A Fresh New Start

For many individuals, the start of the New Year heralds a blank slate.  This is an opportunity to start fresh and make a new start.  This is the chance for everyone to take the high road and shed the situations and behaviors that were holding you back.  It's the time that I feel empowered to transform into a better, more viable human being.  I relinquish all the past toxic patterns that have been useless to me.  Now I don't believe that we should only have one time a year where we realize that we need change, but it does make me feel hopeful that things can only get better.  We are all capable, as human beings, to remodel our lives, but sometimes that promise doesn't stick.  Maybe it's the promise that a new year will come or we procrastinate and say, "I'll do it eventually."  The standard resolutions such as losing weight, quitting smoking, or saving money for a house, vacation, car etc., seem to be empty promises for most people.  If you plan to take them seriously, why not start in October instead of January?

The changes from year to year seem to be halted or weighed down by hope, rather than action.  Taking advantage of the New Year occasion to pursue emotional change, intellectual advancement, and physical improvement, should be something that we can enable at any time in our lives.  Why should we feel the burden of feeling that we have to fulfill this solemn vow to change?  If we realize that our life is in our own hands and we are the authors of our own reality, we can create a new road to improving life and giving ourselves that little push that makes created goals less insurmountable and more in the realm of definite possibility.  I prefer to immerse myself in new experiences and give myself a chance by starting something completely different.  That maybe frightening for some, but I think that it gives you the push to either sink or swim.  Fill your newly patterned goals with the chance to make a difference, rather than sitting under the rock of doubt.

Just remember that you are the only one, in this world, that can banish your own chaotic situation and create a life where you can fulfill your desire to have peace and comfort.  For myself, I shall strengthen my resolve to allow the ability to maintain a better focus.  I want to be healthier physically, I want to quit smoking, and I want to have a better sense of self.  I want that for me so that I can be a better wife, sister, daughter, friend, pet mommy, etc.  If there is any lesson that I have learned from 2014; I can honestly say that life is fickle and we should never take anything that we have for granted.  We live in a life of impermanence and we should all relish in the now.  Sure things will be tough and sometimes you'll feel hopeless, but remember to find gratitude in the simplest of things.  For now I will leave you with best wishes for the coming year and the hopes that your dreams become a reality.  Happy 2015!