Happy New Year courtesy Facebook.com
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?
What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?
What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?
Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down – as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”
― Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series
Today, January 1st 2014, is a New Beginning for everyone.
I don’t usually go in for really long quotes but I think it’s all been said here. It encapsulated what we’ve done over the past month getting ready for the new year to arrive, getting our plan made for 2014 to be a great year and also reflecting on what we did in 2013. After all, if something worked really well you don’t toss it out just because you turned a page. A New beginning is like that.
This year is a special year. We have already had the great New Year’s Eve celebrations, which we watched from home since I can’t drink – not a single drop! Truthfully, after the past several years I’m not missing it at all. I used to feel slightly left out at parties, but it’s been so long now that I don’t miss it any longer. At least I can remember what I did the night before and I don’t have to worry about spiked drinks. In fact, the only spiking I was likely to see was if I stabbed myself with a toothpick from the fruit in my drink! A dangerous life but a New Beginning.
So this year we have followed the same pattern as the previous few which has been our own New Beginning. We have our own celebration, a releasing of the old energies and a welcoming in of the new; wishes for the coming year for both ourselves and for the world. It’s a quieter night, but there is a huge amount of peaceful gratitude when we have finished.
This year is even brighter with a New Moon falling tomorrow night. We have another ceremony planned, with the powerful energies from the heavens to boost the ceremony of tonight. If you want to talk about being on a high, well we’re certainly feeling that. Surrounded by fireworks as we concluded our ceremony earlier and in the right head space for the next ceremony, it is a beautiful feeling to begin the year.
Australia greets the New Year before anywhere else so, I’ll wish everyone else a wonderful New Year’s Eve and a great New Year’s Day. If you’re having a New Moon ceremony, I wish you as wonderful a ceremony as we have planned. Let 2014 be a year of peace, laughter, fun and harmony, and “The Messenger” will bring the beauty in.
The Messenger: from http://www.Josephine wall art.co.uk
Bright Blessings for 2014, Susan x
© Susan Jamieson 2014
Owls and Orchids 
Thank you for the wishes Susan. I have also removed the alcohol from my repertoire and saw the new year in on the phone with a friend going through some troubling times. That gave me more pleasure than the nights of drunken parties and no memory of the event the next day. Happy new year and may your ceremonies bring in the life and love that you wish to live. Namaste
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Thank you Mark, your wishes are warmly appreciated. I hope your friend is well. Blessings, Susan x
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Lovely post Susan. Happy New Year, I hope 2014 is a year of love, good health and happiness. Love Jenna
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Many thanks Jenna, I hope 2014 is kind to you also. I have a good feeling about this year so I’ll happily spread it around.
Blessings Susan x
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Thank you for the guidance and inspiration, Susan. You remind me of my promise to myself to write goals and affirmations down, along with observations about 2013. I hope your New Moon celebration is splendid, and ushers in a new year that is full of excitement, comfort and joy. xoxo
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Many thanks Chloe, we’ve had a beautiful evening. Lovely weather only slightly marred by a bushfire on a nearby headland. It is the season for them and we have just heard one of the islands was evacuated of tourists due to a bushfire. Some rain would dampen things down and save the wildlife, but all are okay so far.
Wishing you light moments as you dance across the floor, Blessings, Susan x
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Happy New Year! Wishing you the best in 2014. 😀
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You too Jenny, Love the new haircut 🙂 Ooh – and really would have loved the coffee!
Blessings, Susan x
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Happy New Year! Wishing you a wonderful 2014 and a magical New Moon ceremony. And thank you for the reminder about the New Moon. I’ve been so tired lately that I lost track of the moon cycle.
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Yes, that tiredness creeps up and then hangs around like a bad smell… New Moon ceremony all done and beautifully so. Had a good time and feel great. The smell of the bushfire from the headland was worrying, but as long as no-one gets hurt…Two weeks to the full moon 🙂
Blessings Susan x
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I’m glad your New Moon ceremony went well and I hope the bushfire is now contained.
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We’re safe Trisha, a small shower may have dampened things a little, but we’re getting more tomorrow – rain, (fingers crossed). The smoke is really strong so I worry about the asthmatics. Everything seems okay though so we wait and see. Out west they are having temps up in the low 50’s. Ugh – too hot for me.
Bless, Susan x
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Happy New Year Susan! Wishing you a year of joy, love and inner peace!
Blessings to you and your loved ones, Virginie
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tzu
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Many thanks Virginie, I love that quote. I hope you enjoyed your New Year celebration, however you held it. It’s always so strange watching the fire works tonight as they go round the world… Stay safe and keep smiling.
Blessings Susan x
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Love the quote. Hoping your 2014 is the best yet!
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Happy New Year and thanks for the beautiful post. May the New Year bring you glad tidings and an abundance of goodwill towards you and yours, and may you find fulfillment in all your undertakings.
I nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award: http://dottaraphels.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/sisterhood-of-the-world-bloggers-award/
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Many thanks, I’ll try yo get to it as soon as possible 🙂 Blessings Susan x
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Reblogged this on Life Change 90 and commented:
For a first of the year blog post, this one pretty well sums it up – succinctly tells you why and how it is so important to start the new year off properly!
Ray
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Very well stated Susan, and combined with a quote so on point.
This year our entire household is looking at our finances and having a better look at exactly what we do with our money and how we are using it to do better in the world.
Like any other goal, we have taken the time to write things down and try to organize our intent in steps so we don;t go off track!
Writing it down I think will really help 🙂
Thanks for sharing..
ML
xx
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