Map your year.
We love beginnings, we appreciate ritual, we believe that the vision you carry in your heart helps create your reality… and there’s no time like a new year to paint a fresh and vivid picture of what you desire.
Our Lifestyle Map is a simple layout of the major domains of self-expression and relating. We typically offer it to Style Statement clients as a guide for journaling about their Style Statement. We encourage them to actively ask themselves “What’s the spirit, the look, and the feel?” of their Style Statement in every area of their life.
The Lifestyle Map is also a great tool for examining what’s working and not working in each area of your life, or listing what you’re grateful for, or managing your weekly to-do list. We have various versions of the Lifestyle Map posted on our fridges, bulletin boards, and in our daily planners. And we’ve used it the last few years with our husbands to map out the year ahead.
With a bottle of wine or cup of cocoa, some candles, and no phones – this can be a great mini-retreat to infuse your year with some magnetic intention.
THIS YEAR: Create your ideal year based on the Lifestyle Map. On large paper, or using one page per heading, create sections for “HOME + STUFF,” “SPIRIT + LEARNING,” etc. Write out your wish list for 2008: Diving in Mexico. New sofa. More dinners with friends. Dance class. Firm up butt. Clean out storage locker. Get certified. Resolve things with Mom. $2 million in sales. Publish an article. Pay off loan. Run the 10k. Adopt a puppy…. Put it all down.
Now, here’s the very important thing: Within each category, be sure to also include how you want to feel. This is key! So many of our goals include “stuff and experiences” and we miss the fundamentals of our desires: our feelings. This year, in terms of WEALTH + SERVICE, do you want to feel more ingenious, impeccable, generous, free? In terms of BODY + WELLNESS, do you want lightness, strength, energy? With RELATIONSHIPS + COMMUNICATION, how about feeling sexy, supported, cherished, or funfreakintastic?!
Your life story is yours to write. Pour your heart into every word.
This year, may you feel at home wherever you go. May you look and feel your very best. May you become more of your true self every day.
With Love,
Carrie & Danielle
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