Confidence

I love the reset of a new year–the chance to consider what to bring forward and what to leave behind. As one season fades into the next, new intentions emerge out of the lessons of our past.

I find that in the earliest days of the new year, sometimes things blur together. It takes me time to shed what needs to be shed so that I can fully step into my new commitments. It’s okay to take time to shed, I remind myself. It will make the subsequent leg of the journey lighter and clearer.

As 2023 faded into 2024, I elected to give myself extra space–several days to write, to ponder, to play with the ideas that are emerging. I draw with them. I journal with them. I take them out into nature. I discuss them with my family. It’s an intuitive process I use to navigate transition, to allow my intentions to crystallize.

Every year, I distill my intentions into a word that captures the essence of who I am committed to being. My word for 2023 was courage. My word for 2024 is confidence. 

In so many ways, courage has paved the way for confidence, and I cannot help but be grateful for their meeting. Confidence is a word of trust, of belief, of reliance. I trust and believe this word has found its way to me to help me clear away unnecessary doubt and worry so that I can step even more fully into the creative power and potential that is unfolding. 

My heart is open and willing, and I am ready for all that lies ahead.