As I am writing this it is nearing Christmas 2017 and a lot of people are selling courses and promises of facilitating a fantastic year in 2018. But how realistic is it to have a great year one after another? Here’s why I think the concept of your best year ever is nonsense.
My best year ever?
Back in 2013, I had what would be in most people’s terms, my best year ever. This one year included travelling to California and speaking at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in front of, amongst others, Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell.
Speaking at IONS was one of my dreams and to top it all off, I was inundated with great feedback. I came back and went straight to the Glastonbury Symposium where I spoke at the special evening event and to my surprise, the room was packed despite it being a hot July conference with no air conditioning.
That very same month author, David Icke contacted me personally to ask me to create the show which would become Hidden Science. So I became a TV presenter and producer that year. We also got the trailer out for Punk Science Movie, pushing that whole project forward.
I then went off to Malta to speak at the Body Talk Conference as a keynote speaker and had a magical time with wonderful people chatting away on beautiful hot October evenings.
To top off this amazing year, I turned 40 in November and had an incredible birthday party ever with some of my closest friends.
A different path
It really was the most incredible year and in anybody’s books would qualify as a ‘best year ever’. But would I want to stay in that moment? No!
I don’t want to headline at Glastonbury every year, sorry but I don’t.
Since 2013 my life has taken a different path which has involved some very hard work creating and launching online courses, learning how to create my own website as well as online marketing and editing hundreds of videos to use as course modules. It is a very different type of work. A lot goes into it upfront and there is no immediate audience reaction. It is insular and lonely at times.
So the years from 2014-17, probably don’t look like my best years from an outside perspective. They have certainly been some very tough moments including moving house and our cat, Lulu passing away.
But life is an evolution. We don’t stay static but build and grow. Yes, it has been isolating hard work to create and launch my courses but at the same time, it has been laying the foundations for a different type of experience in the future and a new way of conveying my message. In some ways, I have had to start from scratch again but it is also building on everything I have done before.
2013 speaking at the Institute of Noetic Sciences
The cycles of life
This is how the cycles of life are; you have highlights and your time in the limelight (whatever that means for you) and then you have other times germinating and creating something new. They are equally important. Although some years may not look or feel like the best years, they are all part of the process of what makes you who you are. Quieter years of introspection and preparation can also be part of your big why.
The ancients knew about these cycles of life and for a while now, I have loosely kept track of my yearly cycles in a system called 9-Star Ki. By looking up your date of birth in the system, you can find your nine-year cycles. According to this system, you go from germinating a seed to being in the limelight over the course of nine years with different stages in between. You have guessed it, 2013 was a year nine in my cycle!
What happens after you reach the end of any cycle? Dissolution then occurs and you start all over again with something new. It may look like your life is not progressing in those quieter years but it can take time to build something new.
The Real Meaning of ‘best year ever’
So when people discuss the concept of you ‘best year ever’ which they are wont to do each 365 days, what do they really mean? A year where there is no dissolution or death? Or simply a year where you make more money than last year?
The years of introspection are also incredibly important and you cannot judge those times as inferior. They may not be as comfortable to live through but they are important aspects of your life.
In my opinion, the concept of a ‘best year ever’ is actually about being the most comfortable in all sorts of ways and I don’t just mean financially. But life is about a variety of experiences and sometimes you need to go beyond comfort in order to grow.
Your Higher Self and Black Holes
In my work, I have applied The Black Hole Principle to our personal lives and demonstrated how it is not our ego self that manifests our lives, but the aspect of us that is beyond space and time sometimes called the Higher Self.
Even the years you find difficult and testing are all part of the pattern of your life. These are the experiences that make you and help you to reach deeper into who you really are.
So it’s not that every year becomes your best year ever but that the concept goes out of the window as you stop judging your experiences as bad or good but accept your life as it is – the product of your infinite creation.
To learn more about how you can tune into your Higher Self and what that means in terms of black holes, check out Simply Divine- An Easy Guide to the Science of Spirituality which now comes in an All at Once format.
What do you think? Do you prep to have your best year ever? Do you disagree with my point here? Leave a comment below.
