New Year Countdown

There are 10 days until Christmas & 16 days until 2017. This is the time of year we all look forward to–family gatherings, good food and vacations, but somehow we always manage to find something to stress about. Worry about getting the right gifts for everyone, cooking the perfect meal, making sure our home is clean enough for great Aunt Gertrude that you see once every other year.

While it’s important to give your best at everything (including cleaning the house) & to provide the most for our friends & family it’s equally important to make time to nurture yourself & think about what you want moving forward.

The new year is the time most of us set goals & make changes to create our perfect life. Usually, we write down a bunch of things we want to happen by X time. What we lack, is taking the time to think about the small steps it’s going to take to get there–the day to day tasks you NEED to accomplish to achieve that big goal.

So while it’s nice to have those grand goals, let us not forget it takes work and more importantly consistency to achieve them. It doesn’t happen overnight, you will have setbacks, frustrations, days when you feel you can’t get it done. You must have the ability to pick yourself up & continue to work EACH DAY toward that vision you’ve created in your head, because you have to see it mentally before it can become reality. As long as on a daily basis you execute the steps that will lead to achieving your goal, it will be impossible to fail!

Ask yourself these questions: what are some of the most important things in your life right now? What is it that you want to accomplish? Have you created a vision of what you want your life to look like?

Sometimes it’s hard, we go this way & that way–allowing friends, family and media to sway our opinions & decisions. We let our day to day mundane chores get in the way of making time for what is truly important. We have a short time on this planet & it’s up to you to create the life that will make us happy. In order to do that, you need to sit down & ask yourself; what do I really want from life? If you’re unhappy, what can you change RIGHT NOW to make it better?

Not everyday will be rainbows & sunshine, but everyday is an opportunity to get one step, one day closer to being truly fulfilled. We all deserve to feel joy & be happy, but who’s willing to stop waiting for it and start creating it? That’s going to look different for everyone, so take time to dig in & ask yourself what brings you joy & how you can start incorporating that into your day to day life. Sometimes joy comes from the discipline of accomplishing those tedious daily tasks that are bringing you closer to that big shiny goal, or simply sitting in silence for 10 minutes without any distractions. Believe it, create it, live it…..