We all received the gift of a new year. Watcha gonna do with it?
I feel called, and inspired, to approach this year with a very specific strategy. I’m going to fully break free of the pattern of, and control that, linear thinking plays in my life.
To accomplish this, I challenge myself to become a nonlinear thinker. Nonlinear thinking involves using creative and unconventional methods to arrive at a solution.
What is my creative approach to this? To wake up each day very open to how it will unfold, but with a particular interest in drinking from each of life’s best chalices.
What the heck is a chalice and how is this a strategy? A chalice is a special cup. Inside of it are ingredients of some type. See photo below for a good visual.
I have accomplished many of my dreams in life. I am grateful for this. But, I often sacrificed another important area of life to achieve them. I’m not referring to the kind of minor sacrifices that are a result of hard work and dedication. I’m talking about big sacrifices, like the following:
- My health for a financial win.
- Love for my joy.
- My peace to be right.
- My time freedom for love.
- My financial freedom to be loved.
Instead, I’m gonna wake up each day to six beautiful chalices on my kitchen table. I’m going to observe how full they are and I am going to make a choice. One, what ingredients I can add to any chalice to keep it filled or plus it. Two, I’m gonna drink from each cup daily and not sacrifice one for another.
I will still have specific goals but I will mostly see them in terms of temperatures. I get to choose whether I want each sip to be refreshingly cold or a warm embrace. Not as a zero sum games, where other chalices get sacrificed altogether, I get to drink from all six in any order I choose, non-sequentially!
My chalices are joy, peace, love, health, time freedom, and financial freedom. Below are examples of just some of the ingredients I will chose to put in them to produce my best year!
Ingredients for Joy

-Write far more!
- Mentor all out!
- Travel to at least one foreign country I have not been to yet.
Ingredients for Peace
- Advance my Presence Practice
Ingredients for Love
- Embrace the vibrancy of Miami all out with Lori
- Start a family with Lori
Ingredients for Health
- Heal my broken left leg
- Lose 60 pounds again, but keep it off this time! 💪 Startingvweight is 280!
- Don’t sacrifice this particular chalice for another.
Ingredients for Continued Time Freedom
- Continue to avoid succumbing to anyone else’s schedule for my work time
- Wake up each day with complete time freedom to choose how I spend my day
- Take care, and kick ass at the tasks that make time freedom possible
Ingredients for Continued Financial Freedom
- Create new successful real estate syndications in 2024
- Successfully open Hamakua Hotel in Hawaii
- Have great rental & renovation success with my Waterfalling Estate property in Hawaii
There you have it! The categorization of the above areas of focus inspired my selections as opportunities. How I will accomplish each will come down to how much I drink from each of the six chalices and what ingredients I choose to replenish them.
I encourage everyone in this group to take some time to write your desires for 2024 down and make courageous commitments so you can live them!
If you feel inspired to share yours, please put them in the comments below or write your own post
