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Happy New Year everyone!
How has your holidays been? Mine was super-duper-busy and fun. Like everyone, I embrace and welcome 2014 with love and hope.
It was year 2013 when I have, after a long time, resumed making a New Year's resolution (more on why I resumed - here). To welcome 2014, I got up at 5am December 31, 2013 and made my New Year's resolution, this time adding a year end review.
Adding the year-end review made me look back with gratefulness for what 2013 has brought to my family and I. I tried to cover all aspects that meant to me. A year end review and goals for myself, my familial and spiritual relationships, my finances, my fitness, my family business all the way to my travels.
It was a novel. I made the entries succinct already free from my ramblings but it still stretched 5 pages long. It was a good and liberating exercise. It made me realize my strengths and acknowledge my weaknesses. With it I face 2014 with goals that are gentler and kinder, with a mind that is at peace and with a heart full of gratitude and love.
But if there is one thing that resounds in all my resolutions it is being PRESENT. I want to be truly present in everything I do. Sometimes, in the busyness of work and kids and homemaking, I miss enjoying the present moment. Forever tense, thinking of the next errand and ending up with half-baked results. The kids are growing up fast (sniff, sniff) and I want to be present to enjoy them today not tomorrow.
2014. New Year. New Beginnings.
Amidst the busyness of parenthood, I wish that all of you will find your truest and purest joy this 2014.
