This is the year for you to be working on creating the life that you want! So much of our time is spent looking after others, putting others’ needs above ours. Most of us find ourselves saying, “I’m okay for now, my turn will come. I’ll do that thing for myself that I so want, once I’ve finished caring for my family.” Or once I’m done helping out here. It’s a never-ending cycle of putting your needs beneath the needs of others.
Well my friends, not this year! This year, we’re focusing on Personal Development and to get you into the groove, I have some questions here that you can work through on your own. You may not have all the answers, but at least taking the time to focus on the question, will help you to switch gears, and see what you should be paying attention to in your own personal growth.
Question
Is there any disharmony in your family dynamic that’s really triggering for you? If so, what are the reasons that prevent you from healing it?
Exercise
1. List all the blessings that you feel came from your family dynamic.
• What positive traits, characteristics and belief patterns do you recognise?
• Take one of those positive traits, characteristics or belief patterns that you recognise and turn them into a statement ie I wouldn’t be who I am without my family.
See this as the beginning of your Personal Development journey. Take yourself seriously and really give yourself time to work through the above. You may want to think about it yourself and work through it yourself, or you may feel that perhaps there’s some aspects that you can bounce off a family member or a very close friend.
What I’m trying to get you to do here is to see through the question, what negative aspects of your life you need to bring to mind. When we admit that there are negative aspects, that there is disharmony in our family dynamic, then we can have something to work with. We will be able to identify that we have a problem, and then take it from there, working on the positive aspects of that same dynamic.
Everything has duality so not everything is awful and not everything is blissful – there always needs to be that balance. So recognising that there are positive aspects and negative aspects to our family dynamic, can be a really big breakthrough for you.
Then, the last step in the exercise to take those positive traits, characteristics and belief patterns that you recognise and turn them into a statement, allows you to see that there are lessons that you’re learning along the way. It allows you to see that not only are you going through challenges within your relationships, but you are also gaining positive growth through those challenges.
If you are of the mind to take yourself seriously this year, I can help you with your personal development and am just a phone call away.
Yours in service
Glynis