Before you Start the Year, you Need to Stop

 

We can easily go from one year to the next, but before you start the year, you need to stop the year. Stop it well.

As I write this, it’s the middle of the most interesting week of the year. It’s the week between Christmas and New Year.

Here in New Zealand, it’s summertime,e and for most people, it means the beginning of the summer holiday period. Most businesses close, and people often head to the beach for a swim. It’s a ‘kicking back’ time of year when all you want to do is to eat the leftovers from Christmas day, find a good book to drift off into, and swim, sleep, and relax.

Stop before you start.

In this week, I like to stop before I start. I like to stop the pressure of the normal, where it’s going from one thing to the next before I start the next year.

For me, this week is where I make sure to have time for personal reflection. I pause before I hit the pace again of another year.

It’s a time to note the changes, feel the losses, value the gains, and lean into the learnings.

This stopping before you start could be done any time of the year, but it requires some intentionality to hit the pause button. To slow down the machine of your life and retreat to an internal place of rest.

It’s allowing yourself to discover yourself and letting it catch up to you. You’ve had so many things happen to you that they are like little children tagging on behind, crying out for attention. They want to be seen, known and acknowledged. If you don’t, their wisdom for the next stage may well be lost.

So please stop before you start.

 

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