Hey, yo Aloha, I was just thinking of my reflection for this year and what words I want to pick so was reviewing old words 2020 was the year of practice 2021, the year of play. Last year was the year of patience, where I really leaned into my Zen practice and writing mail and letters and patients in my job search and creating my own job. Patients with my mental health diagnosis with anxiety. A lot of patience was instilled, and I'm looking forward to having more patience moving forward. And with that said, as I think about 2023, I was journaling about this even more this morning. So many words come to mind. But the two that I'm, I want to have three words, the two that I'm thinking most heavily about are the word courage. I've already bought a plane ticket to go to Southeast Asia to specifically Kuala Lumpur in April in May. So that was really courageous. I've never been to Asia before. I am going to be doing this poetry one on one course leading it with a friend of mine. sometime this year, I don't know when yet exactly, I'm going to be completing my first Olympic distance triathlon. And I spontaneously signed up for an acting class last night that begins tonight. So those are acts of courage that I already have planned for my year. That's why I feel confident in knowing I want to be courageous even conceptually, in my writing. Brene Brown, lovely woman said it best around how in order to in order to have courage, you need to have vulnerability, and I'm also looking forward to becoming more vulnerable in my writing the seat Well, this year as well. The other word I've been thinking a lot about has been peace, not in the macro lens of like world peace, like I'd always thought of before, or like in the hippie realm of like the peace sign, where it's all about altruism and everything like not that either those definitions are poor, I'm looking more so for inner peace in that, if I can, instead of trying to rebel or go against the grain or to please and go with the tides and be inside the box to be at peace and acceptance of who I am. And to I want to start a kindness jar, like that's a practice or a habit, I'd want to start where and doing more things that feel peaceful and still are take courage to do takes courage to be peaceful, and want to be more peaceful and how I communicate and be less conflict avoidant. So having those difficult conversations and how I communicate. And I also want to start, I'm starting to explore therapy again, I feel like in my relationships with romance, intimacy, and then also familial relationships, there's a lot there, peace I could find inside of those. So that's sort of where I'm leaning towards with peace. And then for the third word, I'm, it's still up in the air, I was thinking of the word presence around being mindful, I read the stat the other day that three quarters of our day is spent thinking about the past and then about 20% is thinking about the future, anxiously worrying and then 5% is spent thinking about the present. So I really want to get more into essential journaling. And like just focusing on the here and now. And just being more thoughtful as well, when I think about presence, observing life and being aware, not just of myself, but of my situational awareness. I think that's something I've never felt like I've excelled at. Presence also like in our in my relationships, I'm thinking of starting a podcast club with my dad, where we explore different historical leaders that we both enjoy learning about. The ones that come to mind currently, for right now are Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh. I do not actually know that much about these individuals, but I've always felt like I should and I want to and that their stories would bring inspiration to my own life. So yeah, I would love to have like presence in those conversations, even though I feel really incompetent at them. Yeah, and then I guess the fourth word I was considering was either kindness, grace or love. They're all kind of synonymous. But I've really loved writing cards to people. It's been really fun. I really letters every month to myself and I have a binder full of letters to myself. And with that practice of writing letters to myself, I found it really fun and join us to write letters to others. I'm thinking of, yeah, publishing my own first book this year around notes to self just like nightfall thoughtful remarks that keep me peace of mind and thinking about what I need to be doing and how I want to be living. Kind of like Derek Severs, like how to live like with directives and affirmations and just reminders in a fun and playful way, that spark introspection for others and myself that I would mainly just want for myself, but also for others as well. So those are the four words I'm juggling around with courage, peace, presence, and grace, or love, but that feels really like I'm fully becoming a hippie if I were to say peace and love are my words for 2023 though, I do think I feel very seen when I'm in a room full of hippies. So yeah, I would love your take on on that. It's very nuanced question. But if you're you are me, what? What do you think you'd want to have for your words, given this multiple choice option, and if you have any other thoughts and all these projects I talked about, I'd love to hear thanks to Lou
