Time to Honor Yourself

A New Year tends to bring out all the things we want to do for ourselves. We may want to lose weight, join a club to make new friends, start a new hobby, write a book, look after the garden, buy an expensive toy. No matter what it is, you're prepared to make a change.

However, there are many things in life that we find hold us back. It could be the opinion of a family member or a friend, it could be work limitations, financial limitations or our own lack of courage to make the change. So why don't we trust our hearts and our heads and go with what feels right?

As a single mum, for all those single parents out there, YOU are your only protector. You are the protector of your kids and you are the protector of your livelihood. So if you feel like someone is taking advantage of your situation - a tradesman who says you need more work done to your home than you think is necessary, or a bank trying to tell you that you have no other option than to use their product, or  a parent who says that you are being silly for considering a change in your life, or even a friend who doesn't respect that you're on a diet right now and wants you to go on a boozy night out... YOU are the one who has to live with the decisions you make, YOU are the one who will feel shameful for not honoring your diet, your ethics, your bank account, your home... so YOU are the one who needs to have the courage to stand up for yourself.

So when you decide that YOU want a change and YOU feel it's a necessary change... a change that you have contemplated over and over over time, then YOU have to honor yourself and make that change. It could be that you will stop wasting your time looking at the internet, Facebook, TV, etc and start getting out of the house to enjoy the sunshine. It could be getting rid of friends you no longer see eye to eye with or you're moving with the times but your friend is stuck in 1994. It could be surrounding yourself with things that make you happy. It could be finding that ultimate job you've wanted for so long. It could be getting back into study. It could be trying out a dating website. Whatever you do, do it for YOU. No one else.

Do it for the contentment of your soul. Do it for the chances that may happen if you stayed confined to your home. Do it for the smiles you get from your kids. Do it for the love of BEING YOU!

Make 2013 a year of just enjoying YOU!