Liosuelo

At the beginning of 2023, I held a vision board workshop online and in Mexico City for my volunteer community called GGI. I led the groups in creating them on Canva. I know vision boards and New Year goals have a bad rap, but it helped me set the tone for the year. For me, it’s just a form of manifestation. 

Honestly, when I created my vision board, I didn’t look at it after February. It was my screen saver and then slowly migrated to a picture file on my desktop, then I just moved it to my hard drive. I just looked at it last night, and surprisingly… I somehow… did a lot of the things on my board. 

Confusing because this year was not….easy.

Life was “life-ing”. That is what my astrocartogropher says to redirect my mindset when I lament that “Life is hard.” 2023 was full of extremely high moments peppered with lots of existential crises. 😵‍💫 Kinda didn’t let up until November, haha.

Life. Is. A. Ride.

Anyway, every few weeks, my life changes so fast. My partner and I create goals/mini projects/focus we want to accomplish. In retrospect, these mini-goals were tied to my larger manifestation board intentions for 2023. 

I am not lying; I had about FIFTEEN projects I pinned to my part of the board that I wanted to complete within the sprint timeline we set up for ourselves. He had a very tailored down 4…

&&& One week in… after many expected but mostly unexpected changes. I felt overwhelmed. Disinterested in my focuses. 

I did some reflecting and realized that my mental fatigue was tied to doing too much. So, I gave myself ONE focus. Very hard for me (I’m more of a Jack of all trades versus a master of one). And that was still too much. I dropped that one focus. 

Then, I landed on this simple phrase: “Chill out, take it day by day.” And that’s been my mantra for the last two months & I’m carrying it into the new year. 

I even made all my mini-goals “distractions.” Lol 

Meaning distractions from being still and going with the flow & just allowing what’s in front of me to flourish. I’m entering the year with the mindset to “Chill Out, Take it Day by Day”.