A New Years Resolution idea worth sticking with… Bring on 2012!!
Posted in Keep it Simple on 31. Dec, 2011
I have 3 words to eliminate in 2012 as much as possible. If I can achieve this… it will be my best year yet!!
COULDA WOULDA SHOULDA
Why? Because if there is one thought process I would love to drop the most, it would be that. Looking back and wishing things were different, that my decisions were different. Such a futile torturous timewaster…
Happy NYE!! Resolution No. 1: Be kind to myself...
How many times will we say this to ourselves??
We (aka, I) literally shoulda woulda coulda all over ourselves.
Over and over and over …. And then some more again.
It’s a broken record that can’t be fixed.
I once heard a great way of looking at past decisions.
That looking back and wishing another choice is so unfair.
Because in the moment we made it we most likely felt good about the choice.
In that it was the the thing to do.
It was the right choice at the time.
How cruel to ourselves to think back that it should have been otherwise.
It was right then.
You cannot look back and judge yourself now, at a different time and place.
Yet we do.
And that is totally unfair… To yourself.
Have you heard that great expression:
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans” ??
Can we just stop trying to get there and just be?? Just a little more would make a BIG difference… You have heard that a million times, maybe more, right? Me too. But I seem to keep forgetting, just a little bit!
Let’s just keep giving it our best shot. Because life happens, here, right now. And maybe the best plan and resolution for 2012 is just to live…
Happy Happy 2012 – may you be kind to yourself and others
LIVES OF A WOMAN. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Shine Brightly, Live lightly
Elli J xx
