2024: Finding what's important & Intro to the Monthly Focus
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Introducing the Monthly Focus
I’ve been playing with the idea of sharing a monthly focus with my readers, and I’m implementing it today since the new year is the perfect starting point.
Our first month’s focus is the Light.
We are going to use the Light in a specific way as part of this focus. If you want to know what the Light is, you can reference this newsletter.
Choose an area of your life (finances, work, health, etc), a relationship (parent, partner, kid, co-worker etc), or a situation (lawsuit, audit, moving, finding a new car to buy, etc).
Describe in your journal or on paper the area/relationship/situation and why you have chosen this, as well as any challenges you have. It isn’t necessary to say how you want it to change because that can move you into control. The intention here is to open to the Light, be available to to what is for the highest good, and to let go of your need to control so you come into greater alignment with the higher lessons being brought forward for you.
Everyday this month, you will simply send the Light for the highest good to that area, relationship, or situation. Send the Light at least once daily, but ideally each time you think of the area/relationship/situation. You can also envision in your imagination pure, clear, white Light going to whatever or whoever you have chosen.
You can use a tracking sheet (downloadable tracking sheet attached below). Print it up, write “Light” in left column, and mark in the box for each day you send the Light.
At the end of the month, review and write down any shifts and changes to this particular situation or how you have changed inside towards it.
Finding What’s Important in 2024
As you reflect on the year ahead, there are some journaling questions I will share with you that can help clarify what is important.
Here they are:
If this were your last year on earth, what would you want to do?
At the end of the coming year, how would you want to leave things if you left the planet?
What if you only had 12 months to live, how would you spend that time?
Journal your answers.
As you look at how you would like to pass down your belongings and creations, and to whom, areas that need cleaning up, simplifying, and completing may be revealed .
You might reawaken to dreams that have been left dormant, and experiences you’ve been putting off. Perhaps there’s a place you’ve always wanted to see, a book you’ve wanted to write, a musical instrument you’ve wanted to learn.
You may realize that you left something really important to flounder, such as your relationship to the Spirit within you. That you’ve been wanting to develop a greater understanding of yourself, contemplate the eternal truths, and nurture a deeper experience of the Spirit. Is there a class or retreat or daily practice that you’ve been putting off? It could become of greater priority and significance if you knew you only had a year left.
Maybe you will be surprised, and find out how you would like to relate to the world inside of you. Is there a way of being that you want to embody in all of your interactions? Loving? Caring? Generosity? Light?
This process can be very revealing, and give you a template to envision the coming year, and how you would like to live it, both inwardly and outwardly.
Write it out. Choose those things that are most important. Let them guide how you envision the coming months. Refine your findings so they are usable as guiding principles and even as goals for the year ahead.
Create a list from those answers, and look at that list daily throughout the year to remind you of what is important.
You can use a tracking sheet (downloadable tracking sheet attached below) to check off each day that you look at your list. Schedule those things needing scheduling. Sign up for and book what needs booking.
The last step is simply to do it. Take the next step.
