Happy New Year!!

The tiger is a fierce creature....bold, brave, fast, dangerous, lovable, beautiful. It is now 2010 and for me, a special year, MY YEAR - the Chinese year of the Tiger. All of the planning and visualising and promising and fantasizing that I did in '09 is now being put into practice. The stars have aligned for me (as they do every 12 years in the Chinese zodiac calendar) and now is the time for me to strike while the irons are hot! Like a tiger, my strategy is to hunt my aspirations, wait for the door opportunity to open the POUNCE on the chance for greatness. I have 35 years now under my belt and there are no more excuses to be made when it comes to going after my heart's desires...watch out world, the next 364 days are going to be amazing!

MIND: My mind is clear and I know what I want out of this year. I am refocused and recommitted to my family, my artwork, my community and most importantly - myself. It is as if I have been reintroduced to the person I once thought I was going to be many years ago. In life, sometimes it is better to arrive late than to never be present at all.

BODY: Well, that is going to be my year-long service project. My commitment is to serve my body several weekly servings of cardio and strength training in the desire to go from flab to FAB. I have just had my last servings of chocolate ( in the form of a brownie), junk (cheetos and cookies) and worst of all...fast food (damn, I'm gonna miss McDonald's and Burger King).

SOUL: Oh how I love New Year's Day. It is so exciting to have an official start to a new set of plans and goals and aspirations. I think that over the last decade I have been afraid of my own success and subconsciously thwarted my own progress. If I don't succeed, then nobody can expect or want more from me. How un-loving is that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? From now on I am going to love me for me and get back to envisioning myself as a soul with so much to give back to the world. In 2009 I realized that I have so many things to love about life - MY life. No longer will I waste the days that God blesses me with by focusing on what I don't have or what I haven't achieved. Each day is the chance for me to be better, LOVElier and more peaceful.

ETC: The song for today 1/1/10......."Just Fine" by Mary J. Blige. Hear it, sing it, LOVE IT!!