2021 – Core Desired Feelings

As with all the previous years, I knew I wanted to pick my core desired feelings this year, too. If you want to know more about core desired feelings, please go to my post from 2016 and you can see the links there.

I did the exercise this year as I do each year but the words kept changing this year and I had a longer list than usual. As each time, I told myself to focus on how I want to feel this year. What are the feelings I am cultivating? If I get an offer of an opportunity, what are the questions I want to ask myself so I can make a decision around whether I say yes or no? How will I know if this action will make me feel what I want to feel?

I mentioned before that there’s a pattern to my words: I always pick something around peacefulness, something around being brave, something around being open, and then maybe a few new ones. So this year I was curious if I would break the trend.

So my core word YES this year for me is about being brave, open and about possibility. Being open to possibility and being brave enough to lean into it. Those words will already be with me this year.

Here’s what I came up with this year and what they each mean to me:

• Light(er): This is the peaceful word of this year. I want to shed things. I want things to feel light. As in opposite of heavy. I want to release, shed, surrender, I want to feel light.
• Kind(er): I know I’ve picked this before but I always welcome kind in my life. I always want to do things that feel kinder.
• Enough: This is the spacious word of this year. There’s enough time, enough money, enough love, enough to go around. There’s enough. I want to feel like there’s enough. I want to move through the world as if there’s enough, I am enough and I have plenty to give.
• Magic: This word from 2019 is still hanging on to me, I miss it, I miss how it made me feel, I miss the choices I made when I sought magic so I am holding it close this year.
• Wild: And since 2020 was such a cluster. I am going with my 2020 word for one more year. Here’s to going wilder. Stronger. Braver. In the wild. Adventures.

So there we are. I guess we still have a trend. Enough and light are my peaceful words, wild and magic are about being brave and possibly about being open, too?

I love all of these. Most importantly, I can immediately connect with the feeling I get when I say these words. I feel full. I feel content knowing these are the words I want for myself. They feel exciting and loving.

Here’s to a delightful year of feeling kinder and lighter while seeing magic and will and knowing it will all be enough.