{"id":7561,"date":"2020-12-29T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:21:50","slug":"why-settle-for-a-single-resolution-when-you-can-choose-a-total-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/cravings-tribe\/why-settle-for-a-single-resolution-when-you-can-choose-a-total-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Why settle for a single resolution when you can choose a total reVolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For those who frequent this blog, you know my end-of-year rallying cry has always been: ReVolution, not resolution! Why? Because resolutions don’t work. How do I know that? Look at any resolutions you have made and track whether you’ve made that same resolution more than once. When we make New Year’s resolutions, we often set ourselves up for “failure” and disappointment and a slippery slope that lands us right back where we started, or, sometimes, even farther behind. But, if we focus instead on a reVolution \u2014 of the heart and mind and soul \u2014 we are on the road to real transformation. So this year join me, and resolve to evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We are not starting out this new year looking to drop pounds and dress sizes or simply start a new exercise routine. We are looking to go much deeper than that, to a place where we can dig into the fertile soil of our soul, a place where there are ideas and experiences and adventures trying to poke through the surface and blossom into the life we deserve, the life we\u2019ve been dreaming of. Stop counting calories and counting steps and counting sheep and start breathing deep, sitting still, looking inward, reaching outward, living life with attention and INtention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This journey will be about finding out who you really are and coming to terms with your true self and realizing (finally!) that you are good enough exactly as you are right now, at this very moment, whether or not you feel you need to eat healthier, exercise more, spend less time on social media, read more, pray more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever your \u201cgoal,\u201d we want to begin from a place of acceptance, but that takes work. It doesn\u2019t come naturally, does it? We are hard on ourselves, always seeing the cracks, the flaws, the places where we\u2019ve failed to live up to our own expectations. That\u2019s about to change\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Often the root of our feelings are buried way down deep inside. They\u2019re not easy to face, and so we use other things (food, social media, alcohol, gossip, shopping, etc.) to fill the void, and, before you know it, we\u2019ve layered another \u201cissue\u201d on top of whatever else we\u2019ve go going on. We get caught in a vicious cycle, always setting ourself up for failure by making goals or resolutions that are doomed because the real work doesn\u2019t involve a scale or heart rate monitor. It involves getting right with God and with ourselves. Exciting and daunting, but not nearly so much when we do it together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In years past, the Cravings Tribe (you can sign up HERE)<\/a> has focused on moving through my book by that name, a book that looks at food specifically and how we use it to stuff the empty places in ourselves. But this year I want to change things up, find a different approach, one that in some ways goes even deeper because we won’t be talking about body image and potato chips but instead about the person we face when we quiet all the noise and go inward. During this time of pandemic, when we can’t travel far beyond our homes, why not take the deepest and most exciting trip of all \u2014 the one that leads to your true heart center, the person you have always meant to be, the person you have always been but have hidden beneath what the world expects, demands of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come along with me.<\/strong> Here are a few things I recommend as we start out on this journey of inner transformation (which often results in an outer transformation without us even realizing it!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n