What do you want to take forward to next year?

By Lesley | November 15, 2021 | 0 Comments

Autumn or Fall is the time when nature leads by example, by shedding what it doesn’t need, retaining only what’s necessary to sustain it through the winter & when seeds nestle underground ready to sprout in Spring. I love to take nature’s lead & review my year to date, decide what seeds I want to nurture over the winter & what I can let go. And I don’t just mean clothes. This last 18 months life has changed, which of those changes do you want to keep? For many of us, life is different from how it was a couple of years ago, new things have entered & others have fallen away. I certainly don’t want to go straight back to life before but consciously retain what’s worked well & let go of those things which don’t enrich me. If you feel like that too here are some questions which will support you to get clarity. Also, for many readers the hardest time of year is fast approaching & answering these questions will help you to focus on what’s good/positive in your life & also give you clarity & resilience with which to approach it. So here are the questions: I encourage you to set aside some time, perhaps over a few days to work through the questions below. What works well for me is to write down my responses & consider them over a few days, as each time I add to them the answers come from a deeper … Read more

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What do you want to take forward to next year?

By Lesley / November 15, 2021 / 0

Autumn or Fall is the time when nature leads by example, by shedding what it doesn’t need, retaining only what’s necessary to sustain it through the winter & when seeds … Read more

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