The last thing I want is for you to hurry-and-worry just because 2025 is about to end.

Although there are barely three months left in 2025, I hope I haven’t been giving the impression that that meant you had to go crazy and hurry up and complete a whole lot of tasks. That’s not my intention nor is it what the end of the cycle is all about.

We do live in a hurry-up culture. Hurry up and get your homework done before dinner or going out. Hurry up and pick a career or uni course or both. Hurry up and find the right partner, get married, settle down and have kids. Hurry up and get a house. Hurry up and climb that corporate ladder or someone else will beat you to the top. Hurry up and top up your super so you can enjoy your retirement. (For some, there’ll be hurry up and retire because there are younger people wanting your job.) And then hurry up and plan your will. I suppose it’s why we have the phenomenon of multi-tasking and why some of us are obsessed by how good they are at it. It’s like there’s never enough time to do everything so we rush around like headless chooks madly trying to fit ‘everything’ in!

All that hurry — and worry — rob you of the very joy of a life unhurried. A life intimately observed, a life lived spaciously, a life . . .

Though the end of a 9-year in a 9-year cycle looks like a finish line that you’re supposed to cross with flying colours, it’s not to be driven by hurry-and-worry. It’s not some hundred-item to-do list that has to be crossed off — all of it. It’s not what family, friends, teachers, bosses, society-at-large think you have to do. It’s what you know in your heart-of-hearts that bugs you to finish, that keeps coming up right in front of you, that tugs at you and won’t let you go. It’s also what you know is your one true desire, your passion, what gets you up in the morning and keeps you up at night. Well, this is your opportunity. Circumstances are aligning right now. 

And it doesn’t have to be a drudge. In fact, best if it’s not. Best if we undertake it with joy. The fun lies in the adventure of experiencing, feeling, reflecting, imbibing, soaking it all up. Completion is a delicious process filled with a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. However, it’s only delicious and fun when you’ve chosen the tasks you want to complete because you want to complete them. Not because you “have to”, “should”, “must”, “need to”. It has to be a conscious choice. And it’ll most likely be things you’ve been wanting to complete for the better part of this current cycle: so everything from the beginning of 2017 until now. It might only be one thing. Or, you might have done it anyway, in which case, chill. Splendid play. (I was going to write ‘work’ instead of ‘play’, but it’s really meant to be play.)

And, look, if you’re in a tizz with one of those ridiculous hundred-item to-do lists, just pick the one at the top or one that is easiest or a longstanding task that you’re close to finishing anyway. It’s got to be what you want to do. That’s enough. The 9 will support you, provided you undertake it consciously and — from my personal experience — with a healthy detachment. Which means stepping outside yourself for a moment and seeing yourself doing it, going through it at your own pace and taking whatever is the right amount of time. That’s my approach. Get lost in the task, savour each moment, don’t fret over the undone stuff. Celebrate what you have done. That’s the minimum: celebrate. 

In short, if it’s obvious to you and you have the capacity, time, resources and above all passion, this is the perfect moment. 

To read my thoughts on 2025, including how you might be personally affected over the whole year, go to The Year 2025. I’ve included how each of our personal years interacts with the global 9 year.

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