Happy New Year

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well New Years Eve celebrations have come and gone, and  the new year is upon us! Have you set new years resolutions? I don't usually. I think the new year is simply the perfect time to begin fresh. It's a time to look back and enjoy the great things that the past year has given you, to be thankful for everything you have in your life and to look ahead to the future with a great curiosity. Reminisce, enjoy, re-live, and give thanks for the past but don't get stuck there. Move forward with a gratitude for what it has taught you and a desire to learn more about yourself. 2014 offers us a chance to continue to build who we are, to change things about our lives we don't like and learn something new. Put the past where it belongs: behind you. It is only your foundation, and you can do what you please with your future. Remember that you hold the pen to your own story.

Let us go into the new year with a positive attitude about life and the decisions we make. Be strong in the face of adversities and let them build and strengthen you, not knock you down. Take the good with the bad and learn from everything that you do or pass. Remember too that Life is the here and the now, don't let opportunities pass you by. Chase after things and don't wait for the "opportune moment" because most of the time there is no such thing. As one of my favourite cartoon characters always says "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!" - Miss Frizzle. Your life is happening now, embrace it every day; you cannot get them back. 

So about these news years resolutions? They do offer ideas about what you want to change, improve and do... but they seem so solid, so set in stone. Nothing is set in stone, nothing is solid and trying to hold yourself to something solid like that is hard. Just try to improve yourself every day. Keep your goals in mind with everything you do and ask yourself "How is this bettering me?". Try to learn something new each day and learn from your mistakes. Make every day about being the best person you can be, to everyone you can.

With that said, I hope each and every one of you had a wonderful holiday full of family, friends, good music and food, laughter and love, and as always inspiration. I hope you celebrated well and captured the memories. And I hope that you continue to do so, because we're having the time of our lives.