Time to Level Up 

Instead of just wishing for a better 2022, take time to reflect on how you could have made 2021 better. Analyse the factors that made 2021 wow or blah for you. 

Honestly review your decisions, your actions, what led to good outcomes, and what could have been done better. 

Do not take into account any factors outside your control. Remember you can and should only want to, control your own actions and reactions.  

Use your free will to make life choices that integrate and celebrate your truth. How you think or act is wholly your responsibility. Nobody makes you feel anything but you. You decide how you feel; nobody can make you mad, bad, or glad as it is solely your decision how you choose to react to what you feel. The truth is, you are the sole decision-maker when it comes to what your feelings, thoughts, and actions are going to be in relation to any person or situation. Let me clarify; Yes, you are in control of how you feel about your feelings. For example, if your person cheated on you, you can either stoke your misery with feelings of hatred, sadness or decide that you are not going to let another’s action imprint on your psyche and steal your happiness. You can decide to refuse to hold on to your feelings regarding the situation or person indefinitely. Work on processing the hurt, the pain, the anger until you get to a space where you can forgive and let go, no longer triggered because you have dealt with the trauma in a manner that returned you to being rooted in love. This will heighten your sense of compassion for yourself and others. 

The life you live is your creation, your legacy. The awareness that your every thought, word, action, and choice has brought you to where you are situated today. It will dictate the shape of your tomorrow and help you to recognize the importance of taking time to connect with your heartsoul. 

The sun heralds the break of a new day to remind us that as the authors of our life story we too can change our life script whenever our inner wisdom encourages us to make a fresh start. A life well-lived reflects all the genres, from mysteries, thrillers, comedies, dramas to the fantastical thrown in for good measure. 

Trust that these quotes will inspire you to make life decisions that support you in living the life of your dreams in 2022. 

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life - Adele Brookman 

Don’t let your mind run amuck with you, remember that you choose how to feel at any given moment. Believe in yourself. Learn to connect to your soul, and let your inner wisdom reveal the answers for your soul will show you the way. Learn to focus on possibilities not only on obstructions. Your imagination is the genesis of your creativity; it's better to imagine gloom than doom as the former will inspire you to take action to realize your vision whereas the latter will force you into stagnation as you will allow fear to paralyze you into staying stuck in your comfort zone. 

A comfort zone is a prison that curtails your expansion by blanketing you with the false security of the familiar. Use your imagination to expand your world by releasing limiting beliefs that shackle you to the mundane and instead allow your mind to embrace all possibilities powered by your imagination; underwritten by actionable ideas that allow you to live your best life.  

Use your imagination to liberate yourself from the mundane to see possibilities where others see hurdles. Your imagination is the juice that unlocks your creativity so use it to inspire you to live a fulfilling life; not to imprison you in a toxic mind loop of terror. Recognize that your Imagination can take you out of your mind and into your heart which is the gateway to leading a fulfilling life. 

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it - Fred Allen 

You indeed are the author of your life story. Your decisions are what fleshes out your life story. Enjoy the process of creating your life. Recognize that your heart always KNOWS the right choice therefore follow its guidance. Let your choices be underwritten by your heart and informed by your mind and you will surely live a fulfilled life. 

The authentic self is the soul made visible - Sarah Ban Breathnach 

Feelings is the language of the heartsoul, listen to your heartsoul, it always knows what's best for your highest good. Find the truth within yourself and live in accordance with that truth letting your words and deeds align with your innate truth. When you take time to connect with the deeper parts of yourself the shadows of your own psyche are laid bare. Expressing who you are within requires courage and faith. It's less challenging to conform to others' expectations, projections, and judgements. Understand that personal authenticity rewards you with the peace of congruency as you are no longer fighting yourself when you release the fictional self that others will you to be.   

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy -Lucille Ball 

Strange but true, we tend to veer towards doing the things that others expect of us instead of what brings joy to our soul. We call it being responsible and selfless but fail to recognize that it borders on the masochistic to withhold joy from yourself. A happy person emanates a frequency of upliftment to others with their mere presence so start prioritizing Your happiness in order to create a better world for all of us.  

You don’t get to choose how you're going to die, or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now - Joan Baez 

How you live is your choice. Sure, you cannot control the circumstances of your life but never forget; you decide your response to the happenings in your life. Life continues unabated whether you live it or just endure it. 

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced - James Baldwin  

It takes courage to face reality but that is the only way to discern the good and bad of any given situation. Progress is actualized because the examined situation reveals the truth of it, warts and all. You cannot change what you don’t understand, that is why knowledge is death to ignorance. 

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way - Richard Bach 

Recognize that the gift of choice is underwritten by your will. It is your will that determines how you fare in life as only you get to choose how you respond to the situations that life puts you in. 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly - Richard Bach 

Rebirth is painful because you have to let go of who you thought you were to return to your authentic self; you release all that is vanity in order to align with your soul and you will be rewarded to feeling you found your true north, finally feeling totally at home in your own skin.  

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself - Richard Bach 

Putting yourself first should be easy, but it appears to be the hardest thing for the majority of us as we are conditioned to view it as despicable and selfish when we don’t put others' needs ahead of our own. But the sad truth is that being selfless equates to thinking less of self, which is you. When you nurture yourself first then you can give others from your overflow of abundance without expectation, which is unconditional, as it should be.