“Finishing Things” is a funny thing to write about at the start of a new year.
Because the start of the new year is about… well, starting anew.
But what’s the point of starting something anew IF your m.o. is not sticking with it?
By now you’ve been through enough New Years’ inspirations, affirmations, motivations, proclamations, invocations, declarations, and dedications to know how it ends up going. For you.
For me, staying the course with even the most inspired way forward has proven to be an ongoingly confounding stumbling block in my life.
My ADHD-informed challenge with follow through is something I’ve had to learn how to…
catch…
be interested in…
make friends with…
negotiate with…
In short, how to understand and be skillful with it.
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This Ruby strip is me back in 1998 in the early stages of bringing more consciousness to this particular stumbling block. In the spirit of…
Exploring it… rather than ignoring it.
Naming it… without shaming it.
Hearing it… without fearing it.
Claiming it, Taming it… and Reframing it!
I hope my pain amuses you (as it does me)…
1998 me didn’t say what’s in the last panel. 2024 me did.
I had no idea about my nervous system’s role in my challenges back then. Thankfully, somewhere down the road I was exposed to…
- Awareness enhancing tools like Mindfulness Meditation
- Nervous system regulating tools like EFT Tapping
- Subconscious mind rewiring tools like Neuro-Linguistic Programming
And they have been game changers.
Of course we’re all forever works-in-progress, but it sure feels good to be able to place a little more emphasis on ‘progress’ because I’ve figured out how I ‘work’.
How about you?
What’s your start-of-the-New-Year way of operating?
How are you later on in the year with what you whole-heartedly committed to earlier in the year?
Do you have good tools at your disposal to help you stay in the game you mean to be playing?
Would you like some of the tools I have? One of the silver linings of needing to implement them in my own life to the extent that I have (and still do) is it makes me great at sharing them.
Or just write back to say, “Hi, Jeanne!”
I would LOVE to hear from you at the start of this new year.
Here we go, 2025…
🙂
Jeanne
