Over the years, I spent many festive seasons alone and grew to enjoy them, with my own special but very loose routine. Christmas morning… sleep in, read/write in bed, doze, raid the fridge, read/write some more, shower and then go for a long walk. By then, it was at least mid-afternoon. New Year’s Eve… bathe by candle-light with relaxing music, while clarifying my hopes for the following twelve months. New Year’s Day… find pictures, words, or objects to represent what I wanted to come to fruition, then spend hours making a collage to hang where my eyes would regularly rest on it to reinforce the power of manifestation.
Such was the mood I created on New Year’s Eve twenty years ago, that my list of hopes for the coming year developed into a poem before midnight. The resulting collage grew to cover four sheets of coloured cardboard of the standard size carried by newsagencies. I cleared the wall and hung the huge poster at the foot of my bed, where I would see it before I fell asleep at night and first thing each morning.
Many of the wishes were granted during that year, mostly because I focussed on achieving the outcomes I wanted… but others seemed to be the result of the goodwill of the universe, or as some would say, by the alignment of the planets.
Although a bit dilapidated from being folded, stored and carried around through several house-moves, I still have that collage. Some of my hopes represented on it are still manifesting, even if in slightly different ways. For instance, I’d pasted this photograph of myself on my creation, because it reminded me of the deep love that was between myself and the photographer. He was long gone from my life and I had married and divorced someone else, but I wanted to find another love such as ours.
That connection with a new person eluded me year-in and year-out, but then the tide turned. Due to surprising life changes, the photographer is back in my life and our love is even deeper and richer than in our youth.
The universe works in mysterious ways!
What is stopping any of us from using this principle to reinforce our writing goals?
The answer is quite simple… Nothing!
By surrounding our dreams with energy – that of the universe and our own action – we multiply the possibility of creating the desired outcome.
The message is strong –
- Make clear decisions about your writing intentions for 2019
- Make a commitment to yourself that you will achieve these goals (a collage is one way to do this)
- Plan what action/s you need to take to turn each dream into a reality
- Take action!
- Trust the universe to deliver your dreams…
This is a simplified list. You can expand on the process of goal-setting for your writing by reading my previous Blogs ~ Prepare To Set Writing Goals That Can Succeed, Construct Writing Goals That Can Succeed, Turn The Opportunity To Succeed Into Success and Are You On Track?
You may also find it helpful to do Writing Exercise #23 ~ Reinforce Your Writing Goals.
What other strategies have you used to set, reinforce and manifest your writing goals?
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