September is here and I am calling it the start of a new year.  Why!! It is not January!  Well actually I think it is. I think that new starts are good for energizing us towards our goals and September is the back to school month with new school supplies.  A senior executive at a large stationery store told me recently that they know that people love stationery.  Why?  Well apparently there is research to show that we associate stationery with back to school and that exciting feeling when everything is new and all your stationery is new too. Now I know why I drift around those stores buying stuff I really do not need but just have to have!  When you go back to school, even if you are dragging your heels there, it is true that each person has hopes and dreams or expectations that have not yet been worn down by the day to day grind (or homework). “This year I am going to do things differently” perspective. So September is the start of the new year.  Take it from me now.  It is always about choice of perspective. Many of you are already starting new projects in September, quitting old ones and some are literally going back to school and I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge each of you for your bold steps and courage with your plans and dreams.  Of course, living bigger brings with it its own challenges, but part of the learning is to bring awareness into how we focus or don’t focus our daily lives, so that we can better cope with the daily grind and don’t have it wear down our hopes and dreams so that they disappear and we became shells of our true selves. Rather, we use awareness to channel the hopes and dreams into action. And then we have compassion for ourselves.  Yes, compassion because otherwise we beat up on ourselves because we are not getting it “PERFECT”.  Remember, a dream without action is just a dream and no amount of positive thinking can get you there if you don’t take the baby steps first.  And if you wait until you get it perfect you will never get started.  So in the spirit of starting anew in September I am playing with the challenge of challenging you all to do one baby step each day towards a goal you have.  It can be to save for a trip next year. What step today can you take towards that?  It could be to receive a promotion.  It could be to heal your suffering and give up the pain that has been running your life.   Look at the end result of your goal, imagine what it would look like, feel it, touch it, find pictures or journal your goal or work with me on it in your sessions and then start looking for baby steps and take one each and every day. Use you calendar to place a check mark on the day once you have your baby step DONE or devise a system where you can check off your daily baby step each day you have completed it.

Start your day stating: Today a baby step for me towards (goal) is___________________________________.

Love and Light

Karen