Hey Team!
This is the last of the daily Go Team 2025 posts* and I wanted to write something meaningful and profound and so very, very, very helpful.
And you know what happens when you start with those kind of intentions, when you try to do something perfectly?
Yep, you’re right. It was EXTREMELY hard to start writing.
So…
I ditched the plan to be meaningful and profound and super helpful and I am wishing you magic instead.
I mean, I wish I *could* actually work some magic, make this all very easy for you, and then wave a wand that made self-kindness the default.
But, alas, I am an ordinary person with ordinary powers so I’m going to ask you to use your imagination to work some magic instead.
As I have mentioned before, I try to be realistically optimistic when I write these posts. Sometimes things will be easy, sometimes they will be tricky, and sometimes they will seem impossible and I aim to reflect all of that over the course of these daily posts.
We know that pretending change is easy doesn’t serve anyone well and pretending that it is a never-ending slog can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, it’s much better to address the changing nature of the process of change. There will be good parts and hard parts, you will need to make adjustments as you go, and that variability isn’t a flaw in your approach, it’s just how change works.
So, with all of that said, let’s get back to the magic and the imagination.
Let’s step away from reality and the variable nature of change and let ourselves imagine that it is easy to add new habits and to expand our lives.
Imagine that we can wave that wand and put ourselves into the middle of a system that is already working well and supporting our plans.
What could it look like if things were easy?
How would it feel?
What kinds of things would we have in place?
What would our systems be like?
What would they include?
Try to imagine as many details as you can for this magically perfect situation.
Ok, now, I’d like you to consider if you have any of those elements available to you at the moment or if you could arrange for them to be available to you.
Are there things you can tweak or change or just start doing that could bring you closer to your imagined situation?
It might be something small and symbolic like closing a door or using a particular pen or it might be something larger like ‘in my magically perfect situation, someone is taking care of my kids while I journal.’
The small symbolic things could be dealt with quickly, the larger things will likely take some extra work but it definitely is worth considering how they might be able to happen.
See, for me, the appeal of this imagined magical perfection is that it can lead me to realize some specific things that could support me as I move in the direction I want to go.
I know that, thanks in part to my ADHD, I sometimes don’t realize what kind of obstacles and annoyances are in my way in a given situation. My brain will just toss up a big subconscious wall of NO! when it comes to certain things and unless consciously choose to pick that wall apart, I won’t actually know what the problem is.
Choosing to imagine a perfect situation can highlight the things I may be able to adjust in my actual life.
And the same can be true for you.
Imagining magical perfection could be a way for you to see things you hadn’t noticed, to realize things you want to adjust, or to recognize an obstacle you hadn’t previously identified.
For example, in the situation I mentioned above, it may not have occurred to you to have someone watch your kids while you journal.
I’m not suggesting kids are automatically an obstacle to journaling but perhaps you are only just realizing that you find it difficult to get into the right headspace while listening to your kids in the other room.
Now that you have identified that challenge, you can seek times and ways to journal when your attention is less divided. That may mean getting child care, journaling in the car when waiting to pick them up, journaling when they are asleep, or changing the type of journaling you do so your divided attention is less of an obstacle.
So, Team, on this last day of January,
And here is your gold star for today’s efforts.
It’s not perfect and it doesn’t have to be – it’s doing grand, just as it is.
And the same goes for you.
No matter how much or how little progress you have made this month, no matter how many plans you have made or not made yet, no matter how you have approached this whole project of creating the life you want, you are doing just grand.
You are doing the best you can with the resources you have and I hope you are being kind to yourself throughout the whole thing.
I wish you ease. 💚
Go Team Us!
PS – I have recently read a bit about Best Case Scenario Journaling and watched a video from Body Brain Alliance called A New Way to Make Visions Boards That Changes Everything. I’m sure that I churned some of the concepts from both into my thinking process for this post (and probably some others) and combined them with stuff I already knew and other things I have heard about. I’m definitely not pretending to have invented everything I talk about, I’m just writing out my thoughts on them. Also, please be aware that discussions of Best Case Scenario Journaling can have a big ‘manifesting’ vibe to them which I am wary about so proceed with caution.
*Yes, I will be doing Go Team 2025 posts throughout the year, just not on any particular schedule and definitely not daily!
