So, as many of us prepare our New Year’s Resolutions (and I was right on board as I am every year, glutton for punishment that I am), I serendipitously found myself reading a blog post from 2008.
A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to win a copy of Gretchen Rubin’s best selling book, The Happiness Project, in which she documents her year-long adventures in trying out different ways to find happiness.
And so fast forward to yesterday when I stumbled on a blog post she wrote that is a twist on our normal resolutions. And since I wanted to forge a new new NEW path this year, I decided I would start with her idea for Twelve Commandments – read her post, and see if you are as inspired as I was…
My Twelve Commandments
- Be Anjanette
- Relax & breathe
- Find the fun
- Be grateful
- Live & love with my whole heart
- Recognise opportunity
- Live in the now
- Accept love
- Let go of guilt & obligation
- Be kind, first to myself
- Under-think, not over-think
- Go with my gut
Rather than set myself up for failure with, let’s face it, impossibly huge tasks like “Eat clean” and “Exercise every day”, I wanted to put something down that would speak more to me as a person. I wanted something that I could take to remind myself each day to truly live authentically. This hit the spot…
I’ll be working through the book, on this and other projects that take my fancy throughout the year…care to join me?
