Life is fun of opportunities. Sometimes so many opportunities it’s hard to narrow down which road to travel. While other times we may be too busy with the day-to-day grind to even think about life’s opportunities and which road we might like to take. Almost as if we’re on autopilot. While yet other times we may be stymied by near-hatred of where we are in life this very moment and feel stuck about how to pull ourselves out of the muck.
The new year is the season for resolving to make a difference in our lives. But do resolutions work? I’m not so sure. Good intentions are wonderful, but they need to be followed up with actions.
But sometimes it’s simpler than that. Perhaps it’s more about taking the time to sit quietly and really think about what you want to manifest in your life. Big stuff. Important stuff. Life-changing stuff.
That’s where the Mondo Beyondo List comes into play for me. I read about it years ago on Andrea Scher‘s blog, The Superhero Journal.
Andrea is an amazing and honest blogger – I just love her – and every year, rather than create New Year’s resolutions, like lose weight or better manage your finances, that may result in failure and making her feel badly, she dreams big and creates a Mondo Beyondo List…a list of intentions to be manifested in the following year. And not just small stuff…the big stuff…scary, who-do-you-think-you-are kinds of dreams and intentions…the kinds of things you think might just be too big to put out there in the world, but you do it anyway. The my-life-would-be-so-freaking-amazing-if kinds of intentions.
So every year in January, I write a Mondo Beyondo List. No one else gets to see it – it’s my personal business and I don’t share it with anyone. But I load it up with my biggest and wildest and most unnerving dreams that I want to manifest in the coming year. Some may seem mundane to others and some are huge and life changing. But it doesn’t really matter how my dreams would look to someone else, because they’re about creating the life that I want to live.
It’s about putting the intentions out there in the universe and opening your own consciousness to the possibilities and allowing yourself to seek out those amazing experiences.
You can look at your Mondo Beyondo List frequently as a reminder and to see how you’re progressing or you can write it in the beginning of the year, put it away, and see what happens. But the key element is writing it.
Take the time and make the effort to put your intentions down in writing. Whether you use pen and paper or write it on your computer doesn’t matter. Just write the list of things you would like to manifest over the next year. No matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. Dare to dream it!
How do you want 2014 to look for you in this great and glorious carnival ride called life?
(And if you want to take your Mondo Beyondo List to the next level, Andrea Scher has developed a Mondo Beyondo e-course, an online course about dreaming big! I’ve taken it and it’s amazing! Andrea provides awesome coursework to help open your mind and heart to all of the possibilities that you can manifest in your life. Plus, there’s also the opportunity to interact with a terrific online community of like-minded dreamers!)