3 Questions to help you reflect on your Intention for the year

By: Dr. Erica Wollerman

As those of you who read the Thrive blog may know, I am a big advocate for setting an intention for the year rather than a resolution. If you are interested in reading my blog on the topic, please check it out here! 
 
As the year has been just flying by, I thought it might be nice to check in on that intention and see how we are all doing. My word for the year is “gratitude.” I picked this word very carefully as I had realized at the beginning of the year just how much I have on my plate this year. Not only have we expanded our practice location, but we have also hired on two amazing and wonderful new therapists. In addition to that, as many of you know, I am also pregnant with our first child. So, when I thought about words for the year, things like “chaos,” “busy,” “overwhelmed” came to mind. Though I might feel all of those things pretty routinely, I chose to focus on gratitude even during the chaos this year.
 
Doesn’t that sound so nice?  Of course it did in theory, which is what brought me to the blog topic for today, which is a check-in about our words of the year. I really feel that the beginning of the year was not a time you would hear much gratitude from me but in the past month or so, I am really working on cultivating it. The most interesting thing that has happened since I am rededicating myself to finding gratitude even in the chaos, is that I am seeing it all around me so much more. Just the other day, I was coming into our lovely new office location and was overwhelmed with this feeling of gratitude for everything that is happening. For my growing family both at work and at home and just felt this sense of peace. It was a really great moment. And in the interest of creating more moments like that, I am focusing on those moments more than the headaches, heartburn, and other fun pregnancy symptoms! 
 
So, I created a little list of questions that I thought might help guide some of you in stepping back and reflecting on how we are doing with our words of the year, partway through the year. I hope this is as beneficial to you as it has been for me!

• What is your word of the year this year?  First things first, we have to remember what we were trying to cultivate in order to make it happen!
• What was your intention of choosing that word?  Pretty simple, why did you choose it?  What were you looking at creating/cultivating?
• Whatever led you to choose your word, do you see evidence of that happening in your life?  Essentially, whether you have focused on it or not, is what you wanted to have happen, happening at all? 
  • If so, how can you continue creating more of what you want for this year?
  • If not, what can you do to rededicate yourself to cultivating what it is you were hoping for?            OR
  • Is there something else you feel compelled to focus on this year instead? It’s okay to switch and change direction!

 
Thank you all for reading!  I hope that you find this blog and brief check in helpful in cultivating the life you want, rather than just reacting to what life sends your way!
 
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