{"id":50,"date":"2009-03-04T05:44:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T05:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/03\/another-chance-for-starting-over.html"},"modified":"2009-03-04T05:44:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T05:44:46","slug":"another-chance-for-starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/03\/another-chance-for-starting-over.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Chance for Starting Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shouse.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/Shouse.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"133\" width=\"100\" \/><\/span>Happy March 4th! It may be a work day, but it&#8217;s a holiday, too, the day on which we&#8217;re invited to <i>march forth<\/i> into the rest of our year, the rest of our lives. I learned about March 4th some years ago when my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidescooplive.com\/author-pages\/Shouse-Deborah-reading-itnerview.html\">Deborah Shouse<\/a> (pictured here) &#8212; journalist, author, storyteller, Alzheimer&#8217;s activist, and Renaissance woman &#8212; invited me to her annual March 4th party, challenging all guests to take the admonition of the day to heart and <i>march forth<\/i> with confidence and vision.<\/p>\n<p>I love knowing about March 4th because it gives us all another chance. If those New Year&#8217;s Resolutions bit the dust several weeks ago, we can start all over today. Of course that&#8217;s true for every day, but having a date so well named helps a lot. So, in what ways do you aspire to march forth today and on into your future?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I choose to march forth in health. <i>Action: Take advantage of that plan at my gym for three cheap personal training sessions.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>I choose to march forth in faith. <i>Action: Listen to God first and CNN later.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>I choose to march forth in expectation. <i>Action: Expect fortuitous circumstances and refuse to stand in your own way.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;I choose to march forth in loving connection. <i>Action: Entertain more. Have people over for dinner. Make your home a center of loving connection for others.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I invite you to make a March 4th list, too. Send it to me as a Comment if you like. I&#8217;d love to see what you come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy March 4th! 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