stop doing it.
The key is to become more aware and to observe the next moment you’re judging another person. Ask yourself why you did it and how it made you feel. Act consciously and try to stop doing it.
- Stop the blaming
If we’re constantly looking to blame someone for what’s happening to us, we don’t get the chance to observe how we might have created the needed experience to achieve it.
Even though we can’t say that others can’t hurt is, the key is to take the responsibility for how and what we feel and don’t assign blame because it doesn’t help us in any way.
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