Thanks for everything, 2021
The working year is almost complete for me and as I wrap up the year I want to share my end of year ritual with you.
Release
Appreciation
Aspiration
Finishing the year with a growth-minded relationship to it is a great way to reconcile 2021 and prepare your mindset for 2022
Release
I began this year the same as I have been doing for a long time. Wearing many hats.
As well as the Mum, Partner & family member I am also Business Owner, Constant Business Student & also part Custodian of my twin sisters legacy (involves running another business)
All of these roles bring projects, learning, lots of creative effort & many hours of time.
I often have felt like each of the roles require me to constantly switch in order to give each one enough focus & attention.
Which means no focus on the others during that time.
In January one of our greatest Twinning moments occurred when Karen and I both became published authors within days of each other!
The constant juggling all felt worth it & exhausting at the same time.
Caretaking for both books & roles has been like a rollercoaster sometimes & I know both roles will thrive when I release the need to seperate the two.
I am learning ways to bring Karen’s work & legacy with me - to wear both hats all the time and to outsource some of the tasks (If you know a great children’s book publisher please reach out).
I know that by releasing this separation I will also reach more people in a more meaningful way.
Appreciate
In the midst of a pandemic for another year I am so grateful for the health of my family & friends as well as the opportunity to cocoon at home safely (our household had its rough days too).
Our kids were incredible with their homeschooling and also their ability to regulate their routines, needs & experience of lockdown. This generation have so many obstacles & events to gain wisdom & resilience from.
Being restricted to home has given me another year to build, create & learn more about the impact I want to have as well as the gifts I have to offer.
I have invested in my self growth which has in turn led to incredible clarity in my brand & what I have to offer to my amazing clients including the powerful new Limits Unearthed Half Day intensive.
I also created, launched & completed Mindset Foundations with an incredible group of women who have transformed before my eyes!
Despite the extra hat this has been so fulfilling & rewarding I cannot wait to meet my February group.
I so appreciate those mentors who I have learnt from this year and those learnings are a great foundation for the year ahead - there is always always more to learn.
Aspiration
In all of my adult years, I don’t recall being so clear on how I want to show up for a new year.
The years I spent in corporate with templates & formal processes for goal setting, I was never able to connect to them fully because they didn’t feel like my own.
I needed to ‘buy in’ or find a way to tick the box which meant that I never really committed to the process. I now realise I was no different to most of my colleagues.
I developed somewhat of an aversion to planning for my goals.
In my own self growth I also realised how many of my behaviours & stubborn resistance were due to internal triggers of limit - designed to show me where to grow.
Working every year on the same behaviours got me the same behaviours because I consistently skipped the drivers.
This year, without those limits, and with so much 2021 clarity I am excited about aspirations for next year.
As I wrap up for the year, my final reflection will be on my aspirations for the incoming year.
With so much clarity my aspiration is to show up and serve as a guide for my clients to be who they came here to be.
Our world needs us to be working, parenting & living from our highest potential so we can be growth-minded & resilient during our challenges. Its my hope that I can be a part of this by helping aspirational & growth minded professionals reach their highest potential & be who they came here to be.
Finally, some hopeful thoughts for the holiday season and for 2022. It’s my hope for the coming year that we all practice more
Compassion for self as well as others
Self Growth; it helps us learn who we came here to be
Mindfulness; so we can be present, openhearted & openminded
Kindness; so that we are slow to judge & fast to care (self & others)
Joy; the more we allow joy the more we notice it, I learnt this from the depths of grief & know its truth.
So, Thanks for everything, 2021.
Merry Christmas & Be Well to you & yours
Kylie