SSP 084: Weekly Lesson - Preparing for 2021

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I'm jumping on here to do a quick live for those who don't know. All of my lives get recorded and they'll be putting onto the podcast as well. So if you're listening to this on the podcast, thank you so much for joining me. Today's live, I've titled it preparing for 2021, and we're approaching that time of the year. It's that time of year. We're starting to wind down. We're starting to reflect. 2020 is coming to an end and I was going through my whiteboard the other day, and over the last few days, I've been really slowing things down to reflect on what a year this has been. But more importantly, how do we start to prepare for the next year? So what I want to share with you guys is just some insights as to how I'm going about that preparation and then hopefully to support you and whatever it is that you're trying to create going into 2021, because it's going to be a big one if this year is anything to go by. But what usually happens for me around this time of the year is naturally we go through a down cycle, Naturally we start to just pull back and enjoy life a little bit more than what we usually do. And it's actually such a crucial time when you're spending time with the people that you care about, the people that you love, that you express gratitude for the life that you have. So I'm going to start there. That's the perfect way to prepare for anything, is to express gratitude and appreciation of for what you have. Because if we are not coming from a state of appreciation, if we're coming from expectation, then we miss out on life actually bringing to us already the energy through which we bring to every situation. So to prepare for anything, always bring gratitude and appreciation. So throughout Christmases, slow down, appreciate what you have. Now, I'm speaking from a very, very privileged position right now because I can have Christmas with my family, I can travel, I can go where I want over the Christmas period. I know a lot of people on here, a lot of people that I coach and a lot of my friends do not have that luxury. So if you're listening to this and you're in lockdown, I'm going to invite you to start to look at. Are there things you can start to be grateful for even though your mind might be like complaining about everything? I don't have this. This is unfair. Just catch yourself before you drift into that victim mentality and bring it back to this appreciation and gratitude. That's where we start. And you're going to make Christmas and the New Year period all about gratitude and appreciation. Now, the next thing I like to do after anchoring that state is pull out whatever it is you had prepared at the start of 2020. Maybe it's your goals, maybe it was your vision, whatever it was that you had prepared around what you wanted to create for this year and spend some time reflecting on how did you go in that process? Did you achieve the things you set out to achieve? Did you miss the mark on certain things? What were those goals and objectives you set at the start of the year and start to see how you measured up? How is your performance now we want to start to judge ourselves in a positive way to see how we can Improve. So this is like self judgment in more of a, like, feminine way. Not judging ourselves, trying to beat ourselves down, but saying, hey, how did I perform here? I set these goals that I hit them. I wanted to become this person. Did I reach that? I wanted to experience these things. Did that happen now? Obviously, Obviously, start of 2020, we did not know that life was going to throw us all these curveballs. So things shifted, things pivoted. But how did you react and respond when shit went south? Like, for a lot of us out here, business owners who, you know, obviously I'm running a coaching business, you know, when Covid happened, it was like this brief period in time where, like, fear set in. Where. And I know this happened for a lot of people where I was like, oh, shit, like, what's going to happen? Is my business going to start to go backwards? Like, how am I going to support myself? But it was how we responded in that situation. You know, what was our response to life? Saying, hey, deal with this challenge. A lot of people have just reacted and stayed stuck in victim mode. So I want you to reflect on how did you respond and were you happy with how you responded? You know, because now going forward into 2021, like, the shit's just going to get even more intense. Life's going to expand an even more of a rapid rate, and we're going to be throwing even more challenges. So start to reflect on how you performed in 2020. Okay, so so far I've got the prep for 2021 has been anchoring the gratitude and appreciation for what you have. Secondly, start to reflect on your performance in 2020. Did you achieve your goals? Did you show up as that person you kind of wanted to become? Are you proud of how you handled these challenges? Are you proud of how you've pivoted and shifted and adapted during this time of challenge and adversity? So spend some time reflecting. Pull out a journal if you need to. Pull out your vision and all goals that you set at the start of the year and go through them now. The next thing you do leading into the new year, because now's the time most of us are downshifting where we're in holiday mode. This is such a key time to do this. This is where the momentum