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As we get closer and closer to 2026 there are many elements to think about in preparing your head and your heart for the year ahead. Last week I shared some ideas and a meditation around making decisions.
This week my question for you to ponder has to do with tolerations.
What are you tolerating in your life from daily little annoyances to perhaps some large issues that are keeping you from true happiness?
Tolerations are sometimes small and pesky, and sometimes life altering because they can drain our energy, self-confidence and perhaps worst of all our joy.
One of the first things I learned during one of my coaching certifications many years ago was working with clients around tolerations. Sharing the importance of removing tolerations from our lives as much as possible to be able to even get to the work they really wanted to do.
Most times it is far more possible than we think once we raise the awareness around how the toleration(s) have become engrained into the fabric of our lives.
One day by surprise a toleration you were unaware of can come to light because you put 2 and 2 together. For example, remember my back trouble I shared with you a number of weeks ago? While I thought it was from over doing things in closing up the garden, etc.
Turns out when I went to California for 15 days all the pain went away. Came home and it was starting to return. Common denominator – My bed!
Seemed like my bed was fine until I spent 8 hours sleeping on it each night. I have a new bed coming on Friday I am happy to report. That was one toleration that I had to figure out and do something about as soon as I did.
This week’s video is around some holiday home love from amaryllis bulbs/flowers to creating a new window holiday display in my kitchen.
My kids won’t be coming home for Christmas. With that comes the reality Ed and I need to discover new holiday traditions. We could be sad, and something tells me I will have a tear or two, however the importance for my Mom sanity is to keep the holiday spirit alive and find new traditions while keeping the decorating joy going.
In regard to tolerations, I encourage you to make a list of the things in your life that you are tolerating from cold feet in the morning (yes, my feet are cold right now ;) to bigger elements of your life where you would like to see positive change happen.
Back in coaching school they encouraged us to make a list of 100 tolerations for ourselves and have our clients do the same. I want to inspire you to sit down and make that list. You might be surprised in how it will affect the goals you are looking towards for 2026.
In the meantime, stop from the hustle and bustle when you can and take in the magic of the season so that you can find some inner peace. I have this hope that the more we can collectively find inner peace, the world at large might find it as well.
Plant often and with Love!
Cheri
Cheri Ruskus
Author, Creator and Growth Mentor
