2013 Here I Come!
“We will open
the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to
put words on them ourselves.
The book is
called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
The “Rage” that drives me…
The rage that drives me in everything I do is my motivation - my
motivation for achieving success, for exceeding goals and challenges, and also for
striving for what I consider perfection (a word I despise so much but can’t
escape). And in this eve of 2013 - more than ever - I am ready to continue from
the momentum I have built in 2012, so that this upcoming year can be the
greatest off set for what to follow…
While not all is textbook scripture, you
have to know you are going in the right direction to want to keep pushing and
going forward; nothing translates motivation better than results (positive or
negative results). Results are (for me) what determine my next step… results
and motivation are one in the same… a distinction without a difference.
Motivation is a drive that responds to
feelings and ignites action. When in retrospect you review all of your actions,
you come to learn that they were fueled by your ultimate drive… motivation
So this year I am going to cheer to my
momentum! I am going to continue on the road I have started and toss out the habitual “New Year’s Resolution” thing! After
all, improvement is an everyday thing not a year-end one! The worthy goals or
“resolutions” (i.e.: not the losing weight, not the “making it rich overnight”…)
I set for myself in 2012 are the everyday work-in-progress type (for the most
part), and can’t truly be achieved in a year’s span… and probably not even in a
life span. So every day, until I achieve the better me, I will continue to
learn from my past, review it so I can revise and reset my present so my future
can meet the standards that I want and need for myself.
So in this new “self-book” we are about to
open in 2013, let’s be gentle to ourselves… I will at least lighten up on
myself, because the habit of making plans, self-analyzing, self-criticizing and molding my life is now a daily occurrence. For me, at the end of the day – or
of my days - I KNOW I was born to be real…not perfect…
2013 is not the start of a new Rose… it is
the sequel… the continuation and progression of what was written on the 1st
page of 2012…
Happy New Year!
RosieSandz
Be you
“You were born to be real, not to be perfect.
You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.
Every day you make some progress and every day
you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your
experience continues to broaden.
Be gentle with yourself. Accept who you are,
where you have been, and what you have to work with, for in this moment you can
make positive use of it all.
Reach in and touch the purpose that makes you
feel most alive. The world around you is filled with places where that purpose
can do great things.
It is never too late to offer your unique and
genuine gifts to life. Now is the time to do great things, even in the smallest
of ways.
Choose to fully and graciously live life as it
comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give
of yourself”
-- Ralph Marston