can be built. Don't downplay the importance of this time. Momentum can be built. Have fun, but build that momentum and set those intentions. So the next thing I've been doing with a lot of my clients and myself is we look at what's the vision for 2021. And I'll often ask this question, I'll say, you know, let's say we jumped on a call, you know, you guys who are joining me on this live, you know, let's say it's December 22, 2021, and we jumped in this live and I was like, guys, you know, what an amazing year 2021's been. We've achieved so much. It's been such a challenging year, but we've come through it. What kind of conversation or what kind of dialogue would you expect to be having with yourself when it comes to, hey, what did I accomplish this year? I want you to project yourself forward into the future and look back and think, okay, wow, what a year this was. What did I create? What did I accomplish? Who did I become? So it's a little exercise where you want to start to go into your future self and be able to turn around and look back at the year of 2021 before it's happened. What do you want to create? What do you want? Alright, what's that vision? What's that big thing you want to move in the direction of? So where I start there is. List out all the external things that you want, right? So I'll get, get someone to write down here, what are these external things you want? Maybe it's the house, maybe it's you want to travel. Can't really travel anywhere too far that at the moment anyway. But maybe it's you want to get a car, maybe you want a new relationship, maybe you want to make more money. List down all the external things that you want. Get clear on that. First of all, and there's a few different exercises that I go about this and I come at it from different angles. My primary angle is everything in life, everything we're dealing with in life is in energy, frequency and vibration. Tesla's quote. Now, I worked at a frequency studio for a year out in Toronto three years ago, and that quote really stuck with me. If you want to understand the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Now, since I've been operating from that place, Joe Dispenser talks about this as well. Getting your body into the energetic state, the vibratory state, to be receptive to receiving the goals, the external goals you've set, we must think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Cool. We've got our goals, external goals, written down. Now we look at how am I going to feel after I achieve these goals? What kind of energetic resonance is my body going to be at once I have that house, once I have that relationship, once I have all that money, once I have the job, once I have all these clients, what is it going to be? And you start to think, okay, end of 2021, I've made all this money. How am I feeling? And what comes through me is like, I would be so grateful, I'd be so passionate, I'd be so excited, I would be so motivated, I'd be inspired, I'd be creative. What does that energy feel like? Do you feel that day today? If not, what's blocking it? Get really clear on what those emotions are that you want to experience. Because life's an emotional game. This game of life we're all playing, it's experience in the body in the form of energy and emotions. But what most people don't identify is what they actually want, which is the emotions. What do you want to feel? This. This is such an important step. You get your external goals, but then decide how it is or what it is that you want to feel after you get these goals, because that's. That's the money. That's where the goal is. You don't want these external things. You just want how they're going to make you feel. So once we have clarity on that, we have clarity on what it is that we want. Now all of a sudden, the fun begins because we go, okay, what type of person do I need to become so that I can show up consistently from these emotional states? And then you just start to prioritize your life around living from these states. And every single week, I promise you with this, because a lot of the goals that I've set out for myself, it just have started happening naturally because I made my number one priority my emotional state in each and every single moment, right? My peace is the number one priority. My gratitude, my. My energy, my love, my connection. These are all priorities every single day. I'm not thinking, okay, how can I, how can I get out there and start creating more stuff on an external level? It must be cultivated from within first. So when you make it a priority, your life, your year then becomes around optimizing or sculpting your day, your routines, your habits, your rituals, your identity as the person who shows up as this grateful, passionate, excited, joyful, loving human. Now, just by the nature and the laws of the universe, once you start expanding out that energy, people start treating you differently. Things start showing up in your world. Money starts coming your way in ways you can't actually see right now. Opportunities start popping up. Okay, this is where we have unwavering faith and trust in the divine plan. Once we live in alignment with our truth, which is connected to nature, once we align with that, life takes care of the rest. Right, life. Life's got control of everything. We just have to take control of our internal world and we'll be looked after. So the clarity that I like to create with myself and my clients