Resolutions, circa 2014

My gorgeous friend (and creative cluster buddy) Debs is currently on a six week skiing sojourn with her wonderful hubby (also a great friend), in Saas Fee, Switzerland. I'm quite envious, especially as she has embarked upon a blog to document her time over there and is very prompt about updating it on a daily basis, complete with amazing photos of the beautiful scenery.

Check it out here if you're so inclined.  

On New Year's Eve she wrote a wonderful post about letting go of excess baggage, which I found quite illuminating.  Read it here. Her penultimate paragraph, in particular, really resonated with me:

"As the fireworks start to go off here in Saas Fee, and BD and I settle in for a party for two (with party food too), I have only one resolution. In 2014 I am going to do what I love. Period. I have one life, and I intend to live it. Baggage free. 

If you have pissed me off, I let you go with as much love as I can muster. If there’s a possession that I don’t absolutely dig, it’s going to the charity shop. At work, my best has to be good enough, and if it isn’t then I lovingly bow out and trust my clients will find someone who is a better fit."

I haven't made any resolutions this year - I find when I do I usually don't achieve more than half of them and then spend most of the year berating myself over the ones that I didn't achieve. 

But I love that one resolution of Debs' and I think it's a fabulous one for me to adopt, so I am.

2014 is the year of me doing what I love and ridding myself of excess baggage. Period.

What about you?

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