New Year

Happy 2015 to all!

With the new year, inevitably, comes New Year Resolutions. With the setting of these annual goals, many of our minds go to everything we need to change about ourselves. “I need to gain weight” “I need to start exercising” “I need my acne to clear up” “I need to stop being so selfish” “I need to put more effort in to my daily appearance” “I need to make more money” “I need to try harder” “I need to be better.”

Setting personal goals and focusing on self improvement can be a fantastic and necessary habit. No one is perfect, but striving to be a more perfect version of ourselves is what leads to growth.

However, I argue that the most important thing that everyone “needs” to do this year is love themselves. Instead of focusing our minds on all of the qualities we lacked in 2014, look back and celebrate all you are and all you have accomplished. And this year, make it a resolution to not be so hard on yourself. Look in the mirror and tell yourself you are beautiful. Leave love notes to yourself in your wallet and stop participating in the negative discussions that happen among us on a daily basis. You are beautiful and you are enough and you are doing the best you can. You are good. Let that seep in to every pour until you feel it at your core. Repeat this until it is a constant ringing in the back of your mind: I LOVE MYSELF.

If we find a way to love ourselves unconditionally, 2015 is going to be the best year yet.