New Year, New Me - or maybe not

Inspiration occurs when people dare to be real

While getting my hair rinsed at the salon, I made a comment like "New year, new me, or so they say." From the back, I hear, "no... no...no," and then a stylist pops out and says, "you are enough. You are fine just the way you are!"

After a good laugh, I thought about what she said and how New Year's resolutions are one of those things that can be for fun but too often it is just another thing that adds to us feeling poor about ourselves. Whether it is feeling we need to improve or failing at what we strive to fix.

And in reality, as I face my 52nd year on this earth, I don't want to be a new me, just more freedom to be the full me. So, less worrying, more stretching and no guilt when I do the things I want to do - l

ike write, game, photograph, and sleep.

So, for 2025, strive for more of You. You ARE enough just the way you ARE!