📖🚀⛽ Why REVIVE & THRIVE IN ‘25
The old has gone, the new is here!
Dear Why Team member,
Congratulations on Becoming More in ‘24.
I hope 2024 will be a year you remember- both for its given challenges and your corresponding growth. If you’re still in a tough spot, hope springs eternal, and we’ve got you in this New Year!!
There is great power in a ‘Fresh Start’. Because we, humans, live out a story, a narrative, we can forget the power we have to ‘begin again’. Because previous New Year’s holidays have had a profound impact on my life - filling me with hope, inspiration, and excitement - I’ve learned to apply that fresh start, begin again attitude, to each new day, by choosing to live my BEST DAY EVER.
Of course, a year is the sum total of 365 days. To live our BEST YEAR EVER, it calls upon us to live each day as our BEST DAY EVER. While this may seem like pie in the sky, upon deeper inspection we can find the ‘why’. We cannot live in yesterday, we cannot live in tomorrow, the only day we have ever been alive is today - and the day we’re alive is always better than the day we’re not. It’s not about comparing our days but rather living each of them more fully. Today, the only day we’re alive, is always our BEST DAY EVER.
If this hasn’t already become a daily practice for you, consider speaking three words every morning to begin and fuel your BEST YEAR EVER; simply say aloud upon regaining consciousness:
BEST DAY EVER!
Notice the words are said at the beginning of the day - proclaim to claim!
Humans live their best life when they live their life on purpose. Without an aim, our life can become aimless; without a point, we can feel pointless. Consider a word or a phrase to inspire 2025 to be your absolute Best Year Ever. My New Years theme includes two targets: to REVIVE & THRIVE IN ‘25.
Once this phrase came to me, it has already begun to awaken me to the ideas and ways I might revive my life. Growing up in the South, I have a particular love for a revival - and have experienced how revivals can move us from our reactive state of surviving to a proactive state of thriving: living on purpose in service to others.
To live our BEST LIFE EVER, we must not forget our primary obstruction to it. As the old saying goes, we have met the enemy, and he is us. Or, as I like to clarify, it’s our habits of thought that can limit us.
In this new year, let’s pay more attention to where we pay attention, and seek to make better trades with our precious life currency: our time.
So, to help us kick off this BEST NEW YEAR EVER, please get the audio book, or hard copy of Katy Bowman’s outstanding book titled ‘Move your DNA’.
Other than the Bible, I cannot think of a better book to help us all REVIVE & THRIVE IN ‘25. Her revelations regarding the importance of ‘movement’ rather than the typical emphasis on ‘exercise’, are a game changer.
Ben Franklin said, “pour your purse into yourself, it’s the wisest investment you can make”.
This year, more than any year before, pour more into yourself. See your favorite coach more often. If you don’t have a life coach, consider hiring one. When two minds come together, a third is created.
We absolutely become better when we come together.
Consume more books than ever before - both in print and in audio. Begin a new audio book as soon as you finish one. Find a topic that is more interesting than the noise your social media may offer.
It’s amazing how many books we can consume when we read or hear just a few pages a day.
I’m a big fan of not worrying about finishing every book I start - however, a few years ago, I began keeping track of the books I finished in the notes app on my phone.
That which we measure we can improve.
In 2021, I only finished 6 books, it was a tumultuous year for me. In 2022, I finished 9 books, in 2023 I finished 13 books and in 2024 I finished 24 books. When we consider how much of an author’s life goes into the writing of a book, and how we may obtain so much of that work in a fraction of the time - across topics and across history - that we can read or listen to some of the finest writings from the most learned men and women throughout history - it’s an outstanding trade of our precious time.
And since our minds are pattern recognizing machines - making new and creative connections, giving us dopamine when they do, fueling curiosity and creativity - READING is THE PRIMARY ROCKET FUEL 🚀⛽
TO REVIVE & THRIVE IN ‘25.
Consider beginning the New Year by literally MOVING YOUR DNA more than ever - while consuming Katy Bowman’s book with this title.
Please consider inviting a friend or family member to join you on The Why Team. Let’s multiply our serving efforts in the lives of others. What a privilege it is to assist another on their life’s journey! Thank you for the meaning and purpose the Why Team gives me. I’m very excited to see where we go together in our NEW BEST YEAR EVER!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Steve Luckenbach