My Mindful Ritual – Renewed Every January
I have always liked the start of a New Year. It’s an opportunity to purge the old and start anew… or in my case archive my old e-mails and start with < 50 in my inbox. And while resolutions may come and go, I do have one ritual that I try and maintain year over year.
Quite some time ago I had a co-worker who was quite shy, but also vital to a product team I was working on, and thus the idea emerged. I choose someone, personal or professional, who becomes my Person of the Year. They don’t know it. I, mindfully over the course of the year, try new (different, better) things to improve my current relationship with them. Sometimes it has been to get to know the person better to have things to chat about other than work. One year it was making a point of spending more time with someone that I had lost touch with. Other times it has been to improve my dialogue with someone (yes mom, you once were my person of the year).
The one constant – the goal is set in January and surpassed by December.
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult; we just need to remember to do it.”
~Sharon Salzberg
The next time you are in a meeting and thinking, “I wish they would speak up …” or “I’d really like to know how they got those Raptor tickets …”, you probably can. Give the concept a try, even for a month, and I bet you won’t be disappointed.
My Thought for Thursday,
Stephanie