Farewell 2013

I woke up this morning with a sense of completion.  Well, that is not entirely true, my first thought on waking up was ‘I must vacuum the house’, mundane perhaps, but fitting for the last day of 2013. I would like to start 2014 with a sparkly clean house, a sense of satisfaction. The satisfaction arises not only from having a clean house but the opportunity the cleaning process gives me to think about the past year and imagine what the new year holds.

Retrospection and nostalgia followed by planning for 2014. I do not do New Year resolutions, they have not worked for me in the past, so repeating that exercise would be setting myself up for failure. My aim is to reflect on what has created joy in my life and how to sustain those ‘creations’. The process would not be complete, of course, without thinking about the challenges faced and how these have served me. Finally I will reflect on what I hoped to achieve in 2013 but did not, what were the barriers? Can these barriers be lifted, what can I do differently that will turn these barriers into open doors in 2014?

Whatever the New Year may hold, the intention is to dance through it with a smile and heaps of love!