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Floating: My secret weapon for goal setting

15 December 2016

I love taking some time at the end of the year to create order and set some goals for the coming year. (I wrote about taking a personal retreat in my newsletter about it today.) I’m setting aside next Friday as a retreat day and the centerpiece of the day will be my appointment to float for 90 minutes at F.L.OA.T., my favorite flotation tank in St. Louis.

I first wrote about floating in January 2013, after my first float ever (in Portland, Oregon), in a post headed, Floating with my thoughts. Then, in February 2015 I wrote a post called The ultimate relaxing experience shortly after F.L.OA.T. opened in St. Louis. I ended up purchasing a monthly subscription, so I’ve been floating every month since. I have found it to be really beneficial to be alone with my thoughts for this time. I do my best business planning and get loads of insights while I float. (I bring along a float journal where I write down my insights immediately after the float.)

F.L.OA.T. has proven to be very popular and in fact, they’ve opened a second location in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Mo. (The original location, which I go to, is just a mile from my St. Louis city home.)

St. Louis’s alternative weekly newspaper, The Riverfront Times, ran a cover story this week about the experience that I thought was particularly good: Float On: How Salty Water and Silence Are Changing Some St. Louisans’ Lives. I wanted to share the link here in hopes that you might explore the idea of floating if you haven’t experienced it.

Regardless of whether you float or do something else for a personal retreat, I encourage you to take the time away from your busy life one day soon help you plan an amazing 2017!

Tagged with: floating, happiness, planning, relaxation

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