Simplify Goals: Write from the Heart

If you are like me – you have a LONG LIST of goals for 2025.

All ambitious * All delicious * And soon, All fictitious.

Now that we have completed the first month of the new year, let’s get REAL.

I overwhelmed myself with all the ‘want to’ ‘gotta do’ ‘need to have’ items on my list. It seems I like to do this every year – taunt myself with way too much to accomplish. The wreckage left behind is that there are some really amazing and doable things on that list, and they are buried under the weight of words.

Words that flowed out of my HEAD and not my HEART.

Let’s Start Again!

We have 11 more months (magic number 11!) to enjoy all that we desire to engage in – relationship building, community gatherings, career enhancement, productive projects, and health-oriented agendas.

The key is to ENJOY it. The new Ascension energies on the planet are asking us to be in PEACE and JOY when we participate in this third dimensional platform called LIFE.

We can only create from a place of PEACE. We can only transform from a place of CHOICE.

WRITING FROM THE HEART

Our heart knows, deep down inside, what we really need right now. If we listen deeply, we would realize that in small and large ways, we spend a lot of our emotional and mental energy chasing this down. We have a HOLE and it desires wholeness.

Here is an exercise to try out:

Close your eyes. Place your dominant palm (fingers extended and stiff) over the center of your chest – over the Heart Chakra area.

Breathe in deep and easily breathe out. Relax your body, let tension melt away.

From deep inside yourself, CALL IN the energy of PEACE. Feel as this radiates to you, warms your hand and fills your Heart Chakra. You know this feeling. You have been there over and over again, lifetime after lifetime. CALL IT BACK IN.

Open your eyes. Remove your hand and continue to feel this ease and contentment. Look at your notepad on the table in front of you. With great intention and strength of spirit, write these FIVE categories out on your paper:

WRITE only ONE sentence – ONE goal for each category.

I know. It seems TOO simple. But remember, as you go in that direction with all your Heart, you will feel PEACE and you may experience the fullness of the goal far sooner than expected.

Let’s start with RELATIONSHIPS. In this category, place your hand on your heart again, FEEL PEACE and listen to what you truly want in your relationship field.

Then choose words like, “In Relationships, I desire…”

Keep it simple. Be honest. Feel fulfilled with the visual of BEING and experiencing that statement.

Let’s move to HEALTHY BODY. Follow the same path by placing your hand on your heart, FEEL PEACE and listen to the inner workings of your gorgeous body. What does it need to be healthy and happy?

Select words like, “In Healthy Body, I choose…”

On to the next area of CAREER/WORK. Place your hand on your heart, FEEL PEACE and allow your Inner Self to see the most Joyful working situation – what would keep you immensely satisfied in your productive career life?

Write words like, “In Career/Work, I feel great joy when…”

Let’s review the area of SOUL GROWTH. Place your hand on your heart, FEEL PEACE and let this state of contentment soak in for a moment or two. Allow your Inner Self to gently float down a River of Peace, feel the flow, travel gently, and HEAR what your Soul would like to pursue. What draws you for new wisdom understandings? Study or travel? Sacred sites or Wholeness Retreats? Playing with your powerful crystals and essential oils? These are the moments where we soak in the downloads needed for our next level. LISTEN DEEPLY.

Flow with words like, “In Soul Growth, I am drawn to…”

Finally, we complete with the area of COMMUNITY. Place your hand on your heart, FEEL PEACE and imagine laughing and enjoying people who align with your values, your soul growth, your next creative endeavor! We cannot know WHO is coming our way, but we can feel the joy of being in community with others, sharing, creating, healing, laughing and learning. Once you have it captured, write your simple goal.

Explore with words like, “In Community, a joyful alignment would be…”

Meet New People – Find Your Tribe!

I hope this simple, yet POWERFUL exercise helps you to align with what your HEART truly wants to enjoy and experience in this amazing year of 2025!

Let go of overwhelm. It is stressful and unproductive. Bring yourself to a place of PEACE whenever you want to create – attract for your life – stir the images up and bring in something new – write affirmations and so much more!

If you desire a deeper training in Writing and Speaking from the HEART, you may be interested in my workshop, ‘Write & Ignite Powerful Affirmations, Invocations & Prayers.’ We explore the deepest and most effective manifestation techniques with heart writing and speaking.

Keep your SIMPLE LIST on your desk or where you can see it daily. Remember, you can ALWAYS add more goals as the year progresses – once you have simply and gracefully moved into the fullness of THESE simple Heart Goals!

May you feel JOY and PEACE with Simple Goals!

If you try this out, please share your experience or thoughts below.

