New year, new choices

On the cusp of a new year, it's time to make some choices. To choose a path that will take me into the new year and start me off on a path/journey/adventure that is bound to be better that this last year. Coming into 2010 I had some worries for the year. Coming off off of my year of NO RULES (2009 was fine!) I had some expectations for 2010 but no plan. That's probably the bigger issues....expectations are just that...but a plan puts into motion your own actions towards an outcome. So....with just a few days left of this year, I've got to get together a "plan."

I love the whole concept of "New Year, New You." I've always been a big believer that some how, magically, at the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve your world could change. That something magical was in the air and some how with the tick of that clock your world could change. I always had belief in New Years....but no mater what, the clock is going to move forward, the new day will dawn and it's totally up to me to make anything else happen.

I guess maybe the oversight comes when we forget to honor our past, where we've come from, what we've dealt with, what we've managed to get over, through or survive. That is, to celebrate the old in ourselves! What do we choose to keep in our life? What do we want to change or release? I don't think we need to start everything over but maybe make some better choices of what we do decide to keep IN our life.

"The opposite of old is not young, the opposite of old is new. As long as we continue to experience the new, we will inhabit all that we are."

So are we looking for a new life or some new experiences? We have the opportunity to change. I think it's time I choose to go forward with inspiration and adventure! Here's to a new year full of fun, laughter, adventure and unexpected surprises!

2011 is going to be THE year!

Magical time of the year

Well here we are, on the edge of yet another holiday. The Christmas spirit surrounds us and even if we wanted to stop it from coming, it's here...tomorrow. Multitudes of people will awaken Christmas morning, rush to their trees and find that the magic of the season has come and they will tear into unknown wrapped treasures until there is nothing left but shreds of paper.

I miss those moments. I miss the magic of childhood, the joy of the tree sprinkled in presents, the hope that just what I asked for was waiting for me, hidden under the tree. Somehow the magic of the season fades away when you get older and are no longer surrounded by young ones. It feels like just another day.....except if you come across other people, they are a little kinder, gentler, nicer.....for the day.

I've been working retail this year and I forget how frazzled people get trying to get that "perfect" gift. How irrational they become over the exclusions of a coupon and how manic they get when the gift they wanted is no where to be found. Ahh, the commercialism of the holidays has certainly taken it's toll on the masses.

This year is kind of my year off. I don't know if it's the lack of income, the fact that I am working retail and can't hardly bare to enter a mall or the fact that I feel kinda grinchy but I am looking forward to Christmas being over. Forget the magic, forget the presents....just bring on the new year with new possibilities laid out before me without all the baggage of this last year.

I wish we could to a point where it isn't about the packages and bows as much as it is about people being kinder to each other. Boss's understanding the value of paying employee's a fair salary for a hard day's work, for partners to love and respect each other all times of the year and children learning the value of love and worry less about stuff....but that's not our culture, that's now who we are.....who we have created our society to be. I suppose we can do that for ourselves but ultimately we can't change that for others.

I'm making plans for this next year that will hopefully have me sitting here next year at this time marveling over the year I am leaving behind. Fondly looking back at a year that was full of amazing things.

So as the Christmas music turns into a distant memory and the presents we thought we could live without find a home in a forgotten part of our homes, may the new year bring with it all the good and amazing things we need.

A farewell to can't

Dear can't:

Saying goodbye to you does not make me sad. I will not miss you as much as you think I will. I want to find out what it feels like to live in the CAN DO world. I want to know what it feels like to do the unthinkable, to be able to look at the long hard challenges in front of me and be willing to go for it. Our relationship certainly has had it's ups and downs, mostly downs, but I believe you have served your purpose and thus, I must say goodbye to you.

From now on the difficult tasks will seem less difficult, I will see the road before me as a choice, and option, a place I want to be rather than something that is undoable or stressful. I will see the impossible tasks as simply possible.

So good-bye to you my friend, hopefully our paths will not cross again, but if they should, I hope you will see I am in a better place, partially because of you but mostly because I have learned and grown and really have become the best "me" I can possibly be.

Farewell Can't......hello Can.

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Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you
can’t change. Kiss slowly, forgive quickly, play hard, take chances give
everything and have no regrets.

Life is too short to be anything but happy!

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