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If your effervescent hope for a fresh start on New Year's Day has fizzled like flat, stale champagne, you're not alone.
And if styling the fur of decomposing rats* or rubbing your head with a cheese grater sounded more useful and enjoyable than torturing yourself with another exercise in futility (like a fat-free diet combined with 6:00 a.m. fitness bootcamp), so you just skipped the whole resolution plan, you are definitely not alone!
Perhaps you are that rare breed, (like the hairless Guinea Pig pictured above, but hopefully more attractive) who is actually rocking that New Year's resolution and will continue to do so. If so, I congratulate you as being one of the 8%! 🥂
I am happy to report that I have kept my resolution --which was to not make a New Year's resolutions this year.
Believe it or not, this is much more difficult than it sounds. I have an abundance of extremely compelling issues that cry out for resolution. I so want to try again to do what I have always done (never mind that it always eventually fell short) --which is to try and fix my problems with some new angle/gimmick/miracle program.
I have fabulous will power and am willing to work hard, so I always believe that surely this time I will figure out the way to force lasting change.
And I am a sucker for the concept of new beginnings like a New Year. This is where The New Moon Blog got it's name, since a fresh start every month is so appealing!
However, I have learned a thing or two about failures and new beginnings over the years. And one of those things is that any changes I try to make happen with the underlying premise of needing to "fix" what is "wrong" with hard work is doomed to fail.
Sooner or later, that fear based motivation and serious drudgery will sabotage even my most sincere and diligent efforts.
So, in two weeks, I will be offering myself up as a Guinea Pig for a fun experiment and inviting you to play along with me.
What's in it for you?
I hope you will benefit greatly, first from being a part of what I am doing (either by witnessing or actively participating) and then, once I have had a chance to fine tune it, to get to try it yourself.
I anticipate that this game will work for any challenge you are facing and will be a-MAZE-ingly helpful if you feel lost, confused, and hopelessly stuck in the middle of a mysterious world (what Charles Eisenstein calls "The Space Between Stories" and SARK calls "The Marvelous Messy Middle") with no idea where to turn next.
If you receive my Full Moon posts, then you will find out more soon. If not, and you are curious, then send an email to michelle@sparksandleaps.com and I will put you on the list.
On 1/31/18 : The Blue Moon/Super Moon/Total Eclipse, I will reveal all!
Just in time for Groundhog Day †. Unless the Guinea Pig sees it's shadow.
*Attribution to one of my former nanny charges, Kaethe Schwehn who is now a grown up college professor, mother and published author, for the phrase "styling the fur of decomposing rats" which I just read on one of her FB posts today in reference to an unenjoyable task. I am so proud of her! And yes, I should probably offer to help pay for her therapy...
† I have a long and complicated history with this holiday which began 46 years ago (see link for story) and this year will mark the fifth new beginning I have created with Sparks & Leaps.
I might not have started out quite as cynical as Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day and I hope I will never end up as desperate as his character was to get unstuck, but I am counting on a happy ending to my story too!
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