Chasing Rainbows

Have you set an intention for this year? Maybe it’s a word to focus on.

Last year I set myself 30 goals in all areas of my life and I only achieved 4 🧐. Of course we have to allow for the spontaneity of life throwing curve balls, and it did - however forgetting the excuses, they’re not good odds.

It got me thinking - yes I’m a naturally positive and optimistic person, and love new beginnings and the potential they bring, but something wasn’t right. So I asked myself;

• What are you aiming for?

• Why?

• And is this What You Really Want?

This coincided with turning 45 and the realisation of my own mortality. I could be halfway (or not yet), or maybe less… who knows. It wasn’t morbid thinking, it brought a sense of clarity.

We’re surrounded by conditioning of what we should have, achieve, own, how we should be and act, all by a certain age and by society’s standard I’ve failed in most areas.

Yet I’ve never felt more comfortable in my own skin and with my life.

If life is not what we've been led to believe, what should we be working towards?

• What do I really want from my life?

Reflecting on this I felt at peace knowing I have so much goodness in my life, that the other stuff I was aspiring towards really is nonsense. And with that came acceptance.

Accepting my ordinary life.

We all have (extra) ordinary lives - the precious 24 hours each day that are routine and mundane, with moments of opportunity.

So for me this year I’m trying something different; simplicity.

Less goals. Less pushing.

What if we are the rainbow and our heart the pot of gold. There’s nothing to chase, it’s all right here within.