New Year, Same Me

This year I am giving myself permission. Permission that when that clock strikes twelve and turns over to 12:01, I can be the same person that I was at 11:59. There is no magic spell that is going to change me into either Cinderella or a pumpkin.

I’m giving myself permission to still be the same person. The difference is I want to be the same person but on the path to growth. On the path to change. On the path to progress.

Change is not something I expect to immediately happen, like I’m a new person on January first and I’m going to live my life a completely different way in the next year.

Instead, what I’m going to do is to start the new year as the same person, with all the same flaws. And with those flaws and quirks and idiosyncrasies in mind, I can focus on creating sustainable change.

That doesn’t mean perfect change. It doesn’t mean that if my goal is to get up at 715 every day or earlier that I’m going to do it every day, but that I’m working on building that habit.

So the same me, with all of my flaws, on the path to growth.

And that’s what I think is going to make the difference. Creating goals and systems for myself not with the perfect ideal me in mind–as Sarra Cannon says in her Heart Breathings programs. 

But with my imperfect self in mind. With the hope of becoming the me that I know I can be. 

So that’s what I’m doing differently this year.

I’m still creating goals. I want to change, I want that fantastic new year energy. But I’m going to use it with a little more compassion and a little more realism about who I am and what amount of change or transformation is sustainable at any given moment.

 This year, by December 31st, I want to have grown. Healed. Lived. So to do that, I’m going to take the Leap. I’m going to publish my first book and give my dreams my very best effort. 

Care to join? Comment below with what you’re hoping to accomplish this year so I can cheer for you!