91. Welcome to 2023
Gently, gently into the new year.
Everything doesn't have to start on 1st January or in January at all.
Spread it out through the year
Who do I want to be this year?
What's my long term vision?
How would I like to FEEL at the end of 2023?
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www.yearcompass.com
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Transcript
Hello darling heart and welcome to the drink less live better podcast.
-:This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely or boring.
-:I'm your host Sarah Williamson and I decided to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back.
-:With my experience and training I now help other people with their alcohol free or drink less adventures.
-:You can find out more and sign up to my 5 day drink less challenge at drink less, live better.com.
-:I'm here to tell you that you can relax, connect and have fun without alcohol in your life.
-:Join me here each week to find out how.
-:Here we are in the new year, welcome to 2023.
-:I'm not sure that I'm more qualified to welcome you here than the next person, but no matter here I am.
-:Let's pretend I'm on the doorstep of this new time, place and energy.
-:I'm here to tell you that we can thank 20 22 for all it gave us, kiss it into the past and choose to softly move our gaze forward.
-:Now, I'm the first person to say I do not love a New Year's resolution, I'm also not big on thinking of massive goals to achieve or really even intention setting.
-:I do, however, have a few winter activities I like to look at ready for thinking about the year ahead.
-:Now, first of all I'd like to point out that none of this has to start on the 1st January or indeed in January at all.
-:A year ahead is a massive 12 months of possibility and sometimes when we try to force something to happen on or from a particular
-:date we're met with resistance and it doesn't happen and then we get deflated.
-:So I urge you if here we are on the 4th or 5th or 6th January having not quite started the thing that we set out to do, that's okay.
-:Probably one of the biggest experiments or challenges I ever set myself was to stop drinking and my start date for that ended up being the 8th December.
-:There's nothing special at all about the 8th December, it was just the right time for that particular thing to kick off for
-:me, and I'm so glad it did.
-:Don't think about whatever it is that you want to bring into your life having to last all year long.
-:Just start it for today, perhaps for this week, perhaps for the rest of this month and see how you go.
-:If you've got a list of things that you'd like to achieve please don't think that you have to start them all at the beginning
-:of the year maybe it's really worth spreading your year into quarters or months?
-:Think about something you might like to add in in January, something you might like to take out in February.
-:Make your year a holistic year of different achievements, goals, ambitions, whatever it is that you want for the end of the
-:year, you'll end up in a better place if you've done plenty of bits of the different things and aren't getting worried about achieving none of the things.
-:Have a think about who you really want to be and then break that down into monthly ambitions as well.
-:It is okay to have a long term vision if that's what you really want. Do dream big. Go all in.
-:If you think that that is gonna be helpful for this you for this year, I'm right behind you. I'm with you all the way. Way.
-:The final thing I'd like to mention is the year compass.
-:I know I mentioned this last week, but I will drop the link into the show notes for you again this week.
-:The year compass is a beautiful reflective tool for the year that has gone before and a lovely way of visioning your upcoming year into life.
-:I do have a vision board, and it's a vision board that I like to work on over a number of weeks into the new year.
-:I did my first vision board in 2019, and I always keep them, tucked behind a picture frame in my office.
-:And I love at the end of the year being able to tick off the things that have worked out really well, but also consider the
-:things that it's okay to move on into the next year and to consider whether I want more of the same again.
-:Sometimes adding things in isn't always the way forward. Sometimes taking things out is.
-:Do check out the show notes on this or any other podcast episode.
-:You'll see the link to a hidden podcast episode to help you with your 5 PM cravings and you'll be able to read about my one to 1 coaching program. Thank you for listening in today.
-:Please come back again next week and, p s, I believe in you.
