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I know it seems early to be thinking about it, but really, now is the time to start looking around your life, and begin to evaluate the details that need a little dusting up, dusting off, or dusting OUT. ;) The New Year is only 6 weeks away. What will it mean for you?
Start thinking about the goals in your life you want to set for 2006. Of course dance is the natural area for us to discuss here, but anything goes! Do you:
- Want to spend more time with your family? Or carve out more time for yourself, away from those who make demands on you?
- Plan to spend more time exercising? Less time in front of the TV?
- Hope to lose some weight, gain some weight, or generally change your eating and lifestyle to feel healthier?
- Want to pick up a new hobby, or revisit one that has been neglected recently?
- Intend to stop smoking? Nip your nickle-and-dime spending in the bud? Reduce your drinking? Eliminate those factors in your life which don't contribute to your health and well-being, including emotional ones?
- Plan to schedule more dance time at home? Make time to dance with friends? Attend more belly dance community events to see other styles of dance and meet other dancers?
- Want to find more time to read? Do art? Organize your home? Volunteer in your community?
I remember one lazy Sunday morning in college I was flipping through the channels on TV, and I came across the ubiquotous Sunday morning sermon. I paused a moment to hear what the pastor was preaching, and he was talking about all the amazing opportunities that life brings us. How many different "worlds" there are out there, and how if we never try new things, we will only ever know our current, small, limited world. It is only if we reach out, meet new people, challenge ourselves in new ways, and generally put ourselves out, that we can discover the many other worlds available to us.
I encourage you all to make 2006 all about discovering new worlds outside your world! Find new inspirations, new ideas, and new challenges. Enrich yourself. Reward yourself. Find new reasons to love yourself and this life you have been given.
Don't try to make a laundry list of things you feel are "wrong" in your life. That's depressing, overwhelming, and counter-productive. Instead, focus on the positive. Pick one or two things you would like to see come into or go out of your life in 2006. And then start on it *right* when the new year begins. Don't wait! "I have a year," turns into a lot of procrastination and apathy. Make a promise to yourself and keep it! Aren't you worth that much?
As you meditate on this, please feel free to post about your resolutions. And we can support one another here in our efforts to embrace change in 2006! Even if you don't post here, know that positive energy is being sent enthusiastically your way, helping you in whatever journey you undertake.
Much love,
Sharon
www.mandalatribal.com
Watch for a new website to be unveiled in the new year!
Start thinking about the goals in your life you want to set for 2006. Of course dance is the natural area for us to discuss here, but anything goes! Do you:
- Want to spend more time with your family? Or carve out more time for yourself, away from those who make demands on you?
- Plan to spend more time exercising? Less time in front of the TV?
- Hope to lose some weight, gain some weight, or generally change your eating and lifestyle to feel healthier?
- Want to pick up a new hobby, or revisit one that has been neglected recently?
- Intend to stop smoking? Nip your nickle-and-dime spending in the bud? Reduce your drinking? Eliminate those factors in your life which don't contribute to your health and well-being, including emotional ones?
- Plan to schedule more dance time at home? Make time to dance with friends? Attend more belly dance community events to see other styles of dance and meet other dancers?
- Want to find more time to read? Do art? Organize your home? Volunteer in your community?
I remember one lazy Sunday morning in college I was flipping through the channels on TV, and I came across the ubiquotous Sunday morning sermon. I paused a moment to hear what the pastor was preaching, and he was talking about all the amazing opportunities that life brings us. How many different "worlds" there are out there, and how if we never try new things, we will only ever know our current, small, limited world. It is only if we reach out, meet new people, challenge ourselves in new ways, and generally put ourselves out, that we can discover the many other worlds available to us.
I encourage you all to make 2006 all about discovering new worlds outside your world! Find new inspirations, new ideas, and new challenges. Enrich yourself. Reward yourself. Find new reasons to love yourself and this life you have been given.
Don't try to make a laundry list of things you feel are "wrong" in your life. That's depressing, overwhelming, and counter-productive. Instead, focus on the positive. Pick one or two things you would like to see come into or go out of your life in 2006. And then start on it *right* when the new year begins. Don't wait! "I have a year," turns into a lot of procrastination and apathy. Make a promise to yourself and keep it! Aren't you worth that much?
As you meditate on this, please feel free to post about your resolutions. And we can support one another here in our efforts to embrace change in 2006! Even if you don't post here, know that positive energy is being sent enthusiastically your way, helping you in whatever journey you undertake.
Much love,
Sharon
www.mandalatribal.com
Watch for a new website to be unveiled in the new year!
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