new & More

"In order to have the best year of your life, you must keep opening up to greater realities and be willing to develop latent aspects of yourself. If you insist on clinging to who you are right now, you'll miss the extraordinary opportunity to meet the next greatest version of yourself." Debbie Ford

I met this quote on another blog (thank you Full Instrumental). I love it.

What is the next greatest version of myself?  What a question to consider.  I want to expand, grow, move beyond…yes. But, what latent aspects need awakening?  In rare moments I feel endless untapped potential within, but too often I feel more like all inspiration is shamefully dormant.  Wake up...wake up!

I want to write poetry, read millions of books, teach my children, love my body, give wonder to others’ lives.  Just the beginning.  I am grateful for this journaling that has come to me from the blog world.  A much easier way for me to take time to reach within.  I expected that of blogging.  What I didn't expect was the insane amount of inspiration I feel from reading others' blogs.  I see women who are serving others, building their homes, tapping talents, reaching out & striving to live full, beautiful lives.  I love the creativity.  I love the confirmation that much of life is washed away in crazy for all, but so much that is worthwhile can(Does) still remain.

It makes me want to start the year with New effort...to give more of myself to the unknown, to get down & play more with my boys, to say & show more thank you's, to do more to turn my home to haven, to love Jim more in his own language, to gift myself with more creative hours, to spend more time,effort,All seeking inspiration from Above. A perfect time to Renew & Reinvent.  There's so much More that lies within us all. 

Comments

[Kelly]

Oooh, I love that quote. I've been feeling very similar things lately. It's so easy to stay stagnant. I was wondering when the last time I made an effort to learn something totally new. It has been a while. I feel like this whole last year I was just trying to catch up from having a baby and then moving, and that's not a feeling (in my heart or my home) that I want to repeat again. I feel a great satisfaction and contentment with this new beginning, and a great desire to make the most of it.

[rebecca]

Wow - love the quote, love the post. It makes me feel recommitted to the unknown. Perfectly perfect today.

[Kelly]

You got a blog makeover, too! It must be in the water!

[Mandy]

I like your new look! I found your blog very inspiring today. I am very much into new beginnings right now. I wonder why?

[Amy]

I was feeling left out as I looked at all the new looks. This one's a bit bright for dark me, but I may keep it for a while.

[Anna]

Love the quote. I'm going to take it to use for YW New Beginnings this month...it will tie in perfectly with the theme of who do you want to become...now, it will be about meeting the next greatest version of yourself! Thanks!

[Annalisa]

Very inspiring. If we are not progressing, we are digressing and what is the point of a stagnant life? What can we say for hours of our life we have wasted away?
I too have been unexpectedly touched by other bloggers and want to be a more thoughtful person, something that is not in my nature.

[Judy Naegle]

I so appreciate all of your expressions of renewal, remembering, revival, re-inventing. Here are a few that live on the memory board just inches above my computer:

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you're really progressing and growing, you're always leaving something behind and you will experience guilt for leaving something behind."
Victoria Schnable


"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." Ten Rung: Hasidic Saying

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?" Mevlana Rumi

"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." Dale Wasserman from Unamuno

"It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living but neither is the unlived life worth examining." Dan Millman

There are others, but I'll end with one I often quote; so when any of you find yourself moved to tears for whatever reason, you can find solace and comfort from Washington Irving.

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love."

Continue in peace, comfort, light, love, forgiveness and above all, gratitude...

[Amy]

Judy - Thank you for all of the quotes, but especially the last. Wow. Beautiful beyond. I LOVE it. and you!