Happy New Year

The year 2025 is sure a remarkable year in my life, a lot of things happens. Some bad, some good, but i made it to the end. I have some ritual that i do in this year.

First i do Misogi, its originally a Japanese Shinto practice of ritual purification by washing the entire body in the sacred waterfalls, lakes and rivers. In the modern day, popularized by Dr. Marcus Elliot, Misogi means once a year, do something so difficult that you dont think possible in the first place, with only a 50:50 success rate.

In the start of 2025 i do something thats so difficult for me personally, that i do think it was impossible for me to do at the time, because i kinda tried it for the past couple of years and i always fail in the proccess of it. But this year, i know something is different, i commit and i decided to do this thing as my misogi for the year, the thing that i made as my misogi is for another posts.

The second thing i do is, i challenged some mindset that i have, that i believe its no longer relevant for me. I tried to write as many mindset that i have or something i believe in. And im starting wondering when im developing that mindset or that kinda belief, because some mindset just dont make any sense for me, like, i have that mindset deep in my head, how? thats when i know i have to do mindset shift.

We talked about mindset shift, but what is a mindset in the first place? Mindset is your established set of beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that shape how you perceive the world, yourself and how you approach situatuions, influencing your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. As we can see mindset is so powerfull. Imagine you have some mindset thats bad for your life and you dont even realize it, because its already in your mind for so long that you oblivious to its presence.

I think doing mindset shift is so important to me this year, its change the way i do things. Because many things i do in my life is just because i feel i should, or have to. Out of a sense of obligation, or not having any choice. I dont say that many things you do in life is bad because you just auto-piloted doing that, but just take a minute and ask to yourself, why you do that thing? Is it what you want to do? Or you just doing that because you feel you should do that or even worse because you’ve been told that you should doing that without ever questioning why you are doing that in the first place? I think many people have this problem but they dont even notice when they feel this way, because its so ingrained.

2026 is just right around the corner, i do hope that we can keep evolving for the better version of ourselves. Do some changes in your life, no matter how small or trivial things you want to change, i think its good for you. Because nothing changes if nothing changes.