This year I learned to deal with a long-standing fear of heights, at least I can deal with it a lot better than before anyway. This year I also learned how to observe better and learned quite a bit about how to learn/teach myself better in regards to creative activities but I think really that it was a synthesis of processes that have been going on for years now.
Regarding the inner world, I was able to learn more intuitively about communicating between all the parts of the self. Not exclusive to this year, every year I notice more and more how some things I thought were different or distant from each other are actually closer together than I expected and that in many cases people just call things by different names but in reality are discussing something similar.
As for my 2021 resolutions; keep practising like I have been for almost all of this year and stick to my long-term goals; ideally I'd like to be able to sell more in the coming year but I need to think about how to make that a realistic goal. And I like the specific checkbox tasks idea you have, maybe I would benefit myself doing something like that; I often make note of little things I need or want to do but they often get scattered/aren't in a single place, which probably makes me put things off without meaning to (because I lose literal sight of the goals).
My tips for everyone else:
- Firstly, be confident in yourself, because so often people tell me that they can't do X or Y, and the reality is that they can't do it yet, most often because they don't start trying, don't move on from their failures or aren't committing the time to it. In about a year's time I was able to really improve some of my skills by making myself stick to improving them. Some people do have more natural aptitude for certain tasks and they may get better at something a bit faster but they weren't born masters and generally we can all reach the same levels of skill on any given task, it takes varying amounts of time and patience. Some people just started earlier. Incidentally this approach is also what has enabled me to, only recently, overcome fears I've had since I was a child, including that fear of heights.
- Secondly, everyone has bad days, bad weeks, bad months. This doesn't have to be the killer to motivation. Sometimes it's fine to put things on hold or pause, you can always return to it. This isn't necessarily procrastination or neglect; it may simply be that it's not the right time to be doing something, maybe because other things are taking priority or maybe your life wants different structuring to accommodate for that thing you want to do. I believe this is likely why realistic goals are often important, because they consider what's possible right now, or consider that you might want to make changes in something else first.
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