This time of year can feel, well, confusing.

Let’s take a pulse: how are you feeling right now/  Hopeful? Motivated? Pressured to set goals? Or are you simply taking stock — noticing what worked, what didn’t, and appreciating the gifts and blessings already present in your life?

There’s no right answer but two things are worth noticing.  One is the emotions we are feeling to choose the ones that inspire us, not the ones that fuel inadequacy and two, if you are truly noticing your feelings or simply what the calendar says you should be feeling.

Did I add to the confusion?

Let’s take stock of how enslaved we are by a calendar.

We wake up to alarms instead of sunrise.
We eat because the schedule says to, not because we’re hungry.
We work within hours not energy levels.
We sleep when the clock says to not when we’re tired.

Without realizing it, we’ve been conditioned to live against our natural rhythm — and then we wonder why motivation fades, goals feel heavy, and guilt or shame creep in when we don’t – or can’t - follow through. If that’s not a prescription for high cortisol, what is?

So, here’s the real question: What would it take to assume more of a natural rhythm?

Aha! ~ Get off your ass……I mean your assets. Get off your assets!

Because the most important investment you’ll ever make is in yourself — it’s personal.

This isn’t about chasing goals that pull you out of the present moment. In fact, when goals become a distraction from now, they can leave us feeling oddly empty once achieved.

It’s not about requiring a goal to fulfill you but a goal to expand your consciousness. It’s a deepening sense of worthiness, an experience of living in joy – not inadequacy - while moving forward.

Traditionally, September is “back to school” month.  It’s when we recommit to learning, growth, conferences, and development.  But what if January is the quieter, inward season to become your time to invest instead?  Not loudly. Not forcefully. But gently and deliberately.

Ready yourself by clearing your environment of excess “stuff” And clearing your mind of what’s taking up precious mental real estate.

Then choose to reinvest your energy into your health — physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual – working from where you are using what you have. 

Simply build in the present moment, with a big smile, knowing you deserve it all. And knowing that happiness doesn’t sit at the end of the journey — it belongs right smack at the centre of it. It happens when you align with your natural rhythm.  Achievement and abundance no longer need to be chased; they are drawn to you as you grow into who you are becoming.

Life works best when it’s lived in harmony, from the inside out.

Stop chasing, start attracting.  Start here.