Road Diary 31/12/22 - London, ON
Summing 2022 up in a blur. A holiday race to the finish. The perks of feeling so supported colliding in a rush of family and friends, traditions packed back-to-back, eating and drinking and sleeping in celebration. A touch of excess, but I’m certainly not complaining.
This past year came with big changes to my professional life in order to cultivate time and energy to focus on the personal. I refined a love for movement, as well as appreciations for both big cities and quiet wilderness scapes. I fostered balance between extremes. And I exit happier, healthier, and more aligned in my values than I entered. I exit 2022 with a clear sense of purpose and uninhibited excitement for what’s to come.
So much of what feels positive came as a result of reframing “being” as a state of practice, an exercise in pattern forming and cognizance, even while regularly on the move. Building healthier habits and paying closer attention to my emotions and the sensations in my body has led to a profoundly tangible sense of progress, purpose, and wellbeing.
The things that made the biggest difference, and which 2-years of personal mood and habit tracking data support:
• prioritizing sleep
• starting to meditate regularly
• focusing on focusing
• dramatically lowering my expectations around how much I can accomplish in a day
• saying “no” way more often
• daily journaling
• exercising
• drinking more water
• paying closer attention to substance consumption and motivations that lead me to partake
• afternoon naps
• doing something for a certain amount of time, instead of with the goal of completion
• doing more nothing…it’s when the magic happens
Thanks for some major love and support through my last year(s): @hillarywatsonmusic @tlellb @daniel.sandler @jennet_sandler @naomisandler @morgnobrien @sirotonin__
And thanks for some major inspiration as we head into the next cycle of the sun: @nicolledoublel @menwhotakebaths @sboiv @thepairsmusic @asifnasim97 @ozanisinak @ctnext
Here’s to 2023, slowing down even more, and making magic happen in the practice! Here’s to the places we’ll go!
