small rituals that steady me when life gets bigger
I know that if I’m going to make a bold move – like opening a store or bringing a new puppy into our family (we’re only a week in, and oh my heavens!) – I need consistent rituals.
I LOVE the thrill of expansion (even if it is a little chaotic), but I know that expansion (for me) only works with structure. so, if I’m adding something new to my plate, something else has to go and what remains becomes non-negotiable.
that’s how I keep from feeling like I’m always trying to catch up.
but… I wasn’t always this way.
there was a time when I wanted to do all the things with shui: ‘dress’ every gua according to its energy, light 9 red candles, stoke all the stove burners, buy the crystals, organize meticulously, learn more (to add) something new…
I confused taking any (or all) action for being in alignment.
eventually – and honestly, from working with clients (so, thank you to all of you!) – I learned that what really builds energy isn’t doing everything. it’s doing what’s consistent.
so, I swapped out the TO DO for a few simple rituals I could sustain:
I swept the front door porch.
I opened the windows.
I watered and rotated the plants.
I cleared off my desk daily.
each act was my shorthand in making progress – proof I am never truly stuck or without options.
however.
before I even had that confidence – before I knew that shui worked – I relied on something even simpler: a pen, a notebook, and one consistent line I wrote at the end of every entry.
that one sentence was sometimes the only thing I could manage to be consistent with, and that choice alone anchored me.
now, when I flip through decades of journals, I can tell you exactly what chapter of life I was in just by the line I used at the end of each entry. it’s like a scent that transports me because each one became its own small force of words that would push me forward and keep me going.
so.
if you’re in a season of expansion – or maybe a chapter that feels impossible – start here: find your consistency.
maybe it’s sweeping. maybe it’s opening a window or watering a plant or clearing off your desk every day.
and maybe it’s writing. if it is writing, remember…
no one is going to read it. and you don’t need to write for someone else to understand it.
it’s about you feeling the coherence building the moment you show up to the blank page. and before you close your journal, if you want to borrow one of my sweet conclusion statements, here are a few my favorites from over the years:
“This or something better.”
“Thank you, God, from whom all blessings flow.”
“Something super exciting is happening for me.”
“All the power of the universe resides in me.”
“Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.”
“I’m so lucky – everything always works out for me.”
these tiny endings are their own practice in consistency. even better? they create coherence. coherence accumulates energy that eventually becomes the current that carries us forward… iand t is that energy that turns movement into momentum, and momentum into magic. xo
