Friday, January 1, 2010

Living A Life You Love

Today many people are setting New Year’s resolutions, putting attention on what they think they should change or accomplish or do better in this brand new year. Others spent last night celebrating the end of 2009. But what about putting some attention on what we want to experience, do and be in this brand new year?

Rather than applying should do, how about applying would love to do? Or would love to become or experience?

Instead of a resolution that includes built-in guilt for failure to follow through, how about considering an approach to the coming year from a perspective of enjoyment, joyful discovery, play, adventure, expansion, delight, confidence and fun?

What if this year could become an opening – a doorway – to a life worth living, a life we love to welcome each morning when we wake up?

Here’s a thought: try living this day as you would if you loved every minute of it. Try – for this one day – to include in it specifically those things you most want to be doing and experiencing in 2010.

If you want to travel, get travel brochures or visit online travel and lodging sites for a short time. (Don’t get internet hooked unless you want to spend 2010 in front of the computer!)

If you want to learn to cook, play an instrument, dance, fly a plane or communicate better with your spouse, find a way to taste that in your life today in some way that brings it closer to your experience. It doesn’t have to take a long time. A few minutes of something that brings a flavor of that good into your life is a good way to affirm your welcome for that experience or development.

If you want a new car, go for a test drive of something you would love to own. If you want to move to a new place go and drive in that area or research it online. You get the idea.

Be sure to enjoy what you’re doing as you’re doing it. Enjoy savoring it and claim it as easily yours.

Creation always happens first as an idea before it ever becomes an experience, so be playfully creative today.

This might be a fun practice for the first day of every month in 2010. An idea worth considering. It might even be worth putting on the calendar now so you can save the time to do it. A monthly sacred day for you just for the purpose of realizing (real-izing or making real) the life you would love to live. Aren’t you worth a day of creation each month? You bet you are!

I celebrate today and all the possibilities it holds as the gateway to 2010, and I celebrate all of you. Happy New Year!

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