for the 2021 vision is what are the external things you want? Because yeah, it's fun to create things on the external level. It's fun to manifest. Does it need to happen? Do we need to create all this money? No. Is it going to make me any happier? No. But if you want all this money in the car and the travel and the promotion and the relationship, cool. It's fun to manifest that. But just know that for it to be manifested, you have to be in energetic state of receptivity. Meaning you show up from an energy that says, hey, I'm so full of life, I'm so full of love that I've got so much to give. You can have it all. I don't need anything from you or anyone. Once that happens, life just goes, oh, okay, he's, he's ready to receive it. Here you go, here's everything he wanted. And you'll know things will show up when you no longer need them to show up. When you go, oh, wow, that's that goal that I set at the start of the year that just happened. Oh, shit, forgot about that. Because you're just so busy living from a place of love and truth. You're just so busy living from a place of appreciation and joy for life. So I really want to emphasize the importance of this because going into any situation of going into, especially the new year, like it's an opportunity to have a blank canvas and a clean slate. Now I want to invite you guys to really set the intention and that this year is going to be the biggest year of your life. Set the intention that this is going to be a life changing year for you in a positive way. Do not go into this year thinking, oh, this is going to suck. 2020 was shit. You know, we're in Covid. This is going to be tough. I'm not going to be able to do the things I want to do. Nah, change, change your lens around that. Because what you expect to happen will happen. What you believe to be true will be true. So choose to believe. Choose to expect that this year is going to be massive and it's going to be the most amazing year of Your life. I keep saying that. I say to everyone, I declare that the more you declare it, the more you speak it, the more you affirm it, the more real it becomes, because it's an energy that comes through. So. So I'm getting passionate about this because this time of the year excites me, because you have a lot of fun. But then we get to create a lot of momentum going into 2021. So I know this year's been really tough for a lot of people, and I'm not gonna downplay that. We've all been through our adversities, our challenges right now, and a lot of people are still in it. They're still in it. Now I'm blessed out here. I'm in Perth, Western Australia. We don't have Covid. We haven't had lockdown for months. We. We haven't had Covid, you know, so we don't have lockdown. So, again, I'm speaking from a place of privilege, but from this place of privilege, I just want to download the energy into you guys. Because choosing to live in this place is not determined by your environment. Now, this was something I used to. I used to get caught in thinking that, hey, I need, you know, when I live by the beach, then I'll be fucking happy. Then I can be like Z. Or when I get out in nature, then I'll be good. Or when I can get out of this city, then I can be good, and I'll be myself and I'll be happy. No, you create your internal environment first. You decide on the inside how it is that you want to feel. Now, once you make the internal shift, your external environment changes around you, not the other way around. So important, thinking that your external environment has to change for you to be able to change is backwards thinking. That's old model of reality. New model is I change my environment on the inside. I'm in control of this. Everything else will change and morph to reflect my internal change. So it's the same thing. Like, people feel like they're stuck right now at home in an environment, not being around people they want to spend time with. So that's about, okay, can I carve out a space in my day where I get to know, nurture my garden, my internal environment, so that when I do hang out with people, I'm not affected. I'm not. It's like energetic, bulletproof. If you're at home with your family and they're bothering you and you can't stand being at home with your housemates, whoever the hell it is. Create an internal environment that allows you to be bulletproof, energetically set. Like, go inward and just be with yourself. Start to, like, nurture this garden, nurture these emotions, breathe, meditate, move, journal. I've been doing qigong recently. It's freaking amazing. It's like in between yoga and meditation is like qigong. It's just like Chinese practice where you move energy and just move nice and slow. It's available to us all the time. The tools and practices are there. It just depends on how willing and capable and I guess determined you are to nurture this environment. Because that. Back to what I just said. If everything. If you have lofty goals and visions, all the work starts on the inside first. And that work starts right now, not six months into 2021, not when external situations change. It starts now. How do you show up in the now? How do you show up tomorrow morning when you get up and the alarm goes off? How do you show up in your meditation practice? Do you make time for the practices that clear out your internal environment so that your energy is pure? So if everything is energy, frequency and vibration, if your energy is pure, when people interact