I don’t know about you, but to me, it feels like time is moving faster, as if slipping through my fingers. As we reach the midpoint of the year, it’s natural to wonder where the first six months have gone. But more importantly, how aligned are you with your heart’s true desires and vision?
With this at heart, I’d like to invite you to pause and reflect this weekend and do a conscious, heart-centered, mid-year review. This isn’t just another productivity exercise—it’s a sacred moment to reconnect with your heart’s wisdom. It’s an opportunity to realign your time, energy, and resources to the path you’ve chosen for the rest of the year. And to make 2024 one of the most fulfilling years of your life!
Why a Heart-Centered Mid-Year Review?
In the fast-paced world we live in, it’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of tasks, responsibilities, and external expectations. As a heart-centered leader, you know the importance of pausing to reconnect with your inner truth and realign with your soul’s purpose.
A mid-year review is not just another productivity exercise – it’s a sacred opportunity to listen deeply to your heart’s wisdom and ensure that your time, energy, and resources are being invested in what truly matters to you.
By approaching this review from a heart-centered perspective, you create space for:
- Gratitude and Celebration: Acknowledging the blessings, growth, and lessons of the past six months, even if they didn’t align with your original plans.
- Present-Moment Awareness: Tuning into your current desires, needs, and intuitive guidance, rather than operating on autopilot.
- Heart-Aligned Visioning: Clarifying the goals and projects that truly light you up and align with your soul’s purpose, rather than chasing external validation or “shoulds.”
- Authentic Course-Correction: Making adjustments to your path based on your heart’s truth, rather than fear, scarcity, or comparison.
- Renewed Commitment: Recommitting to your heart-centered vision and values, even in the face of challenges or distractions.
By infusing your mid-year review with heart-centered intention, you create a powerful anchor point for the rest of the year. You send a clear message to the Universe that you are dedicated to living in alignment with your deepest truth and highest potential.
As a Heart Leader, this review is not just about optimizing your productivity or checking off goals – it’s about embodying your soul’s purpose and creating a life that truly nourishes and inspires you from the inside out.
So take a deep breath, open your heart, and trust that the wisdom you need is already within you. Your mid-year heart check is an invitation to reconnect with your inner compass and boldly step into the life your soul is calling you to create.
Preparing Your Sacred Space
To begin this heart-centered review, I invite you to:
- Find a quiet, comfortable space where you won’t be disturbed
- Light a candle or burn some incense to create a sacred atmosphere
- Play your favorite music that inspires and uplifts you
- Have your journal or a digital note-taking tool ready
- Gather any artifacts from the past six months (photos, mementos, etc.)
- Center yourself in your heart by listening to my 10-minutes of Heart Coherence
Remember, this is not about judgment or criticism. It’s about opening your heart to wisdom and guidance.
Step 1: Honoring the Past with Gratitude
“The future is meaningless without the past,” as Tiago Forte wisely wrote. But I believe it’s equally true that the past is transformed by gratitude.
Take 10 minutes to immerse yourself in the memories of the past six months. Look through your calendar, photos, or journal entries. As you do, hold each memory in your heart with love and appreciation.
After this reflection, journal on these questions:
- What moments of grace or unexpected blessings surprised you?
- What three experiences are you most grateful for, even if they weren’t part of your original goals?
- If your heart could speak three words to describe the past six months, what would they be?
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Anonymous
This exercise isn’t just about remembering—it’s about recognizing the divine guidance that has been present in your life, even in challenging moments.
Step 2: Embracing the Present Moment
Now, let’s connect deeply with the present moment. Close your eyes and take five deep breaths, focusing on the sensation of your breath entering and leaving your body.
As you sit in stillness, bring your awareness to three areas:
- Your head: What thoughts are arising?
- Your heart: What emotions are you feeling?
- Your gut: What sensations or intuitions are present?
From this place of embodied awareness, ask yourself: “What is my heart longing for? What do I truly desire more of in my life?”
Listen deeply to the whispers of your soul. You may be surprised by what emerges when you give your heart space to speak.
Step 3: Envisioning Your Heart-Aligned Future
With gratitude for the past and awareness of the present, now turn your gaze to the future. But not from a place of “should” or “must”—instead, from a place of heart-aligned desire and purpose.
Ask yourself:
- What three projects or goals make my heart sing when I think about them?
- How would achieving these goals allow me to serve others and the world more fully?
- What shifts in my daily life would support these goals or aspirations?
Now, close your eyes and visualize yourself at the end of the year, having lived in alignment with these heart-centered goals. Feel the joy, the fulfillment, the sense of purpose in every cell of your body.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Embodying Your Heart’s Wisdom: Practical Steps
Finally, to bring this vision into reality, consider these steps:
- Create a vision board representing your aligned goals
- Listen to my guided meditation, Finding Your Heart Path
- Establish a daily practice of connecting with your heart and realigning with your heart’s vision (e.g., meditation, prayer, journaling)
- Listen to my guided meditation, Manifesting Your Heart’s Desires
- Identify one small action you can take each day towards your heart-aligned goals
- Find an accountability partner or community who can support you on your soul’s journey
- Schedule monthly check-ins with yourself to ensure you’re staying true to your heart’s wisdom
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– C.G. Jung
A Personal Reflection on Mid-Year Reviews
I want to share vulnerably that this process isn’t always easy. There have been years when my mid-year review revealed how far I had strayed from my true path. I remember one July feeling a deep sense of shame as I realized I had been prioritizing external success over inner peace and connection. As a result, I felt very ungrounded and disconnected from my heart.
But it was precisely this moment of painful awareness that catalyzed profound change in my life. It led me to recommit to my spiritual practices, to have difficult but necessary conversations, and to realign my work with my deepest values. It led me to remember the bigger reason I started to do this work in the first place.
This experience taught me that our missteps and detours are not failures—they’re invitations to return to my real Self through my heart’s wisdom.
Final Thoughts
As you conclude this heart-centered mid-year review, I want to remind you of the immense power you hold. By taking the time to align with your heart’s wisdom, you’re not just changing your own life—you’re changing the world.
Remember, true transformation doesn’t come from what we do, but from who we become. By committing to live from your heart, you become a beacon of love and authenticity in a world that desperately needs it.
You have the power to create a life of deep fulfillment, joyful purpose, and profound impact. The second half of this year is a blank canvas—paint it with the colors of your heart’s truest desires.
Take a moment now to commit to your own heart-centered mid-year review. Schedule a sacred time in your calendar, gather your materials, and trust in the transformative power of this practice.
From my heart to yours,
