| Who are you today? What have you done with your life this last year? Do you want 2025 to look exactly the same? When I look back on 2024, I see that for half of the year I was either sick or in pain. I had covid for the first time and barely knew my name. I had some other (minor) illnesses. My vitamin B-12 levels were so low, I had to start getting weekly shots. The arthritis in my hips necessitated both lidocaine and cortisone shots. Do I want 2025 to be a repeat? Hell to the NO. Something has to change. When we do things the same way we always have, we can’t expect new results. And yet… we do. How long has it been since you rocked a new hairstyle or color? Changed the way you dress (Do you have any clothing that’s more than ten years old? Be honest.)? Do you eat the same way you have forever? Do you tend to take the same vacations? Watch the same TV shows? How long since you rearranged your furniture? On an emotional level, do you react the same way each time someone cuts you off in traffic? When your spouse or partner cuts you off mid-sentence? When something unforeseen upends your day? When you get bad news? Or even good news, for that matter? If what we do and think and believe remains constant, so will our lives. You’ve heard the quote Be the change you want to see in the world*. Be the change. Change. We have to change if we want anything to be different, be it ourselves or the world around us. This is the perfect time to reflect on the past year. And to envision a new you. How do you want to feel? Peaceful? Delighted? Curious? Lighter? New? Courageous? Sara Walka, the founder of the Sisters Enchanted, says her phrase for 2024 was Don’t Fucking Flinch! because she wanted to be fearless in 2024. I want to hear your word or phrase for 2025. I’m still working on mine, but it might be Healthy or die!  *Here is what Mahatma Gandhi actually said. “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” |