New Year - New Beginning

We have just entered the year 2009, and it feels great! it's a whole new beginning for all of us that need a new beginning.......and don't we all? like a plant in a flower pot that outgrows its space, so do we outgrow our comfort zone. We need to renew our views and our lives. Don't get me wrong my friends, I'm not talking extreme change. I'm not going way off to the other side of the spectrum, there are things within us that just don't change, and that don't need any change. Usually it's those great values and morals our parents put in us, thank God for parents. I'm talking about the simple things, the small shift in thinking, the opening of our eyes to a whole new view. Just like a child staring at a caterpillar on a leaf, a sense of wonder. Well, enough of my intro, and now into the real and what I'm already working on. Ta da....here it goes. My new years resolution is to live with less!! much less. And here is where the whole idea came to me and made me realize that yes this is definitely what my life needs. I was turned on to listening to podcasts as I messed around with my new i-pod (which my hubby gave to me for Christmas) so sweet. Anyways, I heard an interview on the Oprah channel, and it was amazing. It totally spoke to me. It was an interview with Wayne Dyer, and what an opening of minds with that man, wow. He was speaking of his year of living with the Dao, a spiritual journey were he gave up all his things and experienced his own personal transformation. Well, anyways, what got me was his little thing on how we (yes, all of us) can live without 80% of what we own, and how that 80% we own, actually owns us. We can all decipher it in our own way, but for me personally its all that extra stuff I own that I really don't need or use. It's that $300 workout station sitting in my office room.......not being used for months. It's that extra jewelry sitting in my drawer - not being used. It's a whole lot of things that I've spent money on in which the thrill vanished after a few months. It's that 80% I could have done without. So, my journey begins and I couldn't be more thrilled and more at peace. I know I can do it, and I know I will.
Love to all and many many a blessing to all in this new year.