New Year's Resolutions

Was this year the year you hoped it would be? Did you follow your heart and did you create a life that you love?  New Years are a great time to reflect on the year that was and set clear intentions for the coming year.

So let’s start with the past year.  Dig out a journal or some blank sheets of paper.  Jot the answers to these questions.

Think back over the year – your relationships, your career, your abundance, your family, your sense of spirit – whatever was relevant to your life.

• What were the highlights and things you need to celebrate from your year?
• What were the lowlights? What didn’t go according to plan?
• What created the gaps between what you wanted to do and what you achieved? 
• Now look at these lists and say to yourself “I am willing to take the lessons from these events and move on.”  What are the lessons you are taking from these lists?
• Write down 5 things you learnt about yourself this past year.

Congratulate yourself and make sure you celebrate your successes.

Now for the New Year – there will never be a more perfect time to find and follow your true calling and your heart path than now.  This doesn’t mean you throw in all your responsibilities and join a community housing project at Byron Bay.  It does mean starting the process of moving towards following your heart.

So how do you do this?  Listen with your heart when you need to make a decision.  Your heart speaks very quietly and uses the voice of intuition as its language.  Here are some questions you can ask yourself if you are not sure whether you are hearing your ego or your heart.

1. Are you excited and passionate about the choice you are making, or flat and depressed?
2. Will your decision help other people as well as yourself?  Any choice that is a true “path of heart” will serve others as well as fulfilling your goals and wishes.
3. Are you saying “I have to…” or “I should choose …”?  These are not words of a path of heart, but scripts from someone else.  Stop and refocus your energy.
4. Did your answer come as a flash of insight or just “knowing” when you woke from a sleep? (Intuition works best when we least search for it).
5. When you begin to take action, do opportunities, synchronicities and coincidences start to occur?  Pay attention towards any signs or symbols that indicate you are on the right path (for example – I always see a butterfly when I am on path).
6. Are you using all your unique skills, strengths and talents, doing what you love to do and do best? Your heart path always has you using all of your special talents and not letting them go to waste.

Following your heart helps bring you happiness, abundance, love and joy.  It will not smooth all the bumps out of the road, or turn away disasters, but it will make the journey more enjoyable and fulfilling.

Ingrid Cliff is a Brisbane based Business Development and Human Resources Consultant to Small and Medium Businesses with her company Heart Harmony www.heartharmony.com.au.