Here Comes Winter

Well it’s the last day of 2011 (Roll on 2012). It’s a time when many of us evaluate our previous year and look at what changes we aim to make in the coming year.

Sometimes we need to come to terms with someone else’s choice to walk away from us.

Regardless of whoever you are and what your situation is, there’s likely to be one or two things you’d like to change about your life. Relationship status, working life, home projects, creative pursuits – all possible areas you may be thinking of at this moment – or could be thinking of as the case may be.

Whenever I have been down (heartbroken) due to a break up, goal setting was ALWAYS one of my allies. With goal setting it’s, in a sense, a chance for me to take some of my proverbial power back.

Maybe like you, I might not have had any say in the matter when one of my exes left, but I did have control over what I did next. There’s only so long you can sit around and mope, cry, feel angry, bitter, heartbroken, frustrated, confused, etc.

Eventually you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get marching down the road to recovery. You have to be open to all possibilities. When you’re feeling sad and staring at your past mourning what could have been, it’s possible to get so hung up looking backwards you miss out on the opportunities being presented to you. It’s hard to imagine, when you’re in the thick of it, that things are going according to some sort of plan. Well, in my experience anyway.

So why not take this weekend and sit down and write out some aims you have for 2012?

Incidentally, a few of mine are:

1. Listen More
2. Judge Less
3. Travel Often
4. Help Others
5. Buy Less
6. Eat Healthier
7. Exercise Frequently
8. Thank Others
9. Laugh Lots
10. Love Again

Like I say, there just ten of what’s starting to be a very long list that I’ve been working on since 6:30 AM this morning (damn jetlag).

Also on my list are things like Be Happy, Let Go, Forgive Friends, Live With Integrity and so forth…I guess we all just need to be open to all possibilities.

What are some of your 2012 aims then?

Finally, I just want to wish all of you who visit SYBD an even better 2012 – whatever sort of year you had – may 2012 be even better in every way for you. For all of us. Thank you for being there.

Love, Thea x