I haven’t set resolutions in years.  I don’t believe in them.  I love setting intentions instead.  Not like a to-do list, but experiences, feelings, the energy of bliss.  So it’s not a bucket list, but a bliss list.  If I tell myself I am not allowed to do or have something, I will fight against it.  I am a rebel.  And I don’t like feeling limitations.  I love freedom.  I do the inner work and now know the real power we actually have in making changes and creating our own happiness.

Recently I have read about the idea of “free will” not existing, but I have seen people break patterns, shift their blocks, and transform their lives.  Science versus woo woo or spirituality.  I like to question everything.  I love new theories. I also know there are many truths that can co-exist and I would rather have the variety and expansion of always learning.  I like making deliberate choices and focusing on what I actually want.  I understand our subconscious has a big part, but I think we just keep making choices and that new energy starts to change us.

A few years ago, I had low self-esteem.  I had so many negative thoughts running through my head.  I had to change my mind.  It was through books, videos, music, and doing things different.  I started posting on Facebook and letting myself try on the real happy, not just the front.  Blogger me created the new me.

November 30, 2010:  Jenny G. Perry is happy, as usual. It takes effort. Instead of always being on a roller coaster, which life can seem, I try to find the happy where I can. It’s not when things re perfect, or I can do everything right, it’s now. That’s my focus, on what I can be happy about in this moment. Sweet dreams!

December 15, 2011:  I do not need to have the answers for anyone else, only me. I know that LOVE is the answer for me. I believe in love. I see it everywhere. I feel it everywhere. What others believe is none of my beeswax. How freeing. I can just love them, as souls, as beings. It all starts with me.

December 23, 2011.  If someone posts only negative posts, I may chose to delete them. Nothing personal. This doesn’t make them bad or wrong, it just means we are not a match. My sunny disposition probably annoys the crap outta you, it’s all good. I’ll send you love and I’ll keep chasing my rainbows! 

December 24, 2011:  I am addicted to the exclamation point. I’ll admit it! I just love it. It makes the sentence loud and in my mind, glittery. I want you and everyone to know that I am saying what I am saying, with enthusiasm. I freakin’ love life! I am going to have the most EPIC Christmas EVER! I feel like everyday is Christmas, in fact, because I am alive, healthy, happy, prosperous, have a wonderful family, magnificent children, amazing husband, I live myself…and life just gets better. I am sending this feeling out to all of you, like LOVE glitter!!! I wish you the merriest Christmas and that you feel that spirit of magic everyday!!!!!!!!!!!!! xoxo

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