For as long as I can remember, I've been an avid maker of goals for myself. Goals about everything and anything ranging from personal to financial to spiritual to health and wellness. I used to anticipate ringing in the New Year so I could make myself an updated vast list of resolutions that resembled more of my wish list to Santa than anything else.
We've all been there, done that and try hard we might, most, if not all of us fail. That's always how the story goes. We go to the gym for all of two weeks and then stop going even though we're still paying for it each month. We eat healthy all of a few days until we decide to delve back into the left over Christmas chocolates, or we do yoga all of five minutes until we realize our favourite show is on and the couch is much more inviting. The point is, whatever our New Years resolutions, they get forgotten and left behind. By February we're back to our regular selves....whatever that is.
This year, I'd like to make it more simple for myself and not make an extensive list. I'd like to suggest that 2014 is THE BEST YEAR YET... Just that simple. Because if each passing year is our best year yet, we can only look back at ourselves and be proud of all the things we've accomplished, big or small. We can celebrate the small changes we've made, or the great big leaps of faith we've had to make. We can be proud of who we are and how we've grown in the past year without having the feeling of having failed ourselves and all our grandiose resolutions we'd made in January.
So raise your glass and let's toast to a wonderful New Year ahead of us that's going to be filled with new memories, new experiences, new friends and everything in between!
Bisou!
Esther
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