Happy New Year!

These are my wishes for you this new year.  Thanks for making 2012 so special.  Here's to 2013!   

When a new year compels us to look ahead setting new goals and garnering the motivation to fulfill new year's resolutions, it's also an opportunity to look back and see how much has happened and how much we've evolved.  I love looking back and pondering on the adventures, heartbreaks, mistakes, meet-cutes, lessons, memories, new friendships and pursuits that filled my year.  Even if life felt a bit mundane there are always fresh and enlightening experiences to point to. It's just that perhaps at the moment we didn't notice.  

I particularly love thinking about these little and simple transpirations.  Sometimes I catch myself realizing that something I truly wanted to happen or accomplish actually came to be without my realizing it until much later, as if it were meant to happen at an appropriate time allowing me to take-in the lessons of the journey in the meantime.  Of course this is impossible without a proactive attitude and will, but when when I am able to manifest whatever my heart needs I know I am on the right path.  

Take a moment to ponder...Who crossed your path and opened your eyes to a new perspective or a book that enlightened your outlook on life?  Where did you travel that opened up your heart or created an incredible new memory? Did you fall in love?  Or perhaps out of love?  Or did you fall more deeply in love?  Did a new song or album strike a chord and made you cry or dance or did it touch your heart like no piece has in a long while? Did you taste an effervescent wine or liquor that took you somewhere unexpected? Did you have a baby?  Did you lose a loved one?  Did you make a fearless leap toward a career you've dreamt about or reach a new height in your current one?  It's these little things that become special when we notice them.   

While resolutions may be broken or forgotten, when we look back at a year, so much happens and in one way or another we are not the same people we were the year before.  A beautiful thing.