Fresh beginnings

Hey there, and happy new year to all!

I hope everyone is well after Christmas and are looking forward to a bright and shiny new year.

Enough chit chat - I'm going to launch right in! I have given a lot of thought to this blog, and am often thinking of posts I’d like to write, and yet I do not update very often at all. Add to this the idea of creating a post after my previous post (so sad). But I think ultimately I’ve been held back by not knowing what the blog is about. Then, in a flash of insight, I realised that it’s about whatever I want it to be about! It doesn’t have to have a theme, and way of delivering messages (a photo a day, inspirational quotes etc.) - it just has to be about whatever I want to put in there. I’m into heaps of different stuff, so what better outlet to get all of this stuff out of my head and into a creative outlet than a blog. Brilliant!

I was inspired to create a blog by the awesome folks over a The Best Life Ever (http://www.thebestlifeever.blogspot.com/) as their blog, and whole life for that matter, is open and sincere and I wanted me some of that. But by comparing myself (or more specifically my life) to others only led to frustration and a feeling that I’m not living up to my idea of happiness. So enough. I’ve decided that I will have a blog like mine, not like anybody elses. And that’s just dandy.

Plus, I've realised it's not just enough to write a blog and send it out into the vacuum of space without also putting myself out there into the big, wide world. I commented on a blog recently and the author kindly replied (using my name - wow!), and I must confess that I was so incredibly jazzed at this connection. Now I'm determined and resolved to join in and play well with others.

I love a bit of planning. I love lists. I love reflecting and nutting out problems. I love thinking about ways to live a better, happier, more creative, more intuitive etc. (all those good things) life. I read veraciously about these topics and feel excitement coursing through my being when I hit on brilliant concepts and ideas that just resonate. But then I find I’m still not making the changes necessary to move forward. I am, you might stay, stuck.

With the end of the year approaching my mania for planning (or intentioning as the excellent Danielle LaPorte would say) added to my equal mania for gettin’ my happy on, has led me to a point where I am not only going to make a list but actually follow through on it. Crazy concept, but just crazy enough to work.

I’m just so gosh darn excited about the possibilities!

That said, I’m looking forward to seeing what is in store in Blogland: 2010.

Happy New Year everyone.

Cheers
Tracy