How to create your best year yet
Jan 07, 2025
Hello and Happy New Year! I’m sending you a bucketful of blessings for your best year yet.🎉
And while it’s nice to send out those wishes, I’m also going to give you some practical ideas on how you can actually have your best year ever. It doesn’t just happen by itself. We have to take action on ideas. Otherwise, we get the same old, same old and that never feels good, since we’re built for growth and expansion.
Here’s what you’ll need to create your best year yet:
1-Routine
2-Ritual
3-Accountability
Routine
I was reading an email the other day from a high achiever like me (and probably like you, too). She stated how our nervous systems thrive on routines. If life is chaotic and we don’t know what to expect, the nervous system is always on high alert. The Sympathetic Nervous System gets activated and its setpoint is fight or flight. As you probably know, that doesn’t feel so good.
Routines help activate the Parasympathetic Nervous System, which is all about rest and digest. It’s where healing happens. You probably have some routines that are built into your day; brushing your teeth and flossing, taking a shower, winding down at bedtime and other stuff like that.
On the other hand, we don’t want to be ruled by routines because then we become rigid and stagnant. Some routines are helpful and the brain also requires novelty and adventure. We want to find the happy medium.
Ritual
The thing about routines is that they might become boring because they can feel empty. It’s easy to just go through the motions with routines.
I love to upgrade my routines to rituals. Rituals are powerful. They invite in the sacred. They have meaning and help us feel connected to the Divine. Modern-day Shaman, Alberto Villodio shares that there’s a part of the brain that actually requires ritual to make sense of life.
One of my routines that I’ve upgraded to a ritual is brushing my teeth. While I’m doing the routine action, I also check in with my theme of the year. I ask myself how it showed up that day and connect with the feeling my theme evokes. By incorporating this ritual, toothbrushing time has become a meaningful part of my day (beyond fresh breath and sparkling pearly whites).
Accountability
The last ingredient for creating your best year yet is accountability.
How adept are you at keeping your word to yourself? Most people aren’t that good at it. We know what to do to make our lives better, to build those routines and rituals, but especially when we’re uplevelling, we often let ourselves down.
Why? 3 Reasons
Number 1: the thing the ego fears the most is the unknown. Although it’s pretty clear that we want to grow and expand, the ego is like, “Well, yeah but we don’t actually know what life will be like when we have those things we say we want, so let’s keep things the same instead.” And then it makes up all sorts of very convincing tricks to keep you in the familiar.
Number 2: we think we’re magically going to be this new amazing person who all of a sudden can just make big changes. Here’s the truth: If it hasn’t worked up to now, it’s not going to just start working all by itself. We all need support to change. That’s just a fact of being human.
Number 3: we don’t know what we don’t know. As annoying as it is, we probably don’t know how to uplevel without doing some research or getting someone else’s perspective. It’s incredibly helpful to get some outside support so you don’t have to hold all the energy yourself.
Accountability is a key factor is making changes so that you can reach your highest potential.
So, what do you think? Where are you at with routine, ritual, and accountability? Where are you already experiencing success with these aspects of growth? It’s so valuable to celebrate what’s working.
After you reflect on your wins, it’s also a good idea to jot down where you could invite in something new. What routines would you like to build? Where could you upgrade those routines to rituals? What kind of accountability would be helpful for you?
Putting those three things in place is how you’ll have your best year yet. You’re going to have to take some action and routines, rituals, and an accountability structure are great places to focus.
If you’re feeling armed with knowledge and are clear on next steps, hooray! Power to the people! If you’re more like a deer in the headlights, of course, I have ideas for you. Check out the “Christina Recommends” section below for first steps.
Here’s a sneak peek before you scroll further: The annual Visioning 2025: How to Get Crystal Clear and Take Inspired Action Masterclass is coming up later this week and it will be exactly what you need to get some clarity, make some great plans, and get down on paper how you’re going to create your best year yet. See below for the details.
With expansive love and radiant courage,
Christina
❥Creator of Courageous Self-Care
❥so happy for this fresh start of a new year
❥making all sorts of fun and exciting changes to Courageous Self-Care… stay tuned!
PS - Start your year with a bang! (The good kind of bang that makes your life way better.) 9D Breathwork Sessions - mark your calendar for January 17 & 27 at 8am Pacific. Each replay will be available for a full week. More details in next week's email.
Visioning 2025: How to Get Crystal Clear and Take Inspired Action Masterclass
In this practical, done-with-you workshop, you’ll go through several incredibly powerful (and fun!) processes that will help you shine the light on what you really want so that you get unstuck and know what to do next to start taking inspired action.
Why take this masterclass?
- To get clarity right in the class, so you can put in your order to the Universe and stop trying to do it all yourself
- To find out how to take the leap into the unknown with trust and confidence rather than letting fear hold you back
- To discover how to take aligned, inspired action that gives you momentum and satisfaction in every area of your life
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The most important question to ask yourself on a regular basis and how to answer it even when you feel stuck or blocked
- A simple but effective tool for accessing the clarity you’re seeking
- The missing piece to most clarity work (and if you don’t have this piece, you’ll struggle despite your best efforts)
- The #1 mistake you’re probably making if you don’t have clarity (and if you’re making this mistake, you’re totally sabotaging any clarity work you’re already doing)
- The super-secret secret for getting crystal clear that would most likely never occur to you (at least it didn’t for me; I had to search far and wide for this secret)
- The problem with most goal-setting methods
You’ll leave this masterclass with:
- More clarity (obviously!)
- Solid strategies on how to move forward with what you discover during the class
- More energy, lightness and effervescence (you won’t feel so bogged down and heavy)
- Practical tools you can come back to over and over again when it’s time for more clarity
