2009 - My year to shine

You may be saying to yourself today, I’m trying to recovery from a midlife divorce, "I don't feel like shining. I feel like something else that starts with sh .... (like shabby or short-changed ☺). I'm too sad to shine.”

You may have let someone else destroy your light. In fact, if they didn’t appreciate you enough to try to work things out in your marriage, they may have been destroying your light for some time. You may have put it under a bushel yourself from time to time. But you can’t change that. You can change this moment.

2009 is the time to relight your fire and let it blaze! You absolutely can change your life starting today… Regardless of all the dumb and ridiculous things that have gone on, they are past. It doesn’t matter. The past or what happened there has no ability to determine your future…. Unless you let it. Your circumstances may have changed … in fact your life may have changed dramatically.

But you have absolutely no power over anything that has already happened. It is done. But you have complete control over this instant, this minute, this moment. That’s all. So do something shiny this very moment. Smile and say “Good morning!” to someone. Read a verse from the Bible or some other inspirational writing. Write a note to a friend saying “Happy New Year!” and mean it. Every moment you breathe, you can shine. Are you breathing? Start shining!