Just last month, we turned the calendar page on a New Year. It’s funny how every thirty days or so, we turn a calendar page on a new month. While you could feel anxious at how fast time seems to be flying by, I’m writing to give you a chance to breathe.

You’re not late. You’re not behind. You are exactly where you need to be. You might be judging yourself against where you wanted to be. 

It’s all perspective, isn’t it!

In some ways, we’re all the three-year-old, stamping their foot yelling, “but I am a big kid!” We’re all in the place of the teenager making awkward choices. The difference now, is that we have perspective. We know that doing anything new is uncomfortable and will feel awkward. 

We also know that what we do – or don’t do – affects the future. 

That’s what makes us worry and have regret.

Regret and shame are history-based while worry is the misuse of imagination for the future. Carrying regret or shame about something you cannot change doesn’t serve you. It drains your energy. The past is behind you, and worrying about what might happen is also a waste of energy as you misdirect your imagination down a path of disaster vs. directing that same energy toward your Envisioned Positive Outcome (or your EPO, which I described in my first book, Choosing Your Power). 

That future outcome starts NOW. Right now. You decide. You decide what you want to have. You decide what you’ll do. And you decide who you want to become. If you want to become a person of elegance and high achievement, you get to decide to act in that way now. Act, as in “take action.”

The seeds you plant today allow you to begin anew. Today. New decisions mean new outcomes. And that is what becoming anew really means. You’re not shedding who you were. In becoming anew, you honor your past and carry forward your wisdom. 

Everything that you went through to this point got you to this point. To have, do, or become more, you need to decide on what you want, then take action to get there. 

As you read this, you had flashes of what you wanted. You grow every day. Do so consciously. Decide your best next step to get to your Next Big Next! Become Anew, today!

Keep making your magic.

See you here next week!

= Wayne =