Keep Your Resolutions to Yourself

You’ve probably seen several different emails and social media offers to sign up for a workshop, training or multi-day challenge on crafting your resolutions for 2021.  By all accounts, 2020 was a slog, a disaster, a dumpster fire, the most villainous of years, and there are plenty who’d say they’re glad to put this in our rearview.   Time to ring out the old, bring in the new!   What new intentions, goals, projects, habits, and accomplishments are on your vision board, wish list, and resolutions for the next 12 months?  Whatever they are, I say .  Our intentions are born in the realm of Thought, and thoughts are living things.   Speaking about our plans, especially in the early stages, dissipates the energy propelling them.   We run the risk of exposing our tender ideas to the opinions, disapproval, envy, or opposition of those who can’t dream as big for us or for themselves.   Their negative perspective sours our enthusiastic momentum at a time when our plans are most vulnerable.  They plant seeds of doubt in the potential of our plans and in our ability to bring them to fruition.   That doubt sways our focus toward what can go wrong, instead of remaining fixed on all of the ways we might richly succeed. Our ideas and intentions spring from our own inner knowing.  They deserve our utmost protection, diligent nurturing, and abiding trust that we are being guided us toward what is right us. Silence, single-mindedness of purpose, and steadfast self-love, reinforced by all of the human, material, and spiritual resources we can muster are the essentials for the sustained wellbeing and ultimate manifestation of our wildest dreams. Since statistics show that most New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by February, if we don’t overshare with others we won’t have to hear about it later when our resolve weakens.  That leaves us free to try again, with compassion and without judgment, when we are ready.