Happy New Year: And So It Begins
I have missed you.
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I have missed you.
The holidays passed, not in a whirlwind of tinsel and cheer but in a slow rolling, easy kind of way.
It was a different Christmas for us this year, away from the traditional and the familiar, spent in the warm hues of an island paradise.
Yes, we missed home and all the trappings but the freedom, both mental and physical, to let the year go in a gentle and relaxed fashion was as therapeutic as it gets.
I am home with a whole new mind-set.
Not brand new resolutions because they might set me on a path to disappointment. This year I want to focus on “growth” and a “refresh” in every area of life. I don’t want to fill my head with unrealistic expectations or stress myself along the road to failure; I want to look at the year as an expansion, as a time to grow all the good and refresh what is already in place.
I want to make the time count.
I am old enough to understand every second is precious and should never be taken for granted. Using time wisely is an art and I want to work on that. I don’t want to look back with wishful thinking and regret time wasted. This is the one thing we can make sure of. This is a year to DO. Small wishes or impossible dreams, there is no time to lose.
Over the holidays I started reading for pleasure again.
I left the computer idle, the iPad uncharged, the Facebook...
The post Happy New Year: And So It Begins appeared first on Vicki Archer.
I have missed you.
The holidays passed, not in a whirlwind of tinsel and cheer but in a slow rolling, easy kind of way.
It was a different Christmas for us this year, away from the traditional and the familiar, spent in the warm hues of an island paradise.
Yes, we missed home and all the trappings but the freedom, both mental and physical, to let the year go in a gentle and relaxed fashion was as therapeutic as it gets.
I am home with a whole new mind-set.
Not brand new resolutions because they might set me on a path to disappointment. This year I want to focus on “growth” and a “refresh” in every area of life. I don’t want to fill my head with unrealistic expectations or stress myself along the road to failure; I want to look at the year as an expansion, as a time to grow all the good and refresh what is already in place.
I want to make the time count.
I am old enough to understand every second is precious and should never be taken for granted. Using time wisely is an art and I want to work on that. I don’t want to look back with wishful thinking and regret time wasted. This is the one thing we can make sure of. This is a year to DO. Small wishes or impossible dreams, there is no time to lose.
Over the holidays I started reading for pleasure again.
I left the computer idle, the iPad uncharged, the Facebook...
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