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# Blood & Ink: New Years Eliminations
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/73/
- Published: 2025-01-03T15:28:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:15.000Z
- Description: anti-resolutions / cultivating space / generative emergence
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

## What if you did the opposite of a New Year’s resolution?

*As everyone is in the throws of making new to-do lists, setting nigh-unattainable goals for the year, and finding the perfect places for the deluge of gifts they received… what if you went the other direction?*

What if you focused on New Year’s *eliminations*?

- **What if you donated half your possessions?** Creating physical cleanliness and spaciousness, while making everything you own more meaningful.
- **What if you stopped 2 time-wasting habits?** Opening up 2-4 hours a day that you didn’t realize you had.
- **What if you dropped a lukewarm commitment/project?** Freeing up vast amounts of mental space and conscious attention.
- **What if you let go of an identity instead of reinforcing a new one?** Becoming more fluid in your self-image and better able to respond to life.

There is a real benefit to resolutions: there is always value in setting clear intentions for your life.

**The value of elimination is less recognized in our busy, materialistic culture.**

Eliminating the dead wood—be it physical possessions, mental baggage, or unaligned commitments—creates fertile ground for new growth to take root.

**They don’t need to be ‘replaced’ by something ‘better’.** You could create more space, beauty, and openness in your life and stop. Opening the generative void that spontaneous, brilliant emergence comes from.

*It opens mental and emotional spaciousness that most of us have forgotten is even possible.*

As the New Year rolls along—it’s worth considering what can be *eliminated* from your life, as well as added to.

Happy subtracting,  
EB.