New year choices

"Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time." -- Ann Landers This year has been a life altering year for me, from life, money to love. The beginning of the year, I took a stand and decided by mid to end I would work on following my dreams than be a 9-5 drone, wasting my life away, while my ultimate dreams would turn into faded memories of a life I want to have. In the new year of 2009 I celebrated it in at a gala with a wonderful friend, and now I end 2009 on a more so quiet note, working on fixing up my new studio, and getting things ready to fully open my jewelry line, after having a few months hiatus from life to get myself into the right frame of mind. I learned so much about others as well as myself. I learned how to open my heart up again, and just love again. I learned as well how to forgive even when my heart is just has so much hurt, that I would want to grow cold and evil. Even after seeing one of the people who killed a good friend of mine more than 10 years ago; out free to live his life. I took time to stop and decided that I would choose to forgive him, because the last lesson of the year is just about choice. We have a choice in life. We can choose to hate or love. We can choose to lie down and give up, or keep pushing to get something done. We can choose to stay in fear, or face our fear. Regardless of what is happening around us in our environment, we have the greatest option to choose. So this year I choose to continue to open my heart, to love regardless, because one day I know the right one will come to me, and I want to be as ready as I can be. I choose to continue to be successful; even there are pitfalls I will continue my climb up, it might look like I’m all over the place, but trust me I am not. I am just eccentric, but I do know my goal is and I am getting to it. I choose to continue to be happy even through the hard times, as well as forgive others because this life is too precious to go through it any other way. I choose to do things I have always wanted to do, I choose to be myself, stronger than before, as said earlier life is too precious to waste. This next year, I hope all your choices will lead you to greatness, success, true happiness, peace and love. I had to once in my life truly fall, and be aware of it, so I know when I fly I know to keep going up, and if anything tries to make me fall, or I stop flying I know what will happen. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. Mahatma Gandhi