2024 comes with a new theme for the New Year – Weighing Today in the Balance.

The Blogging Owl will be posting on how to make conscious choices to experience a more purposeful, balanced and rewarding life each day.

Weighing today in the balance is carefully assessing the merits of how we spend our day.

• It is not the trials and personal hardships that develop with their intent to destroy us but how we respond to those intense and sometimes painful difficulties that overwhelm us. How do we connect in mind, body, and spirit to live more intentionally today?
• How do we deliberately shift our mindset to perceive and derive meaning from various aspects of work and life?
• How do we cultivate a significant non-work identity and a daily practice to disengage with that which wastes our day and to regulate our emotions for a greater sense of control, mastery and meaning in life?
• How do we prioritize time with loved ones or with oneself, engaging in meaningful pursuits that promote supportive, positive, and social connections in a relaxing and creative environment?
• How do we set clear boundaries to invest in personally rewarding and meaningful experiences?
• How do we proactively seek out, cultivate, and immerse oneself in enjoyable activities that hold personal significance and resonate with personal passions and interests?
• How do we rejuvenate and inspire goal pursuits in other areas of life that instill a sense of accomplishment and confidence?
• How do we develop and engage in challenging projects and capitalize on one’s strengths to minimize setbacks and maximize increased self-awareness and a sense of capability for today?
• How do we restructure our daily tasks or life elements in ways that resonate deeply with our inner drives and aspirations, finding meaning within activities for a more purpose-driven and rewarding life today?
• How do we create healthy time boundaries between essential and non-essential tasks to invest our energy where it matters most?
• How do we involve making conscious choices that lead to a more purposeful, balanced and rewarding life?
• How do we start with introspection which prompts us to confront limiting beliefs and explore alternative, more empowering perspectives?
• How do we alter our day to better support our needs and align our core values to create a better life that is truly meaningful?
• How do we practice empathy toward others and toward ourselves?
• How do we own up to our own mistakes?
• How can we genuinely be happy for others?
• How do we become active listeners?
• How do we help others without expecting anything in return?
• How do we show respect to everyone?
• How are we able to forgive?
• How can we be honest with tact?
• How do we strive to be better today?
• How do we express the essence of goodness today?
• How do we embrace our values with direction and purpose?
• How do we embrace our values with renewed passion?
• How do we embrace our values with self-improvement?
• How do we embrace our values to connect with others on a more authentic and profound level?

My chosen words to live in  (see my post on November 2, 2023) are vulnerability, worthy, and forgiveness. As I stated in that post, the lesson to carry forward in 2024 is to retain the lessons of the past year and release all else. In mind, body, and spirit  whether in good health or sick , we only have today. We are doing our best at any given moment on any given day. In 2024, I am going to do my best to make every moment be weighed in the balance of goodness, kindness, self-control, patience, faithfulness, gentleness, peace, and love – the eight spiritual wells for quiet thriving.

Peace and Love in the New Year!

 

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