You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

It’s the final day of 2007. It’s been an incredible year, phenomenal, full of change, movement, growth and I found a place in my heart that I had not known existed. My list of gratitude is far longer than my list of grievances. Even throughout all this bliss, love and adventure, I had to hold the sacred space of possibility with my own joy and believe daily that my own joy was not only possible but imperative to my focus on life and that joy is what fuels my personal fire to achieve.

In the close of the year, I’ve decided against resolutions for the first time ever in my life – ok well sort of. You see. I have a notebook hidden away somewhere even from myself that is my list of goals I’ve kept from the time I could write. Every year I would write down what I wanted to achieve and it would be my constant thought process until they were all complete. Often I’d get a bit sad when I sat down at the beginning of a new year and realize I hadn’t achieved everything from the year prior. I know I was a strange kid you don’t have to tell me that. However; my self applied pressure has kept me going when I didn’t have enough skill or talent to really accomplish much. Out of my own necessity to achieve I made my own way.

So… I’m not entirely willing to go through last years list verbatim or do resolutions this year on account of my current personal goal is to be more generous with myself and those around me and to believe that I have abundance in all areas of my life. I know at this stage in the game that a list without items that have a cross through them are deemed “unaccomplished” spells me heading into a guilt spiral. This implies to me that I have things to make up for in 2008 and I’m starting off my year with a deficit in some areas instead of abundance. So what I’d like to do is list off how many assets I’m starting off 2008 with how much I’ve got in the arsenal spiritually, emotionally, and physically. And what my “big guns” are.

I won’t list all my “big guns” and bore you because I’m incredibly full of myself right now and I have a lot of big guns to list! But I will encourage you to make a list of how perfect you are before you make your list of goals. See. I’m getting better in my Capricorn-ness! Why not start out the year really seeing in black and white how fantastic, amazing, perfect an inspiration you are to yourself before you make your “to do” list.

This small exercise is a way to improve what you believe you are worth, for some of us we struggle with our self worth daily. Ok; maybe it’s just me and my constant battle to produce in order to feel perfect. But I know some of you personally that read this and you can’t hide that little shadow from me. You are your own worst critic too.

As we step into 2008 and bid farewell to 2007 I wish you each a flashlight of inspiration, belief in beauty and abundance to shine within your soul while you make you list of how perfect you are. I think your perfect and if you need a shove in the right direction, just let me know. I love you all, each and every one.