Success in Life

Success is doing what you love and loving what you do. That’s the saying on one of my coffee, (now turned into my tea) mug. During the past year I’ve looked for ways to be successful after discovering I had heart disease. I’ve blogged my worries away, chanted OM in my yoga practice, become a spokeswoman for WomenHeart, and rediscovered my love for creating stained glass.

As the New Year begins, I continue along my new stress-free path. This year I’ve decided to write down my goals. My plan is to exercise daily. Begin writing a new novel. Continue to practice and teach yoga. Give back to the community, setting up speaking engagements around San Diego to talk to other woman about heart disease. And, sell my stained glass over the web.

The trick is to go through this next year, doing what I love without that nagging voice telling me what I should and shouldn’t be doing. Forget about the guilt and the stress that goes along with those two S words. So how do we go through life without the shoulds and shouldn’ts? We do what we can do, don’t worry about what doesn’t get done, and forgive ourselves and others. After all, we are only human.

So it’s time for me to pick up my Success mug and head into 2008, curled up on my sofa with a cup of herbal tea and a good book.

Cheers to 2008!