Be okay.

Every year around this uphill January climb I start wondering what will this new year bring, what surprises await me? will it be happy? will it be sad? and most of the time I think of it as a passive process ie. what will IT do? Today I thought ..... HANG ON!!! I can do something about this. I am NOT at the mercy of what might happen!

I think this at other times (the not being at the mercy part) but today after paying a gazillion dollars in professional dues, having put out about 50 unexpected fires and feeling a little out of control I thought okay, all hands on deck - what am I going to do to make this a HAPPY 2014. So here goes , not exactly resolutions but more like things I need to do:

1) LET LIFE FLOW - if you know me, this will be hard, I have minimal ;) but prevalent control issues.

2) LET GO - if you know me, this will be hard, I have minimal ;) but prevalent letting go issues.

3) BREATHE - easy to say eh? Cant really NOT breathe, physiologically impossible. But I mean breathe in a Namaste West Coast kinda way.

4) LOOK AROUND - I do this already all the time but I want to be MINDFUL when I look around.

5) TAKE TIME TO BE QUIET AND SERENE - if you know me, THIS WILL BE HARD!!! I have minimal ;) but prevalent be quiet and serene issues. Clearly this is an ongoing theme.

6) I am mostly okay, but be MORE okay (overachieving eh?) should go on the list. Now I am just going to be stressed about being okay - Oh yeah forgot #3 BREATHE.

7) On the more mundane list of things I'd like to accomplish: Publish my short stories, take photography classes, visit Rome and walk the streets while being MINDFUL, continue to do the job that I love, eat healthy and exercise plus all of the other expected resolutions stuff.

Wish me luck. Namaste.