I just love everything about the New Year! A new year means new beginnings, fresh starts, clean slates! Technically, each new day, hour, minute, or second can mean that as well! However, I am a BIG thinker and dreamer. I am pretty much 'all or nothing', 'go big or go home'. It's how God made me. So I love the thought of an entire New Year ahead! A blank page of a years worth novel! Doesn't just the sound of that get you fired up?! I usually am pretty disciplined and do really well with resolutions and goals for part of the year. It's around that 3 month mark I begin to get antsy and bored then around month 6 I am tired and I usually fall short of what I set out to accomplish. I know this about myself and rather than beat myself up about it I am choosing to embrace it and just try my best to have a strategy that allows me to keep on track. Also trying to focus and acknowledge that I did remain disciplined for whatever amount of time I did as well as giving hope to the fact that I did it before so I know I can do it again, right?! It's all about how you look at it!
This year I have resolved to stay as positive as possible and to avoid negative thoughts, judgements, anything that would bring me down. Rejecting them as soon as they surface. I know it will be challenging. Especially because my wonderful 2 week vacation will be ending next week and I anticipate many challenges but my new mantra is to Be the Light and to STAY Where the light is! Truly sending out as much love and positive energy into the world as I can. Being Bold and rejecting fears and insecurities. This is not to say negative frustrations or stress will not enter my thought process or life but when they do I want to recognize it right away and think a new thought and not get sucked in to the 'dark', if you will ;)
It is probably no surprise to any of my readers or human beings that know me that I am most inspired by music, it is my true passion. My other obsession passion inspiration is John Mayer! His lyric in his song Gravity has always meant so much to me ever since hearing the song. We all fight gravity and each individual has their own 'gravity'. Those things that get us down, people that bring us or put us down, habits, choices, obstacles etc. that cause us to detour or fall short of happiness. All those things are our personal gravity and are different for each of us and trying not to get brought down my it is a battle we all face. The war between light and dark. Knowing our 'gravity' is crucial to being able to stay where the light is. Knowing our true passions and inspirations means digging deeper into our core and souls. Doing more of what makes us feel good will bring more light and energy into our lives. It's the universal law of attraction! Staying absorbed in those rather than being forced down by our gravities will bring us an amazing year!
The first step I began today was anytime a negative thought or comment surfaced I rejected it and made it a positive. I looked to the light and when I started thinking about something negative I immediately said to myself, "Be the Light!" It reminded me to look at it in a different way. When things get worse I will sing, "Gravity~stay the hell away from me!" I had a friend who once wore a rubber band around her wrist and anytime a negative thought would pop in her head she would snap herself with the rubber band, extreme?......maybe! However, she eventually was able to take off that rubber band and recognize her thought process without having to snap herself! She became a much more positive person and after several years she told me she ended up having to wear the rubber band again from time to time to remind her of her thought process. I thought it was brilliant and look up to her for that! I am a talker and a music lover so having something to sing or recite helps me better than a rubber band would but the first step is KNOWING yourself enough to know what will work for you! Having a plan and a step to work towards is key!
Step 1~ Notice your gravity and have a saying or strategy that allows you to move toward the light! Have several Mantras you can recite to yourself if needed! I even went as far as making a Pinterest board that I will refer to as much as possible of mantras I loved and will memorize them to keep me where the light is!
I hope you have a year of LIGHT and BLESSINGS!
