The Year Long Challenge
Hey Guys, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything. After some time I just needed to give myself some space to decompress. I wrote so much and did so much change that I needed to catch up with it. What I mean is that I was creating and manifesting so many amazing things that my ceiling limit was not able to accept all the things I had created for myself.
Because of all the progress forwards I took a few steps back, mentally. Not in the sense that I went into depression but in the sense that I needed to sort through the old limiting beliefs and release them. And these past few months have been a lot, between a back injury, too high stress and anxiety to taking vacations to opening my studio, it’s been a lot going on. And now I find myself looking for another challenge, one that will help me to find acceptance of what is and acceptance of what I am trying to create.
Manifestations are just accepting your imaginings as your reality over time, which is why things don’t manifest right away. If they happened right away we wouldn’t be able to see it or believe it fully until we can internally believe it as our reality. Which is why I took a hiatus from writing because all the progress of growth and living in my creation was becoming overwhelming. It was the battle within that I fought, the one between the Hope of the past, and Hope of the present. What I once believed about myself was no longer aligning with who I was becoming now and thus the mental back step. That is why progress is just the acceptance of what you are trying to create. The mistakes, the ups and downs, that’s the internal battle of getting to the point you are trying to create for yourself and the fight of getting there.
But what if you don’t know what you want to create for yourself? What if you keep creating more of the same?
Then this is where I am going to ask you to take space away from things. Shut down social media for a week, no tv, no screen time, no phones for 1 week. (If you can’t because of work then take a vacation. You are so important so make time.) During that week practice meditation, read books, write daily, go into nature, do what you can to get away from society and the external world and dive into your internal one. If you want to change then you must embrace something that is not in your normal realm of things. You can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it, you need to come from a different place thus stepping away to get insight into you. If you can’t take time off then start planning to take it. Save vacations, save money, find another job, do what you can so you can take 1 week to you. And if you say I can’t then I want you to understand you don’t want it. By saying you can’t you automatically decide that you will continue that same belief system you already have and perpetuate more of the same. Make the time! You can do it!
They say that every 7 years you are an entirely new human being, new cells, new muscle tissue and so on, and I don’t know if I am at my 7 years or just entering it but the things that served me no longer are the things I am finding myself to want. So that is why I decided to start a new challenge. This is another Year Long challenge to help me branch out and discover things about myself that I have always known but never believed to be possible and to uncover the things I never knew.
The new challenge is to do 1 video daily. This may be making a video about massage, about life coaching or philosophical things, or it may be me streaming video games or just being the weirdo I am. If you want to find the videos I highly recommend then you follow me on a variety of platforms because I will not have 1 place I upload them all, at least for a while until I figure more of this technology thing out. But my username will be hopaldopal across the platform realms of twitch, tiktok, and instagram, (eventually YouTube as well.) I decided to do this about me instead of using the Dare to Habit name. I did this because the goal is not to be perfect or always make great videos but find my voice and myself in the process. This one is about me and embracing that person so I can live up to the Dare to Habit brand.
It’s about editing myself, learning to love my voice and my face on screen and to cast away that judgemental eye I have, you know the one, the critic. The videos are for me to learn about my funny sided, my cute side, my sassy side, my clever side, my professional side and so on, that is why the channels will be hopaldopal. The point of all of this is to show flaws, imperfections and authenticity and step away from this prim and polished highlight reals and perfectness.
There may be a day I don’t make a video and I am honoring myself regardless of this but only on the occasion of vacations or life events or if I just really really need a day. I want to beat myself when I did this blog, missing 30 days out of 365. When I wrote for a year my life changed to this amazing space and now being here I want more then this space is giving me. So this 1 year journey will be about creating my future by doing all the things I absolutely love.
It may not amount to anything when it comes to followers and all that (one always hopes it does.) and I’m just going to say that’s okay. It’s not for anyone else but for me to love and discover how amazing it can all be. Thank you for watching my journey, reading all the blogs and being a part of this process. I am excited for this next challenge and I challenge you to find your own thing you want to commit to everyday for a year. It doesn’t have to be anything big or you can go balls to the wall, it’s your choice. But just make sure to give yourself grace, patience and kindness. Until the next blog my friends be well and safe. Sending love.
P.S. Day 3 of the videos! I already started this journey.