{"id":294,"date":"2014-12-29T01:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T01:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/?p=294"},"modified":"2014-12-29T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T01:25:37","slug":"forget-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/2014\/12\/forget-resolutions.html","title":{"rendered":"Forget Resolutions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t set resolutions in years.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe in them.\u00a0 I love setting intentions instead.\u00a0 Not like a to-do list, but experiences, feelings, the energy of bliss.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s not a bucket list, but a bliss list.\u00a0 If I tell myself I am not allowed to do or have\u00a0something, I will fight against it.\u00a0 I am a rebel.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t like feeling limitations.\u00a0 I love freedom.\u00a0 I do the inner work and now know the real power we actually have in making changes and creating our own happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I have read about the idea of &#8220;free will&#8221; not existing, but I have seen people break patterns, shift their blocks, and transform their lives.\u00a0 Science versus <em>woo woo <\/em>or spirituality.\u00a0 I like to question everything.\u00a0 I love new theories. I also know there are many truths that can co-exist and I would rather have the variety and expansion of always learning.\u00a0 I like making deliberate choices and focusing on what I actually want.\u00a0 I understand our subconscious has a big part, but I think we just keep making choices and that new energy starts to change us.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I had low self-esteem.\u00a0 I had so many negative thoughts running through my head.\u00a0 I had to change my mind.\u00a0 It was through books, videos, music, and doing things different.\u00a0 I started posting on Facebook and letting myself try on the real happy, not just the front.\u00a0 Blogger me created the new me.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\">November 30, 2010:\u00a0 Jenny G. Perry is happy, as usual. It takes effort. Instead of always being on a roller coaster, which life can seem, I try to find the happy where I can. It&#8217;s not when things re perfect, or I can do everything right, it&#8217;s now. That&#8217;s my focus, on what I can be happy about in this moment. Sweet dreams!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\">December 15, 2011:\u00a0 I do not need to have the answers for anyone else, only me. I know that LOVE is the answer for me. I believe in love. I see it everywhere. I feel it everywhere. What others believe is none of my beeswax. How freeing. I can just love them, as souls, as beings. It all starts with me.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\"><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\"><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\">December 23, 2011.\u00a0 If someone posts only negative posts, I may chose to delete them. Nothing personal. This doesn&#8217;t make them bad or wrong, it just means we are not a match. My sunny disposition probably annoys the crap outta you, it&#8217;s all good. I&#8217;ll send you love and I&#8217;ll keep chasing my rainbows<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\"><span style=\"font: 14px\/19.31px Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;text-align: left;color: #141823;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\"><em><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #141823;line-height: 19.31px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\">!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>December 24, 2011:\u00a0 I am addicted to the exclamation point. I&#8217;ll admit it! I just love it. It makes the sentence loud and in my mind, glittery. I want you and everyone to know that I am saying what I am saying, with enthusiasm. I freakin&#8217; love life! I am going to have the most EPIC Christmas EVER! I feel like everyday is Christmas, in fact, because I am alive, healthy, happy, prosperous, have a wonderful family, magnificent children, amazing husband, I live myself&#8230;and life just gets better. I am sending this feeling out to all of you, like LOVE glitter!!! 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