What Are Your Snapshots For The Year Ahead?

What does the future have in store for me?  It’s a valid question after all the upheaval of life during the past two years. In fact this question is on so many minds at present, including my own.

The last two years have been difficult for most, if not all of us. We have all suffered loss, grief, stress, frustration, and anxiety. Regardless of what your personal views and beliefs may be regarding this difficult time in the world, what does matter is where you are mentally and spiritually at this moment.

This weekend may be a good time to recenter, align and ground your energy.  Take some time out from all the mayhem today and do some meditation, prayer, visualization, or breath-work. Allow God, Source, Spirit, the Universe to fill you with positive energy, light and blessings, and release the negative thoughts and anxieties you may be holding on to.

Also, take some time to calmly contemplate and make a list of your goals, wishes, desires and dreams for the year ahead. Or better yet, create a vision board, manifesting box, or journal. Cut out pictures from old magazines, copy positive affirmations, and collect some trinkets to place on a board, in a box, or in a scrapbook.

Once it is complete, place your board, box or book somewhere in your home or office where you can look at it often. Take a little time every day to focus on it and ask yourself what each goal, wish or intention you have added to it truly means to you.

I have a brochure of new camera with a special lens on my vision board for this year. When I ask myself what it represents to me, I remind myself that my new dream camera sees the beauty in our world through a magical lens.  It will bring out the brightest of colors. and the most beautiful scenery. It will also capture the vitality and magnificence of all my spirit totems (mostly eagles, red tail hawk, owls, sand hill cranes).

Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build ~ Robert Collier

We each have a mental lens through which we choose to see the world each day. Yes, it is difficult to not notice all the hatred, anger, negativity and toxic energies that seem to be everywhere these days. But, if you allow it to creep into your psyche, it will drag you down into that dark, noxious quagmire.

Now is not the time to surrender or lose hope. No, now is a time to grow. This is a time to celebrate the fact that you are alive and well, and God, Source, Spirit, the Universe is always with you.  This is a time to celebrate your power of you heart and the beauty of your spirit.

Another picture on my vision board is a jar with coins and the word ‘charity’ written over it.  My intention is to give and share more this year. Even if I don’t have abundant financial means to donate from at the moment, I can give other things. I can give my time, my joy, a helping hand, a loving shoulder for someone to cry on, and an open ear to listen to someone that is truly hurting.

I also plan to volunteer at a relief outlet here in my area, and possibly at the local hospice. Every one of us has something to give and when you do, your angels sing and smile.   And in return, the blessings will flow.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you ~ Jerry Gillies

The funniest snapshot on my board is a set of lips with a big toothy smile! This reminds me to smile more – even with a mask on. A smile can be seen through your eyes, not just your mouth. Smiles are highly contagious! Say a kind word, or even a simple ‘hello’ to a stranger today – you never know who truly needs it. You may just uplift someone to the point that you save their life!  People who feel that no one sees them, or cares about them, can have their entire reality changed in just an instant by a random act of kindness.

Most of all, be kind to yourself first. Love yourself, to love others. Create the reality that you deserve this year.  Make that vision board, box or journal and move forward one step at a time. Together we can make this world a better place. Blessings to you always.