Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!!!! Good morning everyone J Could today be any more awesome?!?! Yesterday was New Years Day and today is Monday so it is two days in a row of fresh starts...woot!! In case you can’t tell, I just love this time of year J It is an opportunity to reflect on where your life is at, where you would like it to be and begin planning how to get there. It’s a point in time to let go of past failings, past tensions, past disappointments and begin to look towards a bright future...and this year is going to be bright!!

For Christmas, I received a wonderful book from my brother, Ben, and his gorgeous girlfriend, Jayde, called Don’t sweat the small stuff...and it’s all small stuff by Richard Carlson. If, like me, you are stressed out and frantic most of the time then I highly recommend reading this book! It really puts things in perspective and is genuinely helping me to cope with life on a daily basis. For example, the old Kate would have been having a conniption that coming into the New Year I had washing piled up in the bedroom, I had not set goals, filled my calendar or basically planned my life to the nth degree. Instead, after reading this book, I realise that my “in-tray” will never be empty and that I am the only one putting these extreme standards and expectations on myself. I have shifted my focus from “getting things done” to enjoying all the steps along the way. I have to keep reminding myself of this of course, but it is undoubtedly helping me to chill out and enjoy the journey J

As you can imagine, there are sooooo many quotes and paragraphs that I want to share with you from the book and no doubt I will be doing that over the coming weeks. But there is one in particular that I want to share with you today. It is the beautiful inspiring and uplifting message my brother wrote inside the front cover of the book...           

Dear Kate,

Hope this book helps you on your journey towards a happier, relaxed and more organised future. As the old saying goes, if you fall off the horse, you just have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and say “Fuck horseriding!”

Lots of love Ben and Jayde xoxo

Lol, talk about inspiring! I love it J Hope it puts a spring in your step to start out the first week of 2012. I am really looking forward to sharing this journey with all of you as we take on 2012 and make it our best year yet!!! Happy New Year J