My New Years Resolutions
Copyright © 2010 by Veronica Hay
I want to be happy for no reason this year except that I am here and alive and I claim this moment as my own. It’s mine. Its got my name on it!
This year, I want to spend more time in nature, not on the path near my home, with its iPods, and cell phones and incessant chatter, but deep in a forest, where the earth recognizes my step, and the ground kisses my feet as I walk.
This year, I want to say no, more often, and not feel guilty, and say yes, more often, and not feel embarrassed.
I want to take the time to grieve fully this year, for those people that I have lost and mourn those things that I shall never have or be again.
I want to hear the sounds of creation and I can’t tell you what those sounds are, because I have never really heard them before. I ‘ve been too busy for that. But their music beckons to me in the stillness when I have finally given up my need to control.
I want to see, really see the sights of the universe and I can’t tell you what those sights are, because I have never really seen them before. I’ve had my eyes closed. But their vision haunts me in my dreams and gently calls forth to me in my waking hours.
I want to take the child in me out to play more this year and step in mud puddles, get my feet wet, eat cotton candy, build a snowman, talk to strangers, kiss furry dogs and chase mangy cats.
This year I want to eat my spaghetti with a fork and forget about the spoon and get my face really dirty.
I want to get to know my teddy bear more this year. After all, he is really the only one who has always been there for me, in my darkest hour, comforting me and whispering sweet messages into my heart, that were more accurate than any psychic ever could be.
I want to see the world with new eyes this year, as if I have never seen it before, like an alien on an unfamiliar planet, and not take anything for granted.
This year, I want to talk less and say more. I want to taste more and eat less.
I want to write more about those things that really matter to me, with passion, the things that I know in my gut, the things that stir up my soul, and not give a damn about keywords or tags or where I rank in Google.
I want to sit with a flower this year and watch it bloom, and know what it feels like to finally surrender to life, to succumb to a purpose bigger than my own.
I want to talk to the moon and bask in the sun and gaze at the stars for hours and hours.
I want to be much more silly this year, and care much less about what people think of me. I have forgotten just how much fun being silly can be.
I want to laugh, harder than I have ever laughed before. And cry less for all of the pain and suffering that I think I can’t fix, because I know that I can. Every time that I make the choice to be free, there is less suffering in the world, not a world with less pain, but less pain in the world.
I want to love more this year, not the sappy, greeting card kind of love they sell on Valentine’s day cards, but a love that surpasses all distance, time, space and differences.
This year, I want to make friends with those parts of me that I am afraid of and attempt to do those things that still scare me to death. Well, at least some of them.
I want to appreciate more and complain less, accept more and judge less, forgive more and blame less. I want to ultimately do nothing and allow everything.
This year I want to break open the windows of my life and knock down the doors remove the shackles and stare down the illusion until it sets me free.
So you won’t find goals here or projects or timelines or objectives or plans or directions or bucket lists or targets.
You’ll only find me.
From Veronica Hay – Inspirational Writer – Insights and Inspirations Hub
Email: veronicahay@telus.net
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Veronica – Wow! I suppose the only words I know that can closely resemble this feeling I have inside after reading your words is “deep infinite gratitude”
Yogi -
Hello Veronica!
Thank you so much for those trully wonderful words. I will write them down and recitle every DAY. Each day is a GIFT. Thank you!
Achiu (that’s in Lithuanian)
Sincerely, Violeta -
Wow! Veronica. I’m mind blown – truly I am!
THANKYOU SO SO SO MUCH. What a gift to the world! What a gift to me!
THIS is truly your best piece yet, and they are all fantastic. You wrote it for ME. You wrote it for thousands of people! Liliana -
Good Morning Veronica,
I must say that I really enjoyed your New Years Resolutions on the Friday Insight of the Day…. many things that you mentioned in your poem are things that really made me smile… Keep up the ‘good’ work…
with a lot of love, Barb -
Tweet from Tracey H W via the web @MagicalMysteria
Veronica – This article brought tears to my eyes. Such beautiful, heartfelt words. Thank you for sharing, inspiring! Tracey -
Veronica,
I needed your message. Powerful and inspiring. I am still assimilating it.
Thank you! Heidi -
Veronica
I just read “My New Years Resolutions” and it is remarkable! I just wanted to share how much it touched me and how much I feel the same way… Kim -
Veronica, I love how you write!!
Once again you speak to and from my heart…
as if you had a window to my soul and could translate my feelings into words…
I have just read your “My New Years Resolutions”and am in gratitude.
When someone else, that I really do not know, expresses what is in my heart, and I know it is from their heart….that is a miracle!
Thank you and many many blessings and of course a big hug….grinnnnn Trish Turpel -
Oh my God Veronica (forgive me the freedom of my expressing toward you), I love your goals of this year, I could not have written it better or find these beautifull words to express those meaningfull things of life.
Thank you so much. Nancy -
Dear Veronica,
Thank you very much! I am going through a dark period and it really remind me of everything that is truly important and significant… now I just need to go home and hug my teddy bear. All is well! (even if it is not apparent to me right now)
Keep up your great writing, thank you again.
