I can’t believe January is right around the corner. I am ready to start that fresh page on January 1st to a life transformation.
2013 was great but my mistake really set back my entire reality. The first half of the year I really pushed for my goals, then when my setback happened, I pushed harder. What was great about this year was getting deep into my yoga practice and completing Baron Baptiste level 1 in Sedona, Arizona this past June. It was my biggest resolution of the year and completing it was life changing. I made so many amazing friendships and worked on becoming a more authentic human being.
Through all of this there was a small piece skewing any possibility of true change and that was my alcoholism. It’s not the picture you may be painting in your mind of me not being able to stop drinking and constantly drunk, it’s that I barely drank and when I did, I’d completely blackout or make a bad decision that ruined any progress of moving forward in life. Anyway enough about that, it’s now the past but I bring it up to explain the reason 2014 will be much better….it will be because I am now sober and have no plan on returning back to drinking.
With a sober mind, we bring true authenticity. Think about it, when we were children we were wild with imagination, the possibilities were endless, everyone was our friend and we could have fun doing anything, anywhere. Flash-Forward to today where we don’t know how to even look people in the eye, we see our friends over social media a million times more than face-to-face, we work and stress out leading to wine in the evening to calm us down or help us sleep, we meet our friends for “happy hour” or go out to the clubs on the weekends to have fun. We don’t know how to live with ourselves, meet romantic mates without having a drink, and our vacations are basically binge-drinking havens…why even bother buying a plane ticket somewhere you’ll only remember by all your Instagram photos!?
I kid you…that was just my story, many of you are sane non-alcoholics but if that sounds like you, we are alike.
2014 will be tough for reasons I can’t go into, but it will be worth it. A new day, a new month, a new year we create the possibility to be more authentic and happy. We have the ability to stop living our sedentary lives and move more, run more, be more. We have the ability to eat healthy food and cook our own meals. We can treat our body like it matters and treat our life like we appreciate living.
It’s quite simple.
You don’t need to make lofty resolutions to lose a million pounds and workout everyday at the gym, you just need to make the resolution to JUST SHOW UP.
They say 90% of creating a new habit is just showing up. That is the hardest part about facing our goals because we are lazy and can’t get our feet out the door.
In yoga just show up, you don’t have to rock every practice, you can just get on your mat and lay in savasana the whole class and that is more effort than anything.
With running, put your shoes on and get out the door…you can walk today. You can do the same and walk tomorrow. In time you will eventually want to run. And if you can’t, just show up to try.
It’s that simple. 2014, make the effort to show up for your life and your goals and that will make all the difference in your progress.