You are GREATLY LOVED!

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Letter to Self: Encouragement!

We all have days when it seems that the journey of life has it in for us. For me, those moments come after a few disappointing losses – maybe I didn’t get the job I hoped for, or my college essay paper was less than stellar after tons of work, or a new venture I started was super slow in taking off…

Whatever it is for each of us, we know that familiar feeling of wanting to give up, to quit, or worse – feeling like we are never going to have a ‘win.’

I call this the DARK PIT.

It feels like an energetic sinking down – and dark because I struggle to see LIGHT in that moment. The Hope that should be there. If you have suffered this, then you might relate when I say that this can last half a day, or days, for me.

The challenge is to get OUT of the DARK PIT and not always to rely on other people and their energy systems for this help.

YES, it is great when we have a team of supportive and loving folks around to lift our spirits, AND, it also is a sign of spiritual maturity when we take responsibility to find our own way out.

How to pull ourselves out of the dark pit when we are FULLY in it.

ENCOURAGEMENT is the key to climbing out of negative thinking and back to a positive and hopeful perspective.

This is the elixir from others that boosts our confidence, gets us laughing at ourselves, and moves us to take forward steps once again. So, can we muster Self-Encouragement for our own personal process of perspective re-alignment?

YES! But first…

Let’s look at the word ‘encouragement’ for deeper understanding.

Encouragement breaks out to EN-COURAGE-MENT.

EN = prefix that means to go into a particular state or condition, to put in or put on something, according to the Collins online dictionary.

COURAGE = the attitude of dealing with anything recognized as difficult, painful, or dangerous instead of withdrawing from it; being fearless, according to the same dictionary.

MENT = the dictionary also provides us the meaning of this suffix; an action or resulting state, a product.

We can see that to provide ourselves with SELF-ENCOURAGEMENT would mean that individually we must desire to ‘go into a state’ ‘of courage (an attitude) dealing with something difficult’ which gives us the ‘resulting state’ we sought to put in place.

Sounds like a beautiful circle!

I enter into courage to get to the state of courage.

For those of us who like to explore how this is felt in the Chakra system – think about your THIRD CHAKRA – located at the solar plexus of the body.

As the enlightened teacher, healer and writer Caroline Myss tells us in her book, ‘Invisible Acts of Power,’ the THIRD CHAKRA embodies the power of endurance. To withstand trials and tribulations and to assert oneself in a community with one’s gifts and talents.

So our third chakra – our power center – feels off balance when we are down, when we have not had ‘winning moments’ that were fueled by our passionate dreams and actions.

Time to Nourish our THIRD CHAKRA and LIFT our Mental State

A beautiful compassionate action: We can write a letter or card to ourselves that reminds us of who we really are – amazing souls in physical bodies anchoring LIGHT for the planet and others!

I have a lovely small card that I wrote for myself a couple of years ago. It sits on a table in my office, and when I need that reminder – that LIFT – I open the card and read the inscription that my Higher Self consciousness wrote to my Lower Self consciousness to pull me out of a dark pit.

I have a beautiful life. I love my husband, my family, and my home. I live daily in deep grace poured over me and through me by CREATOR and I AM BLESSED. Generosity fills my heart. Gratitude emanates daily. I AM a greatly beloved daughter of CREATOR and the UNIVERSE. All is well in my world. I take this one step at a time, and I AM in PERFECTION now.

How to Write Your Self-Encouragement Letter

Make time and create a sacred space to write your card to yourself. Gather your materials. Perhaps you want to create a card, or maybe you have a special blank card you have been saving for a friend. This is YOUR special time!

Center yourself and write from the HEART. Imagine writing to a beloved friend who needs encouragement to get going again with hope. FEEL your Higher Self come in through the top of your head, your Crown chakra, and let that supportive energy settle into your heart space.

Imagine how loving your Higher Self and your Angels would speak to you!

WRITE this LOVE LETTER of encouragement to yourself.

When you are done, read it out loud one full time through and FEEL this gorgeous energy as it flows through your body and energizes your soul.

Final step: Honor your card by placing it in a special place in your home that is private for you. This is not a card for other people’s eyes.

And close your Letter Writing Session with gratitude in your heart for YOURSELF and all the Higher Spiritual Beings that were helping you write this love letter to yourself.

I hope this re-alignment with your Higher Self Consciousness perspective will always bring you balance, grounding, and a feeling of being greatly loved, as it has for me over the years. We truly can help ourselves out of a dark place and into the LIGHT.

May you be LIFTED by your Letter of Encouragement.

If you try this out, please share your experience or thoughts below.

We are here to also encourage each other!

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