I started 2010 with lists of what I was going to do, who I was going to be, habits I was going to embrace. I wasn’t naïve enough to think that when I did/was all of these things, my life would be perfect, but I sure did think I’d created some good plans. But my wounded little girl and/or my soul and/or my heart wasn’t impressed. It rebelled. Hugely.
Everything I did that first full week of 2010 didn’t work out. Start on the new actions I wanted to take. Nope. Focus on the habits. Nope. OK, then just meditate and pray all day! Nope. It was as if my soul was saying, “Just give yourself a break. Wait.”
During that week, I read an article by life coach Cheryl Richardson (www.cherylrichardson.com) in which she counselled doing just that – wait for the energy to move you. She said that rather than struggling with a huge pile of papers that needed to be filed, she waited until she felt like doing it and the project got done easily and in much less time than it would have if she had slogged through it.
Admittedly, we can’t just wait on everything in our lives but I’ve been giving the concept a try and it has been working for me. I had been dreading reorganizing my clothes closet but the energy moved me last weekend and I was able to complete the project in a way that was fun and productive.
As far as those great lists for 2010, I’m focusing on them now and having success. I think it’s because I honoured my resistance, allowed it to be OK and waited until the energy was there.
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