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I believe the year ahead is going to be very interesting. The first quarter century of the 3rd millennia CE could see transformations unfold in surprising ways.

I’m inviting you to relentlessly document along your life, ideas, experiences, whatever you understand, sense, feel, discover, invent, or explore during the whole of 2025.

Journaling doesn’t come easy to everyone, so I’ll be offering various questions every week to support your reflection & creation.

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Join in !

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Live a better life, and leave our worldviews as a legacy.

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🥰 Questions to celebrate :

1. What was the cream of 2024?

   • a beautiful surprise?
   • a wonderful moment
   • an experience, a discovery, a gift?

2. What are you letting go? What are you grateful to be over with?

   • Something beautiful or something hard, that will stay in 2024, while you’re moving on.

3. If a movie was made about you in 2024, what would be the title?

   • The themes, and the major plot twists?
   • The heroic qualities that you displayed, and the weaknesses you had to face?

4. If your can relax about politics and be a wise & gentle advisor for your country, or the world is you fancy, what would an ideal political system look like for you?

   • How much differences & dissent would it encompass?
   • What 3 major changes, in society and politics, you would aim for?

5. Without putting any pressure on yourself, would you like to set a theme for the year ahead?

   • Not a goal, a theme that gives a high level reminder, a sense of direction. For example : Freedom, Caring Parent, Relaxed & Professional, Healthy…
   • This year, unsurprisingly, my theme is : “Write ✍️” What's yours?

6. What made you especially proud of yourself in 2024?

   • Never mind what others said or thought about it, what made your heart glow with a healthy pride and gratitude for yourself?
   • Recall the feeling as you write.

7. What’s one new experience you’d like to add to your bucket list? Something you’ve never imagined before?

8. What was the time period of your life that you most enjoyed? What were you doing? How can you do more of that, this year?

9. How much appreciation & love do you give daily? How do you feel? How can you express more of it, more often?

10. What is your first trip of 2025?

    • What does it mean for you?
    • How far do you expect to go this year?
    • What does travel mean for you?

11. There's probably a message of love, or gratitude, that you didn't give. To whom, in what circumstances?

    • Please write it now, with all your heart. Release it, privately or publicly if appropriate.

12. Today I'm inviting you to take some lose paper (not a notebook, not digital preferably) and write everything without interruption for 30 minutes.

    • Everything that comes to mind without any coherence, just throwing everything on the page, no logic, raw stuff, emotions… And then, put it in the recycle bin with 🙏thanks, gratitude that it left you 😘

13. Is there an area of your life in which you feel like you're failing, again and again?

    • What if… there's a gift in what you think is a failure?
    • What if… it was a way for you to learn self-acceptance, or patience, or resilience?
    • Do you accept for a moment to change your perspective on this?

14. What gave you a beautiful surprise, today?

15. How do you nurture your own ability to see beauty & meaning, wherever you are?

16. Somehow the topic of babies and natural parenting is snowing up again my life, from external circumstances - my own kids are 13&16, not quite babies ☺️ It feels strange, I did not expect a late comeback of this topic, which was literally core to my life from 2008-2015.

    • Is there such a comeback in your own life? Some forgotten interest that's popping up again?

17. How do you feel secure? What do you need to feel secure? Why? Would you like to change that?

18. What do you love about yourself? Tell a story that made you proud. Who else was involved? What did you do?

19. Who could you forgive? Do you have a lingering grunge, a righteous anger, that you could flip over, into forgiveness?

20. What is your relationship to power? Financial power, political, cultural power, what type of power attracts more of your attention? Why?

21. What countries are on your bucket list/wish list? Where & why would you love to travel to?

22. How much do you believe in non-violence, to solve wars and conflicts?

23. What do you imagine, for the future of childbirth, motherhood and parenting?

24. Do you feel you can choose your own feelings? Often? Only when you remember you have this power? Rarely if at all?

25. The best hug of your life: 🤗🥰 Why did you remember this hug? What were the circumstances? I just received mine yesterday, a 3 person hug, between an Israeli and a Palestinian non-violent musicians-activists. So much love💕

26. Who brought you joy ☀️ today? Whom did you bring joy to ✨💫? How can you do more of that?

27. What is disappointing you often? What hidden benefit do you get from this situation? Can you let go or adjust your expectations?

28. What do you want more of in your life, for the next few months? More magic, more order, more fun, nature, effort, love…? Find one thing you want more of, and give yourself more of it, day after day.

29. Can you imagine moving in a very different country from your own? Where would you go, and why?

30. What could you daydream about, next time you feel bored?

31. What's one hidden expectation you have about someone close to you? How does that affect your behavior toward them? Can you let go or change that?

32. If your life was a building, what would it be like?

33. Where do you find most beauty? What moves you, for its beauty? 😍 💖✨

34. What use to give you a lot of joy when you were a child? Can you draw inspiration from that?

35. How many children are in your life? Do you draw inspiration from them? If you decide to learn more and teach less, how would you consider them anew?

36. Did you receive recognition or appreciation from someone today? How does that feel? Would you like to receive 🥰 more often?

37. Is there something you take for granted? How can you show more gratitude to it today?

38. Imagine you're a dream best friend, what friend-love letter would you write to yourself?

    • Bonus if you actually mail it to yourself, and keep the envelope sealed, until you are in a rough spot and need a friend who cares. Or before a challenging moment. Then, open it and read it with warmth 🥰

39. If you had a ‘Spirit Animal’, what would it be? What would you learn from them?

40. How fast can you change your mood, if you so choose? Why? How?

41. Who colors the family mood, if you live with others? Why? Do you need to switch it up and take responsibility?

42. Ah, I didn't, I chose complain today. Do you have a mix of grandiose things and sub-normal happenings for you? Does your life feel schizophrenic as well?

43. How much energy do you invest into personal, silent reflection? Do you often identify your patterns, and launch experiments to change them?

44. How much emphasis do you give to beauty? Do you feel a responsibility to cultivate beauty, in yourself and around you?

45. Can you help? In what context, and to whom are you most helpful? Do you know why?

46. Are you ready to cherry pick your past and tell the epic story of your life?

47. Whom would you like to live with, as neighbors, village buddies, co-living partners? What kind of ideal togetherness would you create, if you weren't afraid of being misunderstood, awkward, rejected?

48. How is your reverence for the natural elements? Do you create a conscious connection daily with water, earth, wood, air, fire? How else do you express reverence for life?

49. Getting hot & sexy, dancing, exercising, feeling the heat of the sun… How's the 🔥 fire element 🔥in your life?

50. Do you feel you're consistently active? Or do you alternate between very active days, and low activity days: relaxing, being reflexive or just absorbing content...Are you accepting of your rythm, or pattern?

51. What does #air represent for you? Emptiness, freedom, uncertainty, vanishing, openness, breathing space, inspiration, delightful lightness...?

52. Getting older happily, what is it for you?