You have the opportunity to make 2012 the single best year of your life, at work and personally. To help you truly make a difference in your life in this year, we’ve put together a list of Big Ideas that will help you.
Here’s to a fabulous 2012!
- Risk living your dreams…dive into your life, into life itself, without wearing a lifebelt.
- Give what you hope to receive. Smile, love and risk acts of riotous kindness.
- Open into your emotions, all of them, even those you have forgotten, even those you have hidden so well, and fall deep into the heart of them all…and notice what you find there.
- Listen to music that inspires you
- Forgive everyone and everything, not least yourself. True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
- Listen deeply…more to the heart than to words. Breathe and let people speak all they need to say to you.
- Don’t take things personally. Let others empty out and love them for it.
- Dream big, dream GINORMOUS! Live your life as if your dreams are already manifest right now, right here.
- Go to events that inspire you
- Make the present moment your primary focus. It’s where your life happens, nowhere else.
- Notice when you are identifying with your thoughts. Learn to let them float past like clouds in the sky.
- Become more and more conscious of your breathing, of your body, of the place of no-thought.
- Ask yourself: “Who am I?” and allow yourself to be all that you are
- Risk utterly loving your partner, your children, your friends, your pets, your town, nature….life itself.
- Do regular Journeys! Come to events and/or find a person or people to Journey swap with.
- Inspire others. Accept that even a modest word or action on your part can transform another person’s life for the better.
- Sing lustily from your heart, either in your home or out there in the world – perhaps even in the Royal Opera House. Give up caring if you’re tone deaf or if you sing like a nightingale, just sing from your heart.
- Express your gratitude daily.
- Realise how much you have to give.
- Surround yourself with positive, inspiring people. Remember – you become the company that you keep!
- Become aware of when you complain, of when you deny life, even if the complaint is only in your head. Become silent and stop it!
- Accept what is. If you don’t like something and you can change it, then change it. Otherwise smile and accept it.
- Dance like a complete maniac.
- Find out the root causes of your eating issues – and solve them!
- Learn something (many things) new
- Celebrate every achievement, however small.
- Bless your life and notice the gratitude in your heart for all the blessings of your life (learn to notice these blessings).
- Empty out regularly what is not needed and become more and more aware of the magical emptiness inside you.
- Give up excuses, give up blame, and soar like an eagle in the warm air of freedom.
- Become conscious of your eating. Notice what you eat, how you eat, and consciously enjoy the wonderful experience of eating.
- Decide you are abundant. You have all you need now. And in knowing this, in really knowing this, you open into the infinite great river of abundant life.
- Do something for the environment. Make a contribution, however small or large, to improving our world.
- Take the lampshade off, stop acting small, you are life itself, BE OUT THERE, BE SEEN, BE HEARD!
- What is that decision or choice you’ve been putting off for so long? Put it off no more. Either go for it NOW…or decide it’s not what you really want, let it go, and open to the love that is here.
- Give back. Supporting a charity organization that inspires you is one option out of thousands, find yours and truly share your blessings with others.
thank you I found this very worthwhile to take time to read lots of very important statementshere and I shall be sending it on to others who will benefit (hope it is ok to do that )thanks again and I wish you happiness thro’out 2012 and beyond
Thank you so much. I love the list
Wow Brandon, Gaby and Team! What an awesome list!!! I LOVE it and will embrace it starting yesterday!! What about Laughter, every single day. Also, declutter mindfully and with intention (out with the old, in with the new), also Touch the Earth, Hug a Tree, Plant a plant!! Express Gratitude Daily. Allow the Child in you to Play regularly, then Laugh some more!! G-d bless you all – have a truly incredible year doing fantastic work! Thank You All!!! With Love, Joy
Become aware of what you’re focusing on, and change it if it isn’t Love you’re focusing on…
what an awe inspiring list…I would encourage eveyone to share the list with all we can and remind them of all the things in life to be greatful for. I would also meditate ,pray or just be still often.NAMASTE SANDRA
I recently realised how much I have forgotten the importance of setting goals: goals on spiritual, emotional, financial and physical levels. Then to put focus and energy into the goals by taking positive action, review them regularly and grow to our fullest potential.
Wow! What a lovely inspiring list, I think it would be good to print it off, and pin it up for a constant reminder.
Thank you.
super list!
Make eye contact with all the people you meet today – see them and let them see you:-)
Let the beauty of your soul shine brightly
love & light x
Thank you for all of that list:just the wake up call I needed!
A real distillation of Brandon’s teaching and an aide memoire for living fully day by day.I can’t be the only person who is grateful to her for suggesting that the best way to live is “inside out”!
Thank you for these awesome ideas for kick-starting 2012 – very inspiring; reminding me to do that which I already know is appropriate for my own evolution of consciousness – may you 2012 be as awesome as mine is starting out to be.
