Jan 3, 2012: stories we tell

Welcome, welcome to 2012! I am excited. How was your new years? And what did you do? I spent mine up in Michigan in Traverse City. Very nice. Very nice. I had amazingly great company, clear skies, rolling beaches and sand, and plenty of laughs.

You just cant beat that. Each year, I try to make the most of this one second that controls the pace of the rest of my year. I was always taught what you do and whom you do it with on new years sets the pace for the whole year. Do you believe that?

Smiling. Before this post turns into a dedication to the love of my life I’ll cut it short by saying that you and I deserve to be happy. You deserve to have the very best for yourself. I do too. Its not progressive when we decide that the person we are with will not be here long. Usually we know. You know closer to the beginning than the end.

So where am I going with all this? As we grow together, you the reader and I, we should expect more from ourselves. Year over year, we shouldn’t do what we did last year that produced no result for us. Aim higher, expect resistence, continue to accept that you must change.

My mentor told me, that if I wanted a different result, I’d have to select a different method. And so as we tell our stories about our lives, where we have been, and what we have experienced. There should be a shift, within each story where you are growing. Where you have failed and been hurt. Then where you were retested and succeeded. The stories we tell should reflect, in my opinion, where we have been but not always where we are now. So my reader, I’d like to encourage you that this is your year. The only one who can guarantee that you are in a better place financially, mentally, emotionally, physically, or creatively is you. Make the most of your year, ask questions, tell the truth, don’t be so pestimistic (no one wants to hear that), set higher goals for yourself and don’t be afraid to fail.

Step out on faith, make good choices, and trust that God knows your circumstances and has determined your destiny. So let go, forgo all that stress. If you can’t- then you can’t.