Every new year brings with it our shiny promises to live as better iterations of ourselves. We commit to taking on life with more disciplined intent, to living in closer alignment with authentic selves, to striving harder towards the actualization of fulfilling our dreams and aspirations still yet to come.
By the middle of January, many of those ambitions have dissipated, and we are left with the sobering present moments of failed motivations in their stead. We must grapple with the reality that for the remaining 345 days of this recently new year, that progress indeed takes time and often arrives dressed as our failures.
We are always changing. It is my belief that in the final analysis, we have been given the opportunity to decide who we land as on the other side of that change. It is my belief that when we feel most at risk of drowning in our own shortcomings and failures…that if we just keep believing in our visions, trusting that the universe has our backs, and commit to putting one foot in front of the other towards the next best thing we can do at this moment…that instead of drowning, we eventually find the pearls awaiting us on the bottom of our ocean floors. We are transformed not by some single momentous effort of magnanimous doing or achievement. We are transformed as we choose to honor the process of our journey…one step at a time. One choice at a time. One day at a time. Wherever today finds you relative to those shiny promises…keep going. After all, progress is perfection.
~ Marquita