Here it is January 4th – and I am just now writing my first blog entry. I know I said I was going to make daily entries, and I fully intend to, it’s just that weekends can be a bit hard for me to get online. Life styles of the social and busy! (J) But because I have shirked my duties the past three days, please allow me make them up to you!
January 1st ~ “and what are we prepared to do?”
Today I was instructed to take some time out and just think. Think about where I have been and where I am going. The past year was a bit crazy and full of ups and downs – mostly downs. But that has only left me more optimistic for 2010. A new decade, a new start, new goals, new action… just NEW!
Thinking about the year to come involves imagining yourself in it, where you want to be, wherever that may be. I’m not exactly sure where that is for me. I do know of specific goals I want to accomplish – however the exact where and when’s aren’t set in stone. Looking forward into the future and knowing there are limitless possibilities is rather empowering. Which leads me into…
January 2nd ~ “and now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been”
Today was all about focusing on the “fresh start” attitude a new year brings our way. Know that “the only person standing in your way is yourself”. We are often so full of “if only I could do such and such”, or “I could never do that”, or “it’s just not in me” – but why not? Why couldn’t you ever do that, why is it just not in you? Why do we limit our potential before its even been tested? I am making a vow to stop standing in my way! From this point on I will believe I can do anything in the world until I have proven myself wrong, through trial and error. I think that should be how everyone feels about themselves. Just think of all the wonderful things that would be created if we all believed in our limitless potential!
January 3rd ~ “getting organized is one of the top 5 New Years resolutions”
I don’t know about you, but when things in my life are cluttered I just feel wrong. There is something amiss. I can’t function properly. I try to keep things in their place and dedicate one day a week to really put things back in order. Some busy weeks, however, I don’t get around to it, or am too busy or tired. I can definitely feel the effects of the clutter closing in on my spirit.
Its not only physical clutter that can bog me down, it’s also emotional and spiritual clutter too. When I have held on to something that has happened, say I am mad at someone. I keep replaying a specific event over and over in my head. But what purpose does that serve? Does by reliving an unpleasant moment over and over really benefit me in any way? Not at all. All it does is put me through unneeded emotional stress and turmoil. That is just one other example of the clutter I need to remove from my life in order to move on happy and less stressed. My life is stressful enough on its own without adding to it things that have no meaning or value whatsoever. I’m sure I do not stand alone here.
January 4th ~ “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
That quote sound familiar? Yoda said it. And its soooo true. I can’t tell you the number of times I say I will try to do something. What I am really trying is that I might do something, but its not important enough to me to actually say I WILL do it. Basically if it happens to be convenient I will, if not tough nuggies. So take that word out of your vocabulary when it comes to what you will and won’t do. Simply affirm that you will, you are fully capable.
