Word of the Year

Relief.

January 1, 2010

You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.” – Abraham Hicks

 

BelieveinMagic

I have had enough.

I have decided to make 2010’s theme Relief for a very good reason: I have had enough.

I am tired of being disappointed in myself.  Do you near me? I AM TIRED OF BEING DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF.

I am tired of trying. I am tired of letting myself down in my attempts to be different from who I am.  What a ridiculous thing that is: to try to be different from who we are.  What is so wrong with who I am?

Every book, every guru, every everything has been telling me the same thing, but I haven’t been listening: it is all about feeling good. But I’ve been waiting to feel good until I have lost weight, gotten published, made money, become the person I think I should be, blah blah blah blah blah.

What a bloody waste of time.

I’ve been struggling with what I truly want and I now realize I have known it all along: I want to live happily ever after.

I’d better get started.

Relief.

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  • sas January 1, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    oh that just sounds like a lovely big contented sigh!
    wonderful 🙂

  • Cynthia January 1, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Love these thoughts! I am usually paralyzed by not my measuring up … it is difficult to think of myself in positive terms. I am ready to be done with that! As a start, using the nablopomo monthly theme for January, BEST, I am writing 31 posts about the best things about being me.

    Thanks for your inspiration today.

  • Cynthia January 1, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    oh, btw, can I snag that photo for my inspiration board? (http://cynthiaclack.tumblr.com/)

  • Lee January 1, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    I love your unabashed honesty. Good for you. Relief it is, bring it on 🙂 Best of luck settling into you and then letting us all glow in your light.

    Don’t you love those Compendium cards? Fabulous!

    All the very best in 2010!

  • Jolie January 1, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    When I did my year-end review for 2009, I kept putting it off because I was worried that the “what didn’t go well” list would be so ridiculously long. Instead, I found that the “what did go well” list was more than twice as long as the list of things that went wrong. I felt a huge amount of relief as I realized I’m not the loser I thought I was.

    I think it’s just easier to see all our “failures.” But when you actually look at it, you’ll see all the things you *did* accomplish this year.

    But, yes. Relief is an excellent word for the year. You’re amazing, Megg. Cut yourself some slack.

  • Debi January 1, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    Yes!!! It is so hard, so HARD, but it must be done, musn’t it? Always, always the hardest thing to feel you don’t fit in – oh my! To live happily ever after you must be you, and you are wonderful!

  • ABCcreativity January 1, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    this is beautiful.
    you are already perfect, exactly as you are.

  • bella January 1, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    Happy New Year!!
    What a beautiful way to bring it in. Wishing you much relief and peace.

  • vivienne January 1, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    brilliant plan. i totally hear it.
    here’s to living happily ever after!!!

  • pen* January 1, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    oh i hear you!
    this word is perfect.
    xo

  • jaqueline January 1, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    I know exactly how you feel. I am also victimized of waiting to be happy until I achieve … what ever is is I am after.

    I wish you all the best in your endeavor to be happy.

  • Amie aka MammaLoves January 1, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    This resonates with me so much. Finding happiness in the now is much more important.

  • Betty January 1, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    Well, it sounds like you’re on your way now and the waiting for the life to be lived fully is over, not surprised you feel all that relief 🙂

  • Cafe Pasadena January 2, 2010 at 3:11 am

    Megg, wishing you & yours the best year yet!

  • Sarah Ann January 2, 2010 at 8:07 am

    You said it sister!

    Cheers to that. They say, Ram Das says we get what we most want when we let go of it. I hope that’s true. Here’s to some relief for us all.

    Bisous, Bisous
    Sarah Ann

  • Marianne January 3, 2010 at 11:21 pm

    Yay! Fantastic word and so important. There is no ‘self-improvement’ there is only – somehow – loving what is and paradoxically finding relief in that. We walk the same line.