Are you a resolution maker as the new year approaches? Not I....
To make resolutions for your life on a single annual event seems ridiculous. Are we not constantly evolving and learning? Growing in who we are? Who is to say a wonderful lesson might not come on another day of the year? Would you wait until the new year to make a change?
Probably not. Everyday I feel like I am making a deal or resolution with myself and the world around me. It goes something like this...
Let me have clarity and simplicity.
Let me touch others with love and kindness.
May I be honest with myself and true to my inner guides.
Let me not be afraid to be who and what I am. To work with that and grow.
Let me have courage to do what I must and find happiness in the minutiae.
Love with no boundaries or expectations.
Love because I want to. Regardless of where it takes me.
May I work hard to touch the world around me in a positive way and make something, however small, better because I tried.
Are you gagging at this? I know. Cheesy. Honest however. It is a mantra of sorts for me. When it all boils down, this is what I am about. I work doing what I do because it is a part of who I am, an expression of my passions and a way to perhaps touch the world or my community and make small positive changes. In the last year I have opened my heart in new and different ways and I am working hard to drop expectations that have been fed to me since birth. Those societal rules. Instead, I am opening up and allowing my heart to grow. This is being true to the deeper me as I really do not like many of those social norms we force love and such into. What wonderful people have come into my life and enriched it in ways I will carry with me for always. I hope to cultivate these relationships.
So those are the deep in the dark depths resolutions... the surface ones?
Take more time to be creative and do it alone
Perhaps take up yoga again
Plan a garden and nurture plants again
Be on time (no more 10 minutes late, so 2010!)
Cultivate a cleaner vocabulary (less cursing)
Happy New Year loved ones.... may you make it all you wish for and dream of
