Going into 2019 with the weight of the world not on my shoulders is a great feeling. How did I get there? With the weight of wisdom piled on instead.
This is what I have learned and the things I will choose for 2019. Feel free to take what you want to claim for your own life, too.
- I will have productive days by minding my own business.
- I decided on January 1st it was going to be a good year no matter what happens.
- I will go to the gym, drink my water and deal with the shit in my heart.
- I will trust my next chapter of my life because I truly trust the Author of my life. Spoiler alert: The author is God.
- I will be drawing back from commitments. Closed for spiritual maintenance.
- I am healing, and I am happy because I have realized happiness comes from within. Not a person, place or thing.
- I don’t know what’s next, but I step forward with Grit anchored in Grace.
- I trust good things are coming.
- I will not let others or myself speak ill of others.
- I have permission to be who I was created be.
- I will obsessively grateful.
- I will move, literally.
- I will focus on those who love me and not those who don’t.
- I will whisper wtf 25 times a day and not 50.
- I set out to be a good a parent before kids and I will remember that I am a damn good mom, even when others don’t.
- I will remember that God wins.
- I will remember that Thomas Jefferson said, “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances”.
- I will spend time only with those who make me laugh until I am physically in pain. They are my favorite kind of people.
- I will make sure those who bring me peace get the most time.
- I will kill painful memories by creating new ones.
- I won’t hold myself hostage to who I use to be or to who someone else thinks I am.
- I will pay attention to others mindset rather than just their looks.
- I will listen to the truest voice and not the loudest voice.
- I know that failure is not final, but a stepping stone.
- I will have confidence in what I know to be true and not how I feel.
- I will not accept shit that I hate.
- I will not create a label because labels create limits.
- I will BOSS UP! I got a dream to chase after.
- I will love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant to be.
- I am flawed but I am still worthy.
- I will keep changing.
- I will keep losing one pound at a time.
- I am excited to write a new story.
- I am going to make everything around me: beautiful.
- I will embrace uncertainty.
- I am not going to prove my worth to people who are determined to find me unworthy.
- I will continue to love God, My children and myself.
- I will put relationship over being right. NO MORE LAST WORD QUEEN.
- I will let it go or let it be.
- I will not shrink myself to make others comfortable.
- I will not take swimming lessons from drowning people.
- I will chant “why the Fuck not me”. New life motto!
- I will remember vulnerability is a beautiful strength.
- I am brave and bruised, but I am still beautiful.
- I will follow Isaiah 60:22 and Isaiah 43:19 this year. “For I am about to do something new” & “When the time is right, I will make it happen”
I am excited for this year and I hope you are, too.
** In 2018, I started following great leaders and wrote down anything that made my heart jump. I have screen shots, I print them out, I write them in my kid’s books or journals. So please know these are all words from someone else’s mouth and I changed their words to be a personal mantra in my own life. **
Pure Grace 