Our New Year's Resolutions

When we were children and still spending New Year's Eve with our parents, they implemented a tradition of discussing our current year successes and New Year's intentions and resolutions over New Year's Eve dinner. We did this for so many years, all four of us still live a version of this tradition ever 31^st of December.

Here are each of our 2020 resolutions.

 RoxaneBe ok alone.

My husband just started a new job that requires him to be away during the week and home only on the weekends. This is a wonderful opportunity for him, but a challenge for me. I have never learned how to spend time alone nor do I like it. My 2020 challenge and resolution is to be ok when I am alone. I've come up with a number of tactics and strategies to set myself up for success:

• Getting to know my neighbors and having dinner parties with them.
• Becoming a regular at the local diner.
• Having friends over and/or test new restaurants with them.
• Going rock-climbing once a week with a colleague.
• Engaging in local activities: Thursday evenings in Nax (the village I live in) I can do yoga classes or ski under the stars.
• Working late or going to bed early (instead of binging on TV shows).
• If I am eating at home by myself, I will try reading a book, listening to an audio book, watching a good movie, calling family and friends or Skyping with my husband and having a virtual dinner with him.
• Creating evening routines: turning music on when I walk in the door, starting a fire, lighting candles, doing 30 minutes of yoga, taking a long shower and treating my body with many Alchemy Forever products.

I think there is a slight change I might actually start to enjoying spending time with myself, by myself.

RachelLet go of my fear of taking risks.

In 2016, when I became CEO of Forever InstituteI took a big risk to launch our first expansion project, Forever Boutique. This risk has paid off as the Boutique is break-even and showing growth every month, yet more than ever I am afraid of failure, and plagued with too many doubts. Yet, to succeed as an entrepreneur (or as a seasoned business leader), you have to embrace risk. Calculated risk, yes, but risk nonetheless.
This year, I feel sufficiently serene to be able to take a leap forward and embrace a new risk. We will be looking out for our second Forever Boutique, and I trust that my change of mindset will be like a message to the Universe who will answer with the perfect location for our expansion.

CyrilleContinued affirmation of (my)self.

Last year I tried yoga nidra for the first time, and it was like a revelation. The practice starts by setting a powerful intention for yourself; creating in your mind of a precise sentence that helps support your heart's wishes. This intention (or sankalpa, the Sanskrit word for resolve) should be positive, short, and stated in the present tense. Sankalpa is not about achieving goals or fixing something that is "wrong". Instead, it's about connecting with your emotions and beliefs. I learned that my sankalpa already resided within me, as a heartfelt longing. And I repeat it to myself everyday "I am a conquering queen, creator of my own life". I think of it as a vow between the Universe and me.

While this may not be a traditional resolution (I have never embraced these as much as my sisters LOL!), I vow to continue to repeat my sankalpa daily, as I have found it to be a powerful tool, a gateway to positive change and personal transformation.

Me (Ada): Feel (be) healthier.

This may be the most non-original and common New Year Resolution, yet it is not one that I have made in the past - so it is new and interesting to me. I am working to feel healthier, to be healthier, despite traveling 100,000 miles per year, sleeping five to six hours per night, mostly in hotel rooms. To start off strong, I am doing a 21-day cleanse that entails no alcohol, no sugar, no carbohydrates, limited fat and limited dairy. As I write this, I am on day 5, and feeling good. To me, this is as much about the physical cleanse, as it is about the emotional breaking of bad habits, such as relying on wine to de-stress, and on food to feel better.

What are your New Year's intentions?