So it’s already the first week of January 2014 and although I think new days are pretty good for starting over – New Year’s are really good for starting over.

Whatever it is, your image, your branding, your look, your priorities and your goals – now is the best time to start. And, if you fall off the bandwagon, the moment when you realize you fell off – is a good time to start again.

I love the start of things – it’s open to so much possibility and hope.  Hope for a great new year, amazing memories and life changing milestones.  Hope for a better tomorrow, a year of health, of happiness, of love, of peace, of a cure, of answers.

The mindset you have is really the way to accomplish all of your dreams and to attract a brilliant year and life your way.  I don’t know about you but I believe in the power of positivity, in “The Secret”, in “you get what you give”, in sending out positive energy to get positive energy and vice versa.

I believe in energy – inspired energy, and the conspiring of the whole universe to give you exactly what you wish for.

Each year I start out with goals for milestones and dreams to accomplish. Sometimes I hit them and sometimes I don’t. However, what I realized in this last year – and when I really started feeling true happiness – is that it’s really about the feeling that you have that will set your heart free and make you feel like you finally accomplished your goals.  This is something Danielle LaPorte recommends – acknowledging the feelings you want to feel for this year and marinate in that.  Not the goal – but the feeling.

For example I want to feel happy, loved, cherished, respected, butterflies, inspired, satisfaction, passion, joy, healthy, strong, fit, beautiful, empowered, courageous, determined, chemistry, connection, bold, authentic, safe, real, powerful, divine, blessed, humble, accomplished, like I make a difference, and excitement!!!

Feeling these would make me so happy – as opposed to (for example) loosing 10 lbs but still not feeling healthy or getting a great job but not feeling inspired or satisfied.  Do you see what I’m getting at?

If you could gain 5 lbs of muscle and feel strong, that is better than loosing 10 lbs and feeling gross.  Stop thinking about what society or what others view as success and decide it for yourself!

Perspective is everything.  It is 100% about not being the most beautiful, or richest girl in the world but FEELING like you are.  As opposed to being literally dubbed by magazines and society as being the most beautiful or richest girl in the world yet not liking what you see in the mirror, not thinking you are beautiful or having all that money can buy but having any riches of the heart.

Life is what you make it.  Make it what you want to feel.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”― Maya Angelou

Flip that on yourself. You may even forget what you said or what you did in the past – but you will never forget how you felt.  Use this to guide your future.

This week’s illustration is a tribute to the beautiful Olivia Palermo with congratulations on her recent engagement to Johannes Huebl

Hope that inspires you!

xoxo

Emily