Love and Light
Angela
Gratulations fore this marvelous work ! Those ideas are a very good base to go forwards on the way from unification with God, the Source of Live and creation !!! What I are writhing is also my experience ! Infinite blessings in abundance to all !!! ♥ Namaste’ ♥…..@l@in*
I wish U also that the Child of the Christ in U my grow up every day in the next year ! So you will be complete very soon in the union of the Father trough the Christ in U !!! Namasté…..your brother @l@in who loves all of U very much !!!
Wow what a wonderful List, thank you its so inspiring. I will be sharing this with others, and wanted to add…. Laugh more and louder! and have fun, do something just for the fun of it everyday. Also wanted to add… complete and clear your tasks regularly, and celebrate the little things.
Thanks again and wishing you a wonderful 2012 xx
Thank you for this inspiring list – amazing! a few more ideas…
Get together with other grads in your area and form a grad group to swop processes, make friends and be a source of support and inspiration throughout the year
Do random acts of kindness – they may be as small as picking up bits of litter you come across or smiling at the people you meet, to sharing some money or a book or item of clothing etc
In every situation you find yourself in, ask ‘what would love do in this situation?’ and you’ll know what to do
Thank you for the very useful and inspiring list!
I can also add something: walk or run – move your body and breathe in with love the nature and the people and life around you. Do not think of how fast or how long – just move in rythm and harmony and enjoy it!
Love the list…and woud love to see something added about embracing the field of infinite possibilities, rather than fixing on one derired outcome and cherishing the wisdom of uncertanty (Chopra) …Also something to reflect Ruiz’s fifth agreement – to respect the world as other’s see it, but to retain a healthy level of objectivity…I’ll leave the phraseology to you!
Thank you so much for the inspiring list! Such a wonderful reminder
thank you very much for these inspiring hints ! Especially the video with dancing maniac touched me deeply.
Wonderful, inspiring list. Also:
Love yourself, respect yourself, value yourself.
Follow your own truth.
Serve the stillness that is inside you.
Trust Grace,
Be open to the messages from life – the sychronicity that then happens.
Thanks for the teachings, always healthy to remember them all on the same list at the same moment. Looking forward to the Huge Event with Brandon. My life would be even fuller if I would practice some of them. Blessings to you all.
Thank you for this wonderful list. With God’s help I will be a better person in 2012
Love & Light to all.
Adding: Connect with nature! Be out there, walk in the rain, soak up sunshine, dive into the ocean, climb trees, lie on the ground, see sun and moon rise and set, watch clouds, sleep under the stars. Namasté
Say Good morning and smile to a beggar on the road
Just know you are embraced and loved always for being exactly who you are.
Wow. this list really is amazing! I’m going to print it out and put it in my daily practice for 2012 and for my life. It’s a life changing list, truly! thank you so much for taking the time to make it and share it.
Thanks again for this fine email! Wow!
Yes, I’ve pinned it up around my room. SO inspiring!!!
What’s arising to add:
1. Move your body; stretch, reach, BE in it…
2. Love being Grace in a female/male body…
3. Receive, receive, receive: the sunshine, the moonshine – the “all that is” that nourishes you always and in all ways…
3. Dress up! Play up! Treat lightly the way you show up in the world…Laugh
4. Express your love in the truest ways possible…
5. Lavish teenagers and children with truck loads of Listening, Gentleness and Non-judgement…
6. Rest… deeply
“Yay 2012!!!”
36. Focus on the good things in your life
37. Replace bad habits with good ones
38.Dissolve your weaknesses into strength
39. Convert fear into love
worry into service
anger into joy
all of the above no doubt. who am i? be me! one!
Thank you for this list und that you ´ve sent it to me.
To make the world a better place, I´ll choose only a few things of these wonderfull ideas.
My contribute for this speziall year 2012:
I live LOVE in my thoughts, in my words and my actions, I`ll do my very best.
Vielen Dank, ich liebe diese Liste…
Schenke dir jeden Morgen ein absichtsvolles Lächeln und sage zu dir selbst: Schön, dass es dich gibt!
Danke, liebes Journey Team für eure Arbeit. Tolle Ideen für mich.Es ist für mich immer wieder inspirierend, mich zu erinnern und dabei zu fühlen, wo ich stehe.
Ich kann mich mit fast allen Ideen voll verbinden, bei Punkt 20 habe ich andere Erfahrungen gesammelt.Ich habe mich durch die Arbeit mit der Journey seit vier Jahren sehr verändert und blieb nach 25 Jahren bei den Menschen, die weniger positiv denken. Ich fühle mich als Licht hier und sehe darin meine Aufgabe, es zu sein.Danke für eure Unterstützung dabei. Ich lebe aus vollem Herzen und lerne weiter. Mit liebevollen Grüßen an euch alle, Ilona
Love yourself, you are worth it, be open to your life lessons so that you may see them when they arise and get in touch with your inner child….