Nouveau: New Year, New You
Early this year, my mom made a comment.
"You used to come into the room and own it," she said. "What happened?"
I shrugged and answered, "A series of unfortunate emotional events?"
"That's not an excuse."
I find my mother a little harsh sometimes. But in this case, she's right. I had been letting circumstances rob me of my self-confidence and presence. And why? Was I punishing myself for getting myself hurt? Probably, something like that. So, I told myself, enough with the moping. It's time to pick myself and move forward. It's time to reclaim what I had lost.
But I needed to do some auditing first, I told myself. I need to check where I am to be able to recalibrate my direction. This got me a bit excited. And so, I took one of the blank little notebooks in my stash and made a life auditing plan for myself. Thanks to my friend, Cam, I sort of had an idea how to start mapping out my life. Sometime in 2014, she taught us how to divide life in seven-year cycles and evaluate each year. My mom taught me a similar thing earlier, to search for possible traumas and see how we allowed ourselves to be affected by them.
"You used to come into the room and own it," she said. "What happened?"
I shrugged and answered, "A series of unfortunate emotional events?"
"That's not an excuse."
I find my mother a little harsh sometimes. But in this case, she's right. I had been letting circumstances rob me of my self-confidence and presence. And why? Was I punishing myself for getting myself hurt? Probably, something like that. So, I told myself, enough with the moping. It's time to pick myself and move forward. It's time to reclaim what I had lost.
But I needed to do some auditing first, I told myself. I need to check where I am to be able to recalibrate my direction. This got me a bit excited. And so, I took one of the blank little notebooks in my stash and made a life auditing plan for myself. Thanks to my friend, Cam, I sort of had an idea how to start mapping out my life. Sometime in 2014, she taught us how to divide life in seven-year cycles and evaluate each year. My mom taught me a similar thing earlier, to search for possible traumas and see how we allowed ourselves to be affected by them.
After doing the past, I proceeded to the present, and mapped out my current personal state. Long story short, I came up with an entire workbook in a few weeks. Then when I was looking through my old notebooks for other lessons I had learned over the last few years, I remembered that some of my friends were asking me for self-development sheets in the past, too. So I decided to turn it into a proper book. So today, a fine sunny Saturday, I self-published it on Lulu.com. You may view Nouveau: Life Plan and Audit here. Do download if you feel you have need for it. And may it help you as it is helping me now.
