Remember how you needed a permission slip to get anywhere in school?  A slip to the library or the bathroom or the cafeteria. Well, I am going to give you a PERMISSION SLIP to be a new you!

We have so many reasons that we cannot do or be things.  Our parents were mean to us.  We did not get the promotion we wanted.  The BOD we wanted to be on did not want us.  The flight we wanted to be on was full.  We can’t lose that weight because it is cold outside and we don’t have the money for the new cool athletic shoes.

Whatever!

There is not one of us that has not failed big time and often.  I could recount so many times that I failed to do or be…without character or integrity because it was hard or I did not know how.  Of course I made excuses for myself and really and truly believed them at the time.

Well you know what, 2012 is calling and it has your name all over it. Whether you read the Mayan calendar about the end of the world, or listen to the spiritual leaders who say 2012 is the best year for our world, it does not matter.  What matters is taking a good long look in the mirror and liking, maybe for the first time, what you see.

Self-acceptance and self-love have gotten short shrift for too long. 

Take a dance lesson.  Or a singing lesson.  Or offer your talents to a school; mission; church; family member; enemy. 

I am going to be ringing in 2012 with the fullest amount of joy I can find.  I believe a warm fire, my puppy and my gratitude journal will be right there when the year turns from 2011 to 2012.

You are a really marvelous human who may have forgotten just how terrific you are.  Come join me on New Year’s Eve and let me remind you of how you contribute so deeply to life.  We will record the conversation so you can listen to it later when you begin to doubt you again.

If you have difficulty finding anything good about you then turn all the lights off, sit quietly and listen to your breath.  It is the most astounding experience to just sit and admire how your body works with NO  help from you.  Be simple.  Be present.  Be in awe.

May you experience a stunning 2012.