Create POWERFUL New Years Resolutions

Hello my sweet loves!

With the end of 2021 creeping ever closer, and with another revolution around the sun incoming I wanted to take a moment and reflect on this tradition we all have bought into annually known as New Years Resolutions.

We all have done it, I know I’ve been guilty of making the standard promise to a hypothetical future version of myself that I would “go to the gym every day” or “finally commit to a diet” or “read more books” or “gain a huge following on social media.”

What would follow was a month of strong, and powerful commitment to a new behavioral pattern only for life to happen and my resolutions to deteriorate into nothingness, leaving only an immense self of shame and guilt. I found myself in a perpetual state of judgment because I didn’t “achieve” what I set out to, and I didn’t “reach” my goals.

For this year, I wanted to take a long, hard look at how resolutions ultimately fail, and how resolutions can actually benefit us. Ultimately, I wanted to answer the question: How do I make Resolutions from Consciousness?

First, I think as a personal journey, we need to give less power to a full solar revolution.

So many of us orient our minds to “I will do it next year” or “that’s a problem for future Jemarc” and in doing so we deny our agency in this moment!

We don’t need to wait until the new year to make our lives better! We don’t even need to wait until the next day to live a life of conscious presence! Every moment is an opportunity to be better, and when we claim that power our life becomes effortless.

Here is a simple exercise for you my loves, when you make your resolutions for the next year set your sights on the values that are present in a being connected to consciousness!

The best part is, these are resolutions that you can make every day! Write these down in your journal, put them on a sticky note next to your bed, or even on your mirror.

Conscious Resolutions

• Just for today, I will choose to believe in myself and others.

• Just for today, I will choose to be kind to myself and others.

• Just for today, I will choose to be compassionate to myself and others.

• Just for today, I will choose to love myself and others.

• Just for today, I will choose to act from equanimity.

• Just for today, I will be gentle with myself if and when I make a mistake.

We don’t need to set arbitrary, and material goals, and we don’t need to pressure ourselves to achieve something for an entire year! Instead, we wake up each morning, and we make that conscious decision. We speak it aloud as an affirmation. We say it 10, 15, 100, 1000 times over the course of a year until our brain rewires to normalize these belief systems.

That is how you are going to make 2022, 2023, and any year from here on out your own.

Start with a moment.

Start with this moment.

If this resonated with you take a screenshot and tag me on IG: @jemarcaxinto or email me back!

I wish a wonderfully Happy New Year to all of you incredible beings.