Hi Everybody :)

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful festive season and are well rested in anticipation of 2009...

To those of you that have resolved I hope it goes well for you :) Admittedly the only New Year’s resolution I ever managed to sustain was the: “I will never make another New Year’s resolution as long as I live” resolution :P It was very liberating I can say in all honesty; getting to February sans the guilt of failed good intentions, exercise plans, health regimes and the breaking of bad habits...

This year I have decided much more to look at a new year from the point of goals, and achieving specific realistic goals as opposed to simply trying to ‘re-wire’ my personality with a bunch of resolutions normally made as under indulgent circumstances. As a friend once said to me: it is always easiest to say you will give up your excesses when you are smack dab in the middle of them, you can’t quite connect with a sense of lack while in the midst of excess...

Goals also don’t imply restriction and rules in the same way that resolutions do... It is much the same as being ravenously hungry the minute you say you are on a diet, the mind seems to go into panic mode. Saying “I intend to achieve this or that” seems a lot easier to digest that “I will not do this or that”, if in the achieving of goals you need to say no to certain things it somehow seems easier than simply having to say no because you have resolved to say no... So this year I am taking the tack of saying yes to the positives rather than no to the negatives :)

But to the jaded I say; find your optimism for the new year, I think the mental thing of seeing out the old year on an arbitrary date as if it were some how magical is highly under-rated. We all like the idea of a clean slate, and if that is what the first day of January implies, then go with it, start your fresh start and enjoy every minute of it as long as it lasts :)

Have a fabulous January!

Love and light

Cesca & Nat

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