Blessings and Love, Victoria -
Beautiful, very well written: I want it to be my New Year’s Resolution as well. Thank You for putting into words what I couldn’t.
Sincerely, Maryann Barrow -
Dear Veronica:
Thank you so much for putting into words what has been in my mind and heart over the last few weeks. May your prayer for the new year resound in a multitude of hearts and minds. I will be forwarding your words along with your link to those whose hearts I know it will touch.
I wish you a blessed 2010.
Joyful regards, Maria Kliavkoff -
Good Morning, Veronica
I just read your incredible New Year’s Resolutions. WOW!!
What beautiful work. I’ve forwarded it on to all my agents and staff and will save it to read every day as part of my affirmations. Thank you!! And I wish you the very best in 2010 and in accomplishing every one of those items every day of this year. And thank you for inspiring me to do the same. Suzanne -
Veronica,
I savored every word as if they were ingredients in a large bowl of soup that I was asked to individually identify… while blindfolded. My New Years Resolution… to search for and read your works, so that I may utterly enjoy them as I have this piece. Thank you, Janice. -
Veronica,
I loved the story of yours today! It’s inspiring, and makes me want all those things as well. I think we all do, just none of us has been strong enough to say them out loud!
Well done, Lisa -
Dear Veronica,
Regarding your ‘New Years Resolutions’, thank you.
You’ve poetically expressed what is in my heart.
Sincerely, John -
Veronica – Just wanted to say your message today absolutely resognated with me. Thank you for your tremendous insight on what I believe to be true about life. I loved it! Tammy Czarzasty
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Veronica!
You just wrote my manifesto! I love you for it. I made a big change just over a year ago and left the big city for the country. I live in a magical forest by the sea in New Brunswick in my small home that I designed, called Sea Petal Manor. I walk in the forest and on the beach every day. I talk to the trees, the stars the moon. I listen to the wind and soak up the knowledge of the huge white pine that my bench sits under.I gave my Christmas gingerbread house to the birds and chipmunks eat nuts on my porches. I have a wheaten named Chanel who delights in our new found home. She used to be a fraidy dog but now she is a joyful huntress who rousted out a fox from under the shed. No more barking at heroine addicts and hookers at the end of my balcony in Vancouver, BC.
We have deer, sea ducks, foxes, chipmunks and woodpeckers who are our friends and good neighbors. I put the music on loud and dance in the yard. The neighbor kids come to play and we play. I show them that real life is far more interesting than fake video games. We collect sea shells and belong to the highly secretive fox tooth gang. We oil paint and read books. I don’t have a TV anymore but I couldn’t live without the internet.
I light candles and drink brandied hot chocolate out of a china tea cup. I moved to the friendly universe. People know my name in this small town and are incredibly kind. They call you honey and they mean it. The traffic circle is an exercise in how many people you can let go ahead of you with a wave and a smile. A lady once honked her horn at me and then followed me to the post office. She got out of her car and apologized for startling me. It turns out she has a new car and she isn’t used to where the horn is. People don’t lock their cars and they leave their keys in the ignition.
I am posting up this manifesto at my desk. Thank you!
Cheerios, Rachel T. Scott – Joie de Vivre at Sea Petal Manor -
Veronica – I just read this and it made me cry inside because I need to do those things, I will———- I will———- Thanks!!!!!!!!!!! Have a wonderful year!!!!!!!!!!! Never stop writing.
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Hi Veronica,
Thank you for sharing your beautiful words today, so very well written.
Have wonderful new year.
Thank you! Kim Hall -
Veronica ” Thank you” This says everrything that I have been thinking and hadn’t yet put into words.
BGev K -
Wow! I read your “My New Years Resolutions” article and I really love it!
It’s really resonates, I believe not only with my heart but with many others as well. Thank you for your great inspiration.
Best wishes, Michael Garbe -
I have read this post on Bob Proctor – insight of the day.
Surely since the beginning of this year, I think this is one of the messages that has uplifted me. It has made me more positive and focused about what I want to achieve in the course of this year.Thank you for your message, may God bless you with a deeper insight as you continue to inspire others.
My name is Ableman Mhlanga and am writing from Zimbabwe, Southern Africa.
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Hi Veronica
I still owe you a book review – it is not forgotten! I find your writing powerful and inspiring and want others to experience it as well. Take care and create a great day!
Harry -
Hi Veronica,
I just read “My New Years Resolutions” I loved it. I printed it and put it up in my office for me to see everyday. For me, 2010, is going to be a year of passion. Finding my passion, living with passion, and following what makes me happy and creates happiness.
Thank you for sharing those words with us all.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! -
Hello Veronica,
I read your New Year’s Resolutions to day and feel inspired to write you and tell you just how beautiful it is. I wish you the very best in 2010 and may all the desires youresolve to attract come plentiful, and may you take the time to stop and enjoy each moment.
