![]() ![]() But if you're feeling it, cool, maybe that's the start of something! Or maybe the inspiration strikes you at 10pm on a Friday, and that feels like a weird time to go start a creative project. But equally good is 3pm on a Tuesday, if that's when you're free. Maybe a Monday or a new work week, whenever that might be for you, is a good time to say, “Hey, I'm gonna start doing a few minutes of meditation before breakfast every day”, or whatever that is that you want to put into your life. ![]() Something about turning over that calendar page feels really good. The new year is one, the beginning of a new month, sometimes I like to challenge myself to do a certain habit for a whole month, and really focus on it for that month. So there's some logical times when you might want to declare a fresh start, and a new beginning for yourself. And if it isn't the right time, it isn't the right time, but today I'm going to talk about making that fresh start and maybe daring you to believe it's possible to have a fresh start if you didn't think it was possible. Although we can use those to our advantage, like I said, I just want to acknowledge for a moment that there might be a lot of external circumstances that might make it hard for you to have that fresh start feeling to start a new creative project, and I do want to honor that. The truth is that we can really decide to have a fresh start, and create that fresh start anytime we want to, regardless of the external circumstances. So you can go check that out if you haven't heard it yet. I talk more about this in Episode 22, a gentler and more reflective approach to goal setting that isn't so year based, necessarily, and isn't so all or nothing. As I've been posting this month on Instagram, January is around the time that people's New Year's plans and goals start to fizzle, because maybe we give too much power to that date on the calendar, without the follow through without the reflection, without the ongoing checking in with ourselves to see if these things still align. But you can add some external parameters to it. So when I talk about a fresh start, I'm largely talking about a feeling. We don't have to wait around for a new year, or a new start to get started. I also think that that New Year energy can be overrated. And if that makes you feel pumped to start your website to finally showcase your photos, to write that music, write that book, whatever it is, if you have the inspiration, I say run with it. I like to talk about harnessing that fresh start new year energy, because I think it can be powerful when we turn over the calendar, even though it's completely arbitrary. I joked at the beginning of a couple episodes ago, that the fresh start feeling at the beginning of 2021 really disappeared so fast, because of all the crazy events that were going on here in the U.S., and because it's still a pandemic, all this stuff, it kind of just feels like 2020 Part 2, instead of a new year. ![]() It's the end of January when I'm recording this, and you'll be hearing this in early February, if you hear it right away. ![]() Today I'm going to talk about fresh starts, and that you can create a fresh start whenever you want to. Welcome to Episode 26 of Being A Whole Person. ![]()
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