A New Year...

It happened. Another year gone. Another year in the record books.

2013 was a year of ups and downs...good and bad...but, aren't they all?

A lesson I am learning is how to look at the past. I can choose to focus on the good, the wonderful, the fun, the amazing.

Or I can choose to focus on the bad, the negative, the sad.

I choose good. I choose amazing. I choose fun.

I choose to plow into 2014 the most positive I have ever been. The most active I have ever been. The most confident I have ever been. Fun loving, caring, excited, and free.

Someone once told me that nobody "makes" me mad...or sad...or any other emotion for that matter. It is a choice I make. I choose to let someone get to me so much that I become angry. I choose to let someone hurt me and I become sad.

On the flipside, I can choose to let someone in to my crazy world. I choose to love their goofiness...their nerdiness...their silliness, their wild side. I can chose to be happy and embrace all that is them.

I can let myself go and laugh with them. I can sing, even if they don't sing with me. I will dance, even if I'm the only one on the dance floor.

I will love the parts of them that maybe they think are weird, strange, or unimportant. I will love all of them, because those "weird" quirks are what makes each and every one of us special.

In the end, it doesn't matter. People won't remember if they heard me sing and it was horrendous. They won't remember if I screwed up the dance moves on the dance floor. What matters is that I was me...I didn't pretend to be something I'm not.

I let my "band geek" shine...


2014, listen up...You will not tell me what to do, what I can or cannot do. I dictate how this is going to go...

I will smile.
I will laugh.
I will love.
I will care.

I will dance.
I will sing.

I will find me.
I will experience life.
I will see new places.
I will meet new people.

I will get crazy.
I will do things by myself.
I will try something new.

I will love myself.