Satisfied with what is, eager for more
I finally got around to thinking about my 2025 goals. (As if I didn’t have any for December, November, October, and previous to that.)
As a former life coach, we’re taught the importance of setting bite-sized goals. The calendar helps us break our life down into some sense of order of accomplishing things. Other than that, a calendar year has little use for goal-setting, except for paying taxes. But I’ll play along with the collective story.
Each year I come up with a new mind game as to my approach to the New Year. Should I make resolutions, create themes, set intentions, or toss it all out for the Universe to sort out?
This year a new idea came to me: What if I want for nothing and only enjoy that which I’ve already created in my life. Sure there’s maintenance involved in keeping this ship going. (I did start a new business after all.) But this is the first time in a reallllly long time when I haven’t yearned for something as if needing to fill a sinkhole.
And then I wondered if that’s setting myself up for a year of living in a sort of default state. Isn’t complacency the beginning of the death of us. Life never stands still like a statue in the middle of a park. If I stay fixed to what is current, will that only set me up for some unwelcome challenges? Especially this year, a year where we must be nimble, flexible, and perhaps even alert. Who has time to enjoy life when the world is falling down?
2025 is a 9-year in numerology. It’s a major transitional year. No sleeper year, that’s for sure. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, we can feel it in our bones. A year from now our world will look a lot different. And who knows this life I currently love may also.
And then I remembered a phrase the manifesting guru Esther Hicks often uses as her mantra in approaching life: Satisfied with what is, eager for more.
Being satisfied allows me to deepen my relationship with all things in my current life: community, clients, friends, my wife, family. In being eager for more I remain open for the possibilities of what will come.
So I decided that will be my goal for 2025. Pheww, one thing checked off my 2025 list already. What is your approach to the New Year?
Wishing you a year of peace, love, health, and abundance,
Tisha
📺 TV & Film
Virgin River: Season 6 on Netflix: Speaking of manifesting, I think this show is what helped me manifest moving to Ojai in 2021. Ojai has certain Virgin River vibes. This season, Mel and Jack… well I won’t give it away, after all they confirmed a Season 7, perhaps a Netflix record for the number of seasons.
Maria on Netflix: Angelina Jolie’s best performance ever. I loved the writing and the cinematography. All around solid movie that’s flown under the radar.
🎧 Music & Podcasts
The Telepathy Tapes by Ky Dickens: The podcast that overtook Joe Rogan’s #1 spot! Need I say more. This is groundbreaking stuff here and best part: it gets to your heart in a good way. Ky is a friend and client of mine and I’m so excited to see where this podcast goes next.
Moon Music by Coldplay: Sometimes you just need some Coldplay. This new album works.
📚 Books
All Fours by Miranda July: If you need a good page-turner about mid-life crisis, this is the one. Amazing writer.
A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Levings: After listening to her interview on We Can Do Hard Things podcast, I had to dive into her memoir on how she escaped from the cult of christian patriarchy. Not only did she escape, but is producing some profound insights that are applicable to pretty much… every woman.