It’s so cliché, but today actually is the first day of the rest of your life, and mine. It also happens to be the first day of the new year, at least on the Gregorian calendar. I am grateful and relieved to have 2020 behind us. What a strange year! Who could have ever imagined what it held in store? Nonetheless, today I will salute 2020 and bid it farewell.
I don’t know about you, but I decided to refrain from making any 2021 New Year’s Resolutions. While the commitment may be genuine at the time, New Year’s Resolutions are most certainly doomed to failure, leaving a wake of regret and disappointment. No, I’m choosing not to carry that load around anymore (even if I am carrying around the same body weight I was resolved to take off last year).
Instead, I will step boldly into 2021. I will endeavor to make every day better than the last. I believe God always has more possibility awaiting us. So, I will make a new kind of commitment, but instead of looking toward this year I will look toward the rest of my life – taking it one day at a time. Instead of carnal goals like loosing weight or saving money, though I do hope to do both this next year, I will endeavor to focus on that which supports my soul and my spirit.
- I will leave my past failures in the past, I will not dredge them up and take them with me into the new year.
- I will deny shame any place in my life. Life is too short for shame and blame.
- I will be thankful for all of the blessings and hardships I have had thus far in my life, for those experiences have shaped who I have become.
- I will embrace an attitude of gratitude, for what I have (like my adorable dog!) and what I don’t have.
What does your soul and spirit need in this new year? Be kind to yourself and take it one day at a time. I’m in your corner…and I hope 2021 brings you ENOUGH of all you truly desire!