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HAPPY NEW DAY- 2016

So yesterday was January 1st and really it was just another day. No really it was. However I don't write that to diminish it at all. No instead I write it to elevate every DAY. Every day you open your eyes and are given more time to learn, love, live is a celebration of LIFE itself.



Sure, every day isn't celebrated with champagne and fireworks but consider this...

“you do not have to wait for the last day of the year or the first to change your life”

...to stop doing something that doesn't celebrate YOU or to START doing something that does. Each new day is chance to take control of your life for the better.


2015 was the hardest and most emotional year of my life. Illness struck my mother in a way that profoundly impacted my entire family and knocked me on my ass having realized that there is so much in life we simply have no control over. But I ended the year with a new hope and realization that TIME is the most precious thing we have. Don’t be fooled when people say, “Time is Money.” If some asshole steals my identity and takes my money the bank will replace it but there is no Time Bank for lost or even stolen time. A second chance is like bread to a starving man or water for a woman dying of thirst. And that’s what we were given; a precious second chance.


Your perspective changes when you realize, “today I can go left because going right hasn’t worked out for me” and I don’t owe anyone but myself an explanation as to why I changed. That realization is freeing and daunting at the same time because it strips away the crutch of blame. Blaming others or a situation for why you’re not living the life you truly desire. That realization comes with heavy yet rewarding responsibility of owning your life and making it what you always wanted.


Yeah, the sun peeking out over the horizon is all the fireworks I need to celebrate this fantastic new day… January the second, two thousand sixteen.



Happy New Day!

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