End of year reflection: How will you pivot in 2023

It’s the end of the year, once again.  As you know, this is the time that I like to pause and reflect on the time that has gone by.  I find this to be an important thing to do.  It allows me to be intentional…and make the most of the next year.

So often, we wander into the next chapters of our lives.  We go to bed on New Year’s Eve and wake up on New Year’s Day without a thought or idea of how we can or will make the most of this year.  If we do think ahead and set goals, we often forget to plan how we will reach those goals, especially when things get tough.  It’s as if we think having a desire is enough—no action or participation required!  Or we are so mired in our pain that we can’t see beyond it.

I’ve been guilty of that mindset in the past.  It got me nowhere.  At no point, did sitting back on my laurels or swirling around in my sorrow produce any change or improvement.  Quite the opposite in fact.  I received the same problems over and over again.  It wasn’t until I realized I was half (if not all) of my problem—that I was manifesting my terrible reality—that I was able to alter my experience, begin achieving my goals, and change my life.

This is truth for everyone for everything.  Whether you are wanting to be a better athlete, are vying for that promotion, or desiring to be a world-class author, you must be an active participant in achieving these goals.  Act with intention—with the thought of that goal in mind.  Your thoughts are things and have the power to manifest your desires or prolong your current unwanted reality.  If you are in the midst of a terrible season, where is your mind, your intention?  Is it calmly centered on the flipside or desperately fixated on how terrible the season is?  One will help you rise above; one will keep you firmly planted in the terrible-ness.

In my practice, we see so many living in chronic pain.  What they have in common are the years they have been in pain, as well as the intensity of that pain.  By the time we meet them, they often have a mindset of lack, loss, desire, and hopelessness.  Understandably, their minds are fixated on their pain and the lack, loss, desire, and hopelessness it has caused.  A horrible cycle they are told they can never escape.  Except…they can.  They made a choice to do something different—they called our office.  They made a choice to seek care—care that is different than anything they had been offered by the medical community.  Then, with that change came hope and an intention to be well and live life again.  That is when miracles started to happen.  I say miracles; it’s really the manifestation of the thoughts and intention of each patient that chose to break the cycle and heal.  They made it happen.

You can, too.  Whatever your intention, you have supreme power over it.  But you must act with that intention in mind.  I know that anywhere I have failed this year, it was because I did not hold my intention.  I got in my own way.

As we are winding down 2022, ask yourself, “how am I getting in my own way?”  Then, pivot—with intention of course.  If you are a practice member, how are you getting in your own way in your care?  Are you intentionally manifesting your health and healing or do you continue to be firmly planted in your dysfunction.  How will you pivot in 2023 to make the most of your investment, truly heal, and achieve the reality you choose?