Setting Intentions + Finding Your Word of the Year
Your Power Sheet
How many of you have seen people posting recently “my word for this year is…”? Or “I am going to be focusing on… this year?”
I don’t know about you, but for me it is not so simple as to just be like “I am going to release everything” or “income”, “abundance”, “alignment”. It’s not that easy for me to think of a word. SO I am going to share with you what I do to make this happen.
I am sure some of you have heard of Power Sheets or other year in review calendars. But for me, this is enough. I don’t have to buy one more thing to look at my year in review. To each their own.
I am going to provide you with a bunch of prompts, so feel free to open up a notebook, grab a pen… I want to give you a bunch of prompts that you can work through now, but can also work through once we hop off.
What I want you to write at the very top of this document is…
“What do I want this year to look like?”
And then the first question you are going to ask yourself is: “What do I want to grow or change?” Some examples of this (I literally am going to be giving you my answers so you know what my 2019 is going to look like)…
Broaden peoples perspectives
Divine guidance
Release fears
Embrace all of my uniqueness
I am meant to stand out
I am a visionary
Expansion
Purpose
Trailblazer
Impact
I just did all of this last night, so I will probably going through all of it again and might get a little bit more finer details in there. A year in review and looking to the future does not have to be difficult. It doesn’t have to be this day long process that you have to gear yourself up for.
Next question you will ask yourself: “What am I grateful for today?”
For me it is my…
Intuition
Family
Home
Growth
Finding my voice
Finding my tribe
Clarity and direction
Next question you will ask yourself: “Why do I want to make what matters most to me happen?” Meaning, what are you most passionate about. What is your driving force… why do you do what you do.
Because someone is waiting out there to awaken their intuition
Next question to ask: “In order to grow, growth requires moving forward from past paradigms, beliefs that no longer serve us, things that we have come to internalize, healing, looking past past patterns. What does that look like for you?”
For me…
The constraints of what _____ should look like
This might be the constraints of what being a creative entrepreneur should look like
I want to break free of the stereotypical imagery that you have when somebody says the word “psychic”
The constraints of what it means to be a mom
The constraints of what society has said looking from home should look like
Next question… “how do you feel in this moment?” Be honest with yourself. You know, if you’ve been with me for a hot minute this is a safe space.
For me, how was I feeling in the present moment I was doing this last night…
Free
For those of you who missed, I talked about my time at Creative at Heart. I loved it! But what I realized in the biggest way, was that I don’t need to look like everybody else. I don’t need to be just another bleh. I am going to be me and you’re either going to love it or hate it. It is the most liberating feeling, but also one of the scariest effing feelings too. It is literally like standing up on a stage at a Sublime concert and you’re standing their naked and you’re waiting for a reaction. What are they going to do? Are they going to love you and cheer you? Or are they going to throw their beer bottles at you? Once you have jumped over that first hurdle… I just don’t give an eff anymore. I just don’t care.
Next question for yourself: “What are you releasing to make room for growth?” This ties into moving forward from past things that are no longer serving you.
For me things I wrote were…
Feeling the need to fit in
Validation
Past failures
I’m letting that shit go! It is time to say bye! For those of you who are new to the Lauren woo-woo world. Tomorrow is a new moon. What happens on a new moon? It is the ideal time as business owners and creatives to set intentions. Do you think I am doing this now just because? No. There is always a reason to something. Releasing what is no longer serving you. When I am setting intentions I like to take the release and flip it. I will say something like “the need to fit in”. If that is something I am releasing, during a new moon I could say, “I will no longer feel the need to make others happy and I will be content with exactly where I am”.
Next question: “What matters most to me?”
I want you to get really real right now. All kinds of real! All kind of vulnerable. No one is going to see it except you, unless you want them to see it. This is the time to get honest with yourself.
For myself I wrote down…
Living life according to my own terms
Living through experiences
Family
Spiritually journey
Impact
Now you are going to get into the space where you are starting to get a little into your past year. So the question is: “What worked in 2018?” Be real. We are not talking about what didn’t work yet. We will get there. Maybe it is only one thing! Maybe it is only two things! That is okay!
For me what worked…
Shifting to incorporate spiritual and business
Stepping into my divine truth
Expressing myself fully
Recognizing the need for help in certain areas
It is not a weakness to do this! It is a strength because you are able to see something for what it is, making the best for it, and finding a solution.
Here we go: “What didn’t work last year?”
For me…
Self imposed doubt
Doing things that I did not align with
What do I mean by that? Somebody asking me a question anywhere outside of the group because they don’t trust the answers they will get in the group and expecting me to give a detailed answer. Now if you are working with me one on one that is a different story! But I am talking about people who have never even spoken to me asking me things that could very well be answered in the group. Things like that!
Doubting myself
Doubting my abilities, if you would resonate with things I was saying…
Next question for yourself: “What are some lessons you learned over the past year?” You always need to find the positive. When you are able to find out and figure out what that experience was trying to teach you, that is where the gold is! That is where growth happens.
Lessons that I learned…
Listen to my intuition no matter how silly it may seem
No everyone will understand me and my path, but that doesn’t validate my success
Next: “What am I saying no to this year?” From this day forward today…
For me it is…
Commitments I don’t fully align with
Poor uses of my time
FOMO
Distractions
Trying to look like anything and anyone other than myself
Another question for yourself: “What am I saying yes to this year?” What do you want to call in? What do you want to allow the universe to give you? What do you want to intentionally bring into your life?
For me…
Opportunities for expansion
Things that bring me joy
For me, I just want to live in a state of joy. I want to feel lit up! If something is requested of me and it doesn’t feel right… bye! Not doing it.
Magic Time!
Now here is where the magic happens. This is where you bring it all together. Maybe as you were writing out things you were starting to feel and see some common themes. It is time for this best version of yourself! What do you want that to look like?
“What is the common theme you noticed? What do you want this next chapter to look like?” I want you to write down a whole bunch of words that come to mind.
For me, if I were to go back through and look at everything…
Freedom
Liberated
Purpose
Trailblazer
So, when you have written down the words that you see popping up here and there. Circle them. Write them down. What do you want? What do you want 2019 to look like? What do you want the universe to give you? What do you want to feel? How do you want to feel empowered?
My Word for This Year
The word that I chose is freedom. Freedom from constraints of what it means to be a creative. Freedom from the wife and mother archetypes. Freedom from things that don’t light me up. Freedom from self imposed guilt and doubt. Freedom from anything that isn’t high vibe. And most importantly for me… freedom to unapologetically be Lauren. To be me.
“When you learn HOW to master tapping into your own intuition and the innate wisdom that lives within you, you’ll confidently navigate your business in a whole new soul-centered kind of way. ”
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