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I love this time of year, less for the obvious reasons, and more for the introspective ones. As an expert on change and renewal, I intimately understand that one of the biggest transitions that we all experience is the move from one year into the next. Admittedly, there are some years we want to hold onto, and some years we want to forget. Every single year activates our own unique history, rewrites our legacy, and inadvertently teaches and guides us forward, backward, or somewhere in-between! December is a month to give yourself grace and space to contemplate your '22-'23 move, to choose it, and nurture it. Ask yourself the following:
What are you most proud of in 2022?
What is important to you for 2023?
What did this year teach you and how will you use that gift?
Think of this holiday season and the upcoming shift in years as a gust of wind, elevating you and giving you a bit more momentum and bounce as you step from one year into the next. Where do you want this new year to carry you to? Where do you wish to go? Get the visual. Then reframe and reboot the action steps necessary by playing what I am calling The Glitter Games!
If you have ever been a kid (or feel as though you still are!) or if you have spent adult time with a kid that you love, you probably have experienced the arts-and-crafts whimsy of a glitter art project. As a kid you may have thought this was the greatest thing on earth. Magical. Think about it… sprinkling multicolored glitter with abandon all over a design of glue without a worry in the world is a creative space that is often illusive to us as adults. A grown-up version of ourselves may deduce that the mess that this type of random glitter art project creates surpasses the seductive process of abandon it employs.
Yet, the mess is exactly the point!
A creative project done at any age has the potential for mess, so there needs to be a nod to imperfection for the unknown, the creative, to occur at all. It is in this unknown space that transition and change comes alive. You cannot create great glitter art in the known. Truth here in business and everyday life as well.
Playing the Glitter Games is simply choosing and saying "YES" to the unpredictable, the vulnerable, and the edgier side of things. It is about rolling the dice on being present for the experience itself, and participating without having to know or understand the outcome in advance. Fast forward this idea to the the segue from 2022-2023. Setting new goals, resolutions, and business plans into motion is the easy part. Allowing yourself to be messy and innovative with these ideas and new chapters is the harder element.
I am sure, that like me, you have tried to make changes in the past, acting on something only to find that you are not getting the perfect results you were seeking. This may be because you rebooted or shifted a system, an action step, or an idea before you up-leveled your perspective on it. Rebooting before reframing often fails because it lacks the vision, the perspective, and the internal belief that makes fresh ideas and renewal come to life. Frankly, it lacks the glitter! Successful change ignites when you marry a shift in intentions with the commitments that support it. The reframe needs to come first. Then the investment in it. Add serendipity and next chapters are recalibrated and in motion.
Reframing your point-of-view is critical to recalibrating renewal and important decisions. If you don’t see things from a new vantage point, you may be tempted to apply an old self-management style to a new situation, and the results will stall out or flat line rather than soar. Essentially the glitter does not stick without the glue, and the idea does not come to life without allowing for imperfection, creativity, and mess.
As you recalibrate the blur between years this holiday season, enable your creative side! You can discover anew the actual art of your childhood, or you can activate a new visual that puts a smile on your face, glitter or no glitter involved. Remember, no two glitter art projects are ever the same, even when done by the same person.The glue does what the glue does, and the glitter sticks where it wants to. When you lift the paper up the “unwanted” glitter falls to the floor. The finished project is not always beautiful, yet it almost always feels triumphant. You control the experience and the fire it creates in you. You do not control the exact outcome. How you lead your fire is up to you!
What changes for you if you start 2023 with this fire inside you LIT?
DO THIS NOW:
Be unique not perfect. If your outlook is simply to enjoy the process, you show up differently for the project. You leave behind what holds you back and welcome in new opportunities. Not all the glitter sticks “as it should” and that is EXACTLY what makes this art compelling and beautiful. There is no one right way. So freeing...
Be curious. If every glitter art project is different, then every outcome can be as well. Understanding that you don’t have to have everything figured out allows you to lean into not only using your expertise but acquiring new ideas and possibilities. Being curious is a key foundation of change. It downplays fear and upticks possibility, and it anchors you in the moment where energy and action merge.
Be okay with mess. Mess lives within the world of the unknown. We fear mess and it is often the very thing that stops us from seeing things differently, or doing what we most desire. Neat is what we are taught, mess is what we need to clean up and file away. What if it were the other way around? The glitter that drops to the floor at the end of a glitter art project is just as sparkly and mystical as the glitter that sticks to the page. What falls off is as important as what sticks. What can you learn from this? How can it be repurposed? Can you enjoy it no matter where it falls? Do you see other opportunities where they may not have appeared before?
Wishing you the happiest and healthiest of holidays and an inspirational pause for a year-out-and-year-in-transition of choice!
Shine!
Randi
I am excited to gift you access to the Martha Beck/Oprah Quiz (Thank you to Martha Beck, Oprah, Hearst Publications, and the Oprah Fall 2022 Quarterly Magazine as the source of this share!) as a guide to empower and self-motivate you to access new transitions from a clearer and more aligned perspective. I am now booking a limited number of 1:1 mini conversations to discuss your unique 2023 new chapter ahead. Ready to make 2023 different? New year, new chapter…it all starts with one bold choice and a bit of glitter!
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