Happy New Year!

I love this time of year.  September is my "happy new year."  It may have  been the 18 1/2 years of school that make me think of fresh starts in September  but I fully embrace and accept it.  I enjoy this new year much more than the  actual new year.  New school supplies.  New school clothes.  Favorite TV  shows returning or new shows beginning.  I have created a renewal time for  myself in September.  Fall is almost easier for me to embrace change because of  all the changes happening all around me already.  Leaves changing from green  to gorgeous yellows, oranges, and reds.  The weather changing to the incredibly  enjoyable sweatshirts and jeans weather.  And the beloved return of pumpkins, apples, and pumpkin spice lattes. 

I figure, if I can focus on how positive and beautiful all those other changes are, I might be able to convince myself that my change is going to be  positive and "beautiful" as well - which is really an accomplishment in itself  because change can sometimes be pretty "messy" in my eyes.  The fighting that  happens in my head between old habits and new habits seems like a war zone  sometimes.  My brain definitely is not all about switching from a four lane  highway of habit to a dirt road of uncertainty.  Fall helps me see that  sometimes we fight change too much when it's really such a natural thing of  life.  (read more here!)