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I Am Enough

New Year, New Me.

I never really liked hearing this, and I don’t often say it either. I’m also not one who makes new years resolutions. Not because I don’t think I can keep them, but rather, I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment because I think that they are filled with too many expectations. Expectations that perhaps aren’t always met, so before the year has even begun, you are stressing yourself out over something that you may or mat not follow through with. That’s a lot of pressure to put on oneself.

I like, instead, to say new year, same me, just an improved version. After all, we humans, are a continuous work in progress. Everyday putting the work in, showing up, and giving our best efforts to be a better person than we were yesterday.

Continually learning how to not only show up for ourselves, but also for others, and at the same time, allowing ourselves to be seen with all of our perfect imperfections. Yes, sometimes this is much easier to say than do, for sure.

I am enough. These words were repeated in my morning yoga class today. It was our mantra, as we started this new day and year, to remind us that we are always just that, enough.

What we do in life, no matter how big or small, regardless if it’s harder than we may have expected, we are still, and always will be enough.

These words resonated with me today because I write them in my journal every morning and have been for sometime now. I am not ashamed to admit though, that somedays, I do expect too much of myself.

So this, I am enough, has become my daily mantra. A reminder, that I don’t have to do it all, all the time, and no matter how I show up to any given day, I am just that, enough.
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I am not perfect nor will I ever be.

I am a work in progress, and that is definitely good enough.