with you, you change them. Just going to let that sink in for a second because all of a sudden, the old victim mentality is, I can't stand these people. I can't stand my family. I got to get out of here. This is bothering the hell out of me. What if you committed so powerfully to yourself and your own energy that through changing that, you started to change other people? Wow. The whole purpose of coaching is like, you know, I choose to commit to myself so that it's my energy that can change other people, right? And people that I want to hang out with. My intention is to, can I. Can I live with a place of integrity? Can I be in integrity with myself so that I inspire other people to want to emulate that now? Now if I start going to other people, hey, you got to do this, you've got to do that. You should meditate more. Stop eating that food. They're like, fuck you. Don't tell me what to do. But if I just show up in my. In my energy going, hey, I feel freaking amazing. You guys gonna get on this vibe? This is where it's at. They're gonna go, fuck, yo, what are you doing, man? How do you. How do you maintain your energy like that? Or how are you not affected by these things? And then you say, this is what I do, or, I'm a coach. Book a call. So is the energy that you bring to each environment that I. And this ties back into Christmas time and the new year. You know, we're hanging out with people, especially you guys, during this call. Like, you guys are on the path, so, you know, I don't have to, like, preach to you guys. Start living from this stuff. You sort of already are. You've began a journey and you're sort of like starting to find your way. But it's more so the people who you hang out with now that are going to start to challenge you. Christmas time, years time, you're around family members that are perhaps maybe stuck in old patterns, they're stuck in old ways of being old models of reality. This is your practice. This is your challenge. Can you be in these environments and maintain your sense of connection with yourself? Because it's actually these people that need us, guys. The people who are struggling right now, the people who are in the pain, they're in the depths of the despair. They need your light. So think about who needs you at your best. I just posted a story about this today because I feel like my journal. Every morning there's a question that asks, who needs you at your best today? And that is the inspiration that gets you up out of bed to go, hey, this isn't just for me. I'm not just doing this because I want to be selfish and live and sit in a place of bliss and peace all the time and not actually interact with anyone. We're doing this because people need us. This is the new Earth. It's been born right now. There's new leaders being born every single day. Yesterday was December 2021. Cosmically, energetically. This is. It's a massive time. It's a new age. It's time to take a stand and be leaders. Because you are leaders. If you're watching this content, you are a leader. You're the 1%. So 2021 is about that. Can we take a stand for the change that we want to kind of the change we want to roll out to the rest of the world to know. This is. This is how we live. No more old ways of thinking. Old patterns are toxic patterns that drain our energy. The new way is like we get connected, we get embodied. We live in alignment. We watch and observe how nature lives. We live in harmony with each other. We don't compete. Like, this is, this is it. I'm so freaking passionate about this because it's these old. These old systems are done. They're done. Like, this is, this is it. It's A new beginning. So the new beginning is starts individually. Your new beginning starts in the next couple of days and few weeks is you prep your intentions and your new ways of being for the year that creates a collective new beginning. You know, we, we don't want to go out trying to change the world. Change yourself first, the world change around you. So I'm gonna jump off here guys. It's been, it's been a Great morning. It's 9:30. I've had a swim at the beach. I've had a workout class. I'm feeling, feeling good. So it's always good to jump in here, do more lives. If you want more lives, send me a message and I'll keep them coming. If you want to get extra help with the vision stuff and really getting some clarity around that, send me a message as well. I'm happy to help you out with that because I know it's an important step in the 2021 journey. And check out the podcast, there's always going to be new episodes coming out from there. So guys, love you. Thanks for joining me and let's have an epic end to 2020 and make 2021 even bigger. Have a good evening or day wherever you are. See you guys. Hey, there we have it guys. Thanks so much for listening to this episode. And yeah, look, if you made it this far, cool. Here's my voice again in Yuria and I'm gonna make one more request for you is go ahead and subscribe and leave a comment on the podcast page because I'm really putting a lot of focus and attention on getting this podcast out to more people because I know what I'm putting in here can serve and bring value to people and it would mean a lot if you got value from this to leave some feedback and subscribe so you stay up to date with what's coming up and as always, follow me on Instagram and love hearing from you. It's eight shifters until the next episode, guys. Thank you so much and I appreciate you.