Working from home can make this time of year even more interesting. I feel like I’m currently forgetting something. With the stretch of time from now until the kids go back on the 5th, I am not in business mode but not in vacation either. I will have to take a look at emails I’m already backed up on. I thought I would have done this blog a few days ago, but yesterday was our youngest child’s first birthday. It’s been crazy around here this whole month it seems. I’ll be setting intentions on making business more efficient in 2015. I’m sensing many are feeling the holiday stress still too. We reflect on the past year this time of year as well, adding on top of that. Are you feeling the stress of the holidays still? Or is Christmas a relief to be over?

My youngest son, who is four, told me he wished there was two Christmases and I told him I understood how he felt.  I told him a lot of people feel let down after Christmas.  I reminded him his birthday is less than a month away.  He was happy to hear that.  I have no plans for New Year’s Eve and I’m fine with that.  One time in my life, I want to go to a fancy New Year’s Ball, just for the fun of it.  I often get a mixture of excitement and melancholy that night.  When “Auld Lang Syne” plays, I want to cry.  The passing of time makes me cherish the good moments.  All the stress, the last minute getting of things, the hectic energy of the holidays is like steam that fuels us heading into the New Year.  Look at it that way and your perspective changes.   At the end of February, life can feel boring sometimes and we wish there was something to do.  That’s when you wish you could schedule some of the visiting of relatives and friends.  Why not plan something then anyway?

Do a little review of the year.  Not what went wrong, but what you learned, your wins, and feel good about saying goodbye to it. Use the holiday stress to help you bounce even higher into 2015.  Here’s my reflection on the past year which I shared on Facebook last night.

I realized so much about myself this year. I learned so much I could label as negative, but in wanting to embrace wholeness versus the vilifying the ego and glorifying the soul…I see it as just learning. I treat myself like a BFF. That’s where life gets to change cause your signal is different. Think of yourself as a lighthouse…are you dim, bright, colorful, lights change daily? Where you are now is not ever bad, it’s just a starting point. Let’s rock 2015 big, beautiful souls. I’m letting limitations not even exist for me. I will manifest with ease. Judgment will not serve me, but clarity does. Expansion and laser focus…seems contradictory, but I feel it.

P.S. I was holding myself back from a new level of success because I was afraid. I realized I thought in some weird way (hidden belief I had an a-ha about a few months ago) that I would have to sacrifice some of my spirituality in being famous/successful/upleveled/a boss/business lady. I love when I call myself out on my shit. Like, why would I not be as spiritual or whatever as I get more successful? Seems silly! But I didn’t trust myself. This is actually what makes me a good coach too. I’m real, authentic, and ALWAYS learning. I would never hire a coach that didn’t seem human. Robot people are never fun either.

Wishing you an amazing New Year!   And get ready for my book, Sexpot With Stretch Marks, to come out January 8th.  Woohoo!