Every year I like to propose a guiding word for my year, a word that will help me steer my actions and my working life. This year’s word is “manifest.” For me, I’m specifically focusing on the verb form.
What do I mean to do this year?
I want to manifest more control over my time. I will be taking work that “works” for me and that allows me more freedom to choose the style and volume of assignments I’ll be accepting.
In home life, we want to manifest a new healthy way of living, to include developing a medicinal/herbal/butterfly garden to not only allow us to create more natural remedies and use our own garden to feed ourselves, but also to provide respite for butterflies and pollinators and even ourselves. We started with a small orchard that has begun to produce, and now we are going to focus on the gardening aspect of production… manifesting beauty, health, complementing the natural habitat.
Within my community, I want to embody the hometown spirit and continue to develop relationships here in my local area, my new hometown and chosen family.
Every time I take an action, I aspire to framing my response by applying my guiding word and seeing how I can manifest for good, create outcomes, and exemplify neighborliness.