In these uncertain times, it can be easy to think that the struggles we face come from a lack of flexibility. Maybe the truth is that we actually struggle with not being in control. I share some thoughts on this in this episode.

Links:

Written version: https://jokoepke.com/do-you-need-to-work-on-flexibility-or-letting-go-of-control/

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Anyone else found reflection and goal setting particularly difficult in the midst of ongoing uncertainty? In this episode, I share my one-word focus for 2021 as well as some thoughts on pursuing who we are becoming more than what we achieve.

Written version and links available here: https://jokoepke.com/pursuing-who-not-what-this-year/

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I have a guest this week, Mary Kate Brown. We talk briefly about our writing journeys and she shares her best advice for those just starting out in this journey. She also has offered a generous one-on-one coaching call FOR FREE for you to explore your next steps as a writer.

Book in a call: https://calendly.com/marykatebrown09/hope-writer-meeting

Get the FREE beautiful 'Start Writing, Celebrate Progress' guide filled with articles to help, info about hope*writers and all the details about this January launch (affiliate link if you sign up): https://jokoepke--hopewriters.thrivecart.com/guide-download/

Strong, Brave, & Beautiful Book: https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Brave-Beautiful-Emily-Allen/dp/108790238X/

Find out more about Mary Kate: 

After overcoming numerous health challenges due to autoimmunity, Mary Kate is passionate about helping others find healing and wholeness. She leads an online group teaching the basics of an anti-inflammatory diet, and inspires others to incorporate simple, nourishing, real-food recipes in their own homes. Mary Kate and her husband Brian are high-school sweethearts who recently left their lifelong home in the Chicago suburbs for a rural property in Western Michigan. Together they homeschool their three daughters, and are making plans for turning their new property into a small-scale homestead. She is a contributor for the Kindred Mom Blog & Podcast, and she works on the growth team at hope*writers helping to champion the words of other writers. She writes online at www.marykateb.com, her work has been featured on The Mighty and Red Tricycle, and you can catch up with her on Instagram @mary.kate.brown

Maybe the best way to reflect is to acknowledge the progress. Then allow the places that don’t match up to my intention to inform the next steps of growth.

Find the written version and relevant links here: https://jokoepke.com/acknowledge-the-progress-2020-manifesto-reflections/

Reflecting on progress over a year always contains emotion. Add 2020 to that. The story I am telling myself is that I have failed to meet the goals I set and the manifesto I established. The critical part of me is loud in the background. So what is the truth?

Find reflection questions you can use in your own review of the year.

Written version and links to the original 2020 manifesto posts: https://jokoepke.com/2020-manifesto-progress--failure-or-growth/

Advent 2020 is nearly here!

Visit the blog for a collection of posts on Advent to inspire you with ideas and resources: https://jokoepke.com/ideas-for-an-intentional-and-life-giving-advent-2020/

Get your FREE Advent planner: https://jokoepke.lpages.co/2020-advent

Leave a voice message with your Advent ideas here: https://anchor.fm/jo-koepke

It would be so easy to get to this point in the year and rush to move on. I don’t want to gloss over the pain and hard moments this year has contained. And yet, they do not define 2020 for me. 

I am spending time reflecting on 2020 and what happened with my 2020 manifesto and inviting you into reflection too.

Find the written version and links here: https://jokoepke.com/reflecting-on-2020-and-how-i-have-grown/