"2015 and then some..."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m happy to see the year 2014 end. I’m not one to wish away time but the fact remains that out of the 365 days in each year, I would bet most of us spend most of those days wishing for a new year to come.   By December 31^st most of us have had it with being inundated with our obligations, our commitments and all that entails. We are all just too busy and tired from the race and how dangerous and sad that is. The question I have is why do we celebrate the onset of a new year when we could be celebrating each new day?  Have we become so accustomed to avoiding our own feelings that we don’t make time to embrace them? We celebrate willingly the new year ahead but I’m beginning to understand that each new day that I am given, is far more significant.

Life is difficult.  Life is challenging and often painful.  We want to walk away when things get too over-whelming.  We can turn our backs on the ones we love when we’re angry.  On this “new day,” why not run towards those we love rather than avoid what needs to be said or done?  On this “new day,” why not love more, and strive for understanding rather than being right? 

With every new day, find truth, speak truth and don’t be afraid to show your good intentions and demand the same from those in your personal sphere.  Each day we are given, we have the opportunity to either lift someone’s spirit or crush it.  Each day we are given, we can extend ourselves to those we love and put our energies into our well-being and theirs; or we can build more walls or barriers and never have the closeness or the love we deserve.  The choice becomes ours and ours alone.

As 2015 comes, turn the corner on your routines.  Calculate each and every minute and use them with as much meaning as possible. Embrace change and the challenges that come with those changes.  Sometimes tears may be involved and that’s quite all right. Cleanse the pain and the frustration and look at how you spend your day, each day.  It’s not the years, it’s the days that we lose track of so easily.  Listen more to what your body and your mind are telling you.  They never lie.  

Let 2015 be a year of self-reflection, and self-actualization.  Let it be a year of living your truth and being truthful to others.  Slow down long enough to appreciate the defeats as well as the successes.  Realize that what you say and what you do, or even what you don’t do, will impact someone in your path.

 “Happy New DAY everyone!” This is all we are guaranteed.  If I could, I would figure out how to get the crystal ball in Times Square to gently descend each morning as we wake, reminding us that we have one day.  Let’s not forget how fortunate we are to experience it...”No matter what.”