With the beginning of the New Year comes that magical feeling of a fresh, clean new start. The opportunity to build, grow and thrive into a new 12 months empowers us to do better and achieve even more greatness than the previous year.

This past Friday I was sitting with two of my closest friends discussing and planning our New Year’s Eve celebrations, when I asked a question: “How do you want to feel in 2013? What three words describe how you want to experience and live every day of the New Year?”

Once we had each selected our words, we associated our goals, to-dos, inspirations, and anything that came to mind that connected something positive to these feelings.

The exercise was thought provoking and powerful, especially when we shared our various words with one another. Refining the exercise into absolute precision, we then proceeded to pick one of our three words that would be our feeling of utmost importance for 2013.

Without a doubt we all want to feel good and happy in any year; however, being specific with one feeling and building around that is a worthwhile reflection.

The visualization that it creates is even more striking!

Our 3 top words (mine is “Inspired”…shocker, I know)

To end I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone for taking the time to read my blog and follow my journey. I can’t believe it’s already been four months since my first post. I constantly grow and learn from your feedback and I am so grateful that I’m able to share my experiences.

As we welcome 2013 I wish you all to feel “Healthy, Youthful and Inspired” and of course to identify what word will be your focus to make you THRIVE in the New Year.