Hey there you fabulous readers!

I realize that I am a bit delayed with the whole “Happy New Year!!!” and “Happy New Decade” thing.  I thought that at midnight on January 1st I would feel a profound shift in my ability to keep up with my blog and all the other things that I want to plunge into this year.

Great languaging!!!

“Plunge into this year.”

It has a certain ring to it.  Lots of energy.  It makes me want to go and dive off a cliff (uh…ok…not a cliff per se…maybe a rock ledge that is close to the water) and swim off into the sunset.

Okay.  I think “Plunge” might be too strong of a word.  Maybe “jump into this year.”  Nope.  That ain’t it either.  I am more of a get your feet wet for a bit…then your legs…then dunk under the water (you know…the whole getting the water past your tummy phase)….and then swim off into the sunset.

Let me try this again.

I thought that on midnight January 1st I would feel a profound shift in my ability to keep up with my blog and all the other things that I want to dunk into this year. Hmmmmm…’dunk’ is not so poetic…is it?

Isn’t that how we roll at the cusp of a new year…and even more…a new decade?  We think we are going to change into plungers when the clock strikes midnight.  But, come the morning, after all the champagne has worn off…we realize that we are still dunkers.

What that means to me personally is that when I forget my natural tendency towards ‘being a dunker’ and think that I should try and be a diver…this totally mess with my inspiration!  I forget that really what inspires me is the swim…the playing in the water…the whole playing with dolphins kind of gig.  And then when I am all tired out…I love the feeling of laying in the sun and listening to the sounds of the surf.

I guess what I am metaphorically playing with here is whether you are a plunger, a jumper or a dunker…take what comes naturally to you and use that to follow your inspiration.  This does not mean that everything will be easy parchessi.  It won’t.  Even when you are out swimming with the dolphins…sometimes there are pockets of seaweed that freak you out…or currents that try to suck you farther from the shore…and you  find yourself swimming like hell to get back to shore.

Following your inspiration…following your natural rhythm does not always mean that everything is gonna go smoothly. There will always be times that are tough.  Times when you wonder what the hell you are doing.  When you are out swimming with the dolphins and wondering if it was such a good idea to come out and play with these little friends…alone…in the middle of the ocean.  Cool experience for sure…but (gulp) also kind of scary!

So no matter what you have as your focus for this year…for this bright new decade…whether you are a plunger, a jumper or a dunker…if you stay true to your natural rhythm…it is gonna make the journey much less scary and it will be more sustainable~

How is that for a super duper metaphorical post to start the new year? 

Are you ready?

Let’s go for a swim~