RESOLUTION 12-26-2013 - Inspiration from Source: As we move towards a new year - I am thinking of resolution. The resolve it takes to make a future happen, not the words it takes to say it, but the physical resolve it takes to succeed.

What I specifically heard was: LIVE today as if there will be no tomorrow. To some that might sound a little threatening, but to me it just sounds right. It's what I've been trying to do for almost a year now, and it's really paying off.

This is basically how I’ve been taking on life since March 30, 2013 – when I had a sudden epiphany. I realized I had been living someone else's success and it wasn’t fitting me too well. In fact, it felt like I was carrying a whole lot of expectations all over my body that I wanted to shed. 

For me, this last year has been about defining what success really is. I realized that my success is different than many. I like doing things that are impossible. So doing the possible – not so fulfilling. It pays the bills, don’t get me wrong – but it doesn’t fulfill me. I need to keep reaching out to do impossible things, because settling for normal has been wearing me the heck on down. 

I have always counseled people not to be afraid of failure. Today I counsel, don’t be afraid of defining what your success really is. I wonder if most people are actually afraid of real success. Not necessarily of the success we’ve been taught to live, a roof, a family, a paycheck...but of internal success.. Before I can be successful, first I must learn to articulate what I want and what will truly make me happy. 

One thing I am sure of is that every time I decide what "success" looks like to me, I am about as brave a warrior as you would see on the planet. I don't stand back and wait - I charge forward and work to achieve my goal - whether it is something small like ripping down some wallpaper, or larger, like looking you in the eyes and having a real and honest conversation with you in an effort to heal the world. Whatever it is – I’m on it – and would love to share it with you.

For now - I have resolved to paint this freaking house. Today, I finish ripping down that wallpaper and start to fill in those cracks. Everybody better stay out of my way – unless you want to help. Plus I’m getting off book for scene two of the most terrifying play I’ve ever taken on... I’m feeling pretty frisky today...Namaste.

"Somebody should tell us…right at the start of our lives…that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." ~Michael Landon