Solstice Refresh

It’s Solstice on June 21st (North America) and June 22nd (Australia)! A change of season is a great time to reflect and refresh! It’s a time to acknowledge where you have been, where you are now and where you are going. Shed the things that don’t serve you now, and move into the things that light you up!

The quarterly practice of goal-setting at each solstice and equinox keeps you on track to living the life you desire to live. It keeps me on track! While I do believe in going with the flow, I think it’s good to blend that with intentional living. Making clear choices helps us grow and evolve from the inside out. Checking in as the seasons change is a powerful way to reinforce existing intentions or set new ones. 

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
― Joseph Campbell

I’m breaking it down into some easy steps:

1. Do a clean and clear

I spoke about this in my blog New Season Clearing. Take the time to declutter your space, your house, your car, your office. Write a list of 2-3 spaces that could use some attention.

Look at the deeper levels of where you might be holding onto habits, patterns, people or foods that do not serve you.  Write a list of the things you want to let go of.

Look at the last three months and what you’ve been doing.  Open your calendar and see what your commitments have been. What feels good and what feels draining? 

Take 2-3 days to let this step sink in and do the work to clear space. Even if you only have 15 minutes a day that is still a great way to help prepare for the next steps. 

2. Open your dream box or look at your goals.

If you read the Equinox Reset post you’d know about the dream box, which is just a place to put the dreams and goals you are working on for each season. If you don’t have a dream box just look at your past goals. Where are you on the path to achieving them? Look at each goal and reflect. Maybe you have easily achieved some, maybe others have been hard and you know you need to step up to the plate. Maybe some dreams are no longer serving you.

3. Re-write your intentions.

Rewrite your dreams, even the ones that continue on from last season. Read them out loud on the solstice and amplify them with good feelings. You can make this a beautiful ritual using other things you love… music, candles, friends, essential oils… Put all the dreams in your dream box or wherever you like to keep them.

Also, write these goals out on a piece of paper and place them in a place where you see them often. In your bedroom, on the bathroom mirror, sticky notes on the wall in your office, on the fridge. You can make a vision board using canva and place on your computer desktop or your phone screensaver. 

“What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. To be more splendid. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.” – Oprah Winfrey

4. Actions.

Ask yourself what actions need to happen to make your intentions come to life? Get in your diary/scheduler and drop in some actions for the next three months. If you plan to exercise, actually write it down in your schedule, set reminders on your phone or tell a friend who will keep you accountable. 

And most of all, have fun! This is your beautiful life ♡