Thrive in 2025: Accept The Now

It's the new year. How do you thrive in 2025?

Hello, I'm Kate Cockro and this is your everyday positivity. Now, everyday positivity, I don't know if you know this or not, has seven pillars of positivity. These are things that you can practice to maintain and cultivate a positive mindset, which in turn will help you to cultivate a positive space. I want you every single day to have the life that you want, to live the life that you love, to be happy and to know that whatever life throws at you, you can cope with it. Some days will be tough.

but you will get through them. Pillar of positivity number two is accept the now. Accept the now is a way of escaping the anxiety that comes with looking to the future and the depression that comes with being in the past. Accept the now is about getting present and pulling focus

Focus in on what is happening right now. Focus in on the way that it is right now. And the accepting party is going, okay, what is my life like right now? And how do I work within those parameters?

I often think that sometimes in self-development and, you know, achieving things or high-performing things, we talk so much about this kind of, this is where we want to be. We'll be high-performing all of the time. We want to be, you know, we can do anything. We can be anyone we want to be. And then we go, right, okay, well, I can be anyone I want to be, but I need to be home because I'm looking after my mum and my mum is little and I don't want to leave that. So I'm not going to be going to Japan for half the year this year because I need someone, I need to be here to look after my mum.

For example, or it might be that you have an invisible illness, for example, and there are things about that invisible illness that on the face of it, you think, yes, I'm going to be able to do X, Y and Z. I'm going to be able to achieve everything. But you know, I know people who have things like fibromyalgia, you know, on Thursday, it may be that I can't do that because I'm in a normal amount of pain. And so the type of self achievement, high performance, I think I talk about,

When I talk about acceptor now, it's about coming to terms with your limitations. It's about being realistic about what it is that you can achieve and then taking advantage of it. There is no point saying to yourself, right, I am going to run five miles every day if the weather is so bad you can't get out of your house.

Whereas if you went, well, the weather is so bad, but I need to do the equivalent of five miles, what can I do? You'd find a way of building up that exercise. You might buy a rowing machine or you might go and get a treadmill or whatever it might or you might get a skipping rope and just skip five miles worth of skipping. The point is you can achieve the same stuff. You can get the goals that you want within those limitations that you have.

So this is my message to you today in terms of accepting the now. Accepting the now is about being realistic about right now. It's about pulling focus and looking at the world that you have right now and then doing the things that you need to do to get the world that you want, your life that you want. When you come to terms with your limitations, you can live a limitless life.

I'll be back tomorrow with another episode of Everyday Positivity. If you are all in on the new year being a time to refresh, reset, what have you, make sure that you go and do the Everyday Positivity goal setting journal journey, which is a 31 day audio journal prompt. So one a day where all you have to do is turn up with a pen and paper and press play and you will be taken on a journey into setting yourself habits and goals that really work

for you and part of that is in this accept the now it's like looking at your values like why are you setting a goal that goes against all of your values that's never going to work whereas actually in this journal journey you get to assess your values and go right what are my values and how is it then going to work for me so really bringing things into the now for you

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All right, thank you so much for listening. I'm loving this idea that you and I can thrive in 2025 and I'll see you tomorrow for another pillar of positivity. In the meantime, have a great day and remember you have 100% got this.