Happy Happy New Year - 2023

Happy, Happy New Year! 

With the turning of the calendar, we are in another year! How is it possible it is 2023?

Time is a funny thing; sometimes it feels fast other times it seems dog slow (although my dog is quite fast; but, I digress), yet the rate of time is constant.  

When you are young the phrase repeated to you by every “old” person is “Just you wait, next thing you know you’ll be (fill in blank here).” Every young kid follows this phrase with an eye roll, because life seems to last forever. As we get older, we realize that indeed we are promised one thing: death 

Now, that seems like a bleak outcome, a pessimistic way at looking at life. However, once you come to realize that death is inevitable you can let go and guess what? Time slows down. Knowing the end game, knowing where you are going, allows you to enjoy the ride. When you enjoy the ride, time slows down because you are living in each moment. Not in the past, not in the future.

As Scrooge learned from his three angels that visited him on Christmas Eve, the past and the future can be powerful, but it is the present that must be cherished. The here and now. How we spend out time today will shape how we spend it tomorrow.

With the new year among us and with renewed energy to shift our thoughts and habits; I encourage you to choose to make 2023 the year you live in 2023, not the year you plan for 2024 or regret 2022. Each day (moment really) we have the opportunity to choose our path, to choose how we spend our time, how we engage with other and how we plan for the future. By investing in our health NOW, we are living in THIS moment AND we are planning for the future. Because, how does that saying go, “If you don’t make time for your wellness, you’ll be forced to make time for your illness.” 

It’s up to you, your choice daily. Choose to live in the moment with wellness on your mind.

January 2023 ©BeSTRONGERFitness