Always wishing you an Abundance of the desires you dream of,
Wendy MacKay -
Good Morning,
I opened this up this morning and every word hit me right in the face. Thank you for your inspiration. Jana -
What an awesome message. Thank you Veronica.
Marie -
Veronica – I want you to know how impressed I was with your words. I hope to achieve this year a little part of those things you have mentioned. You are great!
Mara from Romania -
God bless you on your journey Veronica. Thank you for your heartfelt thoughts you have graciously shared, it made my morning..and I am deeply appreciative! Enjoy your day..and make them all GREAT!!
Abundant blessings to you now and always!
Janine Rillo -
Thank you Veronica, that brought life in perspective. I really needed that. Loriann Ierullo
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I LOVE your New Years Resolutions story. I think it is something that we all can relate to… and something we all long for!!
It was absolutely beautiful! I will look at it often! Thank you for sharing it with all of us!
God Bless… Debbie -
Hi Veronica,
Your words in your New Years Resolutions are more than a masterpiece. It touches my heart and I want to say a very big thank you for it. I appreciate your words. Its really great.
Best regards, Faithful Teknikio -
Thank you Veronica for sharing your New Year’s resolution. It is amazing and I plan to mirror what you said- it seems like the perfect way to enjoy life and get the most out of it! Erin
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Dear Veronica
Thank you for a beautiful “message” It gave me a smile from my heart and ideas for myself in the coming year.
Have a blessed 2010.
Phyll -
Dear Veronica,
This is really beautiful. So inspiring and I too will join you on your journey. I think reading this every day will remind me of what is really important. Thank you for inspiring me today.
Warm regards, Nicolle Kopping-Pavars -
Hi Veronica,
I just read you new years resolution and how awesome! I just wanted to say that you got it right for me, I have been looking for SOMETHING for the last 3 years and in your story there it was. Thank You, I am not a writer but if I could this would be the story. If you only knew.
Thanks Again, Marcia Van Horn -
WOW, I absolutely love(d) it
Thanks for the wisdom and for sharing it !!
Kathleen in Belgium -
Simply wonderful. Thank you.
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Thank you for your thoughts and inspirational New Year’s resolutions…Truly a gift! Thank you! Namaste-
Terry Moyer, Creative Minds Productions -
Dear Ms. Hay:
Bravo! For the New Years Resolution words! I just sat back and read them, and ruminated on what that could look like in my own life.It was just refreshing to read your words. I will keep them, and read them often. I just wanted to thank you.
Regards, Rod Ewing -
Veronica;
I truly resonated with your message in “My New Years Resolutions”. Thank you. Those are truly blessed words to take into the new year.
Jill -
WOW words for the day!
Veronica, thanks for taking the time to write that.
Iy really is empowering and made me look into myself and see what I want for this new year.
It also help remind me of how important the little things in life are and how much my family means to me!!
Thanks so much, look forward to reading more!
Brandon Meanney -
Bravo Veronica!
You just wrote my New Year’s resolutions – thank you!
Carollyne -
Hi Veronica
Reading this just blew me away! What a beautiful piece of writing.
Thanks for such an inspiring article. Its going on my wall – right above my desk right now!
Be well, Oliver -
Wow! Fantastic. It was so beautiful that I just sat down and cried. It is everything I want to do but never had the guts to put it into words. Thank you so much. I am going to forward this to everyone I know.
Happy New Year, Sunita -
Dear Veronica,
You have no idea how much this has meant to me.
I have been very confused about why my life turned out the way it did. Just last night I told a friend how much I love my teddy bear because he’s the only one who has comforted me without judgement on my very lonely nights. Just yesterday I told this same friend that I want to pack it all in, disappear for while without telling anyone where i am going and travel, go deep into forests, tread paths I’ve never been on before, sit by rivers and cry, release the pain within me so i can come away refreshed, really listen to the birds chirping, a sound that is drowned out by the frantic howling of incessant traffic and ambulances. I want to race with the wind, not race against time.Your new year resolutions piece really touched my heart. It may not be able to take away the pain I feel but it certainly gives me something to look forward to and makes it more bearable.
thank you!!
Love and luck to you always,
Nandini -
Hello Veronica,
I loved it all and you inspired me to see everything around me with open eyes, warmth, taking the time, listening, not getting all stressed out (take a breath) enjoying time with special people who want to see me plus a lot more. I will reread this often. Thank you. I look forward everyday to hearing from Bob Proctor, Awareness, and a couple of other inspirational people and now you.
Thank you, Debbie -
Hi Veronica,
Thank you so much for this. it’s just what I needed to help change my ways and start off on the right foot in 2010.
Cheers from down under. Dennis -
Hello Veronica…..after reading your story I am left absolutely speechless, and am overcome with emotion. You have so beautifully expressed exactly how I feel and what I want to do. It is as though you opened my mind and soul and took out my very thoughts and feelings. I think and feel this way but lack the skills to write my thoughts and feelings. I enjoyed and loved reading this….Sincerely, Marcia J. Larsen
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