Welcome 2012!

Happy New Year to all my friends. It's a brand new, shiny new year, and it got me to thinking. It's funny how with the changing of the clock, one day turns into the next, and with it, all the anticipation, excitement, goals and hope for the future are placed in this new day, of this new year. I always write down everything that I want to accomplish as the year changes, in hopes that I will be a better, leaner, more balanced, well read, calmer, hydrated, more rested person. I want to be perfect. I want to lose weight, exercise more, read daily, catch up with friends, learn to meditate, stress less and move more. I have high hopes and actually start out thinking I will change all these things I don't like about myself or my life, and I will change them all in one day.  But with age, comes wisdom, and I realize that change of any kind is  a process....often a slow process. It takes time, it takes patience and it takes perserverance. A long list of goals can be overwhelming. It's alot of changes to make all at once.

So as we enter into this brand new spanking clean new year, I plan to write down all the goals that I want to accomplish, but one of these goals will be to take it slow, to give myself time to change and to live in the moment.  When there is a day that I slip up, or I don't ________ ( fill in the blank here), I will pick up where I left off, and carry on again towards my goals the very next moment. All will not be lost,  and I will not be a failure, as long as I am moving forward. Every new day is really like the start of a new year. It's a clean slate every single morning, and a new beginning whenever we want it. Not just because the year changed.

 To help me remember this, I plan to refer to the following quote. I copied this off a friends facebook page, and I'd like to share it with you. It's a quote from Dr. Wayne Dyer.

 "Forget about those New Year’s resolutions in which you decide on the first day of January how you will be conducting your life for the next twelve months. Instead, set up day-to-day goals for yourself, and then resolve to begin living with present moment awareness for the rest of your life. When you get good at living your present moments one day at a time, you’ll see yourself changing right before your own surprised eyes. Remember, anyone can do anything for just one day, so tune out the sentences that keep you locked into your old self-defeating ways and begin to enjoy each day of your bright new year."

Sending big Happy New Year hugs to you all. Wishing you a bright and happy new year. May all your dreams come true!