“Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn’t make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don’t do things your way. I care about me too.”
~ Christine Morgan
2016 is a very important year, for many reasons. One is that it is a foundation year. Our choices in 2016 will set the tone for the next nine-year cycle, magnifying the energy of our thoughts, activities and interests from 2016, and delivering more of that in the coming years.
Think about that for a moment.
Whatever we choose (or by default don’t choose and simply let happen), we’ll be signing ourselves up for more of that in the years to come.
How do you want the next decade to look?
Like the years you’ve just been through? Or something different?
2016 is a year where it benefits us to make space for what is meaningful to us. It’s not enough to simply think about what we want. It’s time to start incorporating the activities and actions that will shape the unfolding of our lives in ways that are pleasing to us. We don’t even need to make wholesale and radical changes – we simply need to make sure that if something is important to us we make a little room for that in our lives in 2016. We only need to make a start, and then consistently keep having that thing show up in our year through conscious choices (that may end up becoming new habits!).
Boundaries become important. As we create time for ourselves and our dreams we must also guard that time so that it is not eroded by old habits of always putting others or unimportant stuff first. The boundary is not just there for others, it is also there for ourselves.
Boundaries create protected spaces. These spaces let us and the world know that something here is important. Those protected spaces reflect our values, our emerging priorities, our precious projects and relationships.
Boundaries are about us saying yes to what matters, and ensuring that what matters is represented in our daily lives.
Boundaries are also about us saying no. No to the relationships, behaviours, thought patterns and beliefs that take us away from our values and what matters most to us. No to the circumstances that limit or harm us, or that needlessly waste our energy and time.
As adults we have choices. 2016 is a great year for exercising those choices.
In 2016, what will you choose?
Totally spot on as usual Nicole. How do you manage to put into exactly the right words what I have been cogitating on for a while?. I’ve had 10 years of doing stuff that I didn’t want to do with people I didn’t want to do it with. Well over due time to change all that!
Just what I needed to read xx Thank you for sharing
Perfecto timing as per usual…thanks again for a very timely reminder as this year ends and the New Year is so close….XX
Thank you so much for this, Nicole. I so wish I could banish my brother-in-law from my life but he just lives across the road. Oh well at least there’s the road! Wishing you and yours a beautiful new year and I am so grateful for your posts and friendship. xxx
and these moments of choice ~ reflect our beauty, clarity and strength <3 <3
a current energy~ it seems . . . as Uranus moves forward again <3 <3