I am probably not alone when I say that I use
the New Year as a barometer to assess where I am in my personal and
professional life. What did I accomplish this year? Was it what I set out to do
or did I fall short? Did I accomplish way more than I ever imagined?
I like to remind myself of what I want to focus
on in the year ahead, so I often write little affirmations on the inside of my
medicine cabinet door. Last year, my older son (five at the time) sat down with
some crayons and paper and we wrote several affirmations with brightly colored
crayons and then we cut them out and taped them to the inside of the cabinet.
It was a fun grade school project that I really enjoyed and it demonstration to
him the importance of being grateful and thinking positively – not just in
January—but also throughout the entire year.
(Remember, “I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough,
and Doggone It, People Like Me!: Daily Affirmations With Stuart) But, it was a great exercise on what is important.
Last week, I reflected again on those simple
affirmations that are in that medicine cabinet from 2012 and I can honestly say
that they drove a great deal of my attitude and my thinking on many days,
including the last day of the year and certainly during the past few days while
I was on a business trip in Orlando, FL.
They reminded me that if I wasn’t the one getting
a call on New Year’s Eve at 5:30 p.m. from one of my best clients—then someone
else was! And, that was the last thing I would ever want for me and for
business. So, it was not a negative thing to have to work at that time on a
holiday—but a positive thing that I was indeed getting the call. A slight shift
in my thinking, and a reminder of what was important. I think the affirmation I
reflected back on that day was, “I love my work, the flexibility and I am lucky
for amazing clients.”
It is time for my sons and me to sit down and
write our brightly colored, Stuart Smalley affirmations again and hang them in
the cabinet. What will I write? What will you write?
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