As we ring in the new year I’m sure many of you feel a sense of hope & possibility, at least it is my hope that you do. Every minute of every day holds inside of it a chance to start over again. The past is only re-created and kept alive by your mind. You recall it up any time you want to and you can let it go any time you want to as well.

“When there is no yesterday, you cannot conceive of the tomorrow. The tomorrow is nothing but a projection of yesterday. You would like to live the joys of yesterday again tomorrow and you would like to avoid the miseries of yesterday. That’s what your tomorrow is. If yesterday is gone, tomorrow is finished; soon it will disappear….One has to be spontaneous. One has to live moment to moment, neither thinking of the past, nor thinking of the future, nor clinging to the present.” Osho

The New Year is a time of reflecting and recalling what has happened in the last 12 months (often criticizing ourselves for what we did not do) and projecting out onto the next year all of our new desires and wishes (what pressure!).

This year just try to be in the present moment.

This is not to say that you should not have goals and desires and move toward great things in 2012…  when you are in the present moment you will know what your true goals and desires are, you will understand why you may not have accomplished all you set out to do in 2011 and you will feel at peace about it. In this space you can allow room for a bigger picture of your life to emerge.You allow for a little magic.

“A rebellious person is one who says, “I’m not going to wait, I’m going to live right now.” The revolutionary hopes for the future. He says, “I am going to wait. I will wait for the right moment.” The rebellious person says, “The right moment is here-now, and I’m not going to wait for anybody, I’m going to live right now.” A rebellious person lives in the present. … Life is not reaching towards some goal, life itself is the goal. It is not evolving towards some ultimate; this very moment, here and now, life is ultimate…whenever something is achieved again the mind asks, ”Now what? What is to be achieved now?” It cannot remain with itself, it has to go on achieving. This achieving mind will never be blissful, it will always be tense. And whenever something is achieved the achieving mind will feel frustrated, because now new goals have to be invented. Ecstasy is not something which you can achieve by some efforts, ecstasy is a way of living. ” Osho

Be a Rebel. Dare to be in the present moment and redefine your goals from your heart instead of your head and mental ‘shoulds’ and ‘should nots’. Create new habits instead of goals and live in a way that supports your blossoming instead of being a slave to tasks.