Happy New Year! // Happy New Tears

I always appreciate restarts, whether they are symbolic or concrete. I love to use the New Year as a time to remember, reflect, celebrate, and dream. My entrance into 2020 was a bit delayed but I view it like that two week incubation period where you can have the baby but be waiting to name it. So, alas! Here I am: A few days late, but ready for the new (?) decade (some people count the new decade at the ~end~ of the ‘10 not the beginning of it) and the new year.

Here are some questions I came up with as I prepared to journal on my 2019/2020 and 2010-2019 (I read all of my journals from then and whoo! the emotion!). You can use these questions to reflect on your new year/new decade/new era/new chapter…whatever newness you find yourself in or creating. Wishing you well!

had to show off my pink pen and cursive LOL

Questions for consideration

Reflecting [sub 2019 for whatever you please]

1) What did you learn in 2019?

2) What do you still need to learn in the next chapter?

3) What did you lose in 2019?

4) What did 2019 give you?

5) How did love manifest in 2019?

6) How did joy manifest in 2019?

7) What pain did 2019 bring?

8) What were some memories of 2019?

9) What of 2019 must you remember moving forward?

10) What of 2019 must you release?

11) Who were you in 2019?

12) Who do you want to be moving forward? How were you the person in 2019? How were you not?

13) What did you aspire towards but not achieve in 2019?

14) What did you achieve in 2019?

15) Who/where was your community in 2019? Who did you grow close with? What relationships became distant?

16) What did 2019 prepare you for?

Planning

1) Who do you want to be?

2) What do you want to do?

3) How will you get there?

4) Who will go with you?

5) What will you need?

6) What